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asking him to come down and get your daughters
married? “Yes Guruji”, was all my mother could say.
She was amazed to see how he mentioned her 'ardaas'
exactly word to word as she had been saying it for the
past many years. Guruji smiled and said “Tu rab nu
bulaaya kardi si, le main hun aa gaya haan.” - You
asked God to come down to help you and now I'm here.
We were all so dazed that we didn't understand and
register the depth of what he was saying. He took us all
in his room and made us eat lunch with him. I noticed
that he hardly ate much and distributed most of his
food among us. “Har kisi nu mahapurushan da
mahaparshad naseeb nai hunda. Khaao te dekho
sari bimariyan door ho jaan gi.” - Not everyone is
lucky to get 'mahaparshad' from a 'Mahapurush', eat
and your ailments will disappear, said Guruji. And we
all ate like it was our last meal.

In these 15 days Guruji gave us a lot of his time
and very patiently answered all our questions. Every
day the sangat was given food first and Guruji ate after
feeding everyone. This was the first place where I saw
that 4-5 people ate from one plate without hesitation.
Eating with spoons was highly discouraged by Guruji
and this was a major problem to someone like me who
didn't know how to eat with my hands. Each time I
tried to sneak into the kitchen he would catch me and
send me back saying “no spoons”. Many times I was left
with a lot of curry and no chapattis to eat it with. There
were days when I had to use paper to scoop my curry. I

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