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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 />

that this one blanket was his quilt, his cushion, his<br />

umbrella, his trousers, his coat, and so on, and he<br />

demonstrated its uses to him in all these ways.<br />

To the Faqirs and Saints, it is One God that is their<br />

everything.<br />

* * * * *<br />

<strong>The</strong> brick that is fit for a wall, shall be lifted wherever it<br />

may be lying.<br />

* * * * *<br />

<strong>The</strong> arrow is to be pulled inward first and then suddenly<br />

released, before it is shot out of the bow. Just so, your<br />

wishes and desires are arrows shot by your mind. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

cannot be fulfilled unless you rise above them.<br />

* * * * *<br />

Men are mineral-men, vegetable-men or animal-men,<br />

according to the expansion of their souls. God-men are<br />

the circles whose centres are everywhere and have<br />

become straight lines. Mineral-men are dead compared<br />

with vegetable-men, and the vegetable-men are dead<br />

compared with animal-men, and animal-men compared<br />

to man-men and man-men to God-men. It is, so to say<br />

an evolutionary course of moral life to realise itself as<br />

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