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Narendra was to have come, but he could not. Since taking his pension Ishan has been going often to the Master at Dakshineswar, and now and then he meditates on God in solitude on the bank of the Ganges at Bhatpara. Of late he has had it in mind to perform a purascharana of the Gayatri at Bhatpara.