In English
This person was an ardent devotee of mother Ganges. He was thrilled and told the bangle-seller, “Sir! I worship mother Ganges. She is my patron deity. I have offered myself to her and have hence chosen to remain unmarried. I am eager to see the sacred spot where you saw my mother Ganges. Let us go!” The bangle seller obliged and soon both arrived at the banks of the river. The bangle-seller ardently prayed, “Mother! You appeared to me and took the bangles. You guided me to your devotee’s house to take the payment. Will you not appear again and show me your form? I have come to you with gratitude to tell you that I have received the payment due to me.” A voice replied, “Here is the blessing that I confer for your gratitude” and a hand emerged from the river, with the newly bought bangles adorning it! The devotee saw the hand and was ecstatic. He exclaimed, “Mother! Will you not show me your true form and sanctify me?” He thus kept pleading and praying. The voice replied, “Son! I cannot show any form to anybody. That is because I do not have a particular form. All forms that you can see are God’s forms only! God can appear in any form that a devotee prays to Him to appear in. God Himself has no specific form or attribute. I showed you my hand filled with bangles just as a proof that I have indeed bought the bangles and you must pay the bangle seller.” The devotee saw the hand; he was thrilled at the grace conferred on him and said, “Mother! I have seen at least your hand and have been sanctified! I do not want anything else in life”. He then fell into the Ganges and breathed his last.