The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
CHAPTER 3
THE FRUITS IN HIS BASKET:
His Fundamental Thoughts
EVERY man who seeks after the Truth of Life, its
labour and love, gathers a few ripe fruits of life in
his basket; and if he is generous, he sits on the
roadside and goes on distributing them to all who
come to him, and often he goes to others who need
them; but forever full is his basket of fruits, as
forever he keeps on distributing them. Whether the
story of a saint distributing a loaf of bread to
hundreds of guests and yet having enough for
more, be true or not, this basket of fruits that the
loving and earnest enquirer after Life's meaning
and true purpose carries about, can never be
emptied.
We have seen Swami Rama, the Monk, in his
orange robe; now he should be pictured in this
chapter as the gay fruit seller with his
inexhaustible basket of fruits on his head, or as one
sitting on the roadside, and his hands in the basket
of fruits before him, just giving the fruits away.
There is a state of life, he teaches, above body and
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