On the morning of 25 January 1987, the first episode of Ramayan was telecast at 9 a.m. to the whole nation. Papaji and his entire family and staff watched it quietly, sitting on the Persian blue carpeted floor of his bedroom. When the episode ended, there was pin-drop silence for a few minutes, and then the entire room echoed with claps. Despite all the hurdles, Papaji’s Ramayan was now a reality. Week after week, for seventy-eight weeks, Ramayan was telecast without a break or hurdle, no one fell sick, the tapes reached Delhi, at times minutes before the telecast, which was by itself a
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