The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
mountains, rivers, kings and scientists, etc., was made
for him. Verily it is so, I tell you the truth.
The field and landscape (and therein lies their refreshing
charm as contrasted with the sickening smoky-streets of
cities) excite not in man the sense of limitation and they
drive him not into the corner (bodyhood). Man in their
presence, can well occupy the position of a Witness-
Light. Inwardly the vegetable kingdom has as much, and
perhaps more, of strife and struggle, and unrest, etc.,
than a civilised human society, but even its struggles
become interesting only in so far as a man among the
cedars, oaks, and pines easily sees himself not one of
them, but keeps himself the Witness-Light unconcerned.
He who can live in the busy streets as anybody might
move in forests, feeling the Self as a disinterested
Witness-Light, not identifying himself with the body,
which in this case may be taken as a plant among plants,
who could deny that the Universe is a Garden of Eden to
him? Such people of God-life are the light of the world.
The Light which appears as an unconcerned witness is
the very life of all that it witnesses.
The river of life is flowing. None exists but God. Of
whom shall I be afraid? All life is my God's life, nothing
other, He and Me too is He. The whole world is my own
Himalayan woods. When Light dawns, flowers begin to
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