A devotee enquired if it was a fact that Bhagavan had picked up sheets of paper that were thrown away in a dustbin by Nayana and had bound them all together into a book. Bhagavan replied saying, “Yes, that is a fact. You know, Nayana was with us for some time in Palakothu. When he was going away from there, he threw away all the waste sheets. He was accustomed to writing only on about a half of a sheet and leaving the rest blank. There are quite a number of books which are half-written like that by him. When that is so with books, would he care for mere sheets? A number of such sheets were thrown in the dustbin. After taking food in the noon, Madhava and myself went out as usual and noticed the heap. As we did not like to waste them, we picked out the useful sheets, cut them suitably, stitched them together into a book and kept it carefully. That was almost like a newly- bound book. After sometime Nayana returned and wanted a notebook to write something. I asked Madhava to give him that bound-book and he gave it. I kept silent, laughing to myself. However, Madhava said, ‘Nayana, these are the sheets of paper which you threw away as useless. Bhagavan saw them and asked me to pick out the useful ones, which I did, and bound them into this notebook.’ Nayana was very much surprised. I usually stitch notebooks with such papers only,” said Bhagavan. (From Letters from Sri Ramanasramam 267)
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