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of consciousness a sense of care-free-ness. They feel refreshed in body and soul. And this feeling of freshness endures with them till much later, they say, when everything else upon which it seemed to depend at the time or which seemed to have occasioned it, is forgotten altogether Some people come and carry on talking with him even after nine in the night. He cannot refuse such friends. His gentle nature can only permit him to drop a sly hint that it was time to retire.
One has to marvel at the mental and physical reserves of the man, that inspite of these odds against His reading him, he contrives to pursue his seriand study ous study and to send so much to the press. He has trained his body so well as to drop to sleep any time he Likes and to sleep like a babe
The range of his reading is wide enough. It is rather too wide for a Jain Muni. He is liable to be Sufi accused of being an indiscriminate reader writers, Christian authors, Hindu divines-all have passed through his hands and not some without being well thumbed and kept for future' reference A friend comes to him and brings him some favourite book of his, pleads that it is worth his reading and leaves it with him to return it with his opinion He is too courteous to refuse such a well-meaning offer He scans through at least some of its important chapters This sort of desultory reading does not prevent him from his set study anyhow He cannot be re
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