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 you. Send for Ramachendra Vidya vageesh, and he will tell you." Ramachendra Vidyavageesh, the direct spiritual successor of Rajah Rammohan Roy and the faithful and hopeful soul that sus- tained and kept alive through several years the little light the departing hand of the Rajah had lit, said, "This is from the Isopanishad" Thereafter, Devendranath took vigorously to the study of the Upanishads. He was absorbed in it. He was so possessed with the spirit of the Upanishads that the father, one of the immediate companions of the Rajah, raised the complaint — I dare say, echoed in manv a home in our days — " Devendranath is hopelessly gone: always Brahma and Brahma Samaj!"; till Devendranath, to avoid the unpleasantness of annoying the father, had to meet the Pandit in a printing press.

This little episode in the annals of the Brahma Samaj goes to show on what spirtual food the soul of the Brahma Samaj has fed all along and what importance we