SRINAGAR-RAWALPINDI-AMRITSAR 381
For Ramdas the world was no longer an illusion. He
had coine to look upon it as God's own expression in form
and movement. For him the world stood revealed as a
gigantic image of God teeming with divine life.
Eamdas spent a week in Rawalpindi during which he
enjoyed a couple of days in the society of K. Sadashivarao
and his family.
The next place to which he travelled to -was Amritsar
where Gopalrao, who was given intimation beforehand,
came to receive him at the station. His wife, Girijabai,
was away at her mother's. He was alone with a man-
servant at his house in the spacious compound of the
Khalsa College.
Khalsa College is an institution mainly intended for the
education of Sikhs. It consists of an imposing pile of
buildings. There are hostels, vast structures for accommo-
dating a thousand students. All the professors and teachers
are also provided with residential quarters within the
extensive grounds of the college which can be termed a
colony, having also a Post office attached to it.
A special class for all boys is held every morning for
imparting spiritual instruction, when they are made to sing
prayers and listen to the reading and exposition of Granth
Saheb, the Scripture of the Sikhs. There is a tank of pure
flowing water in which the boys perform their morning
ablutions.
Through the introduction of Gopalrao Ramdas became
acquainted with a few professors and teachers of the college
who paid him frequent visits and invited him to dinner
to their houses. All of them were Sikhs. The Sikhs are a
noble, industrious and kindly people. In the mornings and
evenings Gopalrao would take Bamdas on his mo tor-cycle
to the city, to visit saint Bhai Vir Singh who had now
returned to Amritsar from Kashmir. He was all kindness
and love. In his house Bamdas met also an old saint*
Yaddasantji who became in course of time quite enajnoius