| Show STRANGE EASTERN CUSTOMS prominent bien of india who pa into utter some five or six years ago the son of the late rajah of tanjore a man of some forty or fifty years of age and of con se the chief native personage in eliat pirt of india made up his mind to become a devotee he one day told his friends he was going on a railway journey sent off his servants and carriages from the palace to the station saying he would follow gave them the slip and has never been heard of since his friends went to the man who was known to have been acting as his guru who simply told them you will never find him supposing the G 0 M or the prince of wales were to retire like this liow odd it would seem to illustrate this subject says a london times writer I 1 may tell the story of Tillei nathan swam who was the teacher of the guru whose acquaintance I 1 am referring to in aliis chapter Tillei nathan was a wealthy of high family in 1850 he devoted himself to religious exercises till 1855 alien he became emancipated after his attainment he felt sick of the world and so he wound up his affairs divided all his boods and money among relatives and dependants and went off stark naked into alic woods his mother and sisters were grieved and repeatedly pursued liim offering to surrender all to him if lie would only return at last he simply refused to answer their importunities and aliey resisted desisted des isted he appeared in tanjore after that in 1857 1859 and but has not been seen since he is supposed to be living somewhere in the western |
