The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
Vedas, introduced in certain quarters in India in
the absurd faith of the infallibility of Vedas, and in
the still more absurd effort of proving them to be
the text books on modern science also, and
remarked: ―Every, one has the right to interpret for
himself anything: as he likes. For example, Rama
takes the wine of Hafiz to mean divine intoxication
and; taking it in this way, Rama enjoys the divine
wine of Hafiz in his own way. But he has no right
to give this meaning to the word used. Similarly,
no one has any right to depart from the traditional
meanings of the Vedic Sanskrit." And Swami Rama
considered Sayanacharya to be the sole guide to
the Vedas. He admired the method of the
European scholars. He condemned the indolent
ignorance of the Hindu Pandits. He said to me at
Vashishtha Ashram "Rama intends to write a book
on the Vedas giving all the beautiful pieces both
with the traditional meanings and with Rama's
own interpretations." "The other day, Rama was
sitting on a slab of stone, the skies were overcast
and it was drizzling! Rama had just had his bath
and felt that Rama was a woman waiting for God
as her very Man, and Rama felt the quiver of the
divinest passion tingling in his blood and every
nerve of his rang like a fiddle string. The scenes of
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