Lāhirī Mahāśaya lived in the association of Vaiṣṇavas in Śrī. Godruma for three or four years, and thus his heart became fully pure. At all times he chanted hari-nāma: while eating, walk-ing, and sitting; before sleeping, and after rising. He wore simple clothes and did not even use shoes or sandals. He had relinquished his pride in his caste so completely that as soon as he saw a Vaiṣṇava, he would offer him daṇḍavat-praṇāma, and forcibly take the dust from his feet. He would seek out pure Vaiṣṇavas in order to honor the remnants of their meals. His sons came to him from time to time, but when they understood his mood, they departed quickly, not daring to propose that he should come home with them. To look at Lāhirī Mahāśaya now, one would certainly take him to be a Vaiṣṇava Bābājī.