Swami Venkatesanandji's words about His Guru Swami Sivananda

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Gurudev Sivananda from Swami Venkatesanandaji's book " Inspiring Talks

of Sivananda " .

 

A day with Gurudev Sivananda is better spent than a year in the study

of scriptures or a life-time in a library. A word--always appropriate

to the occasion, and to the person addressed--a look, a smile, an

action seemingly trivial--all these are (and only they truly

are) 'Living Scriptures'. The inner truth which scriptures often hide

from the gaze of the immature: the easy path to God-realisation which

the complicated mind of the 'modern' man, fails to see: the fountain of

wisdom which the educated man's vision, blinded by the cataract of

faithlessness, fails to perceive--are revealed like the apple on one's

palm, by a simple word from the Sacred Lips.