Voice of The Himalayas

About the Book 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, practised 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 organised. 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 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.

Foreword The Voice of the Himalayas is the call of Bharatavarsha's spiritual genius. It is a powerful call to awaken from the torpor of gross physical consciousness. and soar into the empyrean of blissful Atmic consciousness. It embodies an inspiring and irresistible urge towards the realisation of your essential radiant spiritual nature. Realising it, your life will blossom forth into a whole-souled dedication to the welfare of all beings. The fragrance of ceaseless, selfless service will then pervade your dedicated life. This book is a truly inspired outpouring from the pen of Sri Swami Sivanandaji, hailed in all quarters as the greatest living Sage of this Atomic Age.

The Voice of the Himalayas is most powerfully inspiring and sublimely soul-stirring. These solemn and sublime words of Upadesh thrill the reader and reach into: the inmost recess of his heart. They appeal forcefully and directly to your higher spiritual nature. You will find this a masterpiece of spiritual counsel, guidance and admonition. These short, terse instructions are vibrant with a vital spiritual quality as they are verily conceived in the depths of the Seer-writer's silent inward meditation and put down. here for the lasting benefit of suffering mankind. Moaning in misery resultant of mere materialistic life and groaning under the tyranny of this gross physical existence, humanity of today will find the light of Hope and Blessedness in this precious volume.

The Voice of the Himalayas gives utterance to the life-giving Wisdom of the ancient Upanishadic sages and seers.

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