EASY STEPS TO YOGA

EASY STEPS TO YOGA

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Book Specification

Item Code: IDG075
Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
Language: English
Edition: 2005
Pages: 165
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 7.2" X 4.9"
Weight 130 gm

Book Description

About the Author:

Born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Saga Appayya Diskhita 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 himself 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 he 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 he undertook a lightning tour of India and Ceylon. In 1953 he convened a 'World Parliament Reliogions'. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read his works is to drink at the fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th July, 1963 he entered Mahasamadhi.

Publishers' Preface:

Yoga is right living. This definition may appear to be simple, but reality it is very significant, for the meaning of right living is very wide. Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj explains in an easy and homey style the basic principles that a beginner in Yoga has to understand and follow. These Easy Steps to Yoga are laid out with a special view to enable the novice to ascend without much difficulty the heights of spiritual attainment. Ethical and moral discipline forms the foundations of Yoga. Sri Swamiji has beautifully brought together all the fundamental: good conduct, non-attachment, dispassion, unselfish work, sense-control, meditation and knowledge to form a connected piece of complete information on the practice of Yoga, beginning with bodily health and training, and ending in Self-knowledge. We bring out the sixth edition of his precious volume for the edification of students, both in the East and the West, who have no acquaintance with the technicalities involved in the subject, but are eager to have an adequate grasp of the main guiding principles in living a life of wisdom arising out of divine discontent. THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY

CONTENTS

Publishers' Preface v
Prayer to the Almighty vi
Universal Prayer vii
Introduction ix
CHAPTER I
YOGA SADHANA
1. Yoga for Health 3
2. Essence of Sadhana 5
3. Gist of Karma Yoga 8
4. Bhakti Yoga Sadhana 10
5. Pearl-drops of Prema 14
6. How to Spend Your Holidays 16
7. Message to Retired People 18
8. A Dynamic Yoga 19
9. Way to Bliss 22
CHAPTER II
IMPORTANCE OF BRAHMACHARYA
1. What Is Brahmacharya? 24
2. Glory of Brahmacharya 26
3. Power of Lust 29
4. How to Keep Up Brahmacharya 32
5. Mental Discipline (Bhava) 37
6. Sadhana for Success in Brahmacharya 41
CHAPTER III
YOGA OF RIGHT CONDUCT
1. Sadachara 45
2. Ethical Discipline 49
3. Ethics Is a Means to Yoga 52
4. Glory of Sadachara 54
CHAPTER IV
MIND, ITS MYSTERIES AND CONTROL
1. Facts About Mind 59
2. Thought-culture 64
3. Control of Thought 66
4. Purification of Mind 72
5. How to Steady the Mind 75
6. Control of the Senses 80
7. Conquest of Mind 81
CHAPTER V
VEDANTA
1. Gist of Vedanta 84
2. Practical Vedanta 86
3. Who Am I? 91
4. Silence 107
CHAPTER VI
PRACTICE OF MEDITATION
1. Auxiliaries 111
2. Benefits of Meditation 114
3. Kinds of Meditation 116
4. Obstacles in Meditation 120
5. Hints on Meditation 124
CHAPTER VII
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS 128
CHAPTER VIII
YOGIC EXERCISES
1. Yogic Alphabet 139
2. Padmasana 141
3. Siddhasana 142
4. Sirshasana 142
5. Oordhva-Padmasana 143
6. Sarvangasana 143
7. Halasana 143
8. Matsyasana 144
9. Paschimottanasana 144
APPENDIX
1. The Universal Prayer 150
2. Serve, Love, Give 150
3. Purify 152
4. Meditate 163
5. Realise 164
6. Peace Chant 165

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