When the master came to visit Deer Park, the San Diego branch of his organization, a crowd of devoted followers from all walks of life packed the temple, forcing the main hall to overflow into the outside.
At those events, as venues reached capacity, many were relegated to overflow areas outside the convention centers and arenas.
Militiamen were in the UN car park next door to the compound, firing in the air, terrifying the refugees in an overflow camp outside and the 1,000 slightly luckier ones who were inside the walls.
The estimated 15,000 people in the stadium, and several thousand more in overflow sections outside, stomped and cheered in rapture, injecting fresh momentum into a campaign which was already surging in the wake of other big rallies and a national trade union's endorsement.
During our stay it rained so hard that the rivers outside town overflowed and it looked as though we might be cut off.
With all free tickets to the event snapped up, Modi fans, many clad in commemorative T-shirts bearing the prime minister's visage, overflowed into viewing areas outside the stadium, among them credit analyst Amrita Burman.
Eventually, volumes overflowed the room, and they now stand outside his front door in a wall of cardboard boxes.
Outside Fargo, many small creeks and streams have already overflowed their banks, turning sugar beet and wheat fields into standing lakes.
The cathedral was packed, and crowds overflowed into side rooms as television cameras hovered outside.
