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Sri Ramakrishna, smiling: "The holy man's water-gourd goes round the four great places of pilgrimage, but it stays as bitter as ever. The trees touched by the breeze from the Malaya hills all turn to sandalwood! But the simul, the aswattha and the hog-plum never do. There are people who seek out holy men for the sake of hemp." There was laughter. "Holy men smoke hemp, you see, so they come and sit by them, fill their pipes for them, and get a share of the prasad." Everyone laughed.