The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
exaltation of his mind as he first descended from
the glaciers of the Himalayas to the plains at
Lucknow, while his " Law of Crucifixion " (written
after his return from America) has in it the odour
of the sublime depression that comes to people like
him when they overspend themselves in
distributing the inner joy. Alas! The Swami had
spent away the power in preaching his u Vedanta"
to the people of the lowlands. In the purity of his
joy there was no room for the sadness of selfcrucifixion!
Some of his selections from the literatures of the
East and the West as in " Aliph " and of his letters
to one Dhanna Mai of Gujranwala, a guide and
friend of his when he was yet in his teens, and
other notes left by him are at places given in
extenso as the best autobiographical notes of such
as he. His true biography is in his actions on the
mental plane.
His letters throw a flood of light on the hopes and
aspirations of the Punjabi students in those times*
Also, a side-light leads one to the blind end of the
stone wall which usually meets the Indian
graduates after they leave their college. How
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