108 baths in Ganga!

Once Tukaram the great saint was sitting near the bank of Ganges and doing bhajans.

There was an envious person who wanted to disturb Tukaram.

To provoke him to fight, he spit on his face.Tukaram got up, went to the river, took a holy dip and came back to the bank and continued with his bhajans.

The man repeated the spitting 108 times.Every time Tukaram went and took a dip and came back to the river bank and continued chanting, without getting irritated or angry.

In the end, the envious man got very fed up and he asked, “How come you are not becoming angry?”

Tukaram replied, “Why should I become angry? I should actually thank you. Because of your mercy, I took bath 108 times in the Ganges.”