The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
told me, "advising him to eschew his politics, to
meet the Princes of India, get together a lot of
money and establish his own sect and mission and
gather power and all that old wisdom of the poor
blind pharisees. Swami Rama treated this with
contempt but he suffered staying with the monk
for a little while: not that Swami Rama did not
know the man, but he had once again in his own
charitable way on his landing in India, accepted a
total surrender of this monk voluntarily made by
him as he went to receive him at Bombay. He, in a
private room, dedicated his life to Swami Rama.
Swami Rama took it in his own spirit. But it was
soon found that this Pharisee had his own irons in
the fire, and wished to utilise the character of
Swami Rama to make himself famous in India.
This alliance was finally broken by Swami Rama,
by quietly slipping away to Pushkar from Muttra
and from there he wrote to Swami Shiv Guna
Acharya (see his letter given below 15 ) that he
wished to work on his own lines and not to think
of Princes and wealth and missions at all.
At Muttra, he loved to sit on the silver sands of the
Jamuna and loved to bask in the sun doing
15
Chapter XVI infra
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