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The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Story</strong> <strong>Of</strong> <strong>Swami</strong> <strong>Rama</strong><br />

prerogatives of the King-Self, must as it were, be<br />

devoured by vultures on the height of vanity. <strong>The</strong><br />

freedom of Vedanta is not immunity from Law for<br />

the limited local self, i.e., personality and body.<br />

This is turning GOD into the very reverse. Millions<br />

of beings perish every hour through this mistake.<br />

Thousands of heads are sinking into pessimism,<br />

and hundreds of thousands of hearts are breaking<br />

every minute, by the foolish reversal of the order of<br />

the Law. Freedom from Law is secured by<br />

becoming the Law, that is, the realisation of<br />

Shivoham.<br />

That dupe of the senses who counts what are called<br />

facts and figures, and rests on the foundation of<br />

forms, builds on the foam and sinks. He builds on<br />

the rock in whose heart of hearts.<br />

God is Real, the world unreal<br />

And the Law a living force.<br />

In Vedic days, on certain occasions, unmarried<br />

girls assembled round the Fire with folded hands,<br />

turned round the blazing one and sang this song:<br />

―Let us be absorbed in the worship of the Fragrant<br />

One, the All-seeing One, the Husband-knowing<br />

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