478 IN THE VISION OF

ashram, Ramdas received fche tidhUB that <»urudcv at
Kasaragod had dropped off hip body. In the last period of
his life, for some months, ho had ivaehod a state in which
he remained perfectly unattached to the world, retaining all
the time not only his eonseiouMioSH of the external life, but
also his jovial and cheerful nature. It in the \vave of grace,
compassion and love, that rose1 from hitf mii#uammous heart
that turned Bamdas' life towards its 1'otmlain-hoad — God —
ultimately granting him the hitfhost vision oC immortality,
bliss and poace through perfect union and ommoss with the
immanent and transcendent; Godhead.

In commemoration of his saviour, and through him the
saviour of thousands, the dny of )ri« departure from the
world is observed in the a si iram with a celebration falling
in the month of October or November every year.

Celebrations annually continue to bo hold in the a«hram
twice a year, one the annual col ohm lion of tho ashram and *
the other Gxmi Punyathithi.

Ramdasn activities in the new nHhraw are of a varied
character. He v/as mado to turn out hookn one after
another. The (irst publication was Krishna Hni'H life-
sketch; next came "(Jita-Sandoah'1 an<l Hum followed
"Sayings of Ramdas" and "Tho Divine Life/1 He alw>
commenced to contvibnte articles to various religious
journals of India mainly to a high-class religious monthly of
international reputation, "Tho MoB8a#o" of Goralchpur.
The saintly editor, Sri Swami Madnnaudaji, opened freely
the columns of his monthly to tlio writings of Katndas. Kven
at the time of writing this narrative, his articles <*(»nUnuo
to appear in that magazine-

Besictes his other activities ho is also engaged in a
volximinous correspondence with tho fmnxds iti variotm