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the five Dravids that he consented. And on the third day
following he consecrated me into the order, delivering unto
me a Dandnd naming me Dayanand Saraswati. By the
order of my initiater and my proper desire. I had to lay
aside the emblematical bamboo— the Dand, renounctng it for
a while, as he ceremonial performances connected with it,
would only interfere with unimpeded progress of my studies.
TRAVELS
Pursuit of Yoga
After the ceremony of initiation was over they left us,
and proceeded to Dwarka, Fur some time I lived at Chanoda
Kanyali as a simple Sanyasi. But upon hearing that at
Vyasashram there lived a Swami whom they called Yoganand,
a man thoroughly versed in Yoga, to him I addressed myself
as an humble student, and began learning from him the theory
as well as some of the practical modes of the science of Yoga
for Yoga Vidya). When my preliminary tuition was completed,
I proceeded to Chhinour, as on the outskirts of this town lived
Krishna Shastree, under whose guidance I perfected myself in
the Sanskrit grammar, and returned to Chanoda where I
remained for some time longer. Meeting there to Yogis-
Jwalanaud Pooree antl Shivanand Giree, I practiced Yoga with
them also, and we all three held together many a dissertation
upon the exalted science of Yoga ; until finally, by their
advice. a month cifter their departure, I went to meet them in
the temple of lloodheshwar, near Ahmedabad, at which place
they had promised to me the final secrets and modes of
attaining Yoga Vidya. They kept their promise, and it is to
them that I am indebted for the acquirement of the practical
portion of that great science. Still later, it was divulged to
me that these were many far higher and more learned Yogis
than those I had higherto met yet not the highest still—who
resided on the peaks of the mountain of Aboo, in Bajputana.
Thither then I travelled again, to visit such noted places of
sanctity as the Alvada Bhawance and ethers ; enciuntering, at
?. The three and seven knotted bamboo of the Sanyasis
given to them as a sign of power after their initiation.