Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.33

c6.s2.33

As yet the young Pandit, busy with imparting secular instruction, showed no open susceptibility to the religious influences which surrounded him, and all attempts to interest him deeply in religious matters met with a half-jesting, half-sceptical response. But a great change swiftly came over the even tenour of his life; and when it came, it swept him off with its overwhelming force. At the age of about twenty-two, Viśvambhara, as a dutiful son, undertook a pilgrimage to Gayā³ for the purpose of performing his