I am told that one day, Acharya Maharaj was engrossed in his daily swadhyay. There was a constant stream of people coming in to have darshan and leaving after making the ritual offering of a few grains of rice. All of a sudden, a little child, following the example of the grown ups, made an offering of what he held in his clenched fist, a chocolate. Everyone had a good laugh at the child's innocence. That was the end of it, but even to this day, I am greatly moved by the recollection of this incident. We should also be willing to renounce, with childlike simplicity and spontaneity, all that we hold dear in this world at the feet of a guru who has snapped the bonds of attachment and aversion. It will not be so difficult then to tread the path to salvation.
Nainagiri (1978)