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One Of A Fate: Bismillah and Banaras

Arush TandonMar 21, 2015, 01:00 PM | Updated Mar 22, 2021, 10:05 AM IST
(Bismillah Khan)

(Bismillah Khan)









At a concert in a younger age (Source: Wikimedia Commons)





“Balaji temple. . . that was the designated place of riyaaz [in our family]. And there, my uncle did his riyaaz for 18 years. At one spot.

. . . all of us have done riyaaz at this spot itself. And the way it was done was that I used to practice for three, three-and-a-half hours at one stretch. And. . what feelings I’ve experienced here, how do I tell you about those? Once I told [my uncle] so I was beaten. I told him what I saw here, so my uncle hit me and asked me to never repeat it. [After that] At two other occasions I witnessed the same, I did not tell anyone about it.

It is only now that I feel vindicated. . . there is a gentleman here. . a son of my friend’s, he said that he too saw the same twice. “You too are fortunate then, that you saw Him”, I said.


This is one such spot.

If you look at it, there’s nothing. But there’s everything.” [emphasis mine]

















The Ustad (Source: Wikimedia Commons)


















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