About the Book LECTURES OF SWAMI RAM A series of five volumes covering Swami Ramdas talks and discourses during his world tour of 1954, recorded by Swami Satchidananda. Available in English, Kannada and Telugu. About the Author Swami Ramdas (1884-1963) is one of the rarest flowers of Indian spirituality. His picturesque and chequered earlier life, his enterprising and reckless later life of Nivritti and his sublime and joyous state afterwards, are all proofs positive of the declarations of the great scriptures like the Upanishads and the Gita. After receiving initiation of the Ram mantra from his father, Vittal Rao (as he was known then), renounced the worldly life at the age of 38 and wandered as a mendicant Sadhu from far South to the Himalayas with God as his only refuge and guide. Having attained God-realization, Swami Ramdas (endearingly called by devotees as Papa) shared his universal vision with everyone around. Preface Beholding the Beloved in All (Speech delivered on 15th August 1954 by Swami Ramdas at "Ivorine", the residence of Sri Nat venal G. Parikh, Bombay, on the eve of departure to Europe.) It was thirty years ago that Ramdas was first taken up by God and made to do everything as He willed. From that time onwards, Ramdas has been going round India, propagating the message of love and peace to all people who come in contact with him. But now it is His will that Ramdas should go outside India and move about in the world so that he can meet more of His manifestations in order that he may see in them also the same Beloved One he sees here, and had been seeing all along during his tours in different parts of India. Now, the object of his going to foreign countries, as willed by the Divine-Ramdas us