Lord in the garb of Harijan
A sadhu named Dwarakadas came to Ramdas at Kasaragod Ashram. One day while Dwarakadas was performing his daily devotions before some images, a Harijan came in with an offering of fruits and flowers. "Take yourself off, fellow!" roared the irate devotee. "How dare you come near me? Don't you see I am doing puja?" The man shrank back and quietly retired to a corner. Observing the whole game, Ramdas rose instantly and before Dwarakadas could take his bearings, he collected the images and puja materials and flung them away into a ditch. Dwarakadas stared at him in horror, but Ramdas was unperturbed and said: "Ramji, what's the blessed use of your going on with this mummery of inviting the Lord when you drove him away just now as he came to you in the garb of the Harijan?" It went home and Dwarakadas instantly got up and going up to the Harijanfell at his feet. Thereafter, until he left, the Ashram, he was engaged in repeating God's name and prostrating before everyone, to whatever caste or creed he or she belonged, who visited the Ashram.
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