The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
CHAPTER XVII
THE PROBLEM OF HIS COUNTRY
HIS THOUGHTS ON INDIA
AFTER his return from America, he spoke and
wrote constantly, till the very day of his sudden
death, on the Indian problems of all kinds—
religious, social and political—and inspired his
countrymen with a new outlook on their duties as
citizens of India. In fact, he expanded his ideas on
"The Secret of Success" 24 into many books.
Of all philosophic systems in the world, that of
Vedanta as Swami Rama, or before him, Swami
Vivekananda preached it, leads in its full
realisation, more to internationalism, than to
nationalism, for nationalism is only an expanded
personal love or attachment for the land we live in.
This springs from a deep-laden hunger in man for
a good, honest life of activity and not of trance or
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A lecture which is reproduced in this book for easy reference, as
it contains some of his fundamental ideas, expressed in the shy,
virgin English of a Punjabi graduate who had just acquired it. Its
simple diction is fragrant and forceful. (See pp. 130—138 ante.)
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