The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
unlistening like a stone statue. "These Indians are
so impudent and proud." As the lady completed
her story of woe, the Swami opened his eyes,
looked at her with his red insane eyes and said
"Mother," and then chanted his favourite Vedic
Mantram, Om! Om! She said to me that there burst
from his eyes upon her the strange dawn of a new
consciousness. "I seemed to have been lifted," said
she, "from the earth, I swam in air as a figure of
light, and I felt myself the mother of the Universe.
All countries were mine, all nations were my
children. I was so filled with joy that I must visit
India; I must see where Swami was born and bred.
I must go. So I come. My joy never fails me. Oh!
The word OM reverberates through my bones. The
word ‗mother‘ - it lifts me up to the Divine. I
would fain touch his feet. I would fain lie dead in
the ecstasy that he gave me. Some springs of nectar
within me have burst up, the crust is broken and I
am holy."
At a lake resort in America (I forget the exact
name) the Swami lived chanting Om, and his
presence gave heart to many a weary patient who
came there for sanatorium treatment, and many
got their health back from him. ‗A healer‘ they
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