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A New Blanket on Baba's Murti
In the winter on 1988 only the manager, the watchman, the storekeeper, the priest, and some other employees were at Kainchi ashram to perform the daily rituals and to take care of the ashram. On 19 January, after the morning worship was over, Trilok Singh cleaned and locked the temples as usual. The main door to Maharaj ji's temple was left open for people to have darshan, but the entrance door was locked. After his meal, Trilok Singh rested in his room, and Vinod Chandra Joshi, the manager, went down to the ashram farm to manage affairs there. Amar Singh was in the temple forecourt to receive visitors and had a full view of Maharaj ji's temple.
At four in the afternoon Trilok Singh unlocked the entrance door to Baba's temple to prepare for the evening worship as he always did. He was surprised to see that the blanket on Baba's murti was different from the one he had seen covering him at the time of the morning worship. Looking closer, he discovered that the new blanket was on top of the one he was wearing in the morning. This raised many doubts in his mind.
In Kainchi Baba's murti is dressed in a dhoti and blanket since that is what Baba always wore. Whenever Vinod changed the other deities' clothing, he changed Baba's dhoti and blanket as well. Vinod had not changed anything that day, and he would not have put one blanket on top of another. When Vinod returned from the farm, Trilok told him about the change. Vinod went into the temple and found that it was a completely new blanket, different from the other blankets that he used for Baba. When they asked Amar Singh, he said that the entrance door had remained locked throughout the day. Where Baba got the blanket remains a mystery, but it is still preserved in the ashram.
At four in the afternoon Trilok Singh unlocked the entrance door to Baba's temple to prepare for the evening worship as he always did. He was surprised to see that the blanket on Baba's murti was different from the one he had seen covering him at the time of the morning worship. Looking closer, he discovered that the new blanket was on top of the one he was wearing in the morning. This raised many doubts in his mind.
In Kainchi Baba's murti is dressed in a dhoti and blanket since that is what Baba always wore. Whenever Vinod changed the other deities' clothing, he changed Baba's dhoti and blanket as well. Vinod had not changed anything that day, and he would not have put one blanket on top of another. When Vinod returned from the farm, Trilok told him about the change. Vinod went into the temple and found that it was a completely new blanket, different from the other blankets that he used for Baba. When they asked Amar Singh, he said that the entrance door had remained locked throughout the day. Where Baba got the blanket remains a mystery, but it is still preserved in the ashram.
