He used worked in Railways Department in Jamalpur until he retired. He became a very devoted Margii. He used to always ask Baba before doing any thing. He wrote book about Baba in Hindia that is very popular and gives vivid details of Baba's life as he saw Him. He is survived by one daughter and a son.
A story: In 1951, Baba's brother Himanshu was working for the railways in Sahebganj, some three to four hours by train from Jamalpur. The widowed mother of a friend of his who had heard of Baba's abilities came to Himanshu with a request to ask his brother about the future of her second son for whom she was quite worried. The next weekend, when Himanshu went home to Jamalpur as he generally did on weekends, he communicated the lady's request while Baba was lying down after his midday meal. Baba closed his eyes and immediately started describing the boy in great detail: the color of his skin, eyes, bone structure and so on. When Himanshu verified that the description tallied, Baba told him to get a piece of paper and a pen. Then he began dictating the boy's future in the different areas of his life, instructing him to put a mark next to those areas where the boy would face difficulty. These points he was not to reveal to the boy's mother, otherwise her worries would increase. When Baba finished, he told Himanshu to note down the time and then ask the boy when he got back to Sahebganj exactly what he had been doing at that hour. When Himanshu got back to Sahebganj and inquired as Baba had asked, the boy told him that something very strange had happened. He had been reading in the study at precisely a quarter to three when somehow he had lost consciousness for exactly twenty minutes. One moment it was 2:45 and then a moment later it was 3:05, yet he insisted that he had not fallen asleep. He couldn't for the life of him understand what had happened. Himanshu brought Baba's predictions to the boy's mother and the next time Baba came to visit his brother in Sahebganj the relieved lady came by with sweets and other delicacies to show her appreciation. [from Anandamurti: The Jamalpur Years]
Another story: In the 1980s, I interviewed Himanshu during a DMC in Anandanagar with a video camera. I asked him how he accepted Baba as his Guru. He said that one night in the early days of the organization, he was eating dinner in the jagrti when Baba's Personal Assistant informed him that Baba was calling him. He replied that he would go as soon as he finished eating, but PA insisted that he had to go immediately. So without washing his hands, he went. As soon as he entered, Baba told PA to close the door! Baba was in a very serious spiritual mood. He told Himanshu to go into the adjoining room which was completely dark, close the door and walk to the center of the room. As soon as Himanshu entered, he felt paralized with fear, he said, and was unable to take even one step towards the center of the room. He was nervously rubbing his fingers together as they were slightly sticky from eating, when Baba called out from the other room, "Stop moving your fingers!" Himanshu wondered how Baba had known he was doing this. Then Baba called out, "Do you see it?" At first Himanshu saw nothing, but then he saw a tiny blue light in the darkness. It was immensely beautiful, he said, and in place of the fear he now felt tremendous bliss and attraction for the blue light and felt he could look at it forever. But then Baba started insisting that he come out of the room, so very reluctantly, he did. However that mystical experience changed forever his way of seeing Baba, and he became a devotee.
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