The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
lost him, Swami Rama will no more return from
the mountains. It is all over."
A year after, he bade a touching farewell to me
almost in the same terms, as he lived then in Uttra
Khanda: ―This is Hema Khanda, the Golden Land.
Wherever you go, live here. Carry the Golden Land
with you."
The letters that he wrote from Pushkar (some of
them reproduced below in Chapter XVI), to
different people were written mostly basking in the
winter sunshine on the roof of his house, and they
have still in them enclosed the sunshine of his
heart. On critically reading his prose and poetry of
this period, I think his best poetry is in these and
other short letters that he has written to "his friends
from time to time, more than in his metrical
compositions. And after these letters of his, come
his selections of Urdu and Persian couplets and
Gazals, in which we smell the fragrance of the soul
of this great flower-gatherer himself.
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