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Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!

Namaste!

Your Highest Good!
by Sri Swami Chidananda

Let not passing events merely happen and pass away without leaving something of value to you. All experiences occur to teach some lesson to human beings; they are meant to remind the human individual of something.

Passing events, by the very fact that they are passing, may not have any intrinsic value, even though they can have a very great importance and value at the time. The 2nd of October, Gandhi Jayanti, has a great importance each year on that date. The rest of the year no one thinks of it. So it is with most occasions.

People are born and people die. Those who are born have to die. This is a great truth. But we should ask what is born and what dies? And what is it that is unborn and therefore never dies? Our thoughts should go to both.

What is born is subject to janma, mrityu, jara, vyadhi (birth, death, old age, disease). The human being is born, grows, becomes subject to change, afflicted with disease, gradually declines and then dissolves. All these changes are demonstrated in the body. But the very fact that we speak of change means that we speak of change with reference to something that is changeless. Otherwise, how do we know that it changes?

It is with reference to something changeless that we speak of the changeful nature of other things that are not like it. A candle lightens a darkened room. An electric bulb lightens it still more. A battery of tube lights can make the room as bright as day. But all this is in reference to the original state of darkness. The differing degrees of brightness of light are with reference to the one condition that is always there which is darkness. It is with reference to the ever-prevailing darkness that light takes on a new and distinctive meaning.

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Yours in the service of Gurudev,

Pannirselvam

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

Seek The Beyond
by Sri Swami Chidananda

For over 50 years, Swami Chidananda, the spiritual successor of the legendary founder of The Divine Life Society, His Holiness Swami Sivananda, travelled throughout India and abroad urging his listeners to live the divine life and to seek the Beyond. That this is possible has been fully demonstrated in Swamiji’s own life. Swamiji at once expresses a deep stillness arising from a continuous abidance in the Beyond and at the same time demonstrates the divine life through his love and service of the Divine in all of creation.

In this unique book, containing a selection of early morning mediation talks given in the sacred Samadhi Hall at Sivananda Ashram, Swami Chidananda, from his own deep realisation and understanding, guides us in our journey towards the Beyond. Swamiji teaches that liberation is here and now, but we must choose to live in the Divine and refuse to be lost in worldly desires and pursuits.

Sanskrit language words have been put in italics. Normally their meaning can be understood by the context or their English equivalent which follows within commas or parenthesis. Otherwise, their meaning can be found in the comprehensive Glossary. Most of the photos included with the text were taken as Swamiji gave his early morning talks in the Samadhi Hall during the years 2003 and 2004.

For more information, please see: Seek The Beyond

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BE MODERATE: S. was leaving for Calcutta. The Master gave him a “farewell party” in his cottage.

“I like synthesis,” the Master said, “so I requested Purushottham Swamiji to prepare some vegetable curries. To this I added some fruit, biscuits and coffee. It is neither food nor light refreshment, but both. When all is said and done coffee and tea have their own merits. Without coffee where is the world? It is coffee, tea and other drinks that make the world appear very real.

“For those who work, who do either physical or mental work, coffee or tea is a help. They may not have much nutritional value, but they do produce some stimulating effect and keep us active.

“Why then do we say that they are not good for us? Because man easily falls a prey to the habit of drinking tea or coffee, and because the stimulating effect of these drinks makes him go to extremes.

“You should guard yourself against these. Never say that you cannot do without coffee, and that you get sick or suffer from a headache without it. And never indulge too much in these habits.

“Not only tea and coffee, but even certain dishes like chutney should not be indulged in too much. A little of salt, a little of chutney, a little of tamarind—all these are good. A good pungent chutney may be a very suitable appetiser and cure for dyspepsia if you take it occasionally in very small quantity. It requires a tremendous will to take them and yet take them moderately. It requires a strong will to be able to give them up instantly. You should develop this kind of will through abstaining occasionally from these articles and by taking them moderately.”

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“Trust in God and do the right. What else can I tell you? The right is that which leads to the Supreme Absolute, and you have to apply your conscience to decide what it is that contributes to the movement towards the Absolute. For that, you must have practically a cosmic vision of things. Every minute you must think like the universe; then only you can know what is right and what is wrong. If you think like an individual coming from one place or another place, then you cannot decide what is good and bad. If everything is connected to everything else, the judgment on the rightness or the wrongness of things is not easy to decide by an abrupt thinking from the individual point of view. What the individual isolatedly thinks cannot be right; what the universe thinks, that is right. So if your mind can coordinate itself with the universal thought, at that time what you think is right. Only the universe is right, and whoever is identified with that universe also is right. Any simple Tom, Dick and Harry should not say anything. It is better they keep quiet. ” – Sri Swami Krishnananda

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