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Our
Tilak:
After
sometime Kripanand Swami arrived at Panchala. Maharaj was also
there. All the groups saints had come there to celebrate the
festival of flowers and colours - Fuldol- Maharaj gave yellow
chalk like sandalwood to all the saints and instructed them
to make tilaks. Next day Maharaj did not find tilak on anybody's
forehead. When Maharaj asked for an explanation, all of them
countered by saying: "With what should we make it?"
Maharaj reminded them that He had given yellow clay chalk on
the previous day. All the saints were embarassed to here this
because they had eaten away the chalks, considering it to be
prasadi from Maharaj. So Maharaj again distributed chalks to
them. On the next day everybody had done variegated tilaks.
On seeing this Maharaj had a hearty laugh. Then Maharaj Himself,
with His own hand, did a very good tilak on the forehead of
Gunatitanand Swami and put a round mark in the middle of that
tilak with kumkum. He did this to make other saints realise
that Swami was His favourite saint. Then he pointed a finger
at Swami and pointed out, "This is our tilak," and
added, "there is no God superior to Me and there is no
sadhu to match him." In this way Maharaj conveyed to others
His own matchless identity as Purushottam and the special identity
of Swami as Akshar. The dedicated saints could see the secret
behind the words of Maharaj.
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