The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
a brother for his sister. The passionate love of
woman, the chivalrous spirit of protecting her and
the home which consists of the woman and the
child, even at the cost of life, the love of death in
times of an invader's invasion of the aggregate of
these homes—called one's country— the complete
and perfect refusal to accept the life of slavery, to
meet death and downfall rather than loss of liberty
and love, in short, infinite worship of woman, land
and life as it is, as we find it, and as we live it as
good, well-behaved gentle animals—such are the
elements in human consciousness which go to
make up the healthy feeling of patriotism. For
monks to get up and preach patriotism, without
the passionate love for a sweet home, without the
deep attachment to woman as mother and
sweetheart and without the spirit of sacrifice for
her sake both in labour and in love, in peace and in
war, how can healthy love for the country be ever
produced, in spite of a thousand interpretations of
the philosophy of Karma by Vivekananda, Rama,
Aurobindo and Tilak.
In India, for centuries, there has been an element of
disgust in the Indian consciousness for woman as
she is supposed to retard the spiritual progress of
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