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In plain words
How can that be? He thought it was madness. Poor man. "All right, let it go; I have secured it," he said, and gave one rupee and two annas. He went back to Nānded. The next day Dāsganu came. He asked what had happened when he went to Shirdi. Wadia was not very pleased. "Dāsganu, to me He does not seem a great soul. He is like some madman. Even in that madman there may be some kind of divine power. But I did not revere Him much," he said. He asked him to tell what had happened. "The moment I went, He asked for five rupees dakṣiṇā. Even as I was giving it, He asked, 'You have already given three rupees and fourteen annas; now give one rupee and two annas.' I had never seen Bābā. Why did He speak like this?" Dāsganu was a great devotee. "Bābā never speaks what is not so. Bābā is the One who is everywhere. Bābā is the One who is in all. You are mistaken. The fault is yours alone; there is no fault at all in Bābā." Saying this, Dāsganu asked, "Lately have you given anything in charity to anyone?" "Three days before I went to Shirdi, as I was coming along in a tonga, I had food given to the Coolie Swāmi. Apart from that I have given nothing in charity to anyone." "Then how much did that come to?" he asked. At once he sent for the peon and asked. "It came to three rupees and fourteen annas," the man said. "Do you see? It is as though you gave those three rupees and fourteen annas to Bābā. Without Bābā's saṅkalpa nothing happens.
Without Your saṅkalpa not even a blade of grass stirs; why say this one or that? From the ant to Brahmā, it is You alone. Some on earth do not know this; they are not troubled in mind, nor do they rejoice; they strut about, saying, We act with Viveka, but however great they are, they cannot know what will happen at the last.
How can you say it is this or that? God is in all. Whatever you do, it is as though you did it to God. This is the chief principle of Bhāratīya culture. All religions have accepted this. You gave him three rupees and fourteen annas. They reached Bābā. Of the five rupees He asked for, He took the remaining rupee and two annas.