The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
Muhammadans and Christians are not wrong in
calling this Law or God, Ghayyar (jealous) and
Qahhar (Terrible). Indeed, it is no respecter of
persons. Let any one set his heart on anything
whatever of this world, and the wrath of Nature
must perforce be visited upon him. If people are
slow in learning this Truth, it is because they have
little power of correct observation; they usually, in
matters concerning their own personality, do not
like to see the cause in the phenomenon itself and
they would readily blame others for their own
faults and know not to retrospect as a disinterested
witness their own moods of passion and feeling
and the consequences these entail. Betrayed we
must be when we trust the forms, or when in our
heart of hearts we give that honour to false things
and personalities which is due only to the One
Reality, i.e., when we let idols sit on the throne of
our hearts instead of God. The method of
agreement and difference establishes the Law of
the Unsubstantiality of Not-God, knowing no
exception.
How often are we not the cause of perfect
gentlemen no longer remaining as good as their
word, by setting our heart on their promises, and
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