Thereafter, Shriji Maharaj, who was moving about, arrived at Bhadra for the first time in the Samvat year 1859, on his way back from Kutch, Maharaj encamped on the bank of the river Und. The devotees of the village came to have His darshan. Bhakta Mulji also came along with his father and began to prostrate himself before Maharaj. When Maharaj put His two lotus feet on his head, Bholanath said, "Maharaj, he is a new satsangi." Maharaj then said, "He is a satsangi from time immemorial. He is the very incarnation of Akshar Dham." Bholanath added, "Maharaj, keep Mulji in Your service, he always remembers You." Maharaj then again explained to him, "He is constantly in My service, but you can't see that. He is My disciple since times immemorial, and he has imbibed My image in all his three stages, including the stage during which he was in his mother's womb. He is Anadi Mool Akshar."
Maharaj celebrated Diwali festival here and Bholanath went to the Dham."
The next time Maharaj arrived at Alaiya, all the devotees of Bhadra went to Alaiya and requested Maharaj to come to Bhadra. So Maharaj arrived at Bhadra in the month of Aso in the Samvat year 1863. This time he put up at Vashram Suthar's place.
Each and every devotee of Bhadra insisted that Maharaj should dine at his place. So Maharaj dined at everyone's place turn by turn. In the afternoon. Maharaj would go to the river Und for a bath and take with him Vashrambhai, Dosabhai, Rajobhai, Ramobhai, Ratnabhai, Muljibhai and Sundarjibhai. There was a huge banyan tree nearby from where he dived in the river, played water sports, made people meditate on the river bank and in this way indulged in many exploits. Once he even spread a chalakha (a square piece of khadi cloth) on the surface of the river water, sat on it, made other devotees Mulji and Lalji Suthar sit on it, and steered that piece of cloth like a ship with the help of his spiritual yoga strength. Such were His divine exploits before the devotees of Bhadra.
Here Maharaj kept Bhakta Mulji constantly in His company and granted him divine bliss. Once Maharaj was on his way to the place of Deva Kanabi, on a dinner appointment. Mulji's house was on that way. Maharaj arrived there with a group of devotees. At that time Mulji was taking milo and curd. Maharaj enquired about his well-being and proceeded further. On the way, Maharaj described the glory of Bhakta Mulji and said, "This Mulji who lives in a small hut at present and eats milo, will one day live in palaces, will become the controller of thousands of devotees and will become a great tyagi. His glory will spread in the land and overseas, His idol will be installed in the temple along with My idol and millions of devotees will worship him." In this way when Maharaj was busy describing the glory of Bhakta Mulji, all of them arrived at Deva Kanabi's house. The thoughts of Maharaj were preoccupied with Mulji and so naturally he asked, "Have we arrived at Mulji's place ?" Everybody then replied, "No Maharaj, this is the house of Deva Kanabi and we are supposed to dine here." Hearing these words, Maharaj beamed a smile.
After some time the day of Sharad Poornima arrived Maharaj announced it as the birthday of Bhakta Mulji, His Abode Incarnate and celebrated this 'Akshar Janmotsava' for the first time at Bhadra in His own presence by distributing the mahaprasad of milk and paumva (parched and flattened rice). In this way Maharaj devised such occasions to make others realise the glory of Bhakta Mulji. One day it was Bhakta Mulji's turn to host the dinner. Along with other devotees like Vashrambhai, Dosabhai, Ratnabhai, etc., Maharaj arrived very early at Bhakta Mulji's place. Mulji had gone to the farm for some work and Sakarba was busy cooking. Sakarba offered a seat to Maharaj. Maharaj sat on the seat and asked Sakarba, "Does Mulji ever remember us ?" "Maharaj ! He constantly remembers You every minute of the day. He does not forget You even when he is busy working. I feel that Mulji does not love anybody more than You in this world."
"We also constantly remember him," said Maharaj with a smile. Sakarba felt encouraged at this response and recalled the past, "Even when he was a mere boy he used to tell us about Your various exploits such as Your thread ceremony, Your entry into the forest, Your arrival at the village Loj, etc., and used to assure us that You would certainly come here one day " On hearing this Maharaj smiled and said, "Mulji is so great that he upholds the infinite Brahmands. He is above the Prakriti and the Purush. He is the incarnation of Sacchidanand. He is omnipresent and he is the cause and base of everything. We carry out all our actions through him and cannot live without him even for a moment. It is through relation with him that all the Jivas, Ishvaras and avatars obtain final salvation by becoming pure Chaitanya Brahman..."
On hearing the divine utterances of Maharaj, Sakarba and the others were fascinated. They felt elated. Maharaj continued:
"You are all emancipated through your relations with him. Your son is full of many redemptive virtues but at the same time he is above 'gunas'. He is omnipresent and yet, he constantly enjoys proximity with us and remains in our service. Mulji himself is Brahman, the infinite glory of whom is described in the scriptures. Nobody else has been fortunate like you, for you had the darshan of Brahman and Para-Brahman simultaneously... You will realise Our true glory only when you've realised the glory of Bhakta Mulji who is the personified form of Akshar..."
Everyone present became absorbed in divine delight. Calm pervaded everywhere. Everyone was gratified to know the real identity of Bhakta Mulji as the gate of salvation. Meanwhile, Mulji Bhakta also arrived there. Till now people had only witnessed his divine exploits; today they had an opportunity to know his real identity from the very lips of Maharaj Himself. Maharaj then proceeded for dinner. Maharaj insisted that Mulji Bhakta should also dine with them. Thereafter, Maharaj left and went to His rest house. In this way, during His one month stay at Bhadra, Maharaj granted divine happiness to everyone and made them realise the true glory of Bhakta Mulji. After this Sakarba departed from this world and went to Dham.