Jogin learned from the Master to defend the truth. It so happened that a woman of ill fame would come to take her bath in the Ganges at the Dakshineswar temple ghat. On her way back, she would bow down to the Master from a distance and sometimes would talk a little. Some villagers of Dakshineswar noticed it and began to remark about it. Gossip spreads faster than the gospel. Listening to the village gossip, Jogin firmly protested: “The Master’s character is pure and stainless. If you have doubts, why don’t you investigate?” So a villager secretly went to the woman and asked if the gossip was true. She was shocked and said to the man: “Look, I may make my living in a shameful way, but I am not so mean as to tarnish the character of a god-man. You have no right to spread gossip or vilify the character of my beloved Master.” The villager returned to his friends and reported what he had heard from the woman. When Jogin told the Master what had happened, Sri Ramakrishna said: “Some foolish people say so many things. Why do you listen to them?” This time the Master taught Jogin to ignore the endless gossip of worldly people, for otherwise it would drag his mind from God to the worldly plane.