Besides this the thoughts of the great Mahatmas flow with the water and come into the world combined with this living stream of the Ganges. This brought the vibrations of the great ones and spoke as a voice of power, of wakening, of blessing, of purity and of unity to those who heard it. Nevertheless, those unconscious of the blessing have also been blessed by bathing in the sacred river, for it was not only water: there was a thought besides, a most vital thought, a thought of power with life in it. Those who have perceived that, have perceived its secret, for in many poems in the Sanskrit language one reads how, in the waves of the Ganges and the Jumna, the seers heard the voice of the evolved souls and felt the atmosphere of those advanced beings as a breath current coming through the water.