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earlier still, in 1884, at the first introduction to the future 'guru' Pandit Sivanath Sastri. So far as the editorial labours are concerned, the editor must take upon himself the entire responsibility for all inevitable blemishes which none can more keenly regret than he. Lastly, as for the good reader, blessed is he as, through the following pages, it will be given to him to glimpse somewhat of

"the calm beauty of an ordered life,
Whose very breathing is un worded praise!
A life that stands, as all true lives have stood,
Firm-rooted in the faith that God is good"!

Cocanada, V. Ramakriishna Rao.
Maharnavami,
18-10-1923