A person afflicted by calamities and about to sink under their pressures finds all his calamities removed by the joy which originates in his heart on seeing that sacred river.
व्यसनैरभितप्तस्य नरस्य विनशिष्यतः। गङ्गादर्शनजा प्रीतिर्व्यसनान्यपकर्षति॥