The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
farther away from Christ than Mary Magdalene, whose
character was not the purest, a woman who was not
immaculate. This Mary Magdalene had not in her this
fault-finding, this censuring, this blaming spirit, she
had that spirit of love in her and she was nearer to
Truth, she was nearer to the Kingdom of Heaven than
the Pharisees.
If you make yourselves this second divested of all
desires, if you free yourselves of all worldly clingings,
you know that every desire of yours chops off a part
of yourself, leaves you only a small fraction of yourself.
How seldom it is that we meet a whole man! A whole
man is an inspired man, a whole is the Truth. Every
wish or clinging seems to add to your stock, but in
reality makes you a fraction, an insignificant portion of
yourself. The very moment you cast over-board these
desires, clingings, loves, hatreds and attachments and
also throw off even the desire for light and chant Om for
a second, you attain immediate freedom, Anand, Bliss
Supreme.
On the playground, in India, we place an instrument
called gulli, which is thick at the middle and sharply
pointed at the ends, with both end raised above
ground, and we strike one end with a bat and the gulli
rises at once in the air a little; then we deal it a very
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