Dada Lekhraj was the son of a schoolmaster. Although from a middle class family, with honesty and hard work he rose to become one of the richest men in India. He was an ordinary person with special qualities. As Dada was nearing sixty, something drastically changed his entire lifestyle. He had a series of divine visions that gave his life a 180 degree turn. He experienced himself as a point of light, a pure soul afloat in an ocean of bliss. He then had a few revelations – a vision of the four-armed deity Vishnu, Incorporeal God Shiva (the Supreme Soul as a Point of Light), a terrifying vision of destruction of the present world and then a glimpse of the new World (Heaven). These took him beyond all consciousness of his body.