The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
He once said that God is neither Mr. nor Mrs. nor
Miss but mystery. He did not like the hard sound
of H' in the word Hindu, he always pronounced it
as Indu—Moon.
"Matlab," an Urdu word, is a great word he said, It
means "object to be attained"—and it also means
Mat—do not, lab—seek, Matlab is, do not seek.
He saw in the Moslem festival of Id, after the
Ramzan, their fast month, the great joy of the Godconsciousness
of the Prophet, He would say,
"Mohammad saw the moon of his Id, the inner Id,
of which seeing the crescent on the Id day is a mere
symbol. What is it to me if I do not see the same
moon of my own inner Id? "
In Lahore, during the days of his Professorship, he
played with his watch, Whether it was morning,
noon, evening or midnight, whenever anybody
asked him the time of day, he would seriously take
out his watch, look at it intently, and then look at
the face of the inquirer and just say:" Dear one, it is
just one" and show him the watch. Those who
happened to make this enquiry at different times
asked him: " Goswamiji! Strange whenever we ask
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