For many days, M. has been sitting in the courtyard on the ground floor in the Morton School. He walks a little on the footpath. He sees how God manifests himself in the common man in so many forms.

Today it is 23rd September 1924, 7th Ashwin, 1331 (B.Y.), Friday, the 10th day of the dark fortnight. 46 Dandas/55 Palas.

In the square made by benches, M. is seated on a bench facing east. In front of him is Amherst Street. The bhaktas are also seated on benches on all four sides. It is evening.

Swami Dhirananda has arrived. He is an old sadhu of the Belur Math. M. makes him sit beside himself with affection and consideration and offers him sweet snacks. He is to go to Parshi Bagan to see Sharat Chandra Mitra who is lying very ill.

A devotee comes to M. climbing down from the fourth level. M. introduces him to Swami Dhirananda saying, ‘He goes to the Math.’ Swami Dhirananda replies, ‘Yes, I know.’

It is M.’s belief that those who are attached sincerely with affection with sadhus of the Math will alone take to the life of renunciation. That is why he is always asking the young brahmacharis to be intimate with the old sadhus.

Sharat Chandra Mitra, the great devotee of Thakur and the founder of Ramakrishna Samiti is very ill. Many a sadhu comes to enquire after him from the Math. Swami Dhirananda is also going to Parshi Bagan to see him. The Younger Nalini and Vinay accompany him.

The evening of the next day. Today M. is seated again on the ground floor. He is meditating. Before it, he was walking on the footpath.

Antevasi comes from Beliaghata at 8:30 p.m. along with Shuka Lal. They have brought kitchen utensils with them. As desired by M., they will eat self-cooked vegetarian food for some days. Thakur made M. also do the same earlier.

It is 9 o’ clock. M. rises. Nearby, there is the Panchanan Ghosh Lane. There, the play of Krishna-yatra has been going on for some days. M. stands with the devotees and listens to it. The play being enacted is ­ The Lord’s going to Mathura. Sri Krishna is going to Mathura. The Gopis stand on his way to stop him. Some of them hold back the wheel of the rath. So Radha said, "My friend, please don’t hold the wheel of the rath. The wheel, of which Hari is the chakri (bearer of the wheel), moves the world."

The next day, 2 p.m. M. sends Antevasi to Parshi Bagan. The secretary of Sri Ramakrishna Samiti, Sharat Chandra Mitra is very ill. He may die any moment. After having enquired after Sharat Babu, the devotees go to Ram Mohan Roy Library as asked by M. Here, the annual meeting of the Brahmacharya Vidyalaya of Ranchi is going to be held today. Many sadhus will get together here. The students of the Morton School, Hemendra Sanyal and others have also gone there. M. sends Brahmacharis and devotees wherever the sadhus assemble. It is already nine and a half before the devotees return after taking prasad. M. has been waiting for them till so late in the evening. He gets the news of the sadhus from the devotees.

The next day is September 26. After evening prayer, they read from the Devi Bhagavata, first three chapters. M. had sent many bhaktas with Antevasi to have darshan of the sadhus. They return at ten p.m. M. says to the Younger Jiten, "Please again read the Devi Bhagavata to them."

Ram Lal, the old servant of the Morton School has just died in the Cambell Hospital. Today, it is September 27. M. is anxious to have his last rites done. He asks Antevasi and Vinay to arrange it. They go to the Cambell Hospital taking with them Purna, the teacher of the Morton School and Krishna Chakravarti, a student of class two (ninth of today). When they are taking delivery of his dead body from the mortuary, Ram Lal’s relatives reach there. They take the body to the Kalighat. The only close relative of Ram Lal is a twelve year boy. The bhaktas come to M. M. asks them to take bath. Antevasi says, ‘The corpse is undefiled.’ But M. says, ‘Even so, one should take a bath.’

Today it is 28th September, 1924, 12th of Ashwin, 1331 (B.Y.), Sunday, Amavasya, 50 Dandas/17 Palas.

It is five in the evening. M. is seated on the roof of the Morton School facing north. Postmaster Amulya arrives with two companions. M. is talking with them. Close to him are Antevasi, Gadadhar and so on. Amulya has just been transferred from Shillong to Alipur. Polite inquiries over, they talk.

Doctor Bakshi and Advocate Lalit Banerjee enter.

M. meditates with the bhaktas for about an hour.

It is 8 p.m. M. is sitting near the northern door in the Nava Vidhan Brahma Samaj towards the west. With him are devotees Shanti, Bhaumik, Surapati, Dhiren, the Younger Jiten, Vinay, Jagabandhu and so on. A little later arrive Manoranjan, Balai, Gadadhar, Dr. Akshay of Assam and his companion. Acharya Pramatha Sen is delivering a sermon from the pulpit. It is an echo of Thakur’s word: Man loves all in the world but who loves God. One should love Him.

Coming out of the Nava Vidhan Mandir, M. enters Jhamapukur. He is to go to Kali temple of Thanthania. Pointing towards the mansion of Raja Digamber Mitra he says, "This is Digamber Mitra’s house. Initially, Thakur used to perform puja here. And 27, Jhamapukur Lane ­ here too, Vijay Krishna Goswami used to live. One day, Thakur went to see him ­ he had not gone to Dakshineswar for a long time and was not well. This was the reason."

M. comes to the Bechu Chatterji Street. Pointing at the shop of muri (roasted rice) and murki (sweetened parched paddy) to the right of the road he says, "Here, Pundit Ramakumar Shastri, the elder brother of Thakur had his Sanskrit school. It is he who suggested to Rani Rasmani to donate the Dakshineswar Kali Mandir in the name of the guru. Rani Rasmani could not procure a priest for the temple. Not knowing what to do, she earnestly requested Ram Kumar to agree to act as the priest of the newly built temple. Since then, descendants of this family have been performing the duties of the priest. Thakur used to attend this school and he used to live there (behind the houses to the east, on the left footpath of this road). Now the Hare Press is situated there in a brick built house. It was then a thatched house."

M. goes towards Thanthania. He stops at the turning of the Guru Prasad Chaudhry Lane. Showing a two storey building to the left he says, "This is the house of Rajendra Mitra. Thakur used to visit it very often. Once Keshab Sen came to this house for Thakur’s darshan. Aha, what devotion Keshab Babu had! He washed the grapes and wiped each one before giving it to Thakur with his own hand. How much love there has to be for doing so!"

M. proceeds. He says from a distance, "There, you see Mother Kali’s temple. Thakur used to visit it regularly. He would sit there and sing to the Mother for quite long. He was seventeen or eighteen then. Yes, we have left behind a holy place. Opposite to the Thakurbari in Guru Prasad Chaudhry Lane, there was Nakul Boshtam’s grocery. He would come and sit there too and sing songs for him when asked."

M. has now reached Mother Kali’s temple. Sitting before the Mother, he meditates. He is surrounded on three sides with the devotees. They are all in meditation. After half an hour, M. offers pranam to the Mother, takes some charanamrita and leaves. He is going to the Morton School by Bechu Chatterji Street. He stops at the Amherst Street turning near the City College. He is tired, so he is taking rest. He says to the bhaktas, "You may now go home." Many of them offer pranam and depart. It is 9:30 p.m. M. reaches the courtyard of the Morton School. With him are Jagabandhu, Vinay, Shachi, Gadadhar and so on. Standing in front of the gate he says, "All this has been very nice today. We have had the darshan of Kalighat, Navadwip and Kashi together. Mother Kali of Thanthania is like Kalighat and this here (hearing community singing of devotional songs in Doctor Akshay’s house in the south-east corner of Morton School) is like Navadwip. (He thinks for a while) And the Nava Vidhan Brahma Samaj is like Kashi." Jagabandhu says, "The Brahmos practice Bhakti. Kashi is the centre of jnana." M. says, "Why, is there no bhakti in Kashi?"

M. is seated in the eastern section of the second level. Doctor Akshay’s house is about thirty seven yards away. The music of the community singing is resounding. One can hear only ‘Hare Krishna Hare Ram.’ M. listens. Full of emotion, he says a little later, "Please go there, you must go there. Go and join them. Such a day doesn’t come very often. Thakur used to say: Giving up hesitation, dislike and fear you should call on Him. Please go there. (to Shuka Lal affectionately) You need not go. Your age and then your fat body, you have many worldly worries." The devotees dance with ‘Hare Krishna Hare Ram’ in their throats.

Morton School, staircase room. M. is sitting on a bench facing south in front of the western door. It is eight p.m. Antevasi has returned from the Ram Mohan Roy Library. M. had sent him there again today. The annual function of the Brahmo Boys School is being celebrated today. M.’s idea is that may be one can have a grain of Thakur’s Kathamrita. Many old Brahmo bhaktas will visit it. Most of them have had Thakur’s darshan. Many a time, they talk about Thakur among themselves. So M. sends Antevasi there. He has said to him, ‘There is sand mixed with sugar in their talk. Like an ant, you should only pick up sugar. Sugar, that is to say, the words of the avatara, of Thakur.’

Today it is 29th September, 1924, 13th Ashwin 1331 (B.Y.), Monday. M. is listening to the reading of the Devi Bhagavata, 10th skandha, 3rd adhyaya (chapter).

The next day, M. is sitting in the same staircase room. It is the second day of the bright fortnight, 23 Dandas/23 Palas today. A little while ago, he was gazing at the moon of the second day (dvitiya) from the roof . He was saying, "Thakur used to tell us that Sita said to Ravana: Ram is the moon of dvitiya and you are the full moon. Ravana was very happy to hear this. But he could not understand its significance. The full moon means it has waxed to its maximum. Now, it is to go down. The destruction will now come. And this is what happened to Ravana. And the moon of dvitiya means it has to wax. It has only taken birth just recently ­ the splendour of Ram’s sport is about to gain more and more."

As soon as the evening lamp is brought in, M. shuts his eyes and clapping with his hands says, ‘Hari Bol, Hari Bol’ and meditates with the devotees. Durgapada Mitra, Jitendra Nath Sen, Dr. Kartik Chandra Bakshi, Vinay, Balai, Bhaumik, the Stout Sudhir, Gadadhar, Ramesh, Jagabandhu and others sitting in front of M. and to his left also meditate. The meditation goes on for about an hour. Now the reading from the Devi Bhagavata is taken up ­ 3rd skandha, 20 to 24 adhyayas. All listen to the reading without speaking. The reading over, the conversation is resumed.

The roof the Morton School, 3 p.m. M. is seated on a chair facing south. He is talking. In front of him are two teachers on a bench. They have their home is Dhupdheh in Nadia District. They are conversing.

Enters the Younger Ramesh.

Both the teachers had arrived at one o’ clock. They were talking with Antevasi too till three o’ clock on all these things ­ One is reborn by keeping company of sadhus. Then, they had talked about who is one’s own, who is not, who is an eternal friend and who for only two days. And, they had also reflected that this body will not last forever. By thinking that the body will not last, one tries to attain that entity which will last. Reason? Man becomes frightened on hearing that he will not last. Is there no way that I can last forever? All these thoughts come to the mind. Then the answer comes. You cannot last in the form of the body, but you can in the form of Atman, as the son of God. Only then begins the development of man’s self. The result? Peace, happiness and joy.