The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
audience or class, he has spoken with purpose and effect
and has drawn men out of their own littleness.
Ministers, judges, lawyers, questioners and doubters,
find his addresses interesting.
Briefly and broadly speaking Swami Rama stands where
philosophy and practical science meet. He is an
accomplished linguist, perfectly at home with modern as
well as ancient languages. He has studied exhaustively
the ancient mysteries and religions and is perfectly at
home with modern history, literature, folklore and the
philosophies of all countries. He is late Professor of
Mathematics and Religious Philosophy of the great
Punjab University, at Lahore. Speak to him of his
religion and he refers to the Vedantic "Philosophy,"
which points to one's inward consciousness for
inspiration.
His mission in America is two-fold, Primarily it is to
interest Americans in his own country and countrymen,
with the object of helping to educate Hindus. It is his
object to bring them to American colleges where they
may imbibe not only learning, but Americas push, and
independence and the spirit of American freedom, that
they in turn may return to their own land and teach
their own people. In this way it is his tope that the
terrible caste system existing there may be broken up.
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