The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
he burst again, "O brother cloud! Go, if you are
going, but tell my Krishna to come and see how it
rains in my eyes! Tell him, if Thou wishest to have
the pleasure of the rains, Come and sit in my eyes!
Here is the black, the white, the red and the raining
cloud!
— (An Urdu Couplet)
O my life! How long! How long! I am impatient.
Either quench my thirst or send death. Thou givest
splendour to the Sun, beauty to the Moon, colour
and perfume to the flowers, wilt thou not grant me
the vision, the knowledge." Saying Krishna!
Krishna! At last he fainted away.
He would shed tears in the ecstasy of his feeling.
Once listening to a Pandit reciting Ramayan, he
began crying and so painful was the effect on him
that the Pandit had to shut his book.
He once said:
"O eyes! What use have I of ye, if ye see not
Krishna, close, close forever. O hands! If ye touch
not His Feet, of what avail are ye to me? Wither up.
Be palsied! O Lord! If by giving life, thou comest
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