The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
is again a tragic tale of the sufferings of the great
when they take upon themselves the task of lifting
up the world, the dead world by actual exchange
of their bliss with its sorrow and suffering. It is the
tale of one more Gratification for the good of the
world. A thousand Tilaks and Gandhis work for
the world, and feel still greater joy in doing more,
because there does not take place between them
and the world the great exchange which made
even Christ cry out— ―Who has touched me?‖.
Such people are not Spiritual in the sense in which
Christ and Chaitanya were, they are not yet Faqirs
with divine Avesh, they are not yet in direct line
and touch with the prophets of the world!
Otherwise, one lecture ought to be enough to keep
them indoors on bed for at least a fortnight. For
living man to come out to save humanity means
crucifixion, not so much physical and mental, as
spiritual, it may mean the complete death if he has
not the powerful hands in the Invisible to lift him
up. The torch which Swami Rama took up in his
hand was extinguished long before its actual and
apparent extinction in the waters of the Billing
Ganga where he was drowned! As he used to say,
such great beings of the inspiration of ecstasy in
them, should sit calm in themselves. Their very
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