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Rh Gobind Lâl, hearing this voice in imagination, asked, "Shall I plunge into it?" Again, in fancy, he heard the answer—

"Yes, come; Bhramar, sitting in heaven, sends to say that her merit has power to redeem us. Perform penance thus. Die."

Gobind Lâl closed his eyes. Exhausted in body and trembling all over he fell, benumbed, on the stone landing steps of the ghât. In his dazed condition he seemed to see Rohini suddenly dissolve into the darkness. Then, gradually filling the whole atmosphere with brilliance, the bright figure of Bhramar arose before him, and said: "Why should you die? do not die. You have lost me. Need you die for that? There is one dearer to you than I. Live and you will obtain her."

Gobind Lâl lay there in that senseless condition all night. At dawn, searching for him, his people carried him into the house. Seeing his state, even Mâdhabi Nâth pitied him. All strove to restore him. In two or three months he recovered his natural health. They hoped he would