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44 mother that she would come and teach him the certain way to attain perfection. He recognised her at once, and she recognised him and said, ' I have found out the other two, and have been searching for thee for a long, long time^ and to-day I have found thee/ Up to this time Klma- krishna. had not found a single soul who could understand his superhuman devotion and perfect purity, and the arrival of this woman was therefore a great relief to him. His devotion and love knew no bounds.

All people were astonished at the wonderful learning of this Brahman lady, but they could not understand how she could sympathise and place even above herself this half- crazed RSmaknsha they took him for. To prove that he was not mad, the lady mentioned some Vaish^ava scriptures, got the manuscripts from some learned pandits, and quoted passage after passage, showing that all these physical manifestations come to an ardent lover of God. It was recorded in these books that all these states physical and mental did happen to the great religious reformer of Bengal, Srt Chaitanya, four hundred years back, and the remedies were given, too, by which he overcame them. For instance^ this burning sensation, as if all the body were in flames, from which Sri Rmak*7sha was suffering at the time, was mentioned in these Vaishwava scriptures as having happened to the shepherdess of Braja, to the stainless SA RddhS, the beloved of Krishna, centuries before, and again in later times to SA Chaitanya, when both of them felt deeply the pain of separation from their beloved (God). In both these cases relief came by smearing the body with sandal-