Imagine being bitten by one fire ant.  Now multiply the number of ants by one hundred.  How would you react?  You would probably stop what you are doing and yell in pain!

One day, Swamishri was going to Maninagar, a suburb of Amdavad to attend a sabha.  As he got out of the car, a haribhakta immediately started talking with him. Because they were running late, the sevak sant insisted that the haribhakta continue the conversation after the sabha. However, Swamishri knew that the haribhakta had been waiting for a while and wanted to talk right away.  The haribhakta started his conversation, thinking that it would be finished by the time they got to the steps of the stage.

Throughout the walk, Swamishri listened patiently and attentively.   As they reached the bottom of the steps to the stage, he realised that the haribhakta had not finished his discussion. So he waited for him to finish.

Next to the steps of the stage, there was a fire ant mound.  The ants crawled up Swamishri's legs.   Swamishri probably felt the ants biting him. Yet he did not budge. He continued listening to the haribhakta as if nothing had happened. The haribhakta soon finished. Swamishri took his seat on the stage.

While arranging Swamishri's seat to make it comfortable, the sevak sant noticed the ants on Swamishri's legs. Two santos then quickly removed the ants with towels for five minutes. They also applied medicine to treat the burning feeling. Swamishri calmly let the sevaks remove the fire ants and continued listening to the sabha as if nothing happened.