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Today is Sunday, the ninth of March, 1884. Sri Ramakrishna is sitting in the temple at Dakshineswar with a good many devotees: Manilal Mallick, Mahendra Kaviraj of Sinthi, Balaram, M., Bhavanath, Rakhal, Latu, Harish, Kishori (Gupta), Sivachandra and others. Girish, Kali, Subodh and the rest have not yet come to gather round him. Sarat and Sashi have seen him just once or twice. Purna, the younger Naren and others have not seen him at all.