One day as I entered guruji room to clean
it I noticed a yellow patch on the green coloured carpet. Assuming someone had dropped
something, I began to scrub the Patch vigorously. Just then guruji walked into
the room. What happened? Asked guruji. Guruji there is a yellow patch on your
carpet that I am trying to clean but It’s
not going Oh that! That patch got burned last night therefore its discolored.
Now touch it and see I have just taken
out amrit from that patch as well. Although I was scrubbing the area with a dry
cloth, the patch now was wet. I smelled it and it had the same divine fragrance
of his amrit. The patch remained Fragrant as long as guruji was in Chandigarh.
After cleaning the temple and guruji chamber,
I would then wash his clothes. Needless to say, his clothes too were drenched
in divine amrit and had the same Fragrance.
I tried washing them till the fragrance
could go but that was just my stupidity. The more I washed them, the stronger
the fragrance grew. No matter Through how many waters I took them out of, the
fragrance remained. No perfume could pass this test!
I always had a habit of collecting things
that guruji discarded, things like a plaster on his finger, seeds of fruits that
he ate, or an old towel or old glasses. I soon had a bagful of things belonging
to guruji. I would replace his toothbrushes, sooner than they needed changing,
and keep the old ones.
I even collected the dust that got swept
out of his room, for me, even that was more precious than anything in the
world. Guruji was obviously aware of my activities and was rather amused. If by
chance I would forget to collect something of his, he would quietly push it
towords me and point out Sukhmani don’t you want this I would then quickly grab
it before anyone could think of throwing it away. One thing that I always had
my eyes on was his shoes.
I was fortunate enough to be given his dresses
as parshad but I always had my eyes on his 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.