Chapter 23 — Liberation of Brahma-Rakshas; Establishment of Math at Gangapur

Literal. News of the buffalo-milk miracle spreads. The town's Gramadhipati (chief officer) comes to Shri Guru with his family and asks him to establish a math (monastery-residence) in Ganagapur. Shri Guru agrees. He is escorted in palanquin with music. At the south gate of Ganagapur, a Brahma-Rakshas (a demon-spirit of a previous-life cruel man) inhabiting a peepal tree throws himself at Shri Guru's feet. Shri Guru sends him to bathe at the Sangam; he returns transformed into a human and is liberated. The Math is built; Ganagapur becomes a Punya Kshetra (place of merit).

Symbolic. Liberation of the demon at the threshold — the demon has destroyed all houses near the tree before Shri Guru arrives; his first act in the new town is to redeem the demon. The pattern is: the difficult agents are addressed first, not last; the institutional foundation comes after.