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The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Story</strong> <strong>Of</strong> <strong>Swami</strong> <strong>Rama</strong><br />

6th June, 1894. I hope I will see you this Saturday. I<br />

could not come as first of all I had no holidays.<br />

Secondly, I have not got my scholarship. And if I<br />

come home without money, it seems a<br />

disappointment to everyone nor do I feel happy.<br />

8th June, 1894. I feel very happy. "My desire is that<br />

the dust of His feet should be the blackness of my<br />

eyes!"<br />

—(Translated from a Persian couplet)<br />

31st August, 1894. I live in solitude. You should<br />

also go and live up on the roof of your house, away<br />

from the world and study such books as Yoga<br />

Vashishtha. <strong>The</strong>se books do not lend themselves to<br />

any reading at all anywhere below the heights of<br />

the roof.<br />

27th September, 1894. Yes, the mind wanders. It is<br />

a difficult thing to control. Better fast. Light food<br />

and good digestion is half the truth of God.<br />

13th November, 1894. My father writes to me<br />

asking me to save Rs. 25 from my smaller<br />

scholarship and out of my other scholarship to<br />

save five rupees per month for the next two<br />

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