The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
stamped with his inspired individuality in a deep
personal way. It seems apparent that he came back
from America much impressed with the "success"
achieved by the Western nations and wished his
poor countrymen also to rise. One Religion cannot
unite them, let the love of one common country
inspire them with some life even physical. But this
was not his own apt subject, and his appeal mixed
as it was with transcendentalism was always weak.
Swami Rama was not in his element here, he could
not surpass Swami Vivekananda in his glorious
speeches on the subject. Swami Vivekananda was a
born nation-builder, while Swami Rama was an
ecstatic personality with no thought of the morrow,
no eye on the deeds of men. The contact with the
West had therefore weakened Swami Rama on the
whole, and that wondrous delicacy of emotion,
that trembling throb of the Universal had cut itself
into scarlet shreds to adorn stale sentiments on
patriotism and common intellectual methods of
nation building. Had he lived long and if he had
developed his mind towards this direction instead
of towards religious ecstacy, he would have
become a great Nation-Builder, fm he had in him
all the latent capacities for one. But as it is, he
shook off these thoughts of a limited; sympathy as
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