The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
Hindu, a Muslim, or a Sikh. Self-Realisation is
infinite and without inspiration all efforts of man
unaided end in despair and in weariness of spirit
and fatigue of soul. Without inspiration, all is
vanity. That the Swami -was inspired none can
deny. Swami Rama lived the deep life of a Bhagat,
of a man of Simrin, of a self-intoxicated poet, of a
man maddened with the exquisite beauty of the
Divine Face in the Universe, and this almost
continuous ecstatic state of his mind does not seem
to be the result of any self-discipline] but of a
sudden onrush of Higher Inspiration. There are
evidences of the sudden floods coming into him,
and his self-discipline of years helped him to live
on those floods with the tenacity of a
mathematician, with the devotion of a lover, with
the recklessness of a philosopher and with the will
of a conqueror, even in times of depression. Swami
Rama held fast to the tides. His poetry, his vast
reading, his choice of solitude, and of incessant
work all helped him. But no man with any spiritual
insight could deny that the beautiful glow of his
personality was of a kind that reminds one faintly
of Chaitanya. The spirit of Bhakti vibrated
intensely even when he was blazing in his own
words as veritable God Himself, In San Francisco,
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