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current they forced it hard t*» stand Mrmly r*n their
being worked on by the furious rnsh <»f water. Still they
struggled on and on until they felt they v^reatorit t<, r*
swept away. Rannlas stopped.
*%Ramdas is not afraid of the dissolution of the br*jy,
Ram," Raindas said, "hut to £o any further means certain
death by drowning, and Rum says t! e time for it has not
yet come. Ramdas has yet to continue service of the Lord
to whom he has dedicated himself: sr> also you. Hence let
us turn back."*
"Xo, Swamiji, we shall pass through/" cristi the
intrepid boy. For him death was of no aeervmt. His fear-
lessness was admirable. But Ramdas would n<»t permit him
to proceed further in the current.
"Ton may return, Swainiji/1 he sai«U "I shall veutnn*
forward and reach the other bank/"
Ramdas banned him of the adventure. So both retraced
towards the flat rocks where Triveni Prasad and others
were keenly watching their movements,
Ramdas1 stay in Lalitpnr was during the monsoon. 0m*
day* one of the devotees named Karta Krishna, who paid him
daily visits, invited him. Raincharandas and Triveni Prasau
to his house for the midday meal. For some days it had
been raining heavily, and there was an nnuscal downpour
on that morning. The streets were muddy and cold wiodi
were whistling through a drizzle. Tramping along many
a circuitous street, they at last reached a dark lane in
which the devotee lived.
Karta Krishna, who was a young man, dwelt with his
family in the npetair rooms of a line of petty shop*, situated
on the roadside. A ragged flight of steps led them up to a
narrow terrace from which a low door opened into a small
rectangular room. When they entered it, the fiisfc thing that
struck them wag the full blaze of sunlight descending from
above, as though a large portion of the roofing warn made
of glass. Bat a look upwards revealed the fact that the aged