A chambal decoit and a spiritual aspirant sat next to each other awaiting Swami's blessings during the evening darshan.
When Swami came close to them, the dacoit handed over a letter to Him which He threw it at the spiritual aspirant. When the aspirant gave his letter to Swami, Swami just looked at the envelope and threw it at the dacoit. The letters were thus interchanged. After Swami's Darshan, a quarrel brewed between the dacoit and the aspirant. The dacoit demanded his letter back from the aspirant, while the latter refused saying that it was Swami's Prasadam for him. Soon a group gathered around the two. The other devotees however intervened and passified the dacoit. An old devotee opened the two letters. The letter given to the dacoit which was actually the spiritual aspirant's contained a five hundred rupees note and the other which which was given to the sadhaka (which was the dacoit's original letter) contained a plain paper in which he (dacoit) had written a petition on. The letters on the letter had vanished! The next day when Swami came for darshan, He addressed both the dacoit and the aspirant. Swami told the dacoit, “You had faith in me that you wrote down all your sins in a sheet of paper seeking forgiveness from me. You had written that if I accepted the letter, you would take it as I have forgiven you. That is why the paper that you gave has now come back to you after this quarrel as a plain sheet sans the writing. This means that I have accepted your sins and have forgiven you!” Swami then looked at the spiritual aspirant and said, “You were here for 7 days, waiting for my darshan. Your money is now exhausted. You had mentioned it in your letter. I have given you 500 rupees for your travel and to fill your stomach on the way.!” Both the devotees fell at Swami's feet with gratitude. Swami's Divine ways.
