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In the Panchavati stands an old banyan, and with it a peepul; the two have grown together as if they were one. Through great age the old tree is full of hollows, crowded with birds and home to many other creatures too. Its foot is built of brick, with steps, and graced by a round platform. Seated on the north-west part of this platform Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna practised many disciplines, and as a cow longs for her calf, so he would long for God and call on Him. Today, on that holy seat, a branch of the peepul, the banyan's companion, lies broken. It has not broken off entirely; it hangs there, half joined to the parent tree. Perhaps the great soul who is to sit on that seat has not yet been born.