2 14 Itl THE VISION OF GOD "Yon will know. Experience will teach you that thejiva has a false existence: still it exists encompassed by darkuesg and ignorance," said Ranidas. He was not convinced, but it was not long before he was. He gave Tip repetition of God's Carrie and early rising. He slept like a log till late in the morning and again in the noon he slept for long hours; the result was that he -was seized with, unusual hunger. Stealthily he would go into the bottom cave, wiiich was used fora store, and mixing large quantities of a mingled food-stuff called satua with water, he would quietly eat it. This he took in addition to the usual food with regard to which a fight ensued between him and Kalln the cook who complained that Rameharandas would eat up all the roties, leaving him nothing. One morning he appeared before Ramdas with a mottled face, full of red eruptions. "What is the matter with you, Ram?" Ramdas asked. "Don't know, I feel also feverish,1' he replied with a wry face. "It is all due to over-eating, satua has manifested itself on the face. Is it not so?"1 Ramdas said laughing. He was as quiet as a mummy. Then he crouched near Ramdas in the tiny cave which he occupied, f nlly covered with his cloth, but shivering with high fever. "Ram, are yon not Brahman?"7 Ramdas asked. "dwainiji, u*'W I know I am not. A wonderful way of teaching you have! " "Ramdas is not teaching. It is Ram wlio teaches you. l>o Earn bhajan and eTerything will be ail right,** Ranidas day he went without any food* and on the third *Uy he waa all right. He took up again the Ram-mantraui. 0&« day * complaint came to him from Kallu who said that R&x&iittTaaiias vas worrying him for the brass cup which be (Kalia)h»