Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!

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Where is Our Location?
by Sri Swami Krishnananda

This is the blessed day of the advent of worshipful Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, whom we remember and worship. Magnanimous and superb in his personality, Sri Gurudev strode this Earth as a veritable colossus of spirit, awakening mankind to the consciousness of the higher values of life. Without physically moving out of this country he actually stirred the minds of everyone into an awareness of something above the visible phenomena of life. When Sri Gurudev came to this world, the materialistic values of life were tending to gain an upper hand. There was an industrial revolution and a progress of the sciences, technologies, and arts that moved in the direction of greater and greater facility and comfort, so human existence was in, as it may be philosophically called, an outwardly motivated movement of consciousness.

But where does the truth of life lie? Is it outwardly present before our eyes, or is it inside us? This question, which places values which are of a permanent nature as either outside us or inside us, does not seem to have been answered properly, and even today we are trying to discover the location of the higher values of life. Are they outside us, or are they inside us? If the inside is not outside, that would mean that the outside is not inside. Therefore, we would be creating a parochial circumstance of the location of the values of life if any one of us regards the most worthwhile values of life as physical existences located somewhere as a part of physical phenomena outside, or perhaps a content of psychological phenomena within us.

Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj brought about a revolution, I should say, or a transvaluation of values to place the values of life in their proper context. Wherever we are, there the values also are. We cannot be somewhere and our values be somewhere else. It is like a wealthy man staying somewhere and keeping his wealth somewhere else, over which he has no control or any say whatsoever, or it is something like keeping our life on the top of a tree and ourselves living somewhere else on another tree. The values of life are inseparable from our own existence. How can we say that our existence is outside us or inside us? Where are you sitting? Are you sitting outside yourself? Are you sitting inside yourself? You will be wondering what sort of question this is. How can you be outside yourself? How can you be inside yourself? Then where are you? This is a deep question which everyone has to answer from within one’s own self. A question of this kind was raised by the intelligent lad Nachiketas before the god of death, Yama. A question of this kind was raised, and it was not considered proper by Yama to abruptly give an answer to this question. “What happens to the soul?” was the question. It is another way of asking, “Where are you sitting? Where are you?”

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September 8th is the 132^nd Birthday Anniversary of Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj.

Yours in the service of Gurudev,

Pannirselvam

BOOK SYNOPSIS

The Mighty Godman of Our Age
By Swami Krishnananda

This book is a compilation of eighteen discourses on Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj that Swami Krishnananda gave over the years. Swamiji discusses the circumstances that necessitated the incarnation of Sri Gurudev on Earth at that period in history and the spiritual renaissance that arose at the beginning of the twentieth century. Swamiji also talks about Gurudev’s early days in Rishikesh and his austere tapas, various aspects of Gurudev’s nature, his mission in the world, and the founding and purpose of The Divide Life Society.

When Swami Krishnananda speaks about Sri Gurudev, it is from direct experience as a disciple who lived closely with the holy Master for decades, and along with this personal viewpoint Swamiji brings everything to Universality in a totality of vision.

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"Sri Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj came like a single power, lived a life of aloneness, and went alone, as a pervading meteor that shot through the sky, as it were, inundating the world with a radiance that the world has rarely seen. We say he was a spiritual force, casually knowing the literal meaning of this word but not knowing what it actually implies. The world is not aware of the meaning of the words ‘spirit’ and ‘spirituality’; it knows only the surface skin of their meaning. If the in-depth profundity of this significance had actually entered the feelings of people, the world would not be what it is today with tension and anxiety". – Swami Krishnananda

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