LAI:TTUH- E A JSHAS- CHHATTA?.?UF.
was partly wiiliin an excavation on the hill-gi^te. A
water spring at the top of the bill -was dripping down Its
in tiny streams forming into a pretty thick jtt -which
on the head of the Hnga continuously day and
t. At the outer end of the fiat ground was a leaning
stone-bench all along the edge.
"Last night was a terrible period for roe, Swamiji,"
Balat Ram recounted. ""I \vas in utter despair. In spite of
my htrcnlian efforts God would not give me darshauu I
Mew int</ such a rage against Shiva that I ran wild and
madly kicked at the Shiva-Hnga, struggled hard u- uproot
it from its seat and throw it down the hill, bTit I could not
move it. It was so firmly fixed in the ground. Next I
remembered yon. I called you aloud "Ramdas, Ramdas,
RamdasH—I went on at the highest pitch of my voice for
nearly half an hour and stopped through sheer exhaustion.
After all, in response to my insistent call, yon have come.
You are zny God*"
"'Ramdas is only a servant of God/" Ramdas assured
him," who is dwelling in the hearts of ns all, and he goes
from place to place in obedience to His command/*
(iii) Bod's act-Miraculous Cure
As the shadows of the evening closed upon the scene,
all the friends, except Valjnath and Kanickarandas, went
down the hill to spend the night in the village at the foot
of the hills* Balak Bam had a lantern which he lit when
darkness set in* The mountain was clothed with a dense
jungle of gigantic trees. The beasts of prey came onto!
their lairs and sent forth their hungry roars which could
be heard distinctly from all sides.
Before dark the party of fonr had climbed up to a higher
position on the Mil. The way to it was eminently slippery
and dautgeroxis. Here was a cave-like room, eonstrncted
of the bricks, in front of which was a narrow passage, and
that was all the space available for their occupation.