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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.

Contents

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

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