ganges or Yamuna, how is gutter water transcendental?

[Guest guest]

Just like in the Ganges water you will sometimes find the stool is

floating there. But that does not mean the Ganges water has become polluted.

It is practical. In Calcutta, in our childhood, I was taking bath in the

Ganges with my father. Many gentlemen regularly takes bath in the Ganges.

And the modern scientific method is: all the garbage, throw into the river.

So we were taking bath, and here is some stool floating. So we used to drive

away the stool and take bath. The stool is unable to pollute the Ganges

water. You will find in India still. The advanced gentlemen... "The dirty

water," they say, Ganges water. But you will find practically, that anyone

who is taking regular bathing in this dirty water, he is healthy. You will

find. It is very healthy. No disease touches him ordinarily. Of course, the

body is susceptible to disease, but generally, those who are taking regular

bath in the Ganges water, they are not diseased. You will find it

practically still. So as the stool floating in the Ganges water cannot

pollute the Ganges water, similarly, a devotee, even if you find

scientifically that he is crazy or he is diseased, that is not impediment.

 

(Garden Conversation with Dr. Gerson and devotees -- June 22, 1975, Los

Angeles)