The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
who with all the authority of the supreme
Government say—"Get out of this house, i.e. bodyconsciousness,
at once!" They obey me when I
occupy the Durbar throne; they whip and stab me
when I enter into this hovel—the bodyconsciousness.
Even Governments whose so-called Laws do not
conform to the divine Law of the Trishul (or the
cross work their own destruction. Shylock-like
laying stress on personal rights, thinking this or
that mine, feeling a sense of possession, saying
‖the law grants it‖ is to contradict the real Law
according to which the only haq (right,
prerogative) we have, is Haq (God) and every
other right is wrong. If nobody else recognises this
principle the Sanyasin at any rate ought to work it
into life.
The Law is all pervasive, it is the higher Self of
each and all, and it is Rama in this sense. Yet it
must kick out and kill out the personal self. It is
cruel but its cruelty is the quintessence of love,
because in this very-death of the apparent self
consists resurrection of the real Self and life eternal.
He who keeps the false self and claims for it the
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