436 IN THE VISION OF GOD
In the evenings Raindas would run to the bank of the
local river and dance in circles in which hundreds of the
village devotees joined, singing the divine Ram-mantram,
Altogether his stay in Uple-Dnmalu was marked by the sup-
reme triumph of love in the light of which people of every
denomination mingled together in 'a, spirit of perfect equa-
lity and brotherhood. Where the love of God manifests
there the darkness of conventional distinctions that breed
strife and misery disappear. 0 Lord! victory ever attend
Thy Name.
The account of Uple-Dumala cannot bo complete with-
out the mention of a few prominent devotees of the place,
Baghunath Maharaj, Krishnaji Pandharinath, Bappa Baheb,
Babarao Kulkarni and a Gfajerati merchant were the out-
standing figures who contributed their wholehearted services
towards not only the success of the programme but also
in planting of the seed of the divine Name in the hearts of
all the villagers.
At the pressing invitations from the neighbouring
villages, Ramdas visited, on leaving Uple-Pmnula, Hhatam-
bare, Kaudgaum, Ambo-Jawalage and many other villages.
Everywhere thousands of people came to meet him. The
so-called untouchable classes freely came forward to touch
his feet. Devotion and love rose In floods. The Name
of God spread far and wide and the hearts of the people
bathed in an ocean of joy. The reception he got in every
one of these villages was exacbly similar to the one he had
while entering Uple-Dumala.
About this time the annual Kartik festival at Paudhar-
pur was approaching. So, on the suggestion of Janardan
Pant and other devotees, Bamdas went with them to
Pandharpur for this festival. This time he and the party
stayed in a dharmashala. He was made to visit the
temples for the darshan of Vithoba. On the last day of
his stay he spent a few hours beneath a cluster of tall trees
near the banks of Ohandrabhaga river. Here he met all