 When disembodiment happens, naturally every being moves towards this river. River is a stream of energy. Suppose you do Kalabhairava Santi, all the related people will benefit from that. If one dissolves in the river, you become that energy. If you cross, you go to another realm where beings will hang on. See, in my personal experience, when you leave the body, depending upon what level of evolution you are in, how thin or thick your casing is, accordingly things happen. If something is, let us say your casing or your bubble is too thick, it cannot break, it will go to the river and bounce back. What is the river? River is a stream of energy. A kind of energy, which is neither life nor death, but a completely different kind of energy, which for lack of words, we can say a kind of a, a kind of energy which saves you, dissolves you. So it is called as Vaitharni in Indian tradition. Vaitharni means it is a, a savior, one who is good at saving you. So what is the saving? It is not a physical river, it's a metam, metaphorical expression, but there is a stream of energy. When disembodiment happens, naturally every being moves towards this river. Some will bounce back, some will soak in it, some will easily cross it. Some just dissolve right there. Well, if you bounce back, one will have a rebirth. If one dissolves in the river, you become that energy. If you cross, you go to another realm where beings will hang on. Depending upon the nature of who they are, what their qualities are, what is the dominant quality, that will play. If they're very joyful, they will become ecstatic, they're miserable, they become very miserable. Like this, this is being normally referred to as hell and heaven, but essentially what's happened is, your quality, because you have no discriminatory mind, it gets exaggerated. So if somebody crossed the river or somebody bounced back, these two people you can help. If they have bounced back or if they've still not crossed the river, let's not say bounced back, they've still not crossed the river. Now you do Kalabhairava karma. Now they might have, you don't know for sure, they might have crossed the river, but still because of the thickness of their shell and their own attitudes, they may be going through this in an unpleasant manner. You want to bring some pleasantness, you want to bring some shanti to them. So you want to shave off one layer of their nonsense, whatever. Maybe some unpleasantness will go away and pleasantness will happen. This is all the effort that you're making. If they're already pleasant, you still want to shave off one layer so that they will cease altogether. As unpleasantness is a bondage, pleasantness is also a bondage. Unfortunately, pleasantness… with pleasantness, people take more time to realize that it's a bondage. With unpleasantness, very easily you realize it's a bondage. So you're trying to bring some pleasantness, but for sure you don't know. Maybe your grandfather or whoever else has already dissolved, maybe there's nothing to do. You don't know, but you still do as a duty. So that in case he needs it, in case somebody else… See, this is… once you do this work, this is not only individual because there is a certain runanabandha which connects people. Suppose you do Kalabhairava Shanti for your grandfather, but he doesn't need it, he's already gone. Now your grandfather's brother may be there whom you don't care about, but he may benefit. So people connected with that kind of runanabandha may get helped. Somebody else who's not even your relative may get helped. So this has been kept as a culture that you must keep doing Kalabhairava Shanti. So Shanti is done more as a kind of an effort. If any help is needed, we want to provide that for our ancestors, for our forefathers, or our grandfathers or fathers or mothers or whoever. It doesn't matter whether your ancestors are hanging around there or not, we don't know. Maybe they've dissolved, maybe they've attained to mukti, maybe they've come back and reborn on again, it doesn't matter what you keep doing it so that all the related people will benefit from that. Pitrupaksha means, pitru means doesn't just mean your father or your grandfather. Everybody who is the source of our existence is our pitru. So you want that to happen to all the people connected, it doesn't matter. We liked them, we didn't like them, we knew them, we did not know them. But all related people to whom we can do something, we do something.