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| Papa Swami Ramdas |
(from "In the vision of God"):
The kind mother – Ramdas’ wife in his old life - was laid up with fever for some days owing to the strain of the journey by steamboat while accompanying him from Hubli to Mangalore. He was visiting her once in every two or three days until she recovered. During one of the visits, the reputed saint of Puttur - Krishnarao was in the house. He came to where Ramdas sat beside the ailing mother. At the sight of him, Ramdas prostrated at his feet. He sat down.
“Was it necessary that you should have entirely renounced the householder’s life and taken up the diksha of sannyas?” he asked.
“Ram willed it so. Ramdas could not help it.” Ramdas replied.
“Your Ram must then be wonderful. May I know where He is?” he questioned.
“He is residing in the hearts of us all because He is all-pervading.” Ramdas rejoined.
“I cannot see Him. How can we know that it is His will that guides us?” he asked again.
“He is invisible to the ordinary eye, but can be seen through a purified vision,” Ramdas said. “Only when you see Him, you realise that it is His will that directs your actions. Freedom from attachment and complete surrender to Him are the conditions of this supreme vision.”
“I cannot fully understand what you say,” Krishnarao persisted. “I believe that worldly life need not be abandoned in order to realise God.”
“True,” Ramdas replied. “Ramdas still belongs to the world, not in a partial sense but in totality. His Beloved is not only in particular persons but is discovered to be residing, in all His power and glory, in all beings, creatures and things.”
Here the conversation ended, and Ramdas left the house and returned to the cave.
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