The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
One who would look more closely into his writings
would find that the term " Vedanta " as used by
Swami Rama has a meaning different from what is
generally given to it; it is more or less his own
devotion to Krishna or God-Self, blazing up into
songs of pantheistic colour. The spirit of his
Vedanta, however, was fed by the spirit of the
Punjab of Guru Gobind Singh, and further
strengthened by the songs of self-affirmation of the
adepts like Shams Tabrez and other Persian
Masters* All that contributed to the continuous
burning of the inner flame of his divine life, he
made his own. He used the literature of the whole
world - East and West - for winning the inner
freedom for himself. His "Aliph," an Urdu
periodical that he issued from Lahore, was the
chief vehicle of his rhapsodic writings in which he
set in his gem-like collections from Persian,
Punjabee, English and Sanskrit literatures. It is the
characteristic symbol of his all-embracing mind, his
keen feeling of oneness with the past and the
future.
He sinks his sentences into tears. He drowns his
thoughts in ecstatic cries. He disarms criticism by
tenderly diffusing himself into the being of his
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