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Several discharges of blood, very sorry.
Suffering from the discharge of blood from the
bowels
- Got very much sick
- Begins my period of sickness
- Very sick, blood and weakness.
- Indigestion visits still.
- Suffering from severe nausea and two or three
drops flowed 'from the nostrils.'
- Copious discharge of blood from bowels.
- Nausea
These meagre and desultory notes give but faint idea of
trouble which was raging within his constitution. He had a great
power of endurance and never breathed
Hai,
or any other such
expression under the severest pain. His constitution was almost
completely wrecked by the end of the year. Yet he worked on with
persistence. The people could not judge his condition by his external
appearance. It was ever calm and placid.
Throughout the year 1889, Pandit Guru Datta was again
unusually active. Immediately after organising a movement for
the establishment of `Updeshak class' he opened a Mahabhashya
class. Under the purifying influences which Pandit Guru Datta
exercised on the Arya Samajists, a strong desire arose in the minds
of a body of earnest men to devote themselves to the cultivation of
Vedic literature. Some provision must be made to satisfy this desire.
There was no body at Lahore who could teach Aryan Shastras to
educated people in a thoroughly efficient and competent manner,
except Pandit Guru Datta, and he undertook this grave duty upon
himself. The class was held at his house, there was a pretty large
number of students at first, but it gradually fell, for the majority of
the students were clerks, and they could not return from their offices
in time to join the class. The class was otherwise a complete success.
Every Arya felt its utility and a number of gentlemen from outstations
expressed a wish to join it. Lala Narayan pass M.A., Extra Assistant
Commissioner, who at that time had a sincere and genuine respect for
Panditji, highly appreciated the service that he was doing to the
community at large through the Mahabhashya class and determined
to enroll himself as a student for three months. This is significant in
itself. That a distinguished graduate holding the respectable post of
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