Sixty-three: Nayanar Saints

Sixty-three: Nayanar Saints

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Book Specification

Item Code: IDG061
Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
Language: English
Edition: 2014
Pages: 174
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 7.2" X 4.9"
Weight 160 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' Note:

Spiritual aspirants have always loved to study the lives of saints, which are living scriptures, as it were, throwing a flood of light on the spiritual path for the aspirants to walk boldly, fearlessly and joyously to the goal of immortality. These short biographies from the pen of a great living saint and Yogi, have the added advantage of the best possible presentation.

This celestial scripture, the enthralling story of the Sixty-three Nayanars, the towering spiritual giants of South India, is destined to bring about a spiritual renaissance, nay, a revolution throughout the world. It is a book to jolt you out of your spiritual lethargy, a book to shake you out of your spiritual lethargy, a book to shake you out of your spiritual slumber, a book to heal your chronic spiritual blindness.

Nowhere else in the entire spiritual realm of man are such matchless devotion to and such fathomless love for God to be found. It is a book that will fill your eyes with tears and wring devotion out of your heart-no matter how stony it may be. It is an infallible devotion-injector and an irresistible magnet, powerful enough to convert any hardened atheist.

What spiritual ingredients did the Nayanars use to reach the Abode of God so quickly? They were pure devotion, innocent child-like love, firm faith, persistency and a granite will to overcome whatever obstacles God placed in their path to test their sincerity.

Apart from the biographies of the Sixty-three Nayanar Saints, this book contains an authoritative article on the Saiva Siddhanta Philosophy, the life of Saint Manickavachagar, selections from the utterances of Nayanar saints, and articles on Glory of Lord Siva, and Puja and Ishta Devata, all by Swami Sivananda, and evaluation of the Nayanar's Message for us by Swami Venkatesananda.

May we all tread the path of devotion shown by the Nayanar saints and attain the Goal of life in this very birth!---THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY

Contents

1. Sundaramurthi Nayanar 21
2. Tiru Neelakantha Nayanar 40
3. Iyarpahai Nayanar 43
4. Ilayankudi Mara Nayanar 46
5. Maiporul Nayanar 48
6. Viralminda Nayanar 51
7. Amaraneedi Nayanar 53
8. Eripatha Nayanar 56
9. Enadinatha Nayanar 59
10. Kannappa Nayanar 62
11. Kungiliya Kalaya Nayanar 66
12. Manakanchara Nayanar 69
13. Arivattaya Nayanar 71
14. Anaya Nayanar 73
15. Murthi Nayanar 75
16. Muruga Nayanar 77
17. Rudra Pasupathi Nayanar 78
18. Tiru Nalai Povar Nayanar 79
19. Tiru Kurippu Thonda Nayanar 81
20. Chandesvara Nayanar 83
21. Tirunavulkkarasar Nayanar 86
22. Kulacchiral Nayanar 97
23. Perumizhalai Kurumba Nayanar 98
24. Karaikal Ammaiyar 99
25. Appudi Nayanar 101
26. Tiruneelanakka Nayanar 104
27. Nami Nandi Adigal 106
28. Tiru Jnana Sambandar 108
29. Eyarkon Kalikama Nayanar 123
30. Tiru Mula Nayanar 124
31. Dandi Adigal Nayanar 126
32. Murkha Nayanar 128
33. Somasira Nayanar 129
34. Sakkiya Nayanar 130
35. Sirappuli Nayanar 131
36. Siruthonda Nayanar 132
37. Cheraman Perumal Nayanar 135
38. Gananatha Nayanar 139
39. Kootruva Nayanar 140
40. Pugal Chola Nayanar 141
41. Narasinga Muniyaraiyar 142
42. Adipattha Nayanar 143
43. Kalikamba Nayanar 144
44. Kalia Nayanar 145
45. Satti Nayanar 146
46. Aiyadigal Kadavarkon Nayanar 147
47. Kanampulla Nayanar 148
48. Kari Nayanar 149
49. Ninra Seer Nedumara Nayanar 150
50. Mangayarkarasiyar 150
51. Vayilar Nayanar 151
52. Munaiyaduvar Nayanar 152
53. Kazharsinga Nayanar 153
54. Seruthunai Nayanar 153
55. Idangazhi Nayanar 154
56. Pugazh Tunai Nayanar 155
57. Kotpuli Nayanar 156
58. Pusalar Nayanar 157
59. Nesa Nayanar 159
60. Kochengat Chola Nayanar 160
61. Tiru Neelakantha Yazhpanar 162
62. Sadaya Nayanar 163
63. Isaijnaniyar 163
Manickavachagar 164
Selections from the Utterances of Nayanar Saints 174
Glory of Lord Siva 178
The Siva Lingam 182
Puja and Ishta Devata 184
Glossary 190

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