Analects of Swami Sivananda

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About Sri Swami Sivananda:

 

Born on the 8th September 1887, in the illustrious family of Sage

Appayya Dikshitar and several other renowed saints and savants, Sri

Swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a life devoted to the study

and practice of Vedanta. Added to this was an inborn eagerness to

serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind.

 

His passion for service drew him to the medical career; and soon he

gravitated to where he thought that his service was most needed.

Malaya claimed him. He had earlier heen editing a healthy journal

and wrote extensively on health problems. He discovered that people

needed right knowledge most of all; dissemination of that knowledge

he espoused as his own mission.

 

It was divine dispensation and the blessing of God upon mankind that

the doctor of body and mind renounced his career and took to a life

of renunciation to qualify for ministering to the soul of man. He

settled down at Rishikesh in 1924, practised intense austerities and

shone as a great Yogi, saint, sage and Jivanmukta.

 

In 1932 Swami Sivananda started the Sivanandaashram. In 1936 was

born The Divine Life Society. In 1948 the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Acady

was organised. Dissemination of spiritual knowledge and training of

people in Yoga and Vedanta were their aim and object. In 1950

Swamiji undertook a lightening tour of India and Ceylon. In 1953

Swamiji convened a World Parliament of Religions. Swamiji is the

author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world,

belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read

Swamiji's works is to drink at the Fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On

14th July 1963 Swamiji entered Mahasamadhi.

 

About the Book " Analects of Swami Sivananda " :

 

His Holiness Sri Swami Sivananda Maharaj did not write text books as

such. The books he wrote were the outpourings of wisdom from his own

direct realisation of the Truth.

 

From his books you will derive not only the benefit of his wisdom

and knowledge of both practical and esoteric matters pertaining to Y

oga, but also the power of his spiritual force.

 

Swamiji had a unique style -- simple, direct and compelling. His

books are not dull treatises on Yoga and philosophy, rather his

enthusiasm and eagerness to h elp all is evident in every page,

lifting the reader to new heights of understanding. His message is

addressed particularly and directly to the people living in the busy

world of today. To them his books are a boon. In simple words set in

simple sentences, Swamiji gives grand truths in a gentle way.

 

Here is another gem from the Diadem of Divine Life. It radiates the

light of Divine Life that Sri Swamiji has been shedding from the

past many years.

 

The Analects deals with the fundamental problems of life and gives

in a succinct, clear and inspiring language the essentials of a

divine life.

 

I fervently hope that you all enjoy the postings from this book in

the days to come.

 

Love and Love alone...

 

P. Gopi Krishna