v.*i;s r*l" y»»j:r masters come iifcrt- iii<i tra^t- j. VH/ / u:r •-,.,?: ';,
yurr a hser. •-•*."
The sain* >t'. ry would repeat itself a^aiu ^n:.i a-ih.
When Ram-ias was ui.e xnurniinp iee-iing aud tilkii.u T
r.-'-*!CF- gr-ats. two Christian padre* eanie !••> see h:iu. F'l^iiL.
Ran^ia>* friendly intercourse \vith tlir aniui il? they ?j*-k*-
of the f'dnior.s Saint Frauds of Assisi \vh< ^ life, i*i^y ?.n*j.
was similar t<» the oi.e \vhich Ham las k-u.
The Loru, through tlieinenus at Erii:ik;5l,i:i:. \viIk-U that
Eam»Iasshould write this nirrative in e^^tiiaii'ttioii **f tV
tirst b*»Ttk "In i^uest nf Guii." He was pr-jvi«ie«i vdtii the
necessary \vritini, materials. RamdAS c-. <iaineiiueu t ^ n;;r
down 011 paper the story of his life, hut gave it up tfttr
inditing a fe\vpages. He had then, at the outset, 5**:te 1 do\vi.
the main points i»f the narrative f*u a scrap V>ok. asi'i
these nftes, which were preserved, are utilize*! Jiov f'.r
reference.
Here Ramuas vas again joined by the raja yogi who
had instructed him in the practice of pranayaina. Aai"i^
the visitors \vas a prominent Malayalee vakil, Xarayaiu
Menoii, who took it into his head tu adopt sannyas. He als>
received initiation into the practice of breath-control, an«i
the raja yogi began to deride at all other methods of con-
centration. Ramdas -was holding Tip the repetition of Gt>«f s
Name as the easiest anil best path to reach God, while the
raja yogi openly condemned this method and spoke of it
disparagingly to the visitors on whom Ramdas wae im-
pressing its importance. There was a clash. The visitors
were perplexed and Ramdas was at his wit's end and sub-
mitted to the will of God, and God solved the problem in
His own inscrutable manner. The raja yogi was residing ***
Ernakularn for a pretty long time, even before Ramdas
visited the place, and he had freely and indiscriminately
instructed many people in this practice, with the result
that it worked a good deal of harm among them, and there
was a rush of these poor unlettered folk to this house,
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