The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
Shasta Mountains. So fond was he of hard labour
that he would go to the forests and bring fuel for
Dr. Hiller, his kind host.
He enlisted himself, under his great intellectual
necessity, amongst the apostles of the Advaita
Vedanta as expounded by Shankara Acharya, but
he preached it with his own intense emotion of a
Vaishnava; he called himself God, but he strove all
his life to realise the Divine, and having realised it
to maintain it on a certain elevation that he had
attained. He was never neglectful of his great
remembrance of God, but always alert watching
the effects of men and things on his Godly mood. "
I contradict myself! Well! I contradict myself!" He
called God the True Self, and in the words of
Christ, proclaimed that one cannot have two things
at the same time; either have Mammon, which he
called the lower, little self of man, or have God, the
Higher Self. No apparent contradiction of his
theory and practice was visible in his own
character for he was a strenuous labourer who
gathered God with all his senses and filled his
heart with the gladness of& "That Un-nameable
Mystery"!
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