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One
day Baba arrived with some devotees at the house of Prem Lal, the
manager of Titagarh Paper Mills in Lucknow. Prem Lal had engaged a new
servant to clean in the kitchen who was keen to have Baba's darshan.
After finishing his work, he sat on the doorstep of the room in which
Baba was sitting. His upper body was bare, and he sat with his head
bowed in reverence. Baba asked him, "Whenever you
visited your guru, you gave him one rupee?" The servant
confirmed this by nodding his head. Baba then said, "You
have brought a rupee tucked in your waistband for me?"
He nodded again. Baba then said, "Come, why don't you
give it." The servant took out the rupee and gave it to
him. Maharaj, who would refuse the offering of lakhs
(hundreds of thousands) of rupees, accepted a rupee from a poor man
with great affection that day. Sending him away, he told his devotees, "A
rupee from this poor man is more valuable than your twenty thousand
rupees."
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