314 IN THE VISION OF GOD
Soon after this, Eamcharamias turned up. He informed
Ramdas with great delight that after some knocking about
he had at last procured an invitation for dinner for two
from a pious old mother in the city.
"You need not trouble her, Ram," said Ramdas; "we
have an invitation already from a merchant friend of the
city. We shall go to him. He will bo here to take us at
twelve o' clock."
As they returned to the temple, after bathing in a
neighbouring tank, the merchant came and escorted
them to his house. Ramdas had requested him to feed
them with a plain meal. He fed the sadhus with great
love.
They stayed in Kangrafor four or five days. One night
was spent in the company of a sannyasi at his ashram situated
in a beautiful spot. The sannyasi watf all kindness and
hospitality. The latter part of the stay was passed in the
Mahadeva's temple which they had first visited. Hero
Ramdas met a doctor, who had newly come to Kangra for
health, and had taken up his lodgings in the outhouse of
the temple. He was extremely kind to Raindas. He told
Ramdas the stories of his extensive travels in Europe. He
had visited England, France, Germany and other countries
in Europe. He was a well-read man. In the course of his
talks he remembered the writings of Emanuol Swedenborg,
the Swedish philosopher.
" Swedenborg, the Swede," he related, " when he saw
so much misery in the world, once said with great vehe-
mence: 'If I could only find that arch-tyrant God, who
created so much misery in the world, I would strangle him
to death.1 What do you think of this?" he asked.
" If Ramdas were there when he said so, he would have
taken the philosopher's hands up to his own throat and
urged him to strangle himself, because the misery he sees
in the world is of his own making.
When Ramdas' departure from Kangra approached, the