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 Early in 1972 a very old man in ragged cloths came to Sri Babaji's ashram in Vrindaban. It turned out that he is a great yogi form Himalayas, Gangotri Baba, who was inspired to leave the mountains and to take Sri Babaji's darshana.
Sri Babaji ordered Swami Fakiranand to offer the saint prasad and then, without words exchanged, sat down remained quiet.
The next morning, Gangotri Baba returned for Sri Babaji's darshana and then Sri Babaji said to Swami Fakirananda: "Get my mala back from Gangotri Baba".
Swami was thinking that perhaps Sri Babaji had given mala to this old saint previous day, so he said to him: "Baba is asking for the mala."
Then Gangotri Baba smiled and told Swamiji the story about the mala which "Old Herakhan Baba" had given him. He said he had brought the mala, in its original cotton bag, with him and he offered to get it from the place where he was staying. Sri Babaji said he could wait till the afternoon.
Later that day, Gangotri Baba came. He said that the bag had not been opened since Herakhan Baba had given it to him in 1922. "Now, after about 50 years, I am returning it to Babaji, to Whom it belongs."
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