About

Dadaji

His Life

The soul which incarnated in the human personality known as Dr. Dinshah K. Mehta, is one of
the very few first born high souls who abide with God in the spiritual plane known as the
highest heaven. Christ said words to the effect, “In my father’s kingdom there are many
mansions”. This is an indication that in the Kingdom of Heaven, there are many planes of
consciousness where spiritual beings at various levels in the Divine hierarchy live and fulfill the
Divine Will. Based upon Divine revelations, we accept that Dr. Dinshah K. Mehta’s soul
descended from and abides in the highest heaven. Dr. Mehta was lovingly called “Dadaji” by his
followers. Dadaji means elder brother in the languages of North and Central India.
Dadaji’s mother was born into the Zarathusti faith, which is the first religion to teach
monotheism and was started in ancient Persia through the Prophet Zarathustra. She was a very
devout woman who had enthroned the Prophet Zarathustra in her heart and prayed to Him for
hours every day. Her family home was in the town of Jalna, in the state of Hyderabad in what
was at the time British India. One night as she lay on a bed in a room by herself with the doors
closed and locked, and did not know that she was with child, the room suddenly lit up as if it
was mid-day. In those days, there were no electric lights in Jalna. She then saw a bearded man
with long hair in white robes enter the room through the closed door. To her the man
resembled the Prophet Zarathustra. He knelt down beside her and placed his hand in the air
over her womb and said words to the effect, “This is the reward for all your prayers.” The man
then walked out of the room through the wall. She then found one white and one red rose on
her bed. Following this incident, she had a normal pregnancy and a male child was born in a
hospital in Bombay on June 5th in the year 1903. The child was named Dinshah.

From a young age Dinshah had a unique personality. At an early age (between 5 and 7 years
old) Dinshah concluded that the purpose of life was perfection. At that time, since the only
thing he knew about himself was his human body, he decided to make it as perfect as possible.
His body was so well developed that at the age of 17, when he was exercising in the gym of the
individual who organized the weight lifting competition which young Dinshah had entered, the
organizer requested him to, as part of the program, demonstrate muscle control on stage. He
posed as some of the statues of Greek Gods, such as Mercury, Mars, Apollo, and Discobolo, the
discus thrower. The event was so successful that by popular demand, Dinshah was asked to
repeat the performance in several theaters of Bombay and Poona. His performances lifted the
spirits of those who watched. At the end of one performance 30,000 Indian Rupees (which in
those days was a good deal of money) was collected to start a body building club and health
facility in Bombay.

As a young man, Dinshah taught himself various methods of natural healing and established his
Nature Cure Clinic and Sanatorium in the cities of Poona and Bombay. Mahatma Gandhi heard
about the systems of natural healing Dr. Mehta was using successfully and started sending
patients to him. Eventually, in the year 1932, Mahatma Gandhi had a telegram sent to Dr.
Mehta summoning him to Bombay. Dr. Dinshah K. Mehta met Mahatma Gandhi at Mani
Bhavan, on Hughes Road, Bombay, where Mahatma Gandhi stayed. Mani Bhavan is now
preserved as a historical monument.

Later their relationship grew to the extent that Mahatma Gandhi made Dr. Mehta’s institution
in Poona his home, and many of the meetings of the All India Congress Committee were held
there. Many of the political leaders of India who were part of the struggle to gain independence
from the British were Dr. Mehta’s patients. Among them were Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar
Vallabhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jaya Prakash Narayan, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur as well as Sir
and Lady Stafford Cripps. It is Sir Stafford Cripps who headed the three-man commission that
was sent by Great Britain to grant independence to India.

Subsequently, Mahatma Gandhi along with Dr. Mehta and several others, founded the All India
Nature Cure Foundation Trust, and Mahatma Gandhi became the first Chairman of the Trust.
Rev. Dadaji gave his property to this Trust and eventually the Government of India took charge
of the Trust and established the “National Institute of Naturopathy” in the premises donated by
Dr. Mehta.

Dr. Mehta spent his younger years in Bombay and Jalna. From his very childhood, his maternal
uncles taught him hunting, and shooting. He has often said, “I was born with a gun in my
hands.” So, Dr. Mehta became a very avid big game hunter.

In India, there were many panthers who would come to the villages to prey upon dogs, goats,
sheep and would also kill the cattle and sometimes carry away children. Residents of several
villages frequently approached Dr. Mehta requesting him to kill the marauding panthers. When
one of his disciples, asked how many tigers he had killed, Dr. Mehta replied that he did not kill
many tigers because he was mostly hunting panthers. Even so, he stated that he had killed 8 to
10 tigers. When asked how many panthers he had killed, Dr. Mehta said that he stopped
counting after 77. It is interesting to note that since Mahatma Gandhi was a champion of non-
violence, Dr. Mehta asked Mahatma Gandhi if he would classify his killing of panthers as
violence or non-violence. According to Dr. Mehta, Mahatma Gandhi thought about it for a while
and then said that he would classify Dr. Mehta’s shooting panthers as non-violence.

Despite Dr. Mehta’s very active life and lack of interest in seeking God, spiritual experiences
began spontaneously within him. In spite of this, there were three worldly issues that troubled
Dr. Mehta and since he could not solve them, he decided to end his life. Although he had many
guns and could have easily shot himself, he chose not to do so because he believed that this
method of committing suicide was cowardly and would leave a mess that others would have to
clean up. So instead, he decided to fast unto death.

Fasting is part of the regimen of treatments used in naturopathy to eliminate the toxins that
have accumulated in the body, and Dr. Mehta would put his patients on a fasting regimen and
would himself routinely fast for a few days to enable his body to eliminate any accumulated
toxins. So, when he began his fast unto death, no one paid any attention to the fact that he was
fasting, because even during this fast he continued to work all day. However, when the fast
extended beyond 21 days people became concerned and informed Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma
Gandhi wrote to Dr. Mehta and requested him to break the fast, but Dr. Mehta was determined
to end his life. When he had fasted for 30 days, Dr. Mehta could no longer work, and so he was
resting in the living room of his cottage. Many people would come to visit him for many hours
imploring him to break his fast, which he refused to do. Finally, on the 40th day of the fast, Dr.
Mehta had a spontaneous spiritual experience in the form of a vision experienced through
“soundless sound.” It is referred to as “soundless sound” because the sound is not from an
external source but arises within one’s being and can only be heard by the one who is
experiencing it from within.

From within himself Dr. Mehta heard a very clear voice which said, “Why do you worry? I am
behind you. I am trying to get things done through you.” As Dr. Mehta described it, not only
could he hear the words, but he could also see them, and it was as if they were stamped in his
mind. He could not shake them. He asked the people around him, who were present at the
time, if they saw or heard anything. None of them could see or hear what Dr. Mehta was
experiencing. This experience of seeing and hearing the message lasted continuously for 24
hours, after which the disturbed feeling left Dr. Mehta and a deep peace and tranquility
descended upon him.

After the experience passed, Dr. Mehta continued with the fast. On the 45th day of the fast, Dr.
Mehta once again heard the same Inner Voice. This time the Inner Voice instructed him to
break his fast on the 50th day. Since this was an unusual experience, Dr. Mehta decided to
follow the instruction, and broke the fast on the 50th day. Thereafter many spiritual
experiences followed.

Spiritual visions can only be seen with the spiritual eye with which one experiences the source
of the physical dimension. The spiritual eye is known as the third eye as well as Shiva’s Eye.
There are two basic types of spiritual experiences. Experiences of visions are referred to as
“inner seeing” and are called smriti in Sanskrit. Dr. Mehta also had experiences of “inner
hearing,” which is the second type of spiritual phenomena, in which one receives messages
internally. Both these type of spiritual experiences descend from and also through one’s soul if
the source of the message is some other soul. Those who experience the phenomenon of
“inner seeing” and “inner hearing” alone can see the vision and hear what is being told to them
from within. Others cannot see what they are experiencing and what they hear is not audible to
others. Such internal sounds which are inaudible externally are referred to as “soundless
sounds.” This phenomenon of internal hearing is called shruti in Sanskrit and is also mentioned
in the Hindu Scriptures known as “Vedas”. The phenomena of “inner seeing” or smriti and
“inner hearing” or shruti are also mentioned in scriptures of other religions.

Both smriti and shruti are the phenomena through which all spiritual knowledge descends and
together are the mechanism through which Spiritual Scriptures are revealed to the human mind
of the prophet, High Being or Avatar through which a religion or spiritual movement is
established. It is through these two phenomena that the Four Vedas were revealed over time
through the many saints and sages of ancient India and which form the basis of the Hindu way
of life. Likewise, it is through these very phenomena that Zarathustra, the Prophet of Persia,
received the Gathas, and the Prophet of Israel, Moses, received the Ten Commandments.
Likewise, Lord Buddha received the revelations which are the basis of the Dhammapada, and
Jesus the Christ revealed what He received from his Father in Heaven, and the Prophet
Mohammed received the Koran from the angel Gabriel, who is referred to as Jibril or Jibreel in
Arabic.

However, instead of accepting what was being revealed to him internally through the Inner
Voice, Dr. Dinshah K. Mehta refused to accept what he was seeing and hearing during these
spiritual experiences. Indeed Dr. Mehta felt that he was losing his mind and was hallucinating.
For 17 years Dr. Mehta resisted all of what was being revealed to him internally by God and the
Guiding Mind through his soul and also by his soul.

In the year 1942, Shri Jehangir Vakil, an old friend who had departed many years earlier, once
again came into Dadaji’s life after many years. Around the time Dr. Dinshah Mehta had started
his Nature Cure Clinic and Sanatorium, Mr. Jehangir Vakil had started Pupils’ Own School in
Poona. The late Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi was a student at this school. Dr.
Dinshah Mehta used to teach physical culture to the students of the Pupils’ Own School and she
used to visit Dr. Dinshah Mehta’s Institution, especially when Mahatma Gandhi stayed there.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru used to go to Dr. Mehta’s institution often to meet Mahatma Gandhi
and had also stayed there.

In the early days of their friendship, Dr. Dinshah Mehta had known Mr. Jehangir Vakil as a
communist and a non-believer. However, when he returned in the year 1942, surprisingly,
Jehangir Vakil began to speak of God. He had been getting spiritual experiences in which he had
been instructed to go to Dr. Dinshah Mehta and persuade him to accept the messages and
instructions he was getting in his states of spiritual samadhi (meditation).

Dr. Dinshah Mehta did not accept this advice and despite Mr. Jehangir Vakil’s persistence, he
continued to doubt the authenticity of his spiritual experiences. After about eleven years of
persistence, in the year 1953, Mr. Jehangir Vakil told Dr. Dinshah Mehta that if he still would
not accept what was being revealed to him, then he (Jehangir) would go away from Dr. Mehta.

Finally, as a condition for him to accept the spiritual revelations he was receiving from God
through his soul, Dr. Dinshah K. Mehta demanded that he be shown a particular spiritual sign as
proof that the experiences he was receiving were from God and were not mere hallucinations
of a mind that had become mad. After Dr. Mehta demanded a spiritual sign, in his states of
spiritual samadhi, he was told that at his level, it was not necessary for him to insist on a sign,
as he had risen above that state, but that it would be given to him since he insisted.

Ultimately, on the morning of November 8, 1953, while taking his usual long hydrotherapeutic
bath, in his health institution in Poona, Revered Dadaji, Dr. Dinshah Mehta found himself in
spiritual samadhi. And the sign, which he had insisted upon, was given to him by what he
referred to as his Guiding Mind. When he received the spiritual sign that he had demanded, Dr.
Mehta finally surrendered to the power that was hounding him and decided to live a life based
upon the Guidance he was receiving and would be given subsequently.

Dr. Mehta stated that the mind that is guiding him is commonly called God and emphasized
that he is not the founder of SSG. Dr. Mehta explained that he is merely the channel through
which God has founded SSG, and he is only a messenger and a servant of God. It was registered
with the appropriate authorities in India on October 7, 1955 and was issued Registration
Certificate No. 31361 on August 01, 1956 .