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    Vachnamrut 10

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    Shreeji Maharaj recounted a story from his travels from Venkataadri to Setubandh Raameshvar. He came across a sick sadhu named Sevak-Raam who had gold coins but no one to care for him. Shreeji Maharaj consoled him and nursed him back to health over two months, washing, feeding, and attending to him. However, once recovered, the sadhu had Shreeji Maharaj carry his heavy belongings while walking unburdened. Though Shreeji Maharaj served him selflessly, the sadhu offered no food in return. Realizing his ingratitude, Shreeji Mahar

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    Shreeji Maharaj recounted a story from his travels from Venkataadri to Setubandh Raameshvar. He came across a sick sadhu named Sevak-Raam who had gold coins but no one to care for him. Shreeji Maharaj consoled him and nursed him back to health over two months, washing, feeding, and attending to him. However, once recovered, the sadhu had Shreeji Maharaj carry his heavy belongings while walking unburdened. Though Shreeji Maharaj served him selflessly, the sadhu offered no food in return. Realizing his ingratitude, Shreeji Mahar

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    Shreeji Maharaj recounted a story from his travels from Venkataadri to Setubandh Raameshvar. He came across a sick sadhu named Sevak-Raam who had gold coins but no one to care for him. Shreeji Maharaj consoled him and nursed him back to health over two months, washing, feeding, and attending to him. However, once recovered, the sadhu had Shreeji Maharaj carry his heavy belongings while walking unburdened. Though Shreeji Maharaj served him selflessly, the sadhu offered no food in return. Realizing his ingratitude, Shreeji Mahar

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    Shreeji Maharaj recounted a story from his travels from Venkataadri to Setubandh Raameshvar. He came across a sick sadhu named Sevak-Raam who had gold coins but no one to care for him. Shreeji Maharaj consoled him and nursed him back to health over two months, washing, feeding, and attending to him. However, once recovered, the sadhu had Shreeji Maharaj carry his heavy belongings while walking unburdened. Though Shreeji Maharaj served him selflessly, the sadhu offered no food in return. Realizing his ingratitude, Shreeji Mahar

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    In the Samvat year 1876, on Maagshar sud 13 [29th November, 1819], Shreeji

    Mahaaraaj was sitting in Daadaa Khaachar’s darbaar in Gadhadaa. He was

    dressed entirely in white clothes. A sabhaa of paramhans, as well as

    haribhaktas from various places, had gathered before Him.

    Then, Shreeji Mahaaraaj said, “Once, when I was travelling from Venkataadri

    to Setubandh Raameshvar, I came across a saadhu by the name of Sevak-

    Raam. He had studied Shreemad Bhaagvat and other Puraans. During his

    journey, he fell ill. With him, he had a thousand rupees worth of gold coins.

    However, as he had no one to nurse him, he began to cry. I consoled him, and

    said, ‘Do not worry about anything. I shall look after you’.

    “On the outskirts of the village, there was a banana orchard, where there was a

    banyan tree that was home to a thousand ghosts. The saadhu had become

    extremely ill and was unable to walk any further. I felt extreme pity for him.

    So I prepared a bed of banana leaves one- and-a-half feet high under the

    banyan tree. As the saadhu was suffering from dysentery and was passing

    blood, I would wash him and attend to him.

    “He would give me enough of his money to buy sugar, ghee, and grains for

    himself. I would bring the ingredients, cook them, andthen feed him. As for

    myself, I would go to the village for my meals. On some days, when I did not

    receive any food from the village, I had to do upvaas. Despite this, that saadhu

    never once said to me, ‘I have enough money. Cook for both of us so that you

    may dine with me’.

    “After serving the saadhu for two months in this way he began to recover.

    Then, as we walked towards Setubandh Raameshvar, he made me carry his

    belongings weighing about twenty kilograms, whereas he walked with only a

    maalaa in his hand. By then, he was healthy and capable of digesting half a

    kilogram of ghee, yet he still made me carry his load while he walked empty-

    handed. In actual fact, my nature was such that I would not keep even a

    handkerchief with me. But respecting him as a saadhu, I walked carrying his
    belongings weighing twenty kilograms.

    “Although I served that saadhu and helped him recover, he did not offer me

    even a single penny worth of food. Therefore, realising him to be ungrateful, I

    abandoned his company. In this way, a person who does not appreciate favours

    done by others should be known as a krutaghni.

    “In addition, if a person has committed a sin but has performed the praayshchit

    for it as written in the shaastras, then whoever still considers him a sinner

    should himself be considered a sinner, just like a krutaghni.”

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