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from the sangat he would further distribute them. He
kept nothing with himself.

We were instructed by Guruji to bring halwa
parshad for him to distribute among the sangat. We
were also told that apart from the family and one of our
maids, Saraswati, no one else was to enter the kitchen
while the parshad was being cooked. We took great care
to follow his instructions. My mother and I were given
the duty to sweep and mop the entire house where
Guruji stayed as well as wash his clothes. Since we
didn't want to be late for our duties, the major work of
preparing the parshad fell on our maid Saraswati, who
too was a follower of Guruji. The prashad used to be
brought to the mandir just before the sangat started to
arrive. I would then cool it enough for Guruji to
distribute it with his hands. One day as soon as Guruji
touched the parshad, he asked me “Sukhmani, who
has made the parshad today?” I presumed like always,
it must be Saraswati and I told him so. “No. Today the
parshad is not nice, someone else has touched it.”
Although he still distributed it but kept telling me it
wasn't nice. I never noticed anything wrong with the
texture; it looked the same as always and didn't
understand what was wrong. I rang up home to ask
Saraswati what had happened and she said that the
second maid had entered the kitchen for a few minutes
and she did touch the parshad.

I apologised to Guruji for the mistake but was still
confused as to why some people were allowed to touch

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