Parables of Rama
by Swami Rama Tirtha | 102,836 words
Stories in English used by Swami Rama to illustrate the highest teaching of Vedanta. The most difficult and intricate problems of philosophy and abstract truths, which may very well tax the brains of the most intellectual, are thus made not only simple and easy to understand but also brought home to us in a concrete form in such an interesting and ...
A certain gentleman in India was a spiritualist. He was taken to a place, his eyes were blindfolded and a book on mathematics was placed before him. This book he had never seen. In that state he could go on reading. Mathematics has signs of its own and this work contained names which he was not supposed to know. He asked for blank sheet of paper and went on copying all that was in the pages of the mathematical book. He could not call the symbols by their proper names, but he copied them all: he possessed that power. He could read your thoughts and could copy instantly all that you could write with your own hand, apart from him.
Here was a spiritualist but he was far from being a holy man, no, not in the least; worldly, worldly he was, and not a holy or happy man. Spiritualism is often designated as a science, and as a science we may respect it, but it must not be confounded with that which brings the real Joy, the perfect Bliss, that which places you above all temptations.
MORAL: Thought-reading or the possession of any spiritual power does not indicate that the man is surely holy or happy.