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CH. XX. DBVAR^T. 13S
and as thy shadow ; and to be allowed to do tliee every service."
"Be it as thou wiliest," said Ramftnuja, graciously lifting the
prostrate form of Devartlt, for whom he composed a work
called Nityavi, or the method of worshipping God, and appointed
him to the daily-worship-duty in the math. Prom that day
forth, he never left Ramatiuja's side, and drank deep all
the precious truths of philosophy and i-eligion which flowed
like honey from RS,m9,nnia'a holy lips. These sterling truths
of the Vedanta, he embodied in two short treaties of his, composed
in Tamil verse, called Jndna-sdra, and Framcya-sdra}
The substance of these works is (1) that to the true disciple,th&
Teacher himself is God visible, and (2) that services at his feet
are the crowning joy of the soul.
' These have been latterly commented on by MaiiavS,]a MahS,-munlgal
£A.. C. 1370. No. 39 in the Hierarchic Table of our Lives of Azhvar^.J