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THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY SWAMI SIVANANDAJI MAHARAJ
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Sri Swami Sivananda has always labored in a Divine Way, on a grand scale, for the spread of the Wisdom of spiritual India, & for the dissemination of practical knowledge on Mind & its total control & conquest. So great has contribution to the world’s spiritual literature, human happiness & enlightenment, & so high is his spiritual Eminence that he has been justly esteemed as at once a Patanjali, a Vyasa, a Yajnavalkya, a Sankara, an all-compassionate Saint & a dynamic integral Yogi. This book presents a number of most helpful hints on the Nature of mind, & many methods for the successful conquest of mind. By aspirants, devotees, seekers after Truth, psychologists, & others who are seeking peace of mind & happiness in life, this work will be found highly useful. WESTERN PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND EASTERN BRAHMAVIDYA :- Psycho-analysis is a very important subject. You will find the principles of psycho-analysis in Indian philosophical systema, too. You know that the real origin of all diseases is in the mind. From the mind the disease is communicated to the physical body. There is, therefore, not much use merely treating the physical ailment; you must go to the very root, to the mind, find out the mental ills & eradicate them there. Then you can enjoy good health. This is the burden of Ayurveda also, where it is termed as Adhivyadhi. The same thing has been said by Hahnemann also. Various impure Vasanas in the mind cause various poisons in the system which produce diseases. Nowadays all the Allopathic doctors are advised to take up a study of psycho-analysis. Then only can they understand the origin of the disease. Psycho-analysis should be introduced even in Schools & Colleges. The Teachers & Professors should all have a thorough knowledge of this science. There is something beyond the mind too. That is e Self, Consciousness. Psycho-analysis should be combined with Raja Yoga. We must not only have a thorough knowledge of the Western science of psycho analysis, but combine with it Raja Yoga & spirituality also. Psycho-analysts should have a perfect knowledge of Patanjali’s Raja Yoga, & the Yoga Vasishtha also. They will be able to understand the working of the mind better. Then will be able to do more service to the world.
Sri Swami Sivananda has always laboured in a Divine Way, on a grand scale, for the spread of the Wisdom of spiritual India, for the dissemination of practical knowledge on mind & its total con-trol & conquest. So great his contribution to the world's spiritual literature, human happiness & enli-ghtenment, & so high is his spiritual Eminence that he has been justly esteemed as at once a Pata-njali, a Vyasa, a Yajnavalkya, a Sankara, an all-compassionte Saint & a dynamic integral Yogi. This book presents a number of most helpful hints on the Nature of Mind, & many methods for the successful conquest of mind. By aspirants, devotees, seekers after Truth, psychologists, & othe-rs who are seeking peace of mind & happiness in life, this work will be found highly useful
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SWAMI CHIDANANDA:- AN APOSTLE PEACE & EMBODIMENT OF QUINTESSNCE INDIA’S SPRITUAL & CULTURAL HERITAGE Revered Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji’s worthy spiritual successor had been referred to as follows, “If one wants to see boldness “of spirit behind a slender appearance, irreversible command of heart behind a benign face, unwavering peace of mind behind dynamism of action, impersonal detachment behind personal love & care—all at once in a single person, one cannot do better than meet Swami Chidananda.” Born on 24th September, 1916, into a wealthy Brahmin family in South India, Swami Chidananda absorbed love for tradition & respect for rituals. At Loyola College, Madras (now Chenni), Swamiji had a brilliant scholastic career. The ideals & teachings of Jesus made a deep impression in his heart, & he was able to synthesize them with all that is best & noble in Hindu Culture. The two profound unfluences in Swamiji’s life were the teaching of Sri Ramakrishna & the example of his Gurudev, Sri Swami Sivananda. He joined Gurudev in 1943 & from then on the Asharm & the lofty ideals of The Divine Life Society became home & field of service for him. Swami Chidananda was born with an insatiable zeal to serve the sick & the suffering. Ever in childhood he built huts for lepers on the lawns of his home & after them as though they were deities. Swami Sivananda said about his spiritual son & beloved disciple: “Chidananda is a Jivanmukta, a great Saint, an ideal Yogi, a Para-Bhakta & a great sage. Swami Chidanada is all this & much more. He was a great Yogi Saint in his previous birth itself. His lectures are outpouring of his saintly heart, the revelations of intuitive wisdom. And he is a practical Vedantin, his words tremendous power. He is born to fulfil a great mission.” Swami Maharaj attained Mehasamadhi on August,2008.
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This present book contains thirty-four talks given in the year 1970 to students participating in special session of the yoga-Vedanta forest Academy. At the request of numerous Yoga students, especially from the west, Swami Krishnanandji Maharaj agreed to give these talks in the forms of lessons. The thirty-four lessons began on January 14 1970 and concluded on March 4, 1970. This book is Yoga manual. It is a handbook of Yoga. It contains everything that a Yoga student needs to know. Swamiji explains that Yoga, in the simplest terms, is a steady movement of individual soul toward the supreme soul. Yoga is a steady ascent to the Divine. Attunement with Reafity:- The studies that we are going to make using this particular method may be grouped into three stages: the philosophical, the psychological & the practical. I shall try to take our thoughts stage by stage from the most initial concepts & ideals, & the study will culminate in the practice of meditation—which is true yoga finally. This a very detailed technique of the development of the mind, manoeuvring through various processes which are all very, very important. We should attend to each description of the steps with attention because, as has been mentioned already, nothing can be regarded as totally unimportant. Every aspect will contribute finally to the superstructure of yoga. Which is a completeness in itself. Yoga is not merely the last stage. It is the name give to the completeness of the total picture which is present in the whole process from the beginning to the end. Conflict as an Unnatural State:- But conflict is not true & healthy state—it is an unnatural state. That which is unnatural cannot forever, because it is nature that continues, & nature is truth. That which is against untruth. Untruth dose not succeed—truth alone succeed. We may have heard the great adage, “Satyam eva jayate.” (Truth alone is victorious.) The truth of harmony tries to this establishment of truth we can come to see the expressions of conflict. Some of these conflicts are called defence mechanisms. These are certain contrivances which the mind makes use of in attempting to release itself from conflict. Some of these are the attempts of the mind to utilize other persons & the objects of the world as instruments in bringing about a release of conflict. When there is no peace within us, we often try to forget the fact of having outer phenomena. We then engage ourselves in hectic activity & try to forget the boredom of life. Yoga is Balance:- The phenomenon of sleep is not easy to study, because we have no consciousness in sleep. Nobody can know what is happening then, because there is no one consciously there to know what is happening. This has been a difficulty, due to which many psychologists have left out of consideration this subliminal aspect of our lives. Most of the psychologists have been busy with the study of waking life & waking phenomena. what generally goes by the name of “psychology” is only a study of waking phenomena, but human nature is not exhausted by waking experiences. We have many other things within us which are not entirely comprehended in our wakeful life. As we noticed previously in our study there is a difficulty in our waking life on account of which we are not able to know things properly. How We Perceive:- We are in a thoroughgoing misapprehension about ourselves in all our dealings with life. We start with errors & therefore we end with errors. The whole of our lives in this world has been a contradiction & a confusion, a kind of march towards an apparently unrealized destination, because of an erroneous notion that we have our own selves. We think we are something, and then we start acting based on this hypothesis. We are not this misapprehension—we are something else. The fact that we regard ourselves as different from what we really are is enough explanation for all our troubles in life. There is no need to go further into the details of our progress. Here is the answer to our question. We have started with the wrong premise & end therefore in a mess. God World & Soul:- In order to understand the meaning of adhidaiva, we had to go into an analysis of perception. We noticed that the perceptional process implies more than what seems to be on the surface. There is a need for a conscious connecting link between the seer & the seen, without which we can have no knowledge of the world outside. It is not the light rays, the retina of the eyes, the senses or the mind that are ultimately responsible for the phenomenon of perception. All these may be there, but if something else is not there, we will not know anything. A corpse has all the features of a human being, but one essential thing is not there, & therefore it is unable to perceive anything.
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The present voume entitled 'Inspiring Stories' forms a veryvaluable book of guidance upon right c-onduct, philosophic thinkinh human psychology & spiritual life in general. As such, it will be an invaluable addition to the personal library of students eager to know more about the secrets of life on earth & life beyond. The illusion before the eyes of man is so inscrutably constructed that not even the wisest of people have found it easy to extricate themselves from its powerful clutches penetration into the very vitals of one's being. This insistence on an interesting & important factor in the leading of the truly spiritual life is to be considered the explanation for this book commencing, at the outset, with a not-much-known but awakening message through the very first story. The nature of these stories, parables & anecdotes is basically oriented from the ponit of view of a noble spiritual life.
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