KOLLUR AND KASARAGOD 27

stepped into the room and sat beside him. Bamdas at once
saw that the Lord had sent the yogi to instruct him in this
great science.

That very night the raja yogi initiated Ramdas into the
mysteries of raja vidya or royal science as he called it.
Thenceforth Eamdas was mostly occupied in the practice
of asana and pranayama. As the practice went on, he
experienced a dead stillness and peace overtaking him.
Accordingly, the incentive to reading and talk vanished.
He became composed and silent. This change was marked
and remarked upon by the daily visitors. Hunger, hitherto
dormant, -was aroused, and he had to take larger quantities
of food than usual—the rule of satwic diet being broken.
Under the strain of incessant practice of pranayama he
felt great physical weakness. A craving for solitude now
seized him, so that he might nndergo the new experiences
in an undisturbed place. He proposed the change to
Anandrao who immediately arranged to shift him to a
place about two miles from Kasaragod.

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