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 one of the caretakers to put all the old curtains in our car saying the curtains in litlu 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 days would pass and the same thing started to happen again.