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 ...
Story 230 - A British doctor's sacrifice for his country
During the Moghal rule, when the British were just traders in India, the king Farookhseer fell ill. All the Indian doctors and quacks treated him without any improvement in his condition. Perchance an English doctor succeeded in curing him completely. The king was overjoyed and wanted to give to the doctor whatever the latter desired. The doctor refused all the precious things offered to him and requested the King to exempt the English goods from the local taxes. The request was readily granted. You will thus see that the English doctor cared more for his country than for his petty gains. Had he accepted the valuable gifts, the King was giving him, he might have become only temporarily rich. But he preferred his country's prosperity to his personal profit. This is what Rama expects of you. The foreigners practice Vedanta in a natural way. Why should they not, then progress?