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 CHAPTER IX

VISIT TO A HINDU PANDIT AND PREACHER

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It was the day of the great car festival of Jagannath. The streets of Calcutta were crowded with people. Boys and girls were playing along the way and amusing themselves by blowing horns and pipes made of palm-leaves. A light rain was falling and the roads were wet and muddy. About four o'clock in the after- noon the Bhagavan came out of Ishan's house and entered a carriage which was waiting for Him at the door. Immediately after taking his seat He lost sense-consciousness and went

into that state of pure God-con- sciousness which He had often called His Abesha. The disciples followed their Divine