The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
they receive no response from Him as in the case of
fictitious worldly objects of love. It is foolish
ignorance that thus deludes them. O Dear! His
breast instantaneously, nay, simultaneously heaves
with my breast in responsive impulse.
Look not in apparent friends and foes for the cause
of their conduct. The real causation rests with your
real self alone. Look out!
As a little bird just learning to fly, leaving one
stone or twig, perches on another similar support,
then on another and another, but cannot leave
entirely those ground objects and soar into the
higher air, so a novice in Brahmajnana while
disengaging his heart from one thing or disgusted
with a particular person, immediately rests on
something else, then clings to another similar
delusion, does not give up dependence on frail
reed or straw, and quits not in his heart the whole
earth. An experienced Jnani would turn the
apparent faithlessness of one earthly object into a
stepping stone for a leap into the Infinite. The art of
religion consists in making every little bit of
experience an occasion for a leap into the Infinite.
The seeming things being all of a piece, while
337