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shoes. Each time he would give them away to someone,
he would look at me and smile but he never gave them
to me as long as he lived in his physical body. The day
Guruji took Mahasamadhi, I cried in front of his
photograph and said “Guruji, if you truly loved me like
your daughter, send me your shoes. I don't care how
you make it possible but until you do, I won't believe
you loved me enough.” Within two months I had
Guruji's shoes in my hands!

For a short period Guruji switched from wearing
silk dresses to cotton ones. My mother got one dress for
Guruji prepared in cotton. Just as soon as she had it
stitched, Guruji went back to wearing silk again.
Feeling a bit ashamed of presenting him with an
ordinary cotton dress my mother decided not to give it
to him. One night I saw Guruji in telepathy and he asks
me to bring to him the cotton dress that my mother had
got stitched for him. I managed to convince my mother
to give it to him, but instead she just quietly kept the
dress in his room. While giving us leave for the day, he
told us to come the next day at 2 pm. On reaching the
temple at 2pm, as instructed, we were told that Guruji
had gone out and had instructed us to wait. Within 10
minutes Guruji walked in wearing the cotton dress that
my mother had got made for him. A guru doesn't see
the value of a gift offered by a disciple, what he does
however see is the love and intention with which it is
offered.

“Close the mandir today and tell everyone I have

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