Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah!
Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!

Namaste!

Yoga Sadhana
by Sri Swami Sivananda

OM! Salutations to that adorable Hari, than whom there is nothing greater, and who is above all this universe!

Why should you prolong your bondage unnecessarily? Why should you not attain your divine birthright now? Why should you not break your bondage now? Delay means prolongation of your sufferings. You can break it at any moment. This is in your power. Do it now. Stand up. Gird up your loins. Do rigorous and vigorous Sadhana and attain freedom, which is immortality or eternal bliss.

The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavour to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.

Without renunciation you can never be happy. Without renunciation you can never be successful in gaining the highest good, i.e. Moksha. Without renunciation you can never be at your ease. Therefore renounce everything. Make happiness your own. Hold renunciation as the foremost of things. Become a good man first. Then control the senses. Then subdue the lower mind by the higher mind. Then the divine light will descend. Only then vessel will be able to receive and hold the divine light.

So long as your senses are not subdued or weakened, you will have to practise Tapas or self-restraint, Dama or Pratyahara. You may conquer millions of persons in a battle, but you will become the greatest conqueror only if you can conquer your own lower self or mind.

Build your spiritual life on a sure foundation, on the rock of the divine grace and strength of character. Take refuge in the Lord and His eternal Law. There is no power in heaven or in earth that can bar your path now. Success in Self-realisation is certain. Failure exists not for you. There is light on your path. All is brilliant.

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The following article by Sri Swami Krishnanandaji has been posted at Sri Swamiji's site:

• Sessions with Ashram Residents - 26: Meditating on the Expansion of Consciousness
• Isavasya Upanishad for Beginners - Verse 8
• Are there Many Krishnas?

 

Yours in the service of Gurudev,

Pannirselvam

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

The Glorious Immortal Atman
By Swami Sivananda

The keen and wholehearted interest that Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj has taken in the moulding of the young, from the very early days of his spiritual ministry, is well known. During the days of his propaganda tours, he used to give preference to schools and colleges for lecturing and for demonstration of Yoga exercises, etc.

During his epochal All India Tour, Sri Swamiji visited every University in India and addressed the students. A single incident reveals his heart. He was addressing the students of the Andhra University at Waltair; someone reminded him that a huge crowd was awaiting his arrival at the Town Hall for a considerable time and that he ought to go there. "Let them wait. These students are more important to me; and I must serve them to my satisfaction," he said.

He and he alone has given practical shape to the universal belief that the youth is the hope of the nation and that the students are the leaders and rulers of tomorrow. He declares "The spiritual seed must be sown while people are young."

For more information, please see: The Glorious Immortal Atman

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Ram—Swamiji, where does God live? What can he do? What does God know? What does God eat?

Sivananda—Tell me Ram, where does God not live? What can God not do? What does God not know? Listen Ram, God lives in every place. He can do all things. He knows everything. He eats the Ego or Ahamkar of persons.

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