There's this river of grace, right?

That there's a river that carries mercy in it.

That we've all gotten what we deserve.

And we have karma coming our way.

And for thousands of years, people have walked sometimes thousands of miles

to come to the banks of this river,

carrying the weight, you know, of lifetimes of karma,

you know, and regrets and longings and, you know,

mistakes that they couldn't undo, you know.

Anger for a loved one that they can't even,

maybe the loved one is passed away.

And they just dump it in the river, so to speak.

In a sense, that's what they're hoping to do, right?

That they can step into those waters with the hope of being purified and to be freed and to be liberated.

You know, some, some want to be liberated from the bad karma, know of their own misdeeds that maybe they want to be freed from some disease

you know then you have other people that have these kind of more deeper insights into it that you know i have a mind that's been deeply imprinted like it's like a residue of karma these inner patterns that keep us moving through

cycles of pain you know again and again lifetime after lifetime and they have this hope that

by bathing in that river i can become free of all that someone because not just to be free, like, in the sense of like, oh,

now I don't have to deal with that, but like, because then I'll be able to give myself entirely

to God. You know, it's this mind that keeps distracting me from giving myself fully to God,

realizing God within my own self, God within my own heart. So there's this faith that this river is more than just a river,

but it's like a current of this grace. It, you know, it's said that it's the, it's the charanam rita.

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