The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
Light, which is also the old, old light of your own land,
go and live in Pitri Loka with the forefathers. Why tarry
here? Good-bye!
As it is to-day the Swamis and Pandits in India are
singing lullabies to prolong the lethargic sleep of their
race.
Independent thinking is looked upon (in India) a heresy,
nay as the worst crime. Whatever comes from the dead
language is sacred.
A child turned Christian, although the very own flesh
and blood of a Hindu father becomes more stranger than
the street dog.
Truth-consciousness brings strength and victory. Skinconsciousness
(even if it be Brahman-consciousness or
Sannyasa-consciousness) makes a cobbler of you.
A woman is given the position of an inanimate object in
civilised society whereas a man is free in his ways and a
woman is kept bound hand and foot. She becomes the
property of one man, then of another man.
It is a great blemish on the face of civilised society that
woman is made a mercantile commodity and woman is
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