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The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Story</strong> <strong>Of</strong> <strong>Swami</strong> <strong>Rama</strong><br />

possessed and made to belong to man in the same sense<br />

as a tree or a house or money belongs to him.<br />

Neglecting the education of women, children, and the<br />

labouring classes is like cutting down the very branches<br />

that are supporting us, nay, it is like striking a deathblow<br />

at the very foot of the tree of nationality.<br />

What aches the head, bends the back, or chokes the<br />

chest? It is walking on the head instead of on the feet.<br />

Let your feet be on the earth and your head in air (filled<br />

with heavenly joy); invert not the divine ordinance, put<br />

not the earth on your heads, and call it sane living, take<br />

not the appearance more seriously than the divine (real)<br />

self.<br />

Havan ceremony forms a most important and necessary<br />

feature of Yajna as ordinarily understood. <strong>The</strong> most<br />

common argument on the lips of some of its present-day<br />

votaries is: "Havan purifies the air and it produces<br />

fragrant perfumes," That is very far-fetched. <strong>The</strong><br />

perfumes, delicious to smell like all other stimulants or<br />

"white lies of physiology," exhilarate for the moment<br />

entailing a depression of spirits for reaction. Stimulants<br />

may help to borrow from our future store of energy, but<br />

they borrow always at compound interest and never<br />

repay the loan, <strong>Rama</strong> tells you, what your scriptures say<br />

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