The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
Speak to him, then, for He hears and Spirit to
Spirit can meet;
Closer is He than breathing and nearer than
hands or feet,
The sun, the moon, the stars, the hills, and the
plains,
Are not these, O Soul, the visions of Him who reigns?
—Tennyson.
Children have a common practical religion of love, play
and innocence all over the world. This unity comes
about by the natural faithfulness of each child to his dear
sweet self.
To seek happiness is in its essence strictly speaking
religion, but the mode of realizing religion involved
in it may be compared to getting a peep into the Darbar
through the grating of a dirty gutter. They resemble a
flash of lightning which though identical in its nature
with broad daylight, does far more harm than good, or,
more appropriately, they are like the stealing of fire from
heaven by Prometheus.
We read in the Bible that the Pharisees were very pious,
their acts and deeds were very pious, but they lacked
that tender, kind, and loving spirit; these people had a
censuring, fault-finding spirit in them, which kept them
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