Bhagavan was giving his evening
darshan when two people, one a Chambal dacoit and another a
practicing sadhaka were sitting together for darshan. When
Bhagavan came towards them, the dacoit got up and handed over a
letter to Baba, who just saw the envelope and threw it back --at
the sadhak. Similarly Baba took the sadhak’s letter and threw it
at the dacoit.
As soon as Baba went into the
interview room, the dacoit demanded the sadhaka to give back the
letter. Sadhak refused saying “It is Bhagavan Baba’s prasad to me.”
Later both started fighting and created chaos. The crowd intervened
and convinced the dacoit to stop fighting. One of Baba’s old devotees
took both the envelopes and opened them. In the envelope given to the
dacoit (which was originally the sadhaka’s letter), there was a Rs.500/--
note. The other letter with the sadhaka (originally belonging to the
dacoit) contained the same paper on which he had written his letter
but it was empty with all previous matter erased.
Both sat the next day in darshan
lines and Baba came to them and said -- BABA to the dacoit: “You had
faith in me. You wrote all your sins on that sheet of paper and said
if I accepted it, all your sins would be forgiven. The letter you
gave me came back to you empty. That shows that I’ve forgiven your
sins. Just like the letter is empty to be written a new, start your
life afresh.”
BABA to the sadhak: “You had my
darshan for 7 days. You have exhausted all your money here. In your
letter, you asked for money to go back home. What I’ve given you is
enough to reach you home and fill your stomach on the way.”
Both fell at Baba’s feet and returned
home with Baba firmly affixed in their mind.
Source:
http://www.geocities.com/sai_ram108/mira3.htm