Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Upendra Dwivedi sought blessings from Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya at his ashram in Madhya Pradesh's Chitrakoot, following which the spiritual leader gifted him a mace. The spiritual leader said he gave General Dwivedi the same diksha (initiation) with the Ram Mantra that Lord Hanuman was given before he went to Lanka.