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more over, to be known under my own name, on acount of
my family's pride and well aware that once received in this
order I was safe, I begged of a Dekkani pandit, a friend of
nine, to intercede on my behalf with a Diksheet— the most
lea-ned among them, that I might be initiated:into that order
at once. He refused, however, point blank to initiate me,
urging my extreme youth. But I did not despair. Several
mo iths later, two holy men, a Swami and a Brahmachari,
came from the Dekan, and took up their abode in a solitary,
ruined building in the midst of a jungle, near Chanoda and
about two miles distant from us. Profoundly versed in the
Vedant philosophy, my friend the Dekkaniy pandit, went to
visit them, taking me along with him. A metaphsical dis-
cussion following brought them to recognize in each other
Diksheet of a vast learning. They informed us that they had
arrived from "Shringeri Math," the principal convent of
Shankaracharya, in the south, and were on their way to
Dwarka. To on of them Parnanand Saraswati, I got my
Dekkani friend to recommend me particularly, and state, at
the same time. the object I was so desirous to attain and may
difficulties. He told him that I was a young Brahmachari,
who wss very desirous to pursue his study in metaphysics
unimpeded; that I was quite free from any vice or bad habits
for which fact he vouchsafed; and that, therefore, he believed
me worthy of being accepted in this highest probationary
degree, and initiated me into the 4th order of the Sanyasis;
adding that thus I might be materially helped to free myself
from all worldly obligations, and proceed untrammelled in
the course of my metaphysical studies. But this Swami also
declined at first. I was too young, he said. Besides, he was
himself a Maharashtra, and so he advised me to appeal to a
Gujrati Swami. It was only when fertently urged on by my
friend, who reminded him that Dekkani Sanyasis can initiate
even Gowdas, and that there could extst no such objectton
in my case as I had been alreacy accepted, and was one of