110 IN THE VISION OF GOD

her hair. 3fow he asked the assembled devotees to sing the
Name of God in chorus. The measured cadence of the
sound saturated and thrilled the air. At this the woman
became wild and furious and, standing up, uttered scream
after scream. After the lapse of a quarter of an hour the
singing was stopped and the woman squatted down.
Marati had adorned Eamdas with a flower garland. Taking
it out and going to the woman, as inspired by Ram, he
threw the garland around her neck, and leaving the place
returned to JoshTs house.
In the evening, after the feast, Janardan Pant, who had
met Ramdas at Angar, performed a harikatha in front of
the temple, a large crowd having collected to listen to
him* Vhen the performance was in progress Ramdas
observed an old man pushing through the crowd, carrying
in his anus the woman who was supposed to have been
possessed by the devil. He took his seat with the woman
in the temple at the back of Baindas. The harikatha
lasted for two hours and he retired to the small room
which he occupied in Joshi's house. Here came the old
man with the woman. She prostrated before Ramdas
and sat beside him. He saw a great change in her appear-
ance. A settled calmness was on her face. Her eyes were
lowered and there was a look of resignation in them. Her
lips were moving automatically as it were, and a low sound
was heard to be issning from them. Ramdas listened and
found, her repeating in a low tone "Bain, Rani, Sitaram,"
the names sung in a chorus in her presence in the morning.
The old man who aceompained her spoke :
"Maharaj, soon after you left us this woman who is a
relation of mine fled from the house, and ran like a gallop-
ing horse, myself and another pursuing her. We had a hard
race. For two miles she ran and then she stopped. However*
we overtook her, gasping and exhausted. She cried out in a
loud voice;
"Oh! I caanot sfeay there any longer. I am unable to