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" Why play r'" lie asked.
" For lore and bliss: $<>, when Ramdas prostrates bef<»rf
ym, it is yourself \vho do it in the form of Bazars,"
Ram ilas rejoined.
"* Bosh, there is only one. never two/*
" To whom are yc»n talking then, Swum5 ji': v
He reflected for awhile ami replied, **T<» myself/'
*k Exactly—you assume there are two, although in the
light of absolute Truth there Is only one."
** No- no—no realised man believes in duality/*
''What of Tulsidas. Suruus. Kabir. Samarth RanKlns
mid many others?"
fc* Oh! '* he laughed, '* they had not attained jnana. They
were struggling still on a lower plane !v
"But their teachings and works sho%v that they pos-
sagged high illumination. They held «mt parabhakti as the
highest realisation," Ram das rejoined.
4111 maintain they were ignorant folk/' and, taking a
book from the pile near him, he added, " brush them all
aside, here, take this book and read; yon will understand
things more clearly.11
"Ramdas does not need to understand. Knowledge has
been defined to him as that state in which yon know that
you know nothing/'
**Well, well, I say read this work; it is written by
//#.*'
He pressed Ramdas hard to accept it. A glance at the book
revealed its title and its author: "Will to Satehidanand
by Swami Kaivalyananda, M. A/1 Ramdas took leave of Mm
after Ms usual way of a parting dandawat at his feet. He
carried the book with him.
Again Ramdas, in the company of the same sepoy friend,
visited the Ram mandir of the place. Here he met many
Vaishnav saints who treated him with great kindness.
While returning they passed through a road beside a large
lake, sparkling with limpid bine waters* On the bosom of