The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
free yourself, to become God, if you realise that and
expend your energies in that direction, the family ties
will be no obstacle to you.
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It is strange, very strange, that people want to rob each
other, as for worldly wealth, but as for higher wealth
(spiritual religious riches), when they are presented with
it, they want to kill their donors.
Friends and relations ought to be transparent to us, they
should not be like veils and blinds. They should be as
glass-panes obstructing no light, nay, they should be like
spectacles and microscopes or telescopes, helps and not
hindrances.
A rope-dancer at first rides the rope, single, alone. When
highly practiced he takes with him a boy or some heavy
object and dances on the rope. So, after living a single
life and acquiring perfection, a man may allow others in
his company.
Man must conquer his passions or disappear. It is
impossible to imagine a man presided over by his
stomach or sexual passions—a walking stomach, using
hands, feet, and all other members merely to carry it
from place to place and serve its assimilative mania.
The reading of books and learning all knowledge is one
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