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In plain words

On Wednesday the twenty-ninth of October 1879, the thirteenth of Kartik, 1286, the full moon of the Kojagari Lakshmi Puja, at one in the afternoon, Keshab went with his devotees to Dakshineswar again to see Sri Ramakrishna. With the steamer came a budgerow, six boats and two dinghies, with about eighty devotees, and flags, flowers and leaves, drums, cymbals and trumpets. Hriday greeted Keshab and led him from the steamer, singing, "Who is that on the bank of the heavenly river, chanting Hari's name? It must be Nitai, the giver of love, who has come!" The Brahmo devotees too came along with him from the Panchavati, singing kirtan: "Satchidananda embodied, the very fulness of the bliss of beauty!" In their midst the Master went into samadhi now and then. That day, after dusk, Keshab conducted worship on the bathing ghat in the light of the full moon.