Page 29 - Kailaspati: Paramhans Hansdevji Avadhoot

Second Taranga
allow me to remind you, my esteemed readers, that the house we all were put up in was called ‘Lalkothi’. The E.i Rail-line is to her west; and to its farther west, about 4 k.m. away, is the Devagiri or the Dighariya hill. We, truly speaking, longed to pay a visit to that hill. Desolate though, the hill was infested with ferocious wild animals. There was, however, no vehicular conveyance to go to that place. Though disheartened, we had been nurturing a desire to visit that place. We wished to go out a little further to the said hill. at daybreak one day we, accompanied by a group of men and women, set out for the hill. after having traversed for about a mile along the solitary path, we saw a hillock in front of us. Without heading toward the Devagiri; we climbed the top of the said hillock. Not that it was the first time we ascended a hill or hillock. Every time we went to Jasidih earlier, we ventured out uphill with a view to going to the Devagiri. The place is as much solitary as it is picturesque.
as we got to the summit, we were surprised to view that a hut was being built on a plain and spacious surface at the top of that hill. a one-roomed hut, surrounded by a brick-built fence, with red tiles atop, was complete but plasterwork was going on.
What surprised us was that a hut was being built in a desolate place at the summit of a hill. Who would be brave enough to live in such a desolate place was our natural query. We, on investigation, came to learn that a few ‘Marwari’ disciples and devotees were getting a hut built for a certain sage. Good and benevolent were they indeed by doing such a job, but how would the sage live all alone in such a solitary place? We took that sage to be of a very high plane and therefore decided to call it a grace to see that sage in person. While thinking this, we returned homeward.
For the next few days, we were too busy to go to the hut, amid the garden and hence we knew little about the sage. One day, as we visited the hut, we saw the hut empty as the sage was not there.
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