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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 />

It was the loud pitch and the piercing tone on<br />

which this new rising man emphasised and wished<br />

his admirers to proclaim, ‗I am God‘. Any good<br />

thing, any beautiful thing he saw any heroic action<br />

he heard about, any bold deed or thought when<br />

reported to him elicited from him the remark ―Ah!<br />

This is Vedanta‖. Vedanta was a word that spelt<br />

everything noble, beautiful, spiritual and glorious<br />

in human history. It was no philosophy to him. It<br />

was all poetry.<br />

* * * * *<br />

Dr. Mohammad Iqbal of Lahore told me: "One day<br />

he had colic and I visited him at his house, and<br />

cramp after cramp came curling his thin, bony<br />

body into circles and semi-circles, and evidently<br />

the pain was excruciating, but I saw him ringing<br />

with laughter. His room was filled with joy. O<br />

Iqbal! What should <strong>Rama</strong> feel when one of his<br />

million bodies is ill? I laugh and laugh, and illness<br />

has fallen to the share of this body and the laughter<br />

to my soul"<br />

"His mind was evolving exactly as I thought,"<br />

continued Iqbal, ―and in spite of all his<br />

renunciations I knew he would come back one day<br />

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