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Hari Om. Om Siddhi Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai. Mahāprabhujī Kī Jai. Kṛpāpāsan Kī Jai. Om Sanātandhara Mukhade. Om Śānti, Śānti,... Kī Jai. Whoever goes, he is going. I am not doing it. Now go. Go. You do it, or he does it. As you wish. Yes, you go. Śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Oṁkāra-vindu-sayuktam nityam dhāyanti yoginaḥ, kāmatam mokṣatam jaiva oṁkārāya namo namaḥ. Gurur brahmā, gurur viṣṇu, gurur deva mahēśvaraḥ. Salutations to the Cosmic Self. Salutations to Śrī Lakṣmī Siddhāpit Paramparā. My daṇḍavat praṇām to our beloved Guru Dev, His Holiness, Vishwaguru Mahāmudrā Śrī Maheśvaraṁ and Purujī Gurudev. Oṁ Namaḥ Nārāyaṇa to Mahāmudrā Śrī, Mahāmudrā Śrī... Purujī and all the Sannyāsīs. Adio and good evening to all of you present here and watching through Swamijī TV. We have beautiful weather outside. Nice rain, thundering. Nice breeze, and we’re enjoying satsaṅg. There were two paṇḍits, two Brahmins walking. In India it is said that at least once in your life you should go to the famous pilgrimages in India—the four dhāmas: Kedārnāth, Badrīnāth, Yamunotrī, Gangotrī, and the twelve Jyotirliṅgas. It is also said that people, to get rid of their sins, should go and have a bath in the Gaṅgā, and then they get purified. So those two Brahmins decided, "Okay, let’s go. We are getting old, so let’s go and have a bath in Gaṅgājī." But at that time, there were no flights or trains or these types of modes of transport, so they were going by foot. After one or two days, they found one man who had had darśan of Gaṅgājī and was coming back. They met a person who had already bathed in the Gaṅgā and was returning, and he asked them, "Brothers, where are you going?" They replied, "We are going to bathe in the holy river Gaṅgā." And the man said, "May I give you a tip? Gaṅgājī will give you much easier darśan. Whenever you are going on the way, always try to stay only at those houses where the householder has already had Gaṅgā snāna—a bath in the Gaṅgā. When you are staying overnight on that journey, stay only in those households where the master has bathed in the Gaṅgā. When you come to a house, first ask. They will offer you food and lodging. First ask, 'Have you been to the Gaṅgā and bathed in it?' If not, starve, but don’t eat or stay at that place." They decided, "Okay, if this makes our Gaṅgā bath better and more blessed, then we will follow this." Sometimes they starved for two days because they couldn’t find people on the way who had been to the Gaṅgā. Slowly, it took them approximately two months to reach their destination, until they were about five miles from Gaṅgājī. It was getting dark already; the sun was setting. They decided, "Okay, there’s one āśram here. Let’s stay here, and tomorrow morning we will go to bathe in the Gaṅgā." They thought, "Why ask this, Mahārājī? You know, all the sādhus always have Gaṅgā snāna. Maybe he has it every day. As he’s living only five miles from Gaṅgājī, he might be going every morning to bathe." They went, had a shower, and had dinner. Then they went and made praṇām to Gurujī and said, "We came from such-and-such a place, and tomorrow morning we would like to go and have darśan at Gaṅgājī. Do you know how far it is, and could you tell us the directions to go there?" And Bābājī said, "My dear, I don’t even know. I never saw Gaṅgājī. I don’t even know where the way is." They were shocked. They thought, "For two months we followed this rule that we would only sleep or eat at places where the person had had Gaṅgā snāna. The only place where we didn’t ask was with this Sādhujī, who we thought had done it because he’s a Swāmī. All the efforts we have done for the past two months have gone in vain." Then Gurujī said, "Okay, good night," and went to sleep. But their sleep was already finished because they were in tension. They both sat outside their room, holding their heads, thinking, "What have we done? We wasted all our efforts by coming to this āśram. It was just five miles away. We could have gone, had a bath there, and then we would be free." They sat and chatted until midnight. Suddenly, they saw three black cows in front of the gate of the āśram. They saw those cows bow down to the gate, enter the āśram, and convert into a female form. One started cleaning the whole āśram. The second one was watering all the plants. The third one went to the kitchen and started washing all the dishes. They thought, "Obviously, Bābājī didn’t go for Gaṅgā snāna because he has ghosts as his pets. Why does he need Gaṅgā snāna? He calls like this, and one cow comes, converts into a woman, and cleans the floor. Now we are more messed up. Instead of darśan of Gaṅgājī, we had darśan of ghosts." Then those three women, after finishing all the work, went to where Gurujī was lying down. At that time, there was no proper floor. It was just a hut, and outside was sand, so you could still see the footprints on the sand where he had entered his house. All three of them touched their heads to the footprints. Immediately, as the particles of sand that the guru’s feet had touched touched their heads, their forms transformed into very beautiful, white Devīs. The two paṇḍits were sitting and observing everything. They thought, "First came a black cow who converted into a woman, and now that woman converted into a beautiful, white-dressed goddess." We all have that eagerness to always know everything, so they couldn’t resist themselves. They went to them while they were already going out and said, "Oh Devī, who are you? Why are you changing so many forms?" They said, "Don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t be scared. I am Gaṅgā, she is Yamunā, and she is Sarasvatī." The paṇḍits went and made praṇām. They said, "Oh goddess, what an honor for us. All the tapasyā we did by walking here is now fulfilled." They said, "Goddess, our tapasyā has successfully concluded. We have been walking for two months to reach you." They asked, "Goddess, how is it possible that you are right here, with this sādhu in the āśram?" She said, "All day I am being bathed in by so many thousands and thousands of people. All of their sins come into me, into all three of us, and then our forms become black from holding everyone’s sins. When we come to our guru and we do seva, and we do not even dare to touch his feet, but just by the charaṇaraj, by the soil which touched his feet—when it touches us... We don’t dare to touch his foot, but when we touch the dust that touched his foot..."