The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
the Indo-Japanese society with much more weighty
functions.
As the man from Yokohama introduced two
orange-robed monks into the club, a thrill of joy
went round and most enchanting was the effect of
the bird-like warbling of ‗OM, OM!‗ by the elder of
the two Swamis. Swami Rama was accompanied
by his disciple Swami Narayan. I had gone almost
mad with enthusiasm though I knew neither of
them. Their language was all so strange and their
glow all so spiritual that it commanded silent
obeisance.
As the younger Swami asked me, "Where is your
country?" I replied with tears in my eyes in soft,
loving accent, ―The world is my country‖.
And the elder Swami looked up into my eyes and
said, "To do good is my religion."
Thus we met each other in two sentences.
I had to go to lecture to a large audience in the
Buddhist University that day, and I invited the
Swami to go and speak to the people that very day
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