The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
into the Himalayan caves, and go bathing in the
rivers, and running on the roads at dark nights,
facing danger and death as a mere physical
exercise, for their sake. His joys were celestial
persons to him. Their company was to him all
alluring. Many times people found him semiconscious
with joy, having laid himself down
[unnoticed in a neglected cave for days without
food or drink.
He would sit on the banks of the Ganges and tears
of joy would stream out of him, and he loved to
say the three rivers, two of his eyes and one of the
eye of Heaven, came and mingled there at Tehri!
Men might go to him but he would no more go to
men. The then Maharaja of Tehri was a great
devotee of his, and he would, by his laughter and
the sunshine of his poetic poverty, make the
ceremonious occasion of his meeting with the Raja
as simple as that of seeing a fine horse. Much of
his time of about three years in the Himalayas,
after leaving Lahore, was spent on the naked
bosom of Nature, and so great was the growth of
his intimacy with her that when he went to the
plains, he was thoroughly imbued with that mystic
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