426 IN THE VISION OF GOD
at the place. Ramdas duly honouring the swamiji with
salutation took his seat. At the first glance ho discovered
the swamiji to be a pure and great soul. TTis handsome
features radiated the glow of spiritual light. Ramdas
felt perfectly free and blissful in his company. Without
ceremony Ramdas started rocotinting to him the incidents
of his trip to Kashmir and Amarnath. lua fow words ho
discoursed upon the siddhnnta of Kashmiris, that is, of
Shiva and Shakti. Soon after, Rjimdan, taking* leave of the
swamiji, returned to the ashram. A few days later, the
swamiji in company with his disciples paid a vimt to
Anandashram. The occasion was characteristic of his broad-
mindedness and kind and affable nature. After spending
an hour or thereabouts in Ramdas' company, during which
Ramdas alone spoke a few words on the value of solitude
and satsang, the swamiji left the ashram and went back to
the temple.
Dwarkadas' stay in the ashram extended over two
months. While he was a devout and pure soul by nature,
he was given to smoking ganja. The intoxication of this
drug would unsettle his mind and turn him into a violent
and irritable man. He carried with him a few small brass
images of God for his daily worship. He was performing
the daily worship after bath on the front verandah of the
ashram. About this time Mark Sanjivrao was coming to the
ashram for the nights.
One day Ramdas was called away at Rama Bui's house
for attending their bhajan. In the ashram there wore
Ramanath Kini, Mark Sanjivrao, Dwarkadas and two
other devotees. After the bhajan was over Ramdas returned
to the ashram about nine o'clock in the night. Mean-
while something had happened in the ashram. Dwarkadas
was found to be sitting in a corner with a wry face nursing
his knee-joint. The tale came out. When Ramdas was away
there was a friendly scuffle between Dwarkadas and
Ramanath Kini in the course of which Dwarkadas tumbled