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He had acquired his extraordinary powers through a chance encounter with a Hindu yogi. "'Son, I am thirsty; fetch me some water. A dust-covered SANNYASI made this request of Afzal one day during his early boyhood in a small village of eastern Bengal. "'Master, I am a Mohammedan. How could you, a Hindu, accept a drink from my hands? "'Your truthfulness pleases me, my child.
He gained further victories as a successful disputant and also married and became the father of two sons. At the age of fifty-two he took to the life of a Sannyâsi, but died forty-two days afterwards. Though Vallabha died as an ascetic, his doctrines are currently known as the Pushṭi Mârga, the road of well-being or comfort.
At twenty-five he became a Sannyâsî, and at the request of his mother, who did not wish him to wander too far, settled in Puri near the temple of Jagannath. Here he spent the rest of his life in preaching, worship and ecstatic meditation, but found time to make a tour in southern India and another to Brindaban and Benares.
'I wonder if Western scientists, patiently enlarging the realms of knowledge for the practical good of mankind, are not more pleasing to God than these idlers who profess religion but concentrate on alms. "My smouldering reflections on social reform were interrupted by the voice of a tall sannyasi who halted before me. "'Sir, he said, 'a saint is calling you. "'Who is he?
And he said to himself: It may be he is an emissary from one of the neighbouring Kings, covering his policy with folly: or he may be the go-between of some assignation: or even if he be nothing of the kind, what harm? So then, after a little while, that sannyásí entered, looking like a very shala tree in height.
But go thou and tell the holy man to give thee some evidence, or token, of his divinity, and then we shall see. So, then, after a while, that pratihárí came again. And she said: Maháráj, thus said the sannyásí: Go and tell the Mahárájá, that I am the God of Death, yet not just of any death, but only of his own.
This shows that our Sannyasi was not one of the naked travelling monks, but a true Akali; one of the six hundred warrior-priests attached to the Golden Temple, for the purpose of serving God and protecting the temple from the destructive Mussulmans. His name was Ram-Runjit-Das; and his personal appearance was in perfect accordance with his title of "God's warrior."
Then that strange old sannyásí laughed like a hyæna, and he said: Maháráj, be not afraid any longer of my eye: for this time I shall consume thee with flame of quite another kind, in the form of a kiss that I have brought thee, from a beauty almost equal to thy own, with eyes that resemble the gazelle, and lips that are redder than her own heart's blood.
Even the Vedânta, although in a way the quintessence of Indian orthodoxy, is not a scholastic philosophy designed to support recognized dogma and ritual. It is rather the orthodox method of soaring above these things. The Sannyâsi or adept follows no caste observances, performs no sacrifices, reads no scriptures.
And then, by the decree of destiny, there came at last a day, when he sat with some of his retainers, according to his custom, drinking wine and passing time easily in his palace hall. And there came in, all at once, a keeper of the gate. And she said: Maháráj, there has come to the door an old sannyásí, demanding admission to the presence, and refusing to go away. And it may be, he is mad.
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