The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
of the trans-senses. But the genius of Swami
Vivekananda and of Swami Rama did quite
successfully cast the philosophy under the name of
"Practical Vedanta" or "Applied Vedanta" into a
veritable gospel of patriotism. And though a
philosophy of patriotism has been successfully
constructed out of the old materials, yet it falls flat
on the dreamy Indian people, and this Vedanta
fails to inspire them for the uplift of India on those
grounds, however true they may be in their
theoretical bearings. Better than these two
geniuses, the gospel of National duty so brilliantly
extracted out of Krishna's Bhagavad-Gita by the
late Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak and also by
Aurobindo Ghosh is calculated to provide a real
philosophic basis to the thinking Indians for
changing their creed of Other-worldliness into
This-worldliness.
But nothing avails. Patriotism or the affectionate
attachment for one's property in the shape of his
country cannot be generated by any
philosophising. It comes naturally; it cannot be
forced in by thinking. In certain climes and under
the driving force of certain traditions, it is as
natural a feeling in the human breast, as the love of
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