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  Mahārāṣṭra Dharma In 1999, during a month-long tour of Northeast India, I visited the Keshavdham office in Guwahati to learn about the work being carried out in Pūrvāñchal i.e northeast India.   We were sitting in the office, waiting for the people we were to meet, when an elderly man looked inside. Noticing that we were visitors from another place, he politely asked, “Where have you come from? How long have you been travelling? What all have you seen?” When he learned that we had come from Maharashtra, he asked another question: “Have you visited Raigad?” We replied, “Yes, we have seen Raigad.” The moment he heard this, the elderly man immediately bowed down before us in full prostration. We were startled. “What happened?” we asked. He sat beside us and said with deep feeling, “Your feet carry the dust of Raigad. The soil of the land where Śivājī Mahārāj lived and walked has touched your feet. I bow to that sacred soil through you. That moment stayed quietly ...