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 one a fixed appointment. After he went away, Pandit Sastri said, “Last night’s lecture must have made him mad. I sometimes make men mad.” I said, “Yes, you have made many mad men sober also.” That is the complex nature of the messenger of God’s truth—to make mad people sober and calculating people mad. On another occasion, I observed that he promised to close a service and sermon in an hour and took two and a half hours ! And he said, “I am like the drunkards who began with drinking only one bottle and did not give up till they consumed many a bottle and raised such a hue and cry that people came and thrashed them into silence. So you must have silenced me!” Wonderful man, wonderful man, that received everything in the finest grace I This fund of stories in him amused the casual hearer, instructed the thoughtful and endeared him to kindred spirits. This man, they felt, was ever watchful, ever on the alert. There was not an incident in his life that did not leave an impression on his mind, not an occurrence that did not make its mark, not a