, but the word is ganga. ganga is our spiritual mother - it's the mother of the country. my sister came here several years ago to spend a few years with us from india, and once she opened up a couple of things that she had brought from a little bag - she had suitcase - children that young, they are all looking at it - and there was a little container she had. in that container, she had brought the water from the ganges. and our children asked her, "why did you bring this water?" because they were not exposed to this part of our culture. and she said, "i don't know when am i going to go. i have brought this," because the custom is when somebody dies, you put the ganges water in the mouth - you are in the the hands of the eternal mother, from which you came - we came from our mother, and we return to our mother. so there is always a deep-seated desire and wish and dream of everything we do is to at least visit the ganges - the ganga, and march into it. i couldn't do that for several years because i was too poor

se dice ganga. ganga, me equivoquÉ. [risas] >> ¿quÉ estÁs pensando rafita hombre?. >> quÉdese don juan. comprar un camiÓn, no se le consulta la mujer. usted estÁ como el tipo ese que le dijo al amigo: fÍjate que ayer le compre un collar a mi mujer y estÁ feliz. ¿por quÉ no le compras o no la tuya? no, porque y yo prefiero que ande suelta. [risas] >> ¿me tomarÍa mi carroza fÚnebre a cuenta? >> ay don alberto y sus chistes. a propÓsito de su carroza. imagÍnense que un sujeto iba en un taxi ¿no? y que le toca al hombro el pasajero y dice ¡ay! que empieza a gritar el taxista todo asÍ, asustado. y que se estrella contra un almacÉn. entonces el taxista le dijo el pasajero: oiga seÑor, no vuelva a hacer eso. dijo: ¿pero quÉ hice si nada mÁs le toque el hombro? todos los taxistas estÁn acostumbrados a eso. y el taxista respondiÓ pues yo no, apenas empecÉ a trabajar hoy como taxista, hasta ayer manejaba yo una carroza fÚnebre. [risas] oiga, yo le por recibir el carro ese que me estÁ diciendo, la carroza fÚnebre, porque yo no vendo de esos. ¿pero quÉ le parece si de cambio t