The Story of Swami Rama The Poet Monk of the Punjab by Puran Singh is the biography of Swami Rama (Swami Rama Tirtha). He was a Brahmin and a in a very young age he became a renowned teacher of Vedanta. He was among the very first teachers of esoteric Hinduism to travel to the West. He visited the United States in 1903 a few years after Swami Vivekananda. And hey, he was born exactly 100 years before your Admin of Holybooks.com, on the 22. october 1873 :-). From the book:
He enlisted himself, under his great intellectual necessity, amongst the apostles of the Advaita Vedanta as expounded by Shankara Acharya, but he preached it with his own intense emotion of a Vaishnava; he called himself God, but he strove all his life to realise the Divine, and having realised it to maintain it on a certain elevation that he had attained. He was never neglectful of his great remembrance of God, but always alert watching the effects of men and things on his Godly mood. ” I contradict myself! Well! I contradict myself!” He called God the True Self, and in the words of Christ, proclaimed that one cannot have two things at the same time; either have Mammon, which he called the lower, little self of man, or have God, the Higher Self. No apparent contradiction of his theory and practice was visible in his own character for he was a strenuous labourer who gathered God with all his senses and filled his heart with the gladness of& “That Un-nameable Mystery”!
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Man from othere planet come on earth and gave self knowledge gyan of our soul and vanish ::
I am a big fan of Swami Ram tirth,he is my guru my idol. He is living legend of param gyan.
who not only by his words by his life show what is adwait vedant. I dnt have words to say about him , so many famous people have tried to say many things about him, but its always incomplete and will remain so in future too…..
I am downloading now, he reminds me of myself, hopefully reading this book motivates me to NOT be like him and do something different!