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fcure, Ramdas spent a week most blissfully. His wife, a
simple, child-like and noble soul, joined heartily with her
husband in the bhajan that was held in the evenings.
Ramdas hardly moved out of the house. Some professors of
the college, of which Savoor Shanker Rao was the then Prin-
cipal, came to see Ramdas and had talks with him. Here
Janardan Pant, whose leave had by now expired,
separated from him and returned to join his duties at
Narkhed.
Ramdas' next place of visit was Ernakulam. Here he
spent a few days in the company of P. Sanjivrao and many
other friends of the place and then left for Kasaragod again.
Of course, he occupied once more Anandashram, situated
in that calm retreat beyond the hills.
The usual routine of the ashram life restarted. Krishna
Bai paid her daily visits and did her selfless service in the
'ashram. A week after his arrival, Krishna Bai's brother-in-
law, having returned from Europe, came to Kasaragod to
take over his family and Krishna Bai and her children to
Dharwar. Really, it was a wrench for Krishna Bai so
suddenly to tear herself off from her association with
Ramdas and the ashram. At his request, she however
departed with her brother-in-law and others.
Before proceeding to narrate the events that followed,
it is necessary that a word should be said relating to the
intense life of self-sacrifice Krishna Bai led during his
all-India tour. Gurudev was bed-ridden and Rukmabai,
owing to her severe attacks of asthma, was also in a similar
condition. In those days Krishna Bai's life was mainly spent
in attending on the patients. As a nurse at the bedside of a
sick person she can be said to be rarely equalled. She would
give herself away for such, service heart and soul. She tended
both the patients a thousand times more tenderly and care-
fully than their own mothers would have. For the matter
of that, her entire life is an oblation to the selfless service
of all, irrespective of condition, person, time or place.