Note 9 — Chapter IV · WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS AND SAINTS.

Spiritual guides such as Shankarāchārya, Vallabāchārya, the mahārājas or spiritual heads of the sect called Swāminārāyan, Lālo Bhagat and Talo Bhagat are worshipped by their devotees with offerings of food, garments and cash. In this Kali Yuga or iron age, men who are really great are rare, and even if there be some, they are invisible to the faulty vision of the present day degraded mortals. A few come into contact with such holy men by virtue of the good deeds performed by them in their past lives. These are said to attain paradise by this satsang9 (contact with the righteous).