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grandson.
My mother had asked for a dress to be made for

Guruji and a day before we were to go pick it up from
the boutique, she took out the required money from the
cupboard. She realized that a bundle of 50 rupee notes
was all that was there in the cupboard that day. As she
was about to put it in her bag she saw that they were
the most rotten and torn notes she had ever seen. She
was a bit disappointed because having the notes
changed from the bank the next morning, meant delay
in meeting Guruji. The next day we told someone to
rush to the bank to get the notes changed. Just as my
sister handed him the notes he asked in confusion
“Why do you want these notes changed?” My sister told
him about the rotten condition of the notes. He flipped
through the notes and said “But these are brand new
notes!” “That can't be true.” Said my sister and went to
examine the notes herself. To her amazement, the notes
were brand new! My mother felt there may have been a
mistake as probably there was more than one bundle of
notes in the cupboard. We checked the cupboard from
top to bottom but could not find any more money. Still
confused but in a lot of hurry we left for Jalandhar to
collect Guruji's dress before going to meet Guruji.

Guruji's dress and matching shoes were ready but
the dress needed to be dry-cleaned before we could
present it to Guruji. We decided to give the dress to
Guruji on another visit, and went to his temple for his
darshan. As we entered, he said ' Sukhi aunty, what

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