Sohams Don't die in Banaras

The final benediction:

Gayatri Devi was a mother. Just a mother. She acted in a manner of the most primitive instinct of a mother to protect its child. That’s why I never saw an evil in her character and that’s why, possibly, you never feel any ill will towards her even when you learn the truth and that’s also the reason why Shwetambari is able to understand her action so very easily.

Her act was her love for her daughter gone haywire, that’s all.

Imagine her pain she would have had to bear when she would be told that Shwetambari was leaving Banaras for ever.

Imagine the hell that a mother had to live knowing how she had ruined the life her only child. Imagine the pain she have had to bear all by herself, as she could not tell her tale even to Mahendranath. Imagine the days and nights she would have cursed her soul and cried for her daughter.

Imagine, the nail she would have felt piercing right through her heart, when she learns that Shweta knew all along what she had done. It is then, that she completely breaks down.

That was the moment of the truth. A point for complete transformation. No more struggle. No more fighting to conceal things. A total submission. A mother falling on the feet of her daughter.

“Tu kaun hai Shwetambari?”
That was the climax of the movie. The mother asking her daughter,” Who are you, Shwetambari?”

At that moment, mother gets ready to "receive", as she transcends her physical existence as Shwetambari is able to feel the true being of Gayatri Devi. It is then, that she offers her the grace by showing her the ultimate truth, that Sohams don’t die in Banaras.