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𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑯𝑶𝑻𝑶𝑮𝑹𝑨𝑷𝑯 𝑶𝑭 𝑺𝑾𝑨𝑴𝑰 𝑺𝑨𝑴𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑯 𝑴𝑨𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑨𝑱 𝑨𝑷𝑷𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑫𝑰𝑭𝑭𝑬𝑹𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑳𝒀 𝑻𝑶 𝑫𝑰𝑭𝑭𝑬𝑹𝑬𝑵𝑻 𝑷𝑬𝑶𝑷𝑳𝑬

🚩 The British Governor and some other distinguished men happened to read about the fame & greatness of Swami in the local papers and were attracted to take His Darshan.But they felt it below their dignity to go for His Darshan and it was equally impossible to summon Him to them.

🚩So they sent an expert photographer to get His pictures. The photographer tried to secure Swami's permission to take His pictures but Swami never agreed. The photographer at last decided to take the pictures without His consent.

🚩Keeping everything ready, he waited for the proper pose; but when he got it, before he could click the camera, Swami would turn away or move. This frustrating experience repeated itself many times before he could somehow take one picture.

🚩He was immensely pleased that he could successfully deceive Swami. He immediately placed the photo-print in front of the Swami, mockingly saying,
"𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔?"

🚩 Swami pushed the picture towards one of His devotees indifferently and said,
"𝑻𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆!" The devotee eagerly looked at it and said, "𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒓𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒎𝒂. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍!"

🚩 Then Swami pushed it to another devotee and repeated the same question. The man said, "𝑰𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒔!"

🚩It was passed on to many others and one of them found it to be Bhagwan Shankara in meditation; another saw Bhagwan Vishnu; the fifth saw Vitthal of Pandarpur; sixth saw Khandoba; many more saw their chosen deities in the same picture!

🚩 The photographer lost his temper and wondered whether they were all mad; for could they not recognize the Swami's picture? So he said to Swami,
"𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆!"

🚩 Swami looked at it with feigned attention and seriousness, then burst into laughter and said, "𝑶𝒉, 𝒅𝒐 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔!" and returned the picture to the photographer.

🚩 He was struck dumb with wonder to find in it a picture of a monkey! He at once realized that the Swami performed this miracle to stamp out his ego and pride and sought His pardon.

🚩 He once again requested Swami to permit him to take another picture saying,

"𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒌𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆'𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆. 𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔."

🚩Then Swami consented and the picture came off nicely this time!

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