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The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Story</strong> <strong>Of</strong> <strong>Swami</strong> <strong>Rama</strong><br />

hard blow with the bat and it goes flying right into the<br />

air to a great distance. <strong>The</strong>re are two processes in this<br />

game. <strong>The</strong> first is to raise the gulli and the second is to<br />

make it fly into the air. If the mind is to be brought into<br />

divine communion, first of all it is to be raised just a<br />

little, and the second process is to shoot it far off into the<br />

spiritual atmosphere.<br />

"Having nothing to do, be always doing", sums up<br />

Vedantic teaching. O happy worker, success must seek<br />

you, when you cease to seek success.<br />

Christ spoke only to eleven disciples, but those words<br />

were stored up by the atmosphere, were gathered up by<br />

the skies, and are today being read by millions of people.<br />

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.<br />

Remember it always that when sending out thoughts of<br />

jealousy and envy, of criticism, of fault-finding, or<br />

thoughts smacking of jealousy and hatred, you are<br />

courting the very same thoughts yourself. Whenever<br />

you are discovering the mote in your brother's eye, you<br />

are putting the beam into your own.<br />

Let us watch a hero in the battlefield. He is mad with a<br />

super-abundance of power, thousands count nothing<br />

to him, his own body has no appearance of reality to<br />

him. He is no longer the body or mind and the world is<br />

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