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was vacant except for the three, Ramdas -<vas sittiL^ in a
corner and Ratneharandas leaned ont of a wiii-j^v,. Every-
body Teas silent in the compartment. Sullenly., Ram-
charamlas came bounding to Rannlats and said vdth sur-
prised looks:
"Svramiji, some one has just been uttering in my ears
Ramnarn; I distinctly heard it. Who >15 i it? "
"Ram, Ram das never moved frwin his seat, so also th«e
Sikh. It mnst be Ram, and who is there other than He?*'
Ramdas replied.
At the Tictoria Terminus they met Sinjivarao wh«> was
awaiting their arrival. They drove in a victoria t^ £aii;iva-
rao's quarters at Gamdevi.
(ii) God is Providence
The fever continued to appear every third day for about
four or five hours in the evening from four to eight or nine.
Sanjivarao and his wife grew anxious about him. Often in
the evenings, on the fever days, he -wrould be talking on
bhakti and vairagya to the mothers who used to visit him
at that time. He was reading out bits from the "Rambles
in Yedanta" by B. R. Rajara Iyer, When he was narrating
the life of Nanda, the pariah saint, from this book he vould
go into ecstasies. The life presents the unique devotion of
an outcast saint "who was completely merged in divine
consciousness. The hearers would also become blissful.
In the night Ramdas would, in spite of fever, talk long
and spontaneously, expounding the greatness of bhakti and
of the inestimable power of God's Name. A doctor friend,
who had great love for him, would pay him visits. He
proposed to give him an injection for the fever. Bamdas
would not have the treatment. Bnt Saujivarao and his wife
were persistent. They -would have him take some medicine.
At their pressure he drank twice a day a bitter mixture and
every time, when he did so, he remarked that the medicine
was so very sweet! The mother—Sanjivarao's vife—would
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