Yoga and Realisation

Yoga and Realisation

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Book Specification

Item Code: IDJ292
Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
Language: English
Edition: 2007
ISBN: 8170521947
Pages: 190
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.3" X 5.4"
Weight 230 gm

Book Description

About This Book

From the divine pen of H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj has emanated a ceaseless stream of soulelevating spiritual literature; and it would be quite true to say that today His Holiness's message has penetrated every part of the world and has won for the forces of God and goodness millions of hearts into which Sri Swamiji has instilled a natural love of fellowmen and a keen aspiration to realize the goal of life.

Besides being the author of over 300 books, and besides getting published and distributed free on a worldwide scale, countless leaflets, pamphlets and books, Sri Swamiji has contributed inspiring articles to various newspapers and periodicals all over the world.

The present work is a collection of quite a number of such articles. They have already thrilled many hearts, and awakened many dormant souls. In order that they might give you permanent inspiration they have been reprinted in book-form and is presented to you as our humble love offering. We earnestly pray that you will make the best use of it, practice Yoga and attain Realization.

About the Author

Born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Sage Appayya Dikshitar and several other renowned 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 been editing a health 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, practiced intense austerities and shone as a great Yogi, saint, sage and Jivanmukta.

In 1932 Swami Sivananda started the Sivanandashram. In 1936 was born The Divine Life Society. In 1948 the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy was organized. Dissemination of spiritual knowledge and training of people in Yoga and Vedanta were their aim and object. In 1950 Swamiji undertook a lightning tour of India and Ceylon. In 1953 Swamiji convented 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.

Contents

1. The Outline of Yoga 15
2. Yoga 17
3. Introduction to Yoga 20
4. Real Yoga 25
5. The Science of Yoga 28
6. Sidelights on Yoga 31
7. Ideal of Yoga 35
8. Important Hints on Yoga 39
9. The Yoga of Synthesis 41
10. Necessity for a Guru 44
11. Qualifications of a Yogic Student 46
12. Kill Desires, Enjoy Bliss 49
13. Sadhana 50
14. Spiritual Diary and Resolves Form 52
15. Self-realization 56
16. The Rugged Path 58
17. Yoga in Daily Life 62
18. Strive for Divine Life 64
19. The Divine Life 66
20. Precepts for Practice 68
21. Be Ever Vigilant 72
22. Message to Aspirants 75
23. Practice of Hatha Yoga 77
24. Means for Good Health 80
25. Lack of Brahmacharya 82
26. Practice of Brahmacharya 84
27. Yoga 85
28. Integral Yoga 88
29. The Yoga of Synthesis 92
30. Gleanings from the Song Celestial 95
31. Karma Can be Transformed into Yoga 98
32. Secret of Karma Yoga 101
33. Bhakti Yoga 104
34. Philosophy of Bhakti 108
35. Devotion to the Lord 115
36. The Efficacy of Prayer 118
37. Namasmaran the Easiest Way 121
38. Mantra Yoga 125
39. Eleven Points for Developing Bhakti 127
40. The Essence of Bhakti 131
41. Raja Yoga an Exact Science 133
42. Be Sweet 136
43. Conquest of the Mind 138
44. Cast off this Ego 139
45. Self-analysis, Self-reliance, Self-determination 142
46. What is Mind? 145
47. The Nature of Mind 148
48. Control of Mind 150
49. Think of the Opposite 152
50. Pranayama 154
51 Pratyahara 160
52. Meditation 163
53. The Ignorant and the Wise 167
54. This is Vedantic Samadhi 168
55. Who is a Jivanmukta? 170
56. Unity in Diversity 174
57. Real Education 176
58. Ethics of the Bhagavad-Gita Gita 179
59. World Peace 183
60. The Life Divine 186
61. Divine Nature of Man and the Way to Unfold It 189

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