The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
no more existent, the spirits are up and every hair of his
body is thundering out his immersion in the Great
Beyond which lies at the back of the body, the mind, and
the whole world. Thus, to the spectators, indomitable
courage and heroic power are like a lightning flash of the
Unknowable into the phenomenal world; but in regard
to the subject himself un-daunted bravery is
unconsciously no more than religion, that is, absorption
in the Power behind the screen.
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The very word ecstasy (e, out, and sto, stand) shows that
HAPPINESS, no matter under what conditions or
circumstances experienced, is nothing different from
standing, so to say, outside the body, mind and world.
Referring to one's own experience any person can see
the oneness of happiness with freedom, though
temporary, from all duality. The longed-for object, and
the wooing subject welding into one constitute joy. Thus
manifestly the very nature of happiness is religion.
If anybody should ask me to give my philosophy in one
word, I would say, "Self-Reliance", the ―Knowledge of
Self‖.
You respect your Self when you are filled with Godconsciousness;
when you are filled with the thought of
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