The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
much stronger in them than in those of
Vivekananda, Compare for instance, the following
comments on the Lord's prayer with the mistake
concerning the words ‗which art in Heaven‘ that I
have already quoted from Vivekananda's writings.
"In the Lord's prayer," writes Swami Rama Tirath,
"we say ‗give us this day our daily bread‘ and in
another place we say ‗man shall not live by bread
alone‘. Reconsider these statements: understand
them thoroughly. The meaning of the Lord's
Prayer is not that you should be craving, wishing:
not at all. The meaning of that prayer is such that
even a king, an Emperor, who is in no danger of
not having his daily bread, may offer it. If so,
evidently * give us this day our daily bread ' does
not mean that we should put ourselves in a
begging mood that we should ask for material
prosperity I: not that. The prayer means that
everybody, let him be a prince, a king, a monk, is
to look upon these things around him, all the
wealth and plenty, as not his but God's: not mine,
not mine. That does not mean begging, but
renouncing, giving up; renouncing everything
unto God. The king while he is offering that prayer
puts himself into that mood where all the jewels of
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