The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
Brahma Vidya when self-realised leads to freedom,
that the solution of all the world-problems lies in
every one of us attaining to the grand heights of
Self-Realisation. That a short slender Brahman boy
of the Punjab, in these days, before our very eyes,
demonstrated in his personality, the great type of
men that wrote the Upanishads and sang Vedic
hymns, is truly a miracle of devotion, selfconquest,
and a marvel of will-power developed
by intense emotion and hard mental labour.
His life is full of many lessons. He comes to the
student as the type of a student—better buy books
and the oil for thy midnight lamp, than an extra
loaf of bread, or an extra shirt to wear. Success is
not so joy-giving as the struggle to succeed. To
pass examinations is not the real object, the real
object of a student is to put in hard labour in
planting well the garden of his mind, his labour to
be harder than that of a farmer, a miner, a poor
common labourer. Such is the life of a true student.
There is no sense-enjoyment for him but that which
comes to him after working the whole night on a
problem of mathematics. He can never do enough.
Sleep too is an intruder, time is too short and there
is much to do!
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