In English
On one occasion, tried to bring Ganges to the earth. Addressing , she asked if he was trying to take the Ganges and get it polluted by contact with people who committed a lot of sin. Ganges felt that if many sinners, who do not know what kindness is and who suffer from ego and selfishness, come into contact with her, she will also become unsacred. Then said, “Oh! Ganges, there are as many sacred and devoted people as there are sinners; and by your contact with them, their sin will be removed.” We should note here that several tributaries - some of them pure and sacred, and others not so pure and sacred - flow into the Ganges, but the purity of the Ganges is not altered. These aspects of good and bad generate from our own ideas and do not come from somewhere outside. This truth was demonstrated by the . They came to the conclusion that the separation that they suffer from and the sorrow they were having were only theirs and not of . When the young babies begin to cry, they take their own toe and suck it and feel happy that they are getting some juice. They do not realise that what they are enjoying is coming from within themselves. In the same manner, a dog bites a hard and dry bone and gets its gums injured. As the gums get injured, blood comes out, but the dog feels very happy sucking its own blood. The truth is that the blood has come from the dog itself and not from outside. In the same manner, the good and the bad in us come from within us and not from anywhere outside or from someone else. Because the had such equal-mindedness, their behaviour was exemplary. They had experienced . However when we read the or the stories of the , we wrongly feel that they are ordinary women. They were devotees who had equal-mindedness. They had a sacred heart. They had no attachments at all. They had no ego in them. They were practising in daily life, and their life was an ideal for others. Today, we are trying to live like the and .