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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 />

To carry out skillfully an idea into practice is one thing,<br />

but to grasp its fundamental meaning is quite another<br />

thing. Even though a nation may be prospering by<br />

acting up to certain general principles to-day, there is<br />

every danger of its downfall if those principles are not<br />

clearly understood by the national mind and distinctly<br />

supported by sound theory. A labourer who successfully<br />

performs a chemical operation is not a chemist because<br />

his work is not supplemented by theory. A fireman who<br />

successfully operates a steam engine is not an engineer<br />

because his labour is simply mechanical. Read about the<br />

doctor who used to heal wounds by keeping the diseased<br />

part under linen bandage for a full week<br />

and touching it daily with a sword. <strong>The</strong> wounds were<br />

healed, being kept from exposure by the band¬age. But<br />

he ascribed the wonderful healing pro-perty to the touch<br />

of the sword. So thought his patients too. This<br />

superstitious theory gave birth to failures upon<br />

failures in many cases that required some other<br />

treatment than mere BANDAGING. Hence it is<br />

absolutely necessary that right precept and right<br />

practice should go hand-in-hand. Secondly, I regard<br />

Japan as my country and her people as my countrymen.<br />

I can prove on reasonable grounds that in the beginning,<br />

your ancestors migrated from India.<br />

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