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he did not bargained for. "When visiting the Shalimar
and Nishad gardens the party had to pass through a canal
on a canoe manned by Muhammadans. The nauseating
stench of the canal was too much for Pant. Eamdas
could very well make out when he noticed the facial con-
tortions of Pant, while he was sniffing at the trying odour
of the canal, that he must have been deeply repenting the
false step he took in coming to Srinagar. To top it all,
when Bamdas proposed to the Pandits after a week's stay
that he must be permitted to leave Srinngar shortly, they
all but tore Pant to pieces, presuming that he was at the
bottom of Bamdas1 early departure from their midst.
Before leaving the place Bamdas and Pant remained with
Shambhunath for a few days. One night Janakinath came
here to see Bamdag. He took him out for a walk to a maidan
close by. As they walked Janakinath had a long talk with
iiim. The gist of it was that Bamdas by a mere wish should
bring him face to face with God. If self-surrender was the
goal he should see that Janakinath attained it by a mere
blessing from him. In reply Bamdas made him understand:
" Self-surrender is a task mainly resting upon the efforts of
the sadhaka or the devotee. God wants us to be conscious
instruments in His hands. God's grace alights on the
devotee when he has acquired the necessary qualifications
for it."
Janakinath would not agree. He stated that he was
perfectly weak and powerless and could not do the
necessary sadhana for bringing about the needed surrender.
Everything must be done for him by God Himself. If there
was to be surrender, God alone should see that He provided
him with the conditions for such a surrender. In short, he
looked to God to shower on him all that was best that lay
in His power to grant.
To this Ramdas said: "Since you know the
that God alone is the real power and the only po
should mould your life, bringing about a, divie °tra
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