正午时分，我进入恒河中，驱散炎热的感觉太棒了。我很狂热，想到也许此生不能再来帕雅嘎了，所以我想一直待在河里，尽可能地净化自己，后来我就一直游泳，游到了对岸。
对岸没有人，游到那边后我向着岸边爬泳，之后就开始下沉，被地球母亲吞噬着。是流沙，我不断地往下沉，后来不知怎地抓住了一丛灌木，我就一直拽啊拽啊，结果把灌木丛连根拔起了。
不过，不知怎么我又离开了流沙，重新回到了恒河母亲的怀抱中，她的水流极其猛烈，一直把我冲回流沙处。我就逆着水流游着，一直游......我游一米，她向后推我一米，游几米向后推一米。还有很长的距离，我一直游啊游啊游啊，直到我精疲力尽，胳膊完全抬不起来了，却也收效甚微。
我必须做出抉择，是被恒河淹死，还是死于流沙。随即我决定死于恒河更好一些。
就在那时，不远处出现一位船夫，我记得他戴了一顶红色头巾，划着船，离我有段距离。在被冲回去的时候，我不断大声呼喊，向他求救。
后来他看向我，做着（轻轻地往外挥手）这样的动作，之后就走了，把我留在那里等死。那一刻我意识到自己要死了，随即便被拖到了水下，而在水下一个巨大的人生祝福——几个月前我在瑞诗凯诗恒河母亲那里听到的一段曼陀呈现在我脑海。
哈瑞 奎师那 哈瑞 奎师那， 奎师那 奎师那 哈瑞 哈瑞，
哈瑞 茹阿玛 哈瑞 茹阿玛， 茹阿玛 茹阿玛 哈瑞 哈瑞。
我在内心唱颂起来时，感受到了平静，感到死亡并不存在。随后，我的头脑变得清醒起来，想着渔夫为什么要做那样的动作，这时才明白过来，我太急于自救而处于一种狂躁状态下，根本没理解他的意思。他是在告诉我，雅沐娜河母亲的水流很平静，恒河母亲的水流太强劲了，你在跟她作对，他在说顺着雅沐拿河的水流方向游。
于是我改变了方向，往下游了一英里。我边游边想，想到我把护照落在了河边，想到我刚刚得到了曼陀的签证，这签证将我带离了死亡。
几小时后我回到那个地方。那时接近日落，河边有几百人在沐浴，装着我护照的小布袋子还在原地。
我坐在沙滩上想着，同一片沙子，中午时分炙热难当，让我疼痛。河对岸，同样的沙子，将我吞噬，令我窒息。现在沙子如此清爽、美好。难道我们不正像这片沙子吗？
我们深受周围环境和人的影响。根据所处的环境，我们可以变得愤怒和嫉妒，也会变得和蔼与仁慈。我们会感到平静，也会感到困扰。环境有多重要啊！
Sadhu sanga, sadhu sanga sarva sastre kaya
Lava matra sadhu sange sarva siddhi haya
后来我学到了与圣人联谊的道理，并用自己的方式冥想此真理。当我们与圣人联谊时，会激发我们内在的良善。当我们在一个环境中，也许是普佳房间，也许是庙宇或无论哪个圣地，都会激发我们内在的良善。在我们生活中，激发他人内在的良善与神圣是多么重要啊！
The Power of Association I went into Ganga. It was so nice to get out of the heat. And I was so enthusiastic I may never come to Prayag in my life again, I want to stay in this river and get purified as long as I can, and I swam all the way across to the other side.
There was nobody there, and when I got to the other side I crawled out onto the bank, and began to sink, I was being swallowed by mother earth. It was quick sand, I was sinking lower and lower and somehow or other I grabbed a bush, and I was pulling and pulling and then the bush got uprooted.
But somehow or other I got out of that quicksand. And I came back into mother Ganga, her current was so strong, she was pushing me back to the quicksand. I was swimming against her current I was swimming, I went about a foot and then I was push back a foot, and I went a couple feet and pushed back a foot, it was a long distance, I was swimming and swimming and swimming, until I was totally exhausted my arms could hardly move anymore. And I was not making any progress whatsoever.
And I had to decide am I going to die being drowned by the Ganga, or I am going to die in the quick sand. And I decided Ganga is better.
Just at that moment a distance away there was a boatman, I remember he had a red turban on, he was just rowboat. He was a distance, I was calling out for his help and calling out and screaming as I was getting pushed back.
And then he looked at me and went like this, and then just kept going, and left me there to drown. At that point I realized that I will die. And I was pulled under the water, and under the water one of greatest blessing of my life, the same mantra I heard from mother Ganga, months and moths before in Rishikesh came into my mind.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna. Krishna Krishna Hare Hare.
Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare.
As I chanted just in my mind I felt peace. I felt that there is no death. And then my mind was clear, I thought why did that fisherman go like that. Now I know, I was so frantic to save my life I was in such a passionate condition, I couldn't understand him. He was telling me, mother Yamunas flowing very peaceful this way, mother Ganga is flowing forcefully this way you are going against her, he said flow with the current of Yamuna.
So I just changed my direction, and I went a mile down. As I was going I was thinking I left my passport at the sangam. I was thinking I just received the Visa of this mantra, that took me beyond death.
And hours and hours later I finally came back to that place, and by that time it was like sunset. And there were hundreds of hundreds people taking their baths, and my little cloth bag with my passport was there.
I sat in the sand and I was thinking, this same sand at noon time it was blazing hot causing me so much pain. And the same type of sand across the river was sucking me down quicksand to suffocate me. And now the sand is so refreshing and cool and nice, are we not all like that sand?
How we are influenced by people and environment around us. According to the circumstances that we are in, we could be angry and envious, or we could be kind and compassionate. We could feel peace we could feel total unrest. How important our environment is.
Sadhu sanga, sadhu sanga sarva sastre kaya
Lava matra sadhu sange sarva siddhi haya
I learned later that association with holy people and I was meditating in my own way on this principle. When we associate with holy people it bring the good out in us. When we are in an environment, whether its our puja room whether its a mandir whether whatever a holy place it brings the good out in us. How important it is in our lives to learn to bring the good out the divine out in others
摘自书籍《The Real You》（真正的你）
作者Radhanath Swami
