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

Namaste!

Svarnakesa
by Sri Swami Sivananda

ONCE UPON a time there lived a Mahatma in a beautiful valley of the Himalayas. He had a small cottage made of grass on the banks of the river Bhagirathi. He was content with what he got by chance and was leading a very happy life, spending his time in divine contemplation.

It so happened that one fine morning the thought entered his mind that he should leave his Himalayan solitude and enter the plains and lead a mendicant’s life, wandering from place to place.

So he entered the plains. People were struck by his magnetic spiritual aura. He impressed them by his actions, speech and advice. His charming personality attracted all. He had grown a beautiful beard and had flowing hair, the colour of gold. On account of this he came to be known as Svarnakesa.

As Swami Svarnakesa wended his way through the plains he impressed one and all by his personality. One day he was passing through a village. A lady approached him in tears with a child in her arms. She narrated her awful tale of how six of her children had died one after another. She appealed to the Mahatma to save her seventh child who was seriously suffering from high fever.

Swami Svarnakesa felt pity for the woman and consoled her. He then pulled out one of the hairs from his head and said, "O venerable lady! Take this hair. Preserve it carefully and your child will be all right."

The lady took leave of the Mahatma in great joy. By God’s Grace the child soon recovered. The news spread everywhere. The Mahatma became very popular. The citizens of the towns and villages all around came to know that there was a Mahatma who could cure the diseases of children by his magical hair. The news spread like wild fire.

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

• Swami Krishnananda in Conversation - 18: He, the All Pervasive

 

Yours in the service of Gurudev,

Pannirselvam

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

A Trip To Sacred Kailas - Mansarowar
by Sri Swami Sivananda

We are immensely happy to offer to our readers the second edition of ‘A Trip to Sacred Kailas-Mansarowar’ by Worshipful Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj.

Sri Gurudev had undertaken a trip to this world’s most sacred mountain in June 1931 and had penned his experiences in the form of a travelogue. According to Sri Gurudev, it is not just a physical journey, but an inner journey for mind and soul as well to scale the supreme heights of Divine Peace.

This spiritual travelogue, first published in 1932, serves as a complete guidebook for Kailas-Mansarowar Yatra which not only provides detailed and picturesque description of rivers, waterfalls, ascents, descents, halting places etc. of Yatra but also highlights the spiritual significance of important places.

We do hope that reading of this unique book will make the readers experience the blessedness of undertaking a Trip to Sacred Kailas-Mansarowar.

For more information, please see: A Trip To Sacred Kailas - Mansarowar

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THE MASTER’S SIMPLICITY: Early in 1938, Sri N. P. Kaliandasani, a hypnotist from Kalyan, read an article wherein the Master had mentioned that to bake roti on coal kept on the palm was only a kind of trick. Wanting to learn the art from the Master, Kaliandasani went to Rishikesh in August, 1939.

The hypnotist related his experience later on, “The Swamiji did not know me at all. As soon as I entered his room and bowed before him, he himself placed his hand on my foot. At this I flinched as to how the great saint repaid our greeting, and I really forgot the object of my going there. The current of his eyes compelled me to think high in life. My tongue at last said to him that I had come to have the Guru Mantra from him.”

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“A Yogi is not one who shows some miraculous feats. A Siddha or Mahatma is not to be tested merely by the wearing of a loin-cloth, or by living in icy regions, or by eating neem leaves, or by living on air and water only. The real test of a Mahatma lies in the peace that he radiates, the joy and bliss that he imparts to those around him. The good that he does for humanity, the peace and bliss that he himself enjoys, absence of anger, lust, greed and desire for name and fame, equanimity in success and failure, cheerfulness, unalloyed bliss, absence of cares, worries and anxieties—know a true Mahatma by such sterling qualities.” – Swami Sivananda

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