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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 />

found that there was no such meeting, be Iaughed<br />

heartily and said, "With what a beautiful trick<br />

Nature has led <strong>Rama</strong> out into the world from his<br />

lonely Himalayan resort. How a false piece of news<br />

becomes so fertile! <strong>Rama</strong> in himself is a whole<br />

Parliament of Religions. If Tokyo is not having one,<br />

let it not; <strong>Rama</strong> will hold one."<br />

<strong>The</strong> very next day of his arrival, Professor Chhatre<br />

of Poona was giving the first performance of his<br />

circus in Tokyo and all the Indian students and<br />

<strong>Swami</strong> <strong>Rama</strong> went together to see it. It was here<br />

that Professor Takakutsu, the great Orientalist and<br />

the Sanskrit professor of Tokyo Imperial<br />

University met <strong>Rama</strong>, and while going home<br />

remarked to me, ―I have met many Pandits and<br />

Philosophers at the house of Professor Max Muller<br />

in England and other places, but I have never seen<br />

a personality like <strong>Swami</strong> <strong>Rama</strong>, who is so living<br />

and so significant an illustration of his whole<br />

philosophy. But in him Vedanta and Buddhism<br />

meet. He is true religion. He is a true poet and<br />

philosopher‖.<br />

Mr. K. Hirai also saw him there and admired his<br />

transcendentalism which, he remarked, had made<br />

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