The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
on, work on. Mould and adapt the Past to the Present
and boldly launch your pure and strong Present in the
race of the Future.
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…An average Indian home is typical of the state of the
whole nation; very slender means and not only
multiplying mouths to feed but also slavishly to incur
undue expenses in meaningless and cruel ceremonies!
Even animals in the same stable must fight to death
with each other when the fodder suffices for one or two
only and their number is legion. Not to remove the bone
of contention and preach peace to the people is mockery
of preaching. My countrymen are meek and peaceful at
heart. The heart is willing no doubt, but how can they
help jealousies and selfishness when the weakness of the
flesh is forced upon them by the necessity of the case. If
the population problem is to be left unsolved, all talk
about national unity and mutual amity will remain a
Utopian chimera. We have to solve the riddle of this
Sphinx or we die. Sympathy and selfishness, according
to biological principles, cannot grow under such general
social environments where pain and suffering is daily
displayed by our associates. With such populous poverty
around you, Indians, it is hoping against hope to
develop sympathy and love. Students of physics know
that a mass of matter, of whatever kind, maintains its
internal equilibrium so long as its component particles
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