Analects of Swami Sivananda

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Chapter 1 - Human Life - Its Glorious Destiny.

 

(i) Treasure of Treasures.

(ii) Science of the Supreme.

(iii) The Great Path.

(iv) Mysterious Divine Essence.

(v) Brahmic Realisation Bestows Release.

 

(i) Treasure of Tresures.

 

1. Knowledge of Atman or the Self is the greatest wealth.

2. Knowledge of Atman is the best property for man.

3. The gift of Brahma-Jnana or Wisdom of the Self exceeds all other

gifts.

4. He who wants to pass from error to truth must realise the Atman

or the Self and enjoy peace and bliss as his own self for ever.

5. When you realise the Atman, sorrow and attachment take to their

heels.

6. Whoever realises the Atman, attains limitless peace and eternal

bliss in this very life.

7. He who knows the Atman or the Self goes beyond sorrow and pain.

8. Just as all fear caused by the appearane of the illusory snake

ends when the rope is known, so also all the pains and sorrows of

the world terminate when Brahman is realised.

9. He who has realised the bliss of the Eternal has no fear from any

quarter.

10. Know Brahman, the Infinite, who is self-luminous and beyond

darkness and delusion. Knowing Him alone, one can be saved from

death. There is no other way to immortality.

11. The Jnana-bliss which arises out of the comminglling of the

knower and the known is of Atma-Jnana. It is this Atma-Jnana-bliss

that should be longed for.

12. The root of all suffering is cut off by the vision of the Atman.

13. He who has knowledge of Brahman is to be worshipped in the three

worlds.

14. Attain that Supreme sTate of Eternal Bliss through meditation on

Atman, where the mind ceases to function and the mouth closes in

silence.

15. REalise thetimeless essence of time and live in the Ternal.

16. Blessed is he who attains the supreme wisdom of Brahman in this

very life; if he does not, his life is in vain.