Now let us come to the inner meaning.
Who is Ganga and what does it mean?
Ganga is a river flowing down from the Himalayas.
And there are many beautiful stories associated with Mother Ganga.
And Mother Ganga is so holy, so pure.
As the people believe she cleans the life of everybody.
Those who have gone to the Himalayas and seen Mother Ganga
constantly roaring sound, murmuring sound of the river
flowing down from the Himalayan valleys and merging in the Gangasagar.
In the bay of Bengal.
The name Ganga is consisting of two verbs.
One is gam dhātu the other is gī,
gā dhātu gī dhātu which is to sing.
Gacchati ca gāyati ca gaṅgā.
One who is moving and singing.
Now let us contemplate little bit more.
One who is moving and singing is Ganga.
Should I not be like Ganga?
Should you not be like Ganga? Moving and singing
Who can sing?
Think or tell me who can sing?
Whose heart is full with love, full with joy can sing.
Whose life is fulfilled, whose heart is complete,
whose mind is saturated with love can sing.
I am not talking of this ordinary song.
You invite some singers, pay some money they will sing.
No.
One who is constantly moving and singing is Ganga.
Think or pray to God.
Try to live that life.
Wherever I will be going I will be singing.
What to sing?
Some people also sing out of sorrow, out of separation.
If somebody dies in the family especially in Orissa, I don’t know in other States,
they cry and sing simultaneously.
Mourning.
Cry and sing.
In marriage when the girl is going, nowadays it is changing,
I have seen in my childhood when the newly married bride
going from her parents to her in-laws to her husband she is crying.
Crying and singing.
One day I asked: “ Are you really singing out of pain or out of joy?”
I can’t imagine because marriage is a joy also
However, one can sing with separation also.
With pain, separation.
The devotees sing the song with separation.
I am separated from my beloved, I am singing.
If you study the Bhagavatam
you will find veṇu gīta, you will find bhramara gīta.
There is mourning, tears rolling down and the Goppis are singing.
Because of separation.
Separation from whom?
Separation from the beloved, separation from the Lord, from God.
Or sing with completeness, complete union.
Sing the song of God, sing of song of knowledge, sing of...
And wherever you go sing that song.
What the Rishis, the Masters do?
They try to flow their Ganga.
Let this Ganga jñāna gaṅgā, the Ganga of knowledge.
Let this Ganga be Prema Ganga, the Ganga of love.
But let this Ganga flow.
And let my life be like Ganga, wherever I will move my movement will be a song.
When Ganga is flowing, singing simultaneously.
Similarly my movement will be singing.
We should live that type of life.
Constantly murmuring, murmuring with love.
No anger, no hatred, no jealousy.
Filled with love, filled with knowledge, filled with spirit of communion,
or those who are devotees let there be the spirit of separation, whichever part.
But I will be going and there is movement and singing.