_'Yogis sport (rama) in the eternal God, whose self is composed of_ sat, chit, _and_ ananda. _Hence the term Ram means the Supreme God.'_ "Again, the _Mahábharat_, Udyog Parba, canto lxxi. 4, says _'the term 'Krishna', meaning the Supreme God, has been derived from the verb_ krish _meaning existence and the inflexion_ na _meaning cessation.'_ "So, the two names _Ram_ and _Krishna_ appeared equal, but I next found texts making a discrimination between them. The _Padma Purán_ has this: _'O perfect-featured Darling! my heart's Delight! reciting the word Ram thrice earns as much merit as taking [God's] name a thousand times!'_ "The _Brahmánda Purán_ asserts, _'A single utterance of the name of Krishna is as efficacious as reciting God's thousand sacred epithets three times in succession.'_ "The last text proves the immeasurable excellence of Krishna's name. And yet I could not repeat it, only because I found delight in the name of _Ram_, the god of my vows (_ishtadev_), and took the latter incessantly. When at your visit the word _Krishna_ rose [to my lips], my heart recognized its glory. And I truly inferred that you are Krishna himself." So saying the Brahman fell at the Master's feet, who after bestowing His grace left him the next day. At Vriddha Kashi the Master visited Shiva, and thence went on to another village, where He lodged with the Brahmans. So great was His power that countless people,--hundreds of thousand, millions even,--came to see [Him]. Beholding the beauty and religious ecstasy of the Master they all chanted Krishna's name, and the whole region was converted to Vaishnavism. He refuted and proved faulty all the doctrines of the logicians, _mimánsakas_, illusionists, with the followers of Sánkhya, Patanjal, Smriti, Purán, and Veda, though they were strong in defending their tenets. Everywhere the Master established the dogmas of Vaishnavism, which none could refute. His vanquished antagonists accepted His creed, and so He made the South Vaishnav. On hearing of His scholarship the sceptics (_páshandi_) came to Him, boastfully bringing their pupils with them. A very learned Buddhist professor held forth on the nine doctrines of his church before the Master. Though the Buddhists are unfit to be talked to or even to be looked at, yet the Master argued with him to lower his pride. The very Buddhist philosophy of nine tenets, though rich in logical reasoning, was torn to pieces by the Master's argumentation. The Buddhist professor raised all his nine questions, but only to be refuted by the Master's vigorous logic. The great philosophers were all vanquished; the audience tittered; the Buddhist felt shame and alarm. Knowing that the Master was a Vaishnav, the Buddhists retired and hatched a wicked plan: They placed before the Master a plate of unclean rice, describing it as Vishnu's _prasád_. But just then a huge bird swooped down and carried off the plate in its beak! The rice falling on the bodies of the Buddhists was [openly]