Foreword

O RAM, THE TRUTH – THE LOVE – THE GOAL OF HUMAN PERFECTION – ALL HAIL – ALL HAIL!

It was about two years ago (in 1920) that Ram first kindled in the heart of His humble slave, Ramdas, a keen desire to realise His Infinite Love. To strive to approach, and understand Ram is to recede from the world of vanishing forms, because Ram is the only Truth – the only Reality. Ram is a subtle and mysterious power that pervades and sustains the whole universe. Birthless and deathless is He. He is present in all things and in all creatures who only appear as separate entities, due to their ever-changing forms. To wake up from this illusion of forms is to realise at once the Unity or Love of Ram. Love of Ram means Love of all beings, all creatures, all things in this world; because Ram is in all and all is in Ram, and Ram is all in all. To realise this great Truth we, who, through ignorance, feel as separate individuals, should submit ourselves to the will and working of that Infinite Power – that Infinite Love – Ram – who is one and all-pervading. By a complete surrender to the will of Ram, we lose consciousness of the body which keeps us aloof from Him, and find ourselves in a state of complete identification and union with Ram, who is in us and everywhere around us. In this condition, hatred which means consciousness of diversity, ceases, and Love, consciousness of Unity, is realised. This Divine Love can be attained by humbling ourselves to such a degree as to totally subdue our egoism, our self-assertion as a separate individual existence. Having reached this stage, we, by the awakened consciousness of Unity or Love, are naturally prompted to sacrifice all the interests that concern the body, for the welfare of our fellow-men and fellow-creatures who are all manifestations of the same Ram. This was the great sacrifice of Buddha, of Jesus Christ and has been of Mahatma Gandhi in our own times. These three great men are the fullest manifestations of Ram – the Great Truth – the Infinite Love. Om Sri Ram!