The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
difficult indeed must it have been for others (and it
is still so) when a brilliant graduate like Swami
Rama had to be driven from pillar to post for a job
in those days when the Universities were not half
so busy as now in minting a certain brand of
graduates! To rise to an Extra Assistant
Commissionership, a low, stupid Government
post, was the height of the ambition of the Punjabi
young man then, and is perhaps the same even
now. But we find Swami Rama so loved his pet
subject—Mathematics—that even at the invitation
of his Professors he could not forego the profession
of a teacher and a missionary for the mere shadows
of the false dignity of Government service* This
fervent spirit of teaching what he had learnt is
remarkable and it exhibited itself involuntarily
throughout his meteoric career.
His singular devotion to this little Dhanna of
Gujranwala who did, in some measure, help him
when he was a student in the High School, shows
the great disciple that was in him. Unruffled,
unvexed under various physical and mental
strains, self-sacrifice is his one solution for every
difficulty. To think of God and to meet Him in
everything and in every man is his faith and
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