402	IN THE VISION OP GOD
The steamer started from Yeraval in the night and reached
the Bombay port in the evening next day. He made his
way straight to Sanjivrao's rooms where he gave an agree-
able surprise both to Sanjivrao and his wife.
This time Ramdas' stay in Bombay extended to over
two weeks, and he had to go through a fully crowded
programme. Hundreds of visitors from various parts of
Bombay poured in to see him from early morning until late
in the night, and he was kept either busy talking or enter-
tained with sweet kirtan by the devotees who could sing.
Of these a young friend, Rutnakar by name, arranged for
two discourses by Eamdas in the hall of the Saraswat
Association, Gamdevi. On each occasion there was a
crowded audience mainly of Saraswats. The lirst discourse
was in English on "The Goal of Life1' and the second in
Konkani on "Karmayoga". The second was largely attended
by Saraswat ladies.
As Ramdas spoke extempore, which he always did,
the supreme bliss he was enjoying flowed out in words.
At the time he found himself in a state of perfect ecstasy.
He talked freely like a child before the motherly audience,
for the friends and mothers assembled heard him with all
love and patience.
The substance of his discourse on the Goal of Life was:
The highest gift, this human life, is granted to us by God
in order to realize Him—the supreme Reality—who is
eternal bliss and peace. God-realization moans universal
vision, i. e. to become ever conscious of our union with an
impersonal, calm, pure, changeless and all-pervading
existence and look upon all form and change as the expres-
sion of that Truth. This exalted state is attained by constant
attunement of the mincl to the single thought of the
Truth through a ceaseless stream of remembraiice and
meditation of it. The condition of our progress towards
the Truth depends upon our ardour and intensity for its
attainment. When we understand the Truth as the goal