The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
mere fancy of poor cranks.
People not knowing the real cause of their miseries,
which is falling out of tune with the Law, begin to
fall foul of the outside symptoms of their malady,
i.e. the apparent circumstances.
Let the good or bad talk or conduct of people be
washed out of consciousness even as misty dreams
are consigned to oblivion. Dreams may be
nightmares or sweet dreams, we do not try to
adjust them or quarrel with them; but rather our
own stomach it is that is straitened. So good or bad
folks that meet us ought to be entirely ignored, and
our spiritual condition improved. Let not any
seeming evil or luck stand between thee and God.
There are no insults immense enough to satisfy me
in the act of forgiving them.
Let nothing be prized higher than God, nothing
valued equally with God. Compliments, criticisms
and diseases are equally fatal if we regard the Self
as subject to them. Feel yourself God and sing
songs of joy in God-head. Look upon compliments
and criticisms even as Rama looks upon physical
ailments merely as footmen from God's Durbar
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