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and lively. During his work with the Sadhana, we could witness
his witty nature every moment and in every instance.

One day, two photographs were published in the Sadhana.
One photograph pertained to the conference of saints and sages
in Bihar, in which a physically healthy saint was adorning the
stage. Next to him was the photograph of the famine-stricken
people in Odisha. Due to an error in the editor’s department,
the captions for both the photographs got interchanged. Under
the healthy saint was written ‘The famine-stricken of Odisha’
and under the famine-stricken was written ‘The conference of
saints and sages’. On this occasion, Vakil Saheb, the Prant
Pracharak of Gujarat, taunted Vasantrao rebuking him at such
a grave error. At this, Vasantrao very coolly replied, “Vakil
Saheb, I am responsible for the proofreading, if there is any
error on that part, you can certainly blame me.” This was how
he created wit even in otherwise serious situation, and thus
lightened the entire environment.

The Sadhana was published on Wednesday, and he did
everything to ensure that it was published regularly under all
circumstances. From Monday to Wednesday, he did not have
time to breathe even, that’s how we can describe his hard work.
It was not possible to employ a proofreader due to financial
crisis, so he would look at the proofs himself, set them in pages,
and proofread them finally; only this made the publication of
the Sadhana feasible.

Vasantrao lived the life of a saint. His life was free from all
types of bonds. Due to his habit of forgetting things, a number
of interesting incident occurred. If you happen to start relating
his instances witty, you would have to laugh for hours together,
interesting incidents. Sometimes, he himself would become a
part of such humour, and thus made the entire environment
lively with his witty comments, and enlightened the entire
atmosphere.

He had habit of forgetting things. If he visited somebody’s
house and he found a bunch of keys on the table, he was wont
to pick it up, play with it while talking with the host, and while
getting up, would put it in his pocket before leaving thinking it