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Book Specification
Item Code: | IDK855 |
Author: | Swami Sivananda |
Publisher: | The Divine Life Society |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2001 |
ISBN: | 8170521092 |
Pages: | 388 |
Cover: | Hardcover |
Other Details | 9.0 inch x 6.0 inch |
Weight | 480 gm |
Book Description
Publishers' Preface
The daily sessions which the Swamiji holds with varieties of visitors to the Ashram attract people from different parts of the country and abroad, since these occasions provide to people a homely atmosphere to express their longings, their questions, their enquires and their difficulties which range over a wide area of Human life. This book consists of the answers that Swamiji furnishes to the queries of the visitors during a period of several years, all of which have been tape-recorded, transcribed and edited for the purpose if Publication, since it was the wish of everyone that a book of this kind, when it reaches the hands of seekers of knowledge, will remain as an interesting guide-book a medium of reference and even an entertainment on an intellectual and spiritual level.
It is hoped that this new publication, novel in its kind will adequately bring relief to the seeking spirits who long for enlightenment.
Publishers' Preface | v | |
Dr. Faust | x | |
1 | On Free Will | 3 |
2 | Beauty and the Psychology of Desire | 25 |
3 | On Meditation and service | 38 |
4 | Total Thought and meditation | 50 |
5 | What is the self | 58 |
6 | The higher self? | 66 |
7 | The Good and the Bad | 71 |
8 | Where is the soul | 78 |
9 | The Absolute | 80 |
10 | Tapas or Austerity | 86 |
11 | Universal Action and Duty Towards others | 91 |
12 | How to let God into the Heart | 100 |
13 | Wanting Only God | 105 |
14 | The Inadequacies of science | 111 |
15 | Sexual Impulse Verse Meditation | 116 |
16 | Diagnose the Illness if Life and Go Beyond | 124 |
17 | Energy Conservation | 129 |
18 | Looking for Happiness | 130 |
19 | Spiritual Atmosphere & God-World Relation | 133 |
20 | Concepts of God | 137 |
21 | The World's Movement from Materially to Spirituality | 143 |
22 | The Phenomenon and the Noumenon | 151 |
23 | The True Heart | 156 |
24 | The Connection Between Body and Mind: The Ishtadevata | 164 |
25 | God and Liberation | 164 |
26 | The last Thought | 168 |
27 | Female Mountains | 172 |
28 | Religious Consciousness | 175 |
29 | Beautiful Thought | 177 |
30 | Eastern and Western Thinking | 181 |
31 | Intellectual Understanding | 198 |
32 | The Senses: Two Kinds Thinking | 181 |
33 | The Tenth Obstacle | 202 |
34 | Four Kinds of-Conflict | 205 |
35 | Activity After Enlightenment | 207 |
36 | On Patanjali's Yoga | 219 |
37 | Satsanga | 225 |
38 | Test of Ojur Progress on the Spiritual Path | 230 |
39 | After Self- Realisation | 234 |
40 | Creation of the World | 244 |
41 | Karma | 247 |
42 | Queries of Seekers | 252 |
43 | Hindu Gods and the One God | 260 |
44 | On Work and Meditation | 271 |
45 | On work Crisis | 273 |
46 | The Self in the Deep sleep State | 275 |
47 | Knowledge and Material Brian and mind | 287 |
48 | The Relationship Between Brain and mind | 287 |
49 | The Higher Reality and the Eternal Impulses | 293 |
50 | What is yoga? | 303 |
51 | Methodist Ministers | 306 |
52 | Who is your Neighbour? | 311 |
53 | War | 316 |
54 | Who is a Guru | 319 |
55 | The Necessity for a Guru | 324 |
56 | After The Guru has left the body | 326 |
57 | The Guru-disciple Relationship | 329 |
58 | Living the Truth | 334 |
59 | Devotion and the Nature of Ignorance | 336 |
60 | when God Wants you | 339 |
61 | Degress of Karma | 341 |
62 | The Aim of Education | 345 |
63 | The Balance of Nature | 349 |
64 | Three kinds of Mediation | 353 |
65 | The First Thought and the Great Thought | 358 |
66 | Sadhana can be Done Anywhere | 360 |
67 | Renunciation and Transformation | 362 |
68 | Fear of Losing the World | 367 |
69 | The seven stages of Enlightenment | 372 |
70 | The Blessings of Swami Sivananda | 380 |
Appendix | 386 |