174 IN THE VISION OF GOC

a few yards from here to Bands. A train is due in a
lew minutes. P*> catch it/' He forced the coins on
Riirnila.fi.

Ranidas pr.oeeeded to the small station. On enquiry he
•wa« told that the fare was two annas. He eanie out of the
station aii'i continued h5s travel on foot. Before sunset he
the outskirts of Bauda, Here a woman on the
had, beneath a tree, u small thatched hut in which
she stored drinking water in. big earthen pots. She freely
*ii«trib*it**i the water tu thirsty travellers who happened to
pass that way.

When she saw Ramdas. she called out: "Uahatmaji.
mahatmaji, coxaae here; have some rest in my humble shed."
He responded to her call.

The kind mother made him sit on a bench and washed
his feet an'I le#s up to the knee with cool water from the
pots. He also drank the water she offered. It was the nectar
of pure l*fcw!

tti The Militant Sadhu

Kamdas was passing through the crowded streets of
Baiida, when a merchant from his shop called him and

j, only a short distance from the town, in a
shaded place, resides a aadhu by name Vishuddhanand.
The place is called Budh Ram Knva. He is a pure
»aiat, go in him." He pointed the way through a by-
tane.
Banadaa walked in tfce direction indicated by the
merchant, bat ad he proceeded, in the network of 3treeia,he
l<mt the way. He asked a passerby who said that he would
eaeort RanculAs to the spot Bax&das followed Mm. They
wo* to % temple of Mfthadev at the foot of a hill, and
Ptttt&ftg through a high porch aramded the bill- They had to
tdiinfc* f*w yard* ca ail foorB and came to a fiat surface in
front of a ta*gfr aballow erne. A number of people were