Casting away the Sacred Thread
Once Krishnakishore asked me, 'Why have you cast off the sacred thread?'. In those days of God-Vision I felt as if I were passing through the great storm of Aswin and everything had blown away from me. No trace of my old-self was left. I lost all consciousness of the world. I would hardly keep my cloth on my body, not to speak of the sacred thread! I said to Krishnakishore, 'Ah, you will understand if you happen to be as intoxicated with God as I was.'
And it actually came to pass. He too passed through a God-intoxicated state, when he would repeat only the word 'Om' and shut himself alone in his room. His relative thought he was actually mad, and called in a physician, Ram Kaviraj of Natagore came to see him. Krishnakishore said to the physician, 'Cure me, Sir, of my malady, if you please, but not of my Om'.
