The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
nature assumed the most amorous colouring:
Rama the woman was waiting passively with
divine expectant joy for God, the Man. And a
prayer rose in Rama's heart! ―Come, O God! I wish
to conceive Thee and bear Thee in my womb. I
wish to draw the life-juices from Thee‖. When he
woke to study his Veda and opened the book to
read any Mantram that may chance to come first
on any page that may by itself open on opening the
book, Rama was struck to see the Mantram of the
day describing exactly the state of mind in which
Rama was that morning. It is in this way that
Vedas should be read and interpreted to oneself,
and they should be interpreted in their traditional
meaning in a scholarly way‖. The traditional
meanings, of course, must and always, do lend
themselves to a thousand progressive
interpretations as the human mind and its ideas
progress, just as the Bible with its original text
intact is undergoing before our very eyes a
hundred interpretations according to the ideas of
the times.
During this period of life, Swami Rama was
imbued with the spirit of Shankaracharya's great
Philosophy of Illusion, and this spirit seemingly
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