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The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Story</strong> <strong>Of</strong> <strong>Swami</strong> <strong>Rama</strong><br />

and years. Adieu for the present. <strong>Rama</strong> is always<br />

you.<br />

Passage to India!<br />

O! We can wait no longer!<br />

We too take ship, O soul!<br />

To you, we too launch out on trackless seas<br />

Fearless for unknown shores, on waves of ecstasy To sail.<br />

Amid the wafting winds<br />

Carolling free – singing our song of God!<br />

Chanting our chant of happy soothing OM!<br />

Passage to India!<br />

Sailing these seas, or on the hills, or walking in the night,<br />

Thoughts, silent thoughts of Time and Space and<br />

Death like waters flowing,<br />

Bear me indeed as through the regions infinite<br />

Whose air I breathe.<br />

Bathe me, O God in <strong>The</strong>e, mounting to <strong>The</strong>e<br />

I and my soul to range, in reach of <strong>The</strong>e,<br />

Passage to Mother India!<br />

Reckoning ahead, O soul, when<br />

Thou the time achieved,<br />

<strong>The</strong> seas all crossed, weathered the capes, the voyage done,<br />

Surrendered, copest, frontest, God,<br />

Yieldest the aim attained<br />

As filled with friendship, Love complete,<br />

<strong>The</strong> Elder Brother found,<br />

<strong>The</strong> younger melts in fondness in his arms.<br />

Passage to India<br />

Are thy wings plumed indeed for such far flight<br />

O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyage like this?<br />

Soundest below the Sanskrit and the Vedas?<br />

<strong>The</strong>n have thy bent unabashed,<br />

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