How to get the blessings of God?

 Once a devotee named Pundalik was travelling to Kashi. He was the only child of his parents who are now aged.

Instead of looking after them, he has started to go to Kashi to seek the blessings of God. 

On the way, he visited the ashram of a Saint.

Bowing his head, Pundalik asked him the way to go to Kashi. 

Saint replied he doesn't know the way.

Hearing that, Pundalik made fun of saint. But saint didn't say anything.

As it was getting dark,  Pundalik decided to stay there. In the night, he heard the voices of women talking. 

Pundalik went near the women. He asked them who are they and what they are doing here?

That time one of the women said they are Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati. They have come to clean the ashram.

Pundalik wondered how a Saint who didn't visited Kashi can have the power such that holy rivers themselves have come to clean the ashram? 

The 3 women said to Pundalik that piety, spirituality and devotion does not depend on visiting the holy places or doing costly rituals. It depends on doing one's own karma. 

Pundalik that time itself abandoned his plan of going to Kashi. Instead he left to his home to take care of his parents.