Wisdom in Humour

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Item Code:	IDK755
Author:	Swami Sivananda
Publisher:	THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
Edition:	2006
ISBN:	8170521874
Pages:	168
Cover:	Paperback
Other Details	8.5" X 5.4"
Weight	170 gm

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SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

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 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 Rshikesh in 1924, practiced intense austerities and shone as a great Yogi, saint, sage and Jivanmukta.

In 1932 Swami Sivananda started the Sivanandasharm. 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 convened a 'World Parliament of Regions'. Swamiji is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religion and creeds. To read Swamiji works is to drink at the Fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th july, 1963 Swamiji entered Mahasamadhi.

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This Volume owes its birth to Sri Dr. Frederick Spiegelberg, Professor of Stanford University, California, U.S.A., who was charmed when, at a Satsang held during his stay at Ananda Kutir in 1949, Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj read out to him a few humorous compositions of his "Swamiji" said Dr. Frederick, "this is just the thing wanted by the people today. They would love the humour, but would unconsciously learn a spiritual lesson. The impression made by such teaching would be profound and lasting." This publication itself is a token of our gratitude to Dr. Frederick Spiegelberg.

CONTENTS

1.Whims of Sadhus

	CHAPTER I
	VARIETIES IN WHIMS
		15
2.	Whims of Sadhkas	16
3.	Varieties of Whims	18
	CHAPTER II
	OBJECTS SWEETER THAN BRAHMAN
1.	Uppuma, Coffee, Is Sweeter than Brahman	20
2.	Horrible Glutton	21
3.	English Laddu	21
4.	Ode to Laddu	22
	CHAPTER III
	THE FRAILTY OF HUMAN LOVE
1.	My Sweet Honey Darling	23
2.	Woman's Crocodile's Tears	23
	CHAPTER IV
	HYPOCRITES
1.	Do You Know this "I.C.S." & "P.C.S.?"	25
2.	A Great F.F.S. and F.T.D.	25
3.	Imitation Videhamukta	26
4.	Here Is a Hypocrite	27
5.	A Pseudo-Avadhooth	27
6.	Pseudo-Patriots	28
7.	Hypocritical Humility	29
8.	A Deluded Soul	29
9.	A Polished Cheat	30
	CHAPTER V
	THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD
1.	This world-A mysterious show	31
2.	Diverse Nature	31
3.	Sounds and Bhava	32
4.	Nature of Mundene Life	32
5.	Discontentment Everywhere	33
	CHAPTER VI
	MORAL INSTRUCTIONS
1.	Return Good for Evil	34
2.	Tirupathi Shaving	34
3.	Vritti-diseases	35
4.	Fashionable Wife	35
5.	Long Beard within a single Night	36
6.	Do not Be Credulous	37
7.	Fever Meets Itching	38
8.	Tamper not with other's Letters	38
9.	Hotel for Cats	39
10.	Ladder, Teacher and Lemon-Pickle	39
	CHAPTER VII
	SPIRITUAL SERMONS
1.	Khoon Kharab Hogaya	41
2.	Your Wife Became a Widow	41
3.	Preach to Yourself First	42
4.	The Greatest Miser	42
5.	Glory of Hotels! Rs. 30/-a Day	43
6.	Poor Advocates	44
7.	Dowry System	45
8.	Story of a Millionaire	45
9.	Story of Two Misers	46
10.	Jagulee Chas, Bapulee Chas	46
11.	Crush this Ego	47
12.	World's Tallest Men	48
13.	That Tomorrow will never Come	48
14.	Prosperious America	49
15.	Ph.D	49
16.	March of India	50
17.	Topics of the World	51
18.	Three Kinds of Disciples	51
19.	Story of a Pig	52
20.	Boot-Legging	52
21.	An Old Lady and a Needle	53
22.	You Cannot Cheat the Indweller	53
23.	Sunday Now Friday	54
	CHAPTER VIII
	A GUIDE TO DIVINE LIFE
1.	Ek Niranjan; Do Gad Bhad; Teen Lat Pat	56
2.	See the Lord in all Forms	56
3.	The Frog and Faithless Disciples	57
4.	Be Sincere and Aspire	57
5.	Aspire for Liberation	58
6.	Become a Doctor of Souls	59
7.	Plants and Flowers	59
8.	Milk, Dood, Pal and Ksheeram	60
9.	Stages of Man	60
10.	Do not Cheat	61
11.	Eradicate Laziness	61
12.	Seven Afflictions of a Pundit	62
13.	Who Is a Sannyasi	62
14.	Who Is A-1 "Loof" in Sirshasan?	63
15.	Beard Is almost Equal to Gerua Cloth	63
16.	Om Namo Narayanaya!	64
17.	Story of a King's Cat	64
18.	Sivaratri in E.I.R.	65
19.	Story of a Cobra and a Farmer	66
20.	The Modern Agnihotri	66
21.	Snake-Rat Story	67
22.	God Is Now Here	67
23.	Look at Kallu's Devotion	68
24.	Do Real Self-surrender	68
25.	Dhanna Bhakta	69
26.	Passion-Bye-Products	69
27.	A Sadhu and a Seth	70
28.	Chemo-Cherapy	71
29.	Anti-Pneumo Thorax	71
30.	Best Life Insurance Co	72
31.	Abandon Ownership	72
32.	Pundit Ram with His Third Wife	73
33.	Socrates and a Horse	73
34.	Dhaka Chak	74
	CHAPTER IX
	FALSE IMAGINATION
1.	Vikalpa Vritti	75
2.	Jiva Srishti Alone Gives Pain	75
3.	Restless Horse-Mind	76
4.	Effects of Dream	76
5.	Mind Is like the Fountain Pen	77
	CHAPTER X
	VEDANTA IN HUMOUR
1.	Dog in Stone	78
2.	Sugar Cane Story	78
3.	Atma Is Already There	79
4.	Moorkhanandas	79
5.	Sleepwalkers	80
6.	The Tenth Was Missing	80
7.	properties of the Five Elements	81
8.	Vedantic Bomb	81
9.	Vedantic Gazette, Good News!	82
10.	Vedantic Passport	83
11.	Vedantic Suzerainty	83
12.	Atma Bahadurs	84
13.	U.N.O.	85
14.	Solve this Riddle, Please	85
15.	Shortage of Barbers	86
	CHAPTER XI
	VEDANTIC MEDICINES
1.	Vedantic Beverage	87
2.	Vedantic Compressed Table	87
3.	Vedantic Vitamin	88
4.	Vedantic TONIC	89
	CHAPTER XII
	LESSONS FROM SCIENTIFIC INVENTIONS
1.	Television	90
2.	Dicta-Hell-Tele	90
3.	The Biggest Radio	91
4.	Remove the Dirt in the Mind-Radio	91
	CHAPTER XIII
	HUMOROUS PIECES
1.	Ear-complains to the Lord	93
2.	To Lord Krishna	93
3.	How to Become a Famous Sadhu	94
4.	Tamarind Brain	94
5.	Mixed Action	95
6.	Ant. Like the Atom Bomb	95
7.	Elections and Voting	96
8.	Twins and Triplets	96
9.	Glory to Newspaper Boys	97
10.	'Procreate Less' Campaign	97
11.	Husband and Wife	98
12.	Three-Inches Intellect	98
	CHAPTER XIV
	SIVA'S NATIVE PLACE
1.	Goodbye, Vain World	100
2.	Song of Vibhti Yoga	100
3.	My Native Place	101
4.	The Cow Tree	101
5.	Intoximeter and mayameter	102
6.	Song of Honey	103
7.	Digambara Song	103
8.	Ram Kirtan	103
9.	That Divine Whisky	104
10.	Nature Curist is Intolerant	104
11.	Nature Curist Vrittis	105
12	Allopathic Monsters	105
13.	Naturopath's Poor Prarabdha	106
14.	The Family of Egoism	106
15.	The Best	106
16.	Lecture By Milk	107
17.	Son of Asanas	108
18.	Incompatibles	111
	SECTION II
	PHILOSOPHY IN HUMOUR
1.	To Lord Krishna	112
2.	Maya	112
3.	Daya Krishna and Danveer Ram	113
4.	"Tor" Ka "Dur"	116
5.	Story of Ade-Vada	116
6.	Spiritual Smoking	119
7.	Story of Dosai Sangam122
8.	Philosophy of Bread	124
9.	Pseudo-Vedantin	126
10.	Impotent Vedantin	127
11.	Lip Vedantin	129
12.	Real Vedantin	130
13.	Divine Injection S.B. 40	131
14.	Spiritual Lumbago	131
15.	The Knowledge of the Lad	133
16.	Best Cement	134
17.	Fountain Pen	134
18.	Knowledge of a Child	135
19.	Boy Becomes a Girl	136
20.	Moustache Lady	137
21.	Test-tube Baby	138
22	Spiritual Shaving	138
23	Chandrabhaga and Monkey	142
24.	A Complaint to Brahma	145
25.	The Story of a Laddu	145
26.	The Secret of "Bada"	146
27.	This Is Maya	146
28.	Philosophy of Shirt and Hat	148
29.	Equal Vision	149
30.	Gadapparai or Durmat Nyaya	150
31.	Brahma-Jnana Research Pharmacy	150
32.	Tat Tvam Asi	151
33.	Recipe (Take Thou)	151
34.	Philosophy of Proverbs	152
35.	The Maha Kumbha Mela	159
36.	Wake Up O! Man	168

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