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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 />

out to the sandy wastes, and make the old bearded<br />

grandees take off their coats and boots and take<br />

physical exercise. No one was spared. All must<br />

take physical exercise. He would halt as the sun<br />

went down and begin his rapturous, measureless<br />

dances as his admirers would sit dumb seeing this<br />

rose-like man making his joy infinite.<br />

At Pushkar, there were not many men, but the half<br />

a dozen that went there were taught to tramp<br />

aimlessly for the sake of the pleasure of mere<br />

tramping.<br />

All the lectures that <strong>Swami</strong> <strong>Rama</strong> delivered at this<br />

period have a strong odour of patriotic fervour,<br />

particularly his messages to young men, Criticism<br />

and Universal Love, Yajna, National Dharma,<br />

Brahmacharya, Patriotism. His introduction to Rai<br />

Baij Nath's Hinduism—Ancient arid Modern, is a<br />

masterpiece, and he paints Himself there as a true<br />

son of India. But in his letters, he is himself.<br />

Here in these written articles and messages, one<br />

finds the clear design of his lofty vision of<br />

Humanity with which he started from the<br />

Himalayas to the West, but he gave the message<br />

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