The third call.

He received his third call at 53 the year being 1532. His last day was as inspiring as his devotional absorption in his entire life. He was till the last year of his life a householder, living with his mother, wife and two children, demonstrating that an ascetic life was not essential in the religion of grace. according to him sanyasa was when one begins to feel the separation from God in the most acute form. It was also the time for one to give up the earthly body and gain full absorption in God. This state is brought out beautifully in his work Sannyasa Nirnaya. He had received a call twice already to end his earthly career, but he waited to complete a major part of his mission. but when he got a third call he sent for MahavendraPuri who had initiated him as a sannyasa and was also one who introduced him to the study of Bhagavata. He spent one week in seclusion in his house after which he left for Banaras. To his sons and devotees who went to meet him his last message was communicated on a stone for by then he had taken to observing silence. Three couplets written on stone the message was If you become divorced from God in any way, your body, mind etc., which really belong to time, will be devoured by time. This is my belief. God who is Krishna is not of this world, he is alone worthy of our service with all our body and mind soul and spirit. he alone grants every thing in this world and the next. After giving this message he dived into the holy Ganga and disappeared. in the presence of a host of spectators it is said that a brilliant flame arose from the very same spot where Vallabhacharya had dived.