The Hidden Power of Gayatri Mantra

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I once read a beautiful story that really touched my heart.* A master and his disciple were seeking alms and they stopped by a small house. Whether the tiny size of the house was more worthy of one’s notice or its dilapidated condition was anyone’s guess.

“Praise the Lord!” the master hollered and knocked on the door. “We’ve come for alms.” There was no response from anyone who might be inside that one-room house. “Bheeksham dehi ,” he said in a loud voice again and waited for another minute. No one came out. In line with their tradition, he made a third and final call. Soon, a little girl came running out.

“Sorry, master,” she said, “but we have nothing to give you.”

The monk looked at her lovingly and said, “Don’t say no, my daughter. Can you give me a handful of dust from the ground?”

“Dust?” she said, surprised.

“Yes, a handful will do.”

Obliging the master, the girl bent down, took a bit of mud from the ground and put it in the master’s bowl. He blessed her and walked away with his disciple. The disciple was both intrigued and upset. Intrigued because he thought his master’s action was absurd, and upset for their tradition permitted alms from one house only on any given day. Who eats dust? Will have to do with water today. My master’s lost his mind or what?

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