CHAPTER XXII

GOHKAR PARVAT

Reckless activity

Ramdas arrived at JhansL At the station he was

by Ramfcinkar and Mahadev Prasad, The latter
him and wept through joy on beholding him
once more. He was put up again at Atkhamba. After two
f-r three days' stay, he left Jhansi in the company of
Raznkinkar and Chhedilal, also an earnest and loving soul.
The Mahoba friends were intimated by wire of his coming.
So about a dozen of them including Ramcharaudas were
eagerly looking for the arrival of the train at the Mahok*
station. On alighting, the party was enthusiastically wel-
comed by the friends and were led to the city, and for the
night they occupied the Mahavira's temple situated outside
the to\vn on the way to Gohkar Parvat. Next day, the>
ascended the Parvat and reached the caves in vhich he ha*i
lived on a former occasion.
A brahman boy named Kalh undertook to cook for
him, and Jagannath supplied provisions. Two or three
days later, a sannyasi, Bhagawan by name, whom he had
seen before in Chitrakut Pilikoti Ashram in the mela of
sannyasis during the Ram-navami festival, came to stay
with him. Bhagawan was a pure-hearted and simple
sadha, extremely quiet and taciturn. His great love for
Ramdas made him stick to the place. Ramcharaudas was of
course there. For nearly four months Ramdas lived ou
those hills.
In the company of devotees who used to come in large
numbers from the snrrotmdmg villages, Bamdas would
dance to the loud and measured repetition of Ram-
mantram. The whole stay was a period of unique spirit^
ecstasy. He would feel, when about fifty men were dancing
with the sweet music of God's Name, as though the vbrie
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