The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
mind the outward forms 1 His art was simple; it
concerned itself with the creation of joy within
himself and in others. With Hafiz and Omar
Khayam he sat in the Sacred Tavern of his brothermystics
drinking cups of wine one after another.
Tipsy and self-oblivious he went searching for God
everywhere!
On his return from America, he tried to see things
somewhat in the new-learnt fashion of that
country, chiseling his sentences and speeches,
improving the mechanics of his language and
thought, thereby virtually modifying his
inspiration. The bliss of soul rises always like a sea;
in its tempest all mechanical calculations are
confounded. His main theme was the actual
creation of joy for himself and for distribution.
Alas, if he took to writing essays! One would have
loved to see the Swami as he glowed supreme in
his own inner joy rising above both man and
nature; to see such a man doing something
mechanical is nothing short of the disaster of an
extraordinary personality that one rarely sees in
men like Swami Rama. But these are the
temptations of the world. His address " Secret of
Success " reproduced in this book has in its naive
simplicity a divine correspondence with the
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