The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
smiling faces as his veritable comrades.
Missing very much his hilarity and laughter and
vitality, I had the temerity to ask him, " Swamiji!,
Why are you changed so much. You are distinctly
sad."
―Puranji! The world is concerned only with my
blossoms, and they taste me when I appear before
them in my flowers. But they do not know, how
much I have to labour underground, in the dark
recesses, in my roots that gather the food for the
flowers and the fruits. I am now in my roots.
Silence is greater work, than the fire-works of
preaching and giving off our thoughts to the
world. It is the silence of Gaurpada and Gobind
Acharya, that was at the back of the brilliant
success of Shankara Acharya."
In those days, I thought, and I think still, that his
exegetical studies in original Sanskrit instead of
being of any help to him, deepened his depression,
and increased his sorrow of Illusion. He was
distinctly below the mark; more a philosopher than
a poet.
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