The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
foreign rule, with Japan as one example of such
metamorphosis before them. But Japan has not a
single man breathing in the country, who was not
and is not fit for incessant creative labour. There,
the religious wrangles are hushed in the sacredness
of the artistic labour of centuries, there the noises
of mind are hushed into the sweet harmony of life,
which only silent work done for centuries can
create. And then the sea around them makes a
great difference between India and Japan. The
children of the soil remain only breeding insects,
the children of the sea become gods, for they play
upon the bosom of the Infinite and with the
dangers of the unknown.
A voice has risen in India and that of Mahatma
Gandhi, to go to the masses, to renounce the fruits
of modern education, to take the old traditional
work of simple labour and love. But the
metaphysical temperament of the country has cast
this message also into political terms, instead of
social, and there it is already broken into pieces
like fragile glass, for it is not given to the masses, it
is taken up by a portion of the lifeless "educated"
people of India and they shall fight over it, till all
the milk of truth is spilt! As I have said, nothing
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