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Guruji Blesses our Room...

One day the temple curtains got changed. The old
ones were washed and ironed and kept aside. Just as
we walked in, Guruji told one of the caretakers to put
all the old curtains in our car saying “The curtains in
Litlu's room need to be changed. The one near the
dressing table is torn.” My sister was always called Litlu
by Guruji, he never used her real name. As much as we
tried to recall, we could not remember any curtain to be
torn or damaged in that room. He further added “All
three of you must sleep in the room with the new
curtains.” By all three he meant my mother, sister and
me. We never understood why Guruji wanted us all to
sleep in one room but we had learned over these few
days never to question him. When at night we reached
home, the first thing we did was to check for a tear in
our old curtains. Sure enough, as mentioned by Guruji,
the curtain next to the dressing table had a slit. Since it
was never fully drawn, we never noticed it.

Guruji had never been to our house, physically, but
he seemed to know more about it than we did
ourselves. We put up the curtains that very night and
made arrangements to sleep together. Hardly three
days had passed since we put up the curtains; and we
all started noticing that they were getting unnaturally
black and soiled. Everything they touched; windowsills
or doors; started to turn black. We took them down,
washed them and put them up again. Hardly a few

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