Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma

Just as you like. I will get up. Take it. But if any one sees
you and stops you from going away with it, I won’t be
responsible.’ So saying, I got up. He took the tiger’s skin,
rolled it, tied it and was going out with it when Dandapani
Swami, who was coming in, happened to notice it. He said,
‘What nonsense! Bhagavan sits on that tiger’s skin. You can’t
take it away.’ The sadhu protested, saying, ‘I am taking it
away with Bhagavan’s permission.’ Dandapani Swami,
however, remonstrated saying, ‘Was it proper for you to
ask for it when Bhagavan was sitting on it? Is it proper for
you to take it away? No. That cannot be allowed.’ Thereupon
both of them came to me for resolving the dispute. I told
Dandapani Swami that the sadhu pressed me to give him
the tiger’s skin and so I gave it away but that I had already
warned him about others preventing him from taking it
away if they noticed it. I left it to them both to resolve the
dispute as best as they could. Dandapani Swami found fault
with the sadhu saying that it was highly improper for him
to have asked Bhagavan to get up from his seat and to have
asked him to give away the tiger’s skin. Finally Dandapani
Swami prevented it from being taken away.” We were all
very much amused.

A devotee said, “Bhagavan, you have replied to them
both in a very funny way.”
Bhagavan: “What to do? Some one brings that tiger’s skin
and requests me to sit on it. I accede to his request. Some one
else comes here and says, ‘Please get up. I want that tiger’s
skin.’ So I get up. What do I lose? Dandapani Swami prevented
that sadhu from taking it away. He was then in power. They
could settle the score between themselves. Why should I bother?”
Devotee: “So Bhagavan has no part or lot in the matter?”
Bhagavan: “No. I have no rights, and I have no
troubles.”