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. A-dded 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.
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Preface | vii | |
Philosophy of Bhakti | 3 | |
The Doctrine of Grace | 9 | |
The Divine Name | 11 | |
Prayer | 14 | |
Faith and Aspiration | 17 | |
Four Kinds of Bhaktas | 19 | |
Nava-Vidha Bhakti | 20 | |
Nava-Vidha Bhakti According to Ramacharitamanas | ||
of Goswami Tulsidasji | 37 | |
Bhava and Rasa in Bhakti | 37 | |
Five Kinds of Bhavas | 42 | |
Self-surrender | 52 | |
Para Bhakti | 55 | |
Siva Bhakti Sutras | 57 | |
Puja or Worship | 57 | |
Anushthana | 60 | |
Eleven Points for Development of Bhakti | 65 | |
Bhakti Yoga Alphabets | 69 | |
To Pseudo Para-Bhaktas | 70 | |
Nama-Aparadha | 73 | |
Bhakti Marga | 75 | |
Bhava in Bhakti | 78 | |
Navavidha Bhakti | 82 | |
Feeling of Separation | 87 | |
Prayer to Lord Krishna | 89 | |
Prayer to Lord Hari | 93 | |
Para Bhakti | 104 | |
Ninda Stuti | 106 | |
Rambles in Bhakti | 115 | |
Sankirtan Purifies and Nourishes | 117 | |
Divya Nama Kirtan | 124 | |
Kirtan in Bengal | 128 | |
Kirtan in Maharashtra | 137 | |
Ardha Vasa | 138 | |
Latvian Sankirtan | 139 | |
Kirtan at Ananda Kutir | 140 | |
Maharashtra Kirtan Dhwanis | 142 | |
Selected Kirtan Dhwanis | 143 | |
Eka Sloki Ramayana | 145 | |
Eka Sloki Bhagavata | 148 | |
Hari, Rama, Krishna | 149 | |
Radha, the Personification of Bhakti | 149 | |
Song of Navavidha Bhakti | 152 | |
Song of Immanence of Ram | 154 | |
A Conversation Between a Theist and an Atheist | 155 | |
Bhakti Yoga-I | 171 | |
Bhakti Yoga-II | 171 | |
What is Bhakti? | 172 | |
Navavidha-Bhakti | 173 | |
Ten Bhakti Commandments | 174 | |
Rules for Japa | 175 | |
Yoga of Self-surrender-I | 177 | |
Yoga of Self-surrender-II | 178 | |
Harvest of God-realisation | 181 | |
Siva's Kirtan | 181 | |
Devi Kirtan | 183 | |
Hari Kirtan Dhvanis | 189 | |
Narayana-Sadasiva Kirtan | 189 |
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