The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
critic. He wins his enemies by a song of love in
which he calls him his own self. He enchants the
very air around himself with his bird-like speech
that was all poetry, all music. His body was a lake
which trembled seeing the Sun entering into its
depths. He confounds logic by his divine madness.
He contradicts himself in a thousand ways in his
self-intoxication which alone is both his creed and
religion.
His over strung emphasis on the idea—" I am God"
- at times jars on one's ears, introduced as it is so
abruptly into a charming atmosphere of lovemaking
with gods. In one sentence he asks us to
love God, and in the next he suddenly throws out
the effigy of "God" from the idol-worshippers
temple and sets himself in God's place. It is
difficult to follow him, for one needs the madness
of his joy, his glowing passion and his inspiration
to rise above all imperfections of all such
expressions of the Inexpressible.
He is concerned with the joy of it all, with being
God and with nothing else. No doubt, this man
tried to give the secret of his success, but whatever
he wished to say was blown away like a dry
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