Locate the passage where Ratanji offers Dakshina to Gajanan Maharaj in Shirdi and describe what happens next.

📖 Chapter 14

The provided source material does not contain any passage where Ratanji offers Dakshina to Gajanan Maharaj. The character Ratanji meets in Shirdi is Sai Baba. Chapter 14 recounts that after Ratanji arrived in Shirdi and offered flowers to Sai Baba, Baba was the one who asked him for Dakshina. The text states, 'Then Baba said to him: "You have come today; what Dakshina (offering) will you give Me? Then you will be fulfilled."' The passage then elaborates on Sai Baba's unusual practice of asking for Dakshina from all visitors, regardless of their religion, and how he would sometimes ask for very large sums. There is no mention of Gajanan Maharaj in this context or anywhere else in the text.


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