BOMBAY-SOJAT ROAD-KASARAGOD 447
swing, the child is lulled to sleep. He concluded, similar is
the case of people in the world. They cry for the Lord for a
time and then forget everything about Him and one birth
is gone; another birth, the child cries again and forgets all
about it the next instant. Another birth passes away, so on
and so forth ad infinitum. Unless and until we cry aloud,
fully awake from the sleep of ignorance, we can never
dream of freeing ourselves from the cycle of births and
deaths and find eternal union with God.
Of the visitors, mention has to be made of one whose
name is G. Balasubramaniam. At the very first sight of
Eamdas he felt a strange fascination for him. He was then
holding a good position as a shorthand typist in a well-known
bank of Bombay, He might have sat with Ramdas for not
more than five minutes when he said to him in a
spontaneous outburst as it were:
. "Swamiji, I will go with you. I have determined to
follow you in your tours. I shall be your stenographer
and will see that your speeches and talks are correctly put
down in writing. I am prepared even to go with you to-
foreign countries." Saying thus he awaited Ramdas' reply.
Ramdas looking at him said:
"Ram, are you not married? Haven't you any family at
home? What is this you are saying? Do you mean to leave
them and follow Ramdas?"
He replied: "I have nothing to do with all that. My
one concern is to cast my lot with you." Then Ramdas
asked him to consider well over the matter and then
come to a decision. The subject was dropped. But he
did not forget Ramdas. When dictating these lines to him,
Ramdas finds that he has been coming more and more
intimately in touch with the great mission which God has
started through the Anandashram of Ramnagar. Verily, God
has not been lacking in providing able instruments to
further the work of His service for which alone He has
enabled him to dedicate his entire life. Ramdas cannot