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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 />

strnight to the doctor and pointing his pistol towards<br />

him said : "Am I ill ? Do you say so? I will shoot you."<br />

<strong>The</strong> doctor immediately gave him a certificate of health.<br />

Despair is weakness, avoid it. <strong>The</strong> whole strength comes<br />

from Fearlessness. Mark my words, Fearlessness. Be<br />

fearless.<br />

7. SELF-RELIANCE,<br />

Last but not least, nay, the vital principle or the very<br />

key-note of success is self-reliance, self- dependence. If<br />

anybody asks me to give my philosophy in one word, I<br />

would say "self-reliance", the knowledge of self. Hear, O<br />

man! Know thyself. True, literally true it is when you<br />

help yourself, God must help you. Heaven is bound to<br />

help you It can be proved, it can be realised that your<br />

very Self is Grod—the Infinite, the Omnipotent. Here is<br />

a reality, a truth, waiting to be verified by experiment.<br />

Verily, verily, depend upon yourself and you can<br />

achieve anything. Nothing is impossible before you.<br />

<strong>The</strong> lion is the king of the forest. He depends upon his<br />

own self. He is bold, strong, and the conqueror of all<br />

difficulties, because he is in himself. Elephants which<br />

when first seen in India were aptly called by the Greeks<br />

"moving mountains" are always afraid of their enemies.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y always live in groups and employ sentinels to keep<br />

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