Now He was to enter into very important phase of His life. Even though living in a foreign land, He had also continued to live a spiritual and devoted life. After completion of His thesis in the allotted time, an extra-ordinary event took place which was to change His course of life.

Once while He was sitting in a garden, He experienced a powerful flow of energy within Himself. Thereupon, He became afraid and went running to His home where He heard a clear inner voice (God’s message) and was told that :

“YOUR DIVINE INCARNATE MANIFESTATION HAS TAKEN PLACE FOR THE WELFARE OF MANKIND. THE NECESSARY (EDUCATIONAL) KNOWLEDGE WHICH WAS TO BE OBTAINED GETS COMPLETED. NOW RENOUNCE ALL THE WORLDLY GOODS AND ENTER INTO ‘SADHANA’.”

Upon receiving the above divine command, He immersed whatever He was possessing in His home like books, money and thesis in the Hudson River and in accordance with it, He began His Sadhana.

This Sadhana was very difficult. It has been heard His having said : “(In the first) six months, I never came to know as to when the sun had arisen and set.” Due to intensive penance, the body had become extremely emaciated. After about one and half years, in the year 1954 A.D., He returned to India after receiving a command to do so.