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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 />

My reply is in the Urdu Couplet:<br />

Wearing my own shroud as my turban,<br />

I have come to the street of the Beloved!<br />

Let them taunt me as they choose,<br />

What care I for thousands such!<br />

You say of obeying you? I am obeying you. From<br />

the Punjab of my body, I am going fast to the<br />

Home of God. I am mingling myself with Truth.<br />

It is about midnight, not a man nor his ghost<br />

nearby me. Within is the sound of ecstasy in tides,<br />

without me is the music of the glorious Ganga in<br />

flow! Within me is peace, peace, peace, within me<br />

is bliss. It is the Night of my union, it is not dark<br />

Night, only the Night of Union has thrown the<br />

black curtain on the face of the world for privacy.<br />

I mean the Night of Union has effaced both from<br />

within and without the world, <strong>The</strong> eyes are the<br />

rivers of nectar. At least to remind me at such<br />

times of Bliss of the world! Alas!<br />

Tell my people to think of meeting me at the centre<br />

where all meet and not at the circumference where<br />

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