The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
This striking poetic figure clad in orange robes
disappeared from the Punjab in 1906. He
successfully dropped the dirt of learning; and
sought God in the dense forests and snows of the
Himalayas, all bare, exposing his inner fire to the
regions of the Himalayan solitudes to see if all the
snows could bury the flame of his heart! In the
close and loving embrace of Mother Nature, lived
this divine Man. He went and sat up on the eternal
snows of the Gangotri Glacier in Samadhi. His joy
ordered ‗Halt‘ to the snowstorm, and his smile tore
the grey clouds to see its image in the sun. *' One
with Nature," he said; ―Nature is my body. I could
move the sinews of its soul as I move my limbs‖.
A truly Vedic poet, with the full realisation of the
Advaita, but by temperament and inheritance a
Vaishnava in his highly cultivated emotion, he was
in his fresh inspiration more a Persian than a
Hindu, while in his later days, in a way, he
succumbed to Shankaracharya's charming
philosophy of ‗Illusion‘ - "Maya". He would say, ―If
one realises Truth, even the physical body cannot
drop, it becomes everlasting. Even Shankar was
not a Brahmagnani. Yet in that sense the whole
world is illusion, it never was. There is but one,
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