The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
crushed and suffer Promethean tortures.
The Law is fire, it burns up all worldly
attachments, it scorches the ignorant mind, yet it
purifies and destroys all kinds of pestilential
plague germs which attack the spirit.
Religion is as universal and vitally connected with
our being as the act of eating. The successful atheist
knows not the process of his own digestion, as it
were. The Law makes us religious at the bayonet's
point. The Law flogs us up to wakefulness. There
is no escape from the Law. The Law is real and all
else is unreal. All forms and personalities are mere
bubbles on the ocean of the Law. Reality has been
defined as that which persists. Now, nothing in the
world of forms, no relationships, no bodies, no
organisations, no societies could ever persist so
tenaciously as this Law of the Cross.
Why do deluded, short-sighted creatures love
appearances (personalities) more than the Ideal
Law? Because through ignorance persons and
other appearances seem to them persistent
realities, and the Law an intangible evanescent
cloud.
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