The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
So the negative criticism, chilling, discouraging process
will not mend matters. All that is necessary is the
positive, cheerful, hopeful, loving, encouraging attitude.
The best criticism is to make people feel from within
what you wish to make them realise from without. All
grumbling is as futile and fatuous as to say 'Oh! Why is
the lily not an oak?'
From all life's grapes, I press sweet wine. The beautiful
Joseph says to his apologising brothers: "It is not ye that
threw me into the well. The Lord's law in order to exalt
me in Egypt, found no better levers than my own
brothers." "Ye need not think so much of sin. If love
breaks law it is the fulfilment of the law. Love is the
only Divine Law. Owning through Love is Divine and
owning through Law is illegal!"
Whenever we reach that point of saturation, when the
mind is filled with the idea, when the whole being is lost
and merged in the thought, the machine or organ or the
musical instrument is taken up by the great musician,
by God, by Divinity, and through this organ are
produced beautiful, magnificent, sublime tunes. Great
notes of splendid music come out of the organ, but so
long as the child wants to keep the organ to itself and
does not want the great organist or musician to handle
the organ, only notes of discord, will be emanated by the
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