________________ From My Experiments with Truth 161 the faculty of attending to a hundred tasks simultaneously). Dr. Mehta recommended that I should see some of his memory feats. I exhausted my vocabulary of all the European languages I knew, and asked the poet to repeat the words. He did so in the precise order in which I had given them. I envied his gift without, however, coming under its spell. The thing that did cast its spell over me I came to know afterwards. It was his wide knowledge of the scriptures, his spotless character, and his burning passion for self-realisation. હસતા રમતાં પ્રગટ હરિ દેખું રે, મારું જીવ્યું સફળ તવ લેખું રે; મુકતાનંદનો નાથ વિહારી રે, Bulell, qaPS12 347221 2. Even when laughing and playing, I experience the Lord, Only then, shall I consider this human birth successful; Poet Muktanand says my Lord is omnipresent, Self-realised saints are our lifeline to him I saw later that this last was the only objective for which he lived. The above lines of the Saint poet Muktanand were always on his lips and but were also engraved in his heart. Raichandbhai's commercial transactions covered hundreds of thousands. He would assay pearls and diamonds. No knotty business problem was too difficult for him. But all these matters were not the focus around which his life revolved. That focus was the passion to see God face to face. Amongst the items on his business table to be found invariably, were some religious books and his diary. No sooner he finished a business transaction, he would open
