INTRODUCTORY NOTE
1 foul, it, is a groat honour and rare privilege that
MalwlmsL llamdas has asked ine to write a brief introduc-
tory note to his experiences collected in his "in the Vision
of nod/' T, came to know TJaradas through his "In Quest of
(!od" bul it was nearly a year after I read the hook that
1 was privileged to meet him, and ever since (October 1926)
it- has given me the greatest happiness to-spenil as long a
time in his company us his numerous travels (some of which
are chronicled in tho present book) and my worldly duties
would allow. Kvevy time I have been with Mm, I have felt
lluil oauh day spent in his blessed company was intrinsically
worth far more to me than many months that I spent at
Cambridge. Books can give us learning, contact with
distinguished proOasovs can give us enthusiastic interest
in scientific research but neither will give us the secret of
that ever ehavmintf and blissful smile, redolent of childlike
miiTender to the Will of the Lord, which beams out of the
face of Muluitinii Ramdns.
Readers ofhis "In Quest of God''1 will see how in the
earlier days Sri Krishna's assurance (in the Gita IX 22)
"To those men who worship Me alone thinking
of no other, to those ever harmonious, I bring all
security1'
was veriiiod even in the little details of his everyday life.
In the present book also many such instances will be easily
recognised. I would in particular draw the attention of the
reader to the vivid way in which Raiucharandas came
to believe in the mighty potency of that great Sloka of
the Gita. The life and teaching of Ramdas is however
dominated equally by the othev great Sloka of the Gita
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