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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. Om 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. A 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 become purified. So those two Brahmins decided, "Okay, let’s go. We are getting old, so let’s go and have a bath in Gaṅgājī." At that time, there were no flights or trains or such modes of transport, so they were going by foot. After one or two days, they met a man who had had darśan of Gaṅgājī and was coming back. Gaṅgājī will give you a much easier darśan. He advised them, "Whenever you are on the way, always try to stay only at those houses where the household has already had Gaṅgā snāna, but in the Gaṅgā itself. Starve, but don’t eat or stay at any other place." They decided, "Okay, if this makes our Gaṅgā bath better and more blessed, then we will follow this rule." Sometimes they starved for two days because they couldn’t find people on the way who had bathed in the Gaṅgā. Slowly, it took them approximately two months to reach their destination. When they were about five miles from Gaṅgājī, it was getting dark; the sun was setting. They saw an āśram and decided, "Okay, 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 Gaṅgāsnāna, and maybe he bathes every day. Since he lives only five miles from Gaṅgājī, he might go every morning." They went, had a shower and dinner. Then they went to make praṇām to Gurujī and said, "We have come from such-and-such a place, and tomorrow morning we would like to go and have darśan of Gaṅgājī. Do you know how far it is, and could you tell us the directions to go there?" Bābājī said, "My dear, I don’t even know. I have never seen Gaṅgājī; I don’t even know the way." They were shocked. They thought, "For two months we followed this rule that we would only sleep and eat at places where the person had had Gaṅgāsnāna. The only place where we didn’t ask was this Sādhujī, whom we assumed had bathed because he is 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 so tense. Both of them sat outside their room, holding their heads and 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 our 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 the cows bow down to the gate, enter the āśram, and convert into female forms. One started cleaning the whole āśram. The second was watering all the plants. The third went to the kitchen and started washing all the dishes. They thought, "Obviously, Bābājī doesn’t go for Gaṅgāsnāna because he has ghosts as his pets. Why does he need Gaṅgāsnāna? He calls like this, and a cow comes, converts into a woman, and cleans the floor. Now we are more messed up. Instead of having darśan of Gaṅgājī, we have had darśan of ghosts." After finishing all the work, the three women went to where Gurujī was lying down. At that time, there was no proper floor; it was just a hut, and outside was sand. 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 had touched the guru’s feet touched their heads, their forms transformed into very beautiful, white Devīs. The two paṇḍits, who were sitting and observing everything, were astonished. First, a black cow 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 as 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." 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 that touched his feet—when it touches us... When we touch the dust that touched his foot..."