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Chapter 54: Hearty Send Off From Bombay And Warm Reception At The Durban Sivananda Ashram

Sivanandashram Letter No. LIII

 

 

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Worshipful Immortal Atman!
Blessed Seeker after Truth!

Om Namo Narayanaya! Salutations in the name of Gurudev and my greetings and good wishes to one and all of you.

This letter is being mailed to Rishikesh from the Sivanandashram at Durban, (South Africa). I despatch this with a special pleasure and eagerness. Because, I am now out of India and this letter provides me a valuable means of speaking my thoughts to you all, even though separated by thousands of miles from you, and a far distance away physically. I thank Gurudev for this facility provided through this medium.

This present letter I have commenced on board the ship “CAMBODGE”, on which I travelled from Bombay to South Africa. Since departure from the Bombay Harbour on Thursday the 2nd May, the voyage has been smooth on a calm sea under a clear sky and in bright sunny weather. The atmosphere being restful, the body has had an opportunity to relax and get a little rest without pressure of any programmes and engagements.

Prior to embarking on the voyage, the last two weeks in India were very busy ones; 24th of April was the busiest date at the Ashram. There were many leave-taking programmes including a special Satsanga in the forenoon in front of Gurudev’s sacred Samadhisthana immediately after conclusion of Paduka Puja, offered to Gurudev. During that Satsanga I had the privilege of making revered and beloved Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj occupy my seat and declaring to the assembled gathering that they should all regard him as the Head of the Institution and that they would receive from him the same Bhava and the Seva as I have been trying to manifest towards them all. Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj also addressed the audience and gave them a brief account of the circumstances that have led to my undertaking this present visit to South Africa and what it meant in terms of Sri Gurudev’s Spiritual Mission and His Institution, the Divine Life Society. During this talk he touched upon the unique work of the South African Divine Life Society and the excellent progress it had made since its inception in 1951 and revered Sri Swami Sahajanandaji Maharaj, who now guides the work from the Headquarters of Durban.

Taking leave of all Gurubandhus at the Ashram on 24th April, I arrived at Delhi the next morning for a full day’s programme before leaving for Hyderabad the same night. The Delhi programme included a devout worship offered to Gurudev’s Paduka (as it was Thursday) by Sri C. R. Sud and all his family at their residence, “DIVYA DHAM” at Bengali Market. The Swami Sivananda Cultural Association had arranged a send-off function at the nice auditorium of Pubjab National Bank on Parliament Street. At Hyderabad I had a full day programme with a similar send-off function in the evening, organised on behalf of all the Divine Life Society branches of Andhra Pradesh. Many delegates had come from the different DLS. Centres including delegates from two Centres outside Andhra Pradesh, namely from Khurda Road and Bellary. The Kovvur Divine Life Society Branch had prepared a special address for the occasion in addition to the address prepared by the Hyderabad Divine Life Society.

Bombay Divine Life Society branches arranged a number of programmes on the last two days I was in India, i.e. 30th April and last of May. Here also there was one main send-off function arranged on the forenoon of the 1st May at the Kannada Educational Society High School at Wadala. I wish to express here my deepest gratitude for the immense good-will and affection which these Gurubandhus have showered upon me on the eve of my departure.

Just before coming to Bombay for the abovementioned programmes I had the unique privilege of visiting His Holiness Sri Swami Muktanandaji Maharaj, at his “Sri Gurudev Ashram”, Ganeshpuri, and spending 3 days in his holy company. He is a well-known spiritual leader and disciple of the great Siddhapurusha, the worshipful Sri Nityanand Bhagavan. This visit is a fulfillment of a promise, made to the most revered Sri Muktananda Babaji Maharaj, when this servant had the joyous privilege of meeting him last time in February at Delhi. It proved to be a rewarding spiritual retreat, when I had the opportunity of visiting the sacred Samadhisthana of Nityananda Bhagavan as also of partaking of the Satsanga of revered Swami Muktanandaji Maharaj. The Ashram is beautifully kept up and very systematically conducted under the personal directions of revered Swami Muktanandaji Maharaj. The are many cottages, a fine Guest House and spacious Satsanga Hall called Turiya Mandir. Daily programme is very punctually carried out in an organised manner. Hari Nam Sankirtan, Gita-Patha and Vishnusahasranama-Patha are daily done by all Satsangas. Sri Swami Maharaj is generous-hearted and very charitable in nature. The beautiful garden gives joy to the eyes. Swamiji is an excellent organiser. Diamond Jubilee Anniversary of his Birthday was approaching at that time and those at the Ashram and all his devotees were busy in preparing for this important and special event. After taking the saint’s blessings, I came to Bombay on the 29th night.

During the brief stay at Bombay I had the joy of visiting Sri Natvarlal G. Parikh, the great devotee of Sadguru Sri Swami Ramadas Maharaj (beloved Papaji) of Ananda Ashram. Sri Swami Ramadas Maharaj had graced Sri Natvarlalji’s residence upon various occasions by staying with him while visiting Bombay. Sri Natvarlal Parikh has preserved with great reverence the chair, upon which Pujay Papaji used to sit, while staying with him. He also played for us the tape-recordings of the chanting of the holy Ram Mantra by Pujya Papaji himself as well as Pujya Mataji and other devotees.

The departure day, 2nd May, was especially auspicious and holy as it was both a Thursday as well as the holy Anniversary of Jagadguru Adi Sankaracharya’s sacred Birthday or the Sankara Jayanti. Therefore, at the Harbour before going on board the vessel I was prompted to observe this holy Anniversary. Accordingly, we put up Gurudev’s sacred Padukas upon a seat and with Swami Devanandaji’s help duly conducted at the harbour itself Guru Paduka Puja with Archana, Arati etc. The holy Prasad was then distributed to all those who were present. Invoking the grace of Sri Dattatreya Bhagavan, of Adi Shankara Bhagavat Pada and of Sri Gurudev upon all the devotees present, I prayed to the Lord to confer upon everyone long life, health, spiritual progress, illumination and supreme spiritual blessedness. The Embarkation Hall resounded with the loud Sankirtan of the Lord’s Name and the holy Chant of Maha Mantra and Maha-Mrityunjaya Mantra. After going on board the ship, we had a period of meditation and silent prayer in the specious lounge until all visitors were requested to leave. They all then got down from the ship and stood in a group on the pier and commenced to sing the Names of the Lord until the ship started to move away from the harbour soon after midday.

A number of devotees had travelled all the way to Bombay to participate in the farewell programmes and to give this servant a personal send-off at the harbour on the sailing day. The were Mr. & Mrs. Sud, Mr. & Mrs. A.D. Sharma, Sri K. M. Massand and Sri A. Sundaramji from Delhi, Sri U. V. Swadia from Baroda, Sri Sreyas Kumar Shah sent by his father Sri Suryakant B. Shah on behalf of Ahmedabad D.L.S., Sri Dr. Sivananda-Adhwaryooji Maharaj from Virnagar, Gujarat Divine Life Centre, and Sri Pranalalbhai Maharaj and his entire family from Rajkot. From Hyderabad D.L.S. Sri T. Venugopala Reddyji had come similarly to give personal send-off, from Poona N.V. Viswanathan (the brother of Sri N.V. Karthikeyanji of Hq.) had come with his revered mother. I wish to say how very much I appreciate this very kind gesture on the part of all these above-mentioned devotees, in having taken so much trouble in order to be graciously present to see me off. My many thanks also to the various kind devotees, who presented me with gifts of personal utility on the eve of my departure. Among them I must mention Sri Atmaram Nagarkarji Maharaj of Poona (father of Sri D. Nagarkarji of Sivanandashram) who had sent a Thermos Flask and a set of stainless steel vessels for my daily use specially monogrammed with my name in Hindi. I am grateful to him for his thoughtfulness and to others too, who gave their kind presents

In this connection I should not fail to mention the excellent gifts of free literature printed and presented to me by certain good friends for free distribution during this tour. The literature lovingly offered is firstly by Mr. Manchandani of Nilam Printing Press, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi and Sri M.M. Massand, D.L.S. Lody Colony with the help of Sri A.D. Sharmaji, 74 Rabindra Nagar, New Delhi, 1000 copies of the booklet ‘Key to World-Peace and Happiness’ containing teachings from the main great Religions of the World, compiled by Gurudev Swami Sivananda (culled from a former similar booklet printed by Sri Gamadas of Sri Vidya Press, Kumbakonam, Madras State under the title “Unity of Religions”), the Universal Prayer with border, 20,000 copies of book marks, Divine Life for Children and art cards containing spiritual teachings on one side and the prayer on the other. Secondly, by Dr. Sivananda-Adhwaryoo big sized framable copies of Universal Prayer in Gujarati version and English version separately, with beautiful border and the Divine Life motto Serve, Love, etc. 1000 copies. Thirdly by Sri Raviraj Bhalla of Janta Press, Connaught Place, New Delhi similar framable Universal Prayer on large sized card and some small sized cards containing an inspiring paragraph of spiritual sentences. I am very specially grateful to the gracious persons responsible for the above-mentioned gifts. God bless them. Besides these, the Ashram press has also kindly contributed its item to this free literature in the form of an art card with a spiritual message on one side and the Universal Prayer on the other. Sri Swami Dayanandaji and Sri Narasimhuluji of the Y. V. F. A. Press were kind enough to expedite this work and get it ready in time before the departure date.

While writing this on board the ship, it is 4 p.m. and the sea is clam and there is a brilliant sunshine outside. Letters from South Africa to India seem to take about 8 days in reaching Rishikesh even when sent by Air Mail. Thus, this is likely to reach Sivanandashram in the later part of May for being sent to press with the Divine Life matter for its current June issue.

At this point, in the middle of the present year 1968, I would wish to urge you all once again to remember two important Yajnas being undertaken by Sivanandashram. These have been announced earlier in the Jan. and Feb. ’68 issues of this journal to which I draw your attention again now. They are (a) Jnana Yajna Project and the (b) Maha-Mantra-Koti-Likhit Japa Yajna. The former will be found in the outer cover of the January issue. It is a special Yajna instituted last year (September 1967) under the auspices of the 80th Birthday Anniversary of Sadgurudev. The reprint of 5000 copies each of the two important books “Practice of Yoga” and “Conquest of Mind” is the objective. These two are invaluable major works of Sri Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj of inestimable value to all the Sadhakas on the path of Yoga. The latter Yajna, namely, the Maha-Mantra-Koti-Likhit Japa Yajna is under the holy auspices of the Akhanda Maha Mantra Kirtan that has been going on since 1943 December. The writing of 3½ crore times Maha-mantra is the Yajna and its purpose is universal welfare, peace and progress of mankind towards a life of Dharma, unity and spiritual fellowship. Wonderful response from numerous quarters has been forthcoming towards this Likhit Japa Yajna. I would suggest that all devotees throughout India and abroad should join together and contribute and construct a special room to be termed Divya-Nama-Mandir wherein all the holy Likhit Japa received will be carefully preserved and reverently worshipped as Chaitanya Shakti of Satchidananda Parabrahman. I have not thought of the details of the design but this idea to befittingly enshrine the sacred Name has occurred to my mind and this I have placed before you for your active consideration and early action. Big contributions are not necessary. If a great number of people take part in this work even a small contribution of 50 paisas per person or one rupee per head will enable the construction of a suitable Nama Mandir. If the campaign is not extended to a great number of people but if it is confined to a limited number only then there arises the need for comparatively bigger contributions. However that be, it would be in the fitness of things if this construction is completed as early as possible, to be declared open on the auspices of this sacred Silver Jubilee. Otherwise the Likhit Japa received from numerous quarters is likely to be placed in different places due to want of a central place. It is my earnest desire that the sincere and devout efforts of countless seekers and Sadhakas do not go in vain. That should be befittingly perpetuated in the form of permanent collection of this most sacred Nama Yajna.

To all readers I would like to mention here that our Ashram (D.L.S. Hq.) has agreed to actively coordinate with the efforts of the Tehri-Garhwal District Leprosy Relief Association in its work of reorganising the Brahmapuri Leper Colony and putting it upon a stable financial basis. We have decided to co-operate in this work upon the special request of the above association, which is facing difficulty in carrying on its work. I therefore request all those who have a special interest in helping the cause of our brothers afflicted with this disease to make special contribution towards this work. They may be sent to Sivanandashram, Rishikesh in the name of the “Divine Life Society” P.O. Shivanandanagar, Dt. Tehri-Garhwal, (U.P.), with separate covering letter to specify the purpose of this remittance. In case you send your contribution by M. O., then please do not mix up, specifically earmark for this purpose alone. List of the contributions received each month will be published in the “Divine Life” Magazine of the subsequent month. This is a noble cause and all must help.

In this connection I must certainly acknowledge with deepest gratitude the very loving contributions graciously being given by the kind-hearted mother Mrs Banoo Ruttonjee, Sri Dinshaw Paowalla, Mr. & Mrs. B.N. Kaul and a couple of others, towards relief of the lepers in the locality.

Before I conclude, I must tell you of the blessed moment when the ship drew alongside the pier at Port Natal (Durban Harbour) and I had the Darshan of the worshipful Sri Swami Sahajanandaji, Gurudev’s favourite spiritual child and spiritual representative in South Africa and all the most blessed souls assembled at the quay side to receive this servant. After going through the formalities of Immigration, Sri Swami Sahajanandaji personally came up into my cabin before I came down from the ship. We were meeting after 4 years and my joy was great. We sat for a couple of minutes of brief Satsanga offering our prayers to Sri Gurudev and to the Almighty Lord. We then went down to the assembled devotees patiently waiting since forenoon for the ship’s arrival. There was joyous exchange of greetings, feelingful welcoming and devoted offering of beautiful carnations wreathed into Malas. We then had a little Kirtan and prayer right there on the pier and were soon speeding towards the Ashram in a car brought by devotees, with all our luggage following in the Divine Life Society-van. Half an hour’s drive through the city brought us to its outskirts to the area known as the Reservoir whereupon a breeze-swept hillock stands the Sivanandashram. Down in the valley beside the Ashram flows the Umgeni river, our local Ganga here. It is wonderful to be at Sri Gurudev’s Ashram in this land 6000 miles away from Sivanandanagar. I felt like arriving at home. After sitting out for a while with devotees, who were awaiting there, I rested for a little while and proceeded to the spacious Prayer Hall for an evening Satsanga, when I conveyed to all assembled devotees the affectionate good wishes and greetings of all my Gurubandhus of Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh. Thus at last I was amidst these wonderful, devoted and dedicated children of Gurudev in this far-off land. I do not yet know what programmes await me here but you will know all about it in next month’s South African letter.

The season of Satsangs and holy Yatra had already commenced at Rishikesh and nearby even before this servant had left Gurudev’s abode. Now they must be in full swing in all the important institutions like Gita Bhavan, Paramarthaniketan, Swarg-ashram etc. This is the period when you can see the dynamic spirituality that actively fills this blessed area of the sacred Uttarakhand. Kirtans and Bhajans, prayers and spiritual practices, devotional gathering and discourses, reflection and meditation go on apace from morning till evening. Countless aspirants come from distant parts to renew themselves spiritually and to nourish their inner self with the nectar to be obtained in the blessed Satsangas that specially abound here during this period. The real inner India and the undying soul of Bharatvarsha is glimpsed here and you come face to face with a living culture that has braved many a storm and withstood the vicissitudes of time. As this letter reaches your hand many a thousands of your brethren of Bharata would be high up in the Himalayas rejoicing in the thrilling Darshan of Lord Badrinarayan and Kedarnath Shiva, in their remote shrines situated in the region of the snow-clad peaks of the Himalayas. Blessed seekers! wherever you are, may your life be rich with such Satsanga and Darshan. May your life be filled with worship, devotion and spirituality and ever be blessed with the awareness of Divine Presence. May your body mind and personality be a veritable holy Uttarakhand filled with purity, spirituality and God’s Presence. May your inner self ever be seeking to be united with Divine Reality.

With regards, Prem and Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya,

Yours in Sri Gurudev
Swami Chidananda
June, 1968

 

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  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 1: Foreword
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 1: Foreword, We are happy to present to all members of the Divine Life Societies in India and abroad as well as to spiritual seekers in general, these thoughts of Revered Sri Swami Chidanandaji that cover a variety of matters, all of which are however connected directly or indirectly with spiritual life and ethical ideals of man. These expressions of his inner feelings and thoughts were communicated from time to time to the world of seekers and spiritual aspirants, through a series of letters which Revered Swamiji wrote each month addressing the members of the Divine Life Society all over the world at energyenhancement.org
  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 2: To Awaken You Sivananda Gurudev Came
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 2: To Awaken You Sivananda Gurudev Came, Thou art Immortal Soul! Thou art Atman, ever-pure, ever-free, ever-perfect, eternal and divine! Thou art Imperishable Spirit, ever existent, conscious and blissful. Remember this always! Your main purpose and important duty is to express and radiate blessedness and pure love and be aware of your true essential nature at all times and under all circumstances. Never forget this! at energyenhancement.org
  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 3: Who Is Divine Mother Durga?
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 3: Who Is Divine Mother Durga?, When this letter reaches you, we would have just passed the solemn, auspicious and most joyous period of the sacred nine-day worship of the Divine Mother. It is now the holy period of Navaratri as I write this for your November Wisdom Light. The atmosphere is surcharged with deep devotion to Maha-Devi and vibrant with the fervour of worshipfulness, adoration and prayer at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 4: Let Virtue Rule Thy Life!
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 4: Let Virtue Rule Thy Life!, Jai Sivananda! Salutations and adorations at the Feet of the Universal Being, the one Divine Reality, whom the prophets of all religions have realised in the innermost depths of their illumined Superconsciousness. May the Light of that supreme Divinity fill our lives, on this auspicious occasion of the celebration of the Bharatavarshas national festival of lights, Dipavali, with His Divine Grace! May the choicest Blessings of God and Gurudev grant you all inner spiritual illumination at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 5: Start A New Life Now
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 5: Start A New Life Now, May the Grace of Gurudev Swami Sivananda illumine this NEW YEAR with the brightness and radiance of Hope, Aspiration, and Inspiration. God grant you all Auspiciousness, Blessedness, Prosperity and Success. I wish you Happiness, Health, Progress upon the spiritual Path, and triumph over troubles, tensions and problems of life. May this New Year herald for you many more years of joy, peace, and plenty at energyenhancement.org
  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter Chapter 6: Resolve To Follow Divine Life
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 6: Resolve To Follow Divine Life, May the abundant Grace of the ever-munificent Lord Shiva, the easily-pleased-one, shower upon you on the eve of the most blessed Mahashivaratri day. In continuation of letter number four that appeared here last month, I have now to enlarge upon the theme of spiritual RESOLUTIONS which formed the central subject of that previous letter. Mention was made therein (vide page 11) that more was to be said and it would be said now. What is the place of resolution in the path of Sadhana? at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 7: Noble Task Of True Discipleship
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 7: Noble Task Of True Discipleship, May the Sunshine of Joy, Health and Well-being illumine your life with the advent of bright Spring season with its beauty and fragrance of colourful flowers and fresh leaves upon the waking branches of wind-swayed trees. I am happy to tell you that several earnest disciples of Sri GURUDEV felt it their duty to respond to the Sivanandashram Letter No: 4 at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 8: Strive To Live Ideal Life
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 8: Strive To Live Ideal Life, This is a great and glorious month. It is verily a month full of rare blessedness and sanctity. For, this month we have the precious occasion and opportunity of offering our adorations to the grand ideal of our Nation, the supreme divine Person who stands for us all, as the greatest model of Perfection in life, nature, conduct and character, namely, the most blessed LORD RAMA. The entire Nation will celebrate the divine Jayanthi or holy Birthday anniversary of Rama upon the 20th April: Bhagwan Ramchandra Maryada-Purushottama at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 9: May The Great One Inspire You
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 9: May The Great One Inspire You, The present month is a month of powerful reminders to certain most sublime and sacred ideals that have formed vital factors in the evolution of our great countrys unique culture and view and way of life. We had occasion to note last month how the great ideals propounded and radiantly expressed through the Divine Leela of Ramavatara continued to be moving force in the stream of our nations social life and ethical consciousness at energyenhancement.org
  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 10: Make Renunciation The Basis Of Your Life And Actions
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 10: Make Renunciation The Basis Of Your Life And Actions, Greetings to you from this Holy Abode of Sri Sadguru Bhagawan Sivananda Maharaj. May this letter from this sacred Ashram find you all in good health, peace and joy. Let Guru Kripa bring into your life the Light of Discrimination, Strength of Self-Control, the Joy of Selflessness and the Loftiness of Loving Service and Spontaneous goodness or Paropakara at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 11: Enshrine Thy Guru In Thy Heart!
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 11: Enshrine Thy Guru In Thy Heart!, Your blessedness and unique good fortune in this present life is something for which you have to constantly lift up your heart in gratitude and thankfulness to God. Rare indeed is it to obtain a human birth; rarer still is to have aspiration for Moksha; and rarest of all, is the blessedness of the contact of association with an illumined saint and sage at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 12: Practice Gita Teachings
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 12: Practice Gita Teachings, Salutations to you all, from this sacred Samadhi Shrine of Sri Satgurudev. The holy name of Sivananda has filled the Ashram with its solemn sound this day as devout disciples and devotees congregated for this most auspicious Puja of the Guru. The heavens blessed the day with heavy downpour of rain. A period of serene silent meditation in the early morning attuned the hearts and minds of the earnest seekers with the holy Spiritual presence of Gurudev. Peace and calm pervaded the morning hour. After sunrise, at 8-30 A.M. the principal Puja to Gurudev through His sacred Samadhi commenced with auspicious Abhisheka, Archana with deep devotion, Alankara with profusion of flowers and garlands and Arati. Lord Gurunatheswar Siva shone radiantly with the beautiful silvered Seshanaga and Prabhavli presented by the devotees of Rasipuram. It was a glorious sight. The soft marbled beauty of the Samadhisthan was brought out more fully by the colourful floral adornments. The Divinity of Gurudev was felt in all hearts at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 13: How Best To Celebrate Sivananda-Jayanti
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 13: How Best To Celebrate Sivananda-Jayanti, Glory be to the Divine and to Gurudev, the visible expression of the Divine upon this human place. My salutation to you all, travellers upon the shining highway of Divine Life, pilgrims to the shrine of the Eternal at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 14: Ma Anand Mayee Graces Sivananda-Jayanthi-Celebrations
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 14: Ma Anand Mayee Graces Sivananda-Jayanthi-Celebrations, Salutations in the name of Gurudev Sivananda and in Divine Life. Your worshipful offering and wonderful response has enabled us here to conduct this years birthday Anniversary of Gurudev in a very befitting and satisfactory manner. I am very thankful and grateful indeed for this noble help that came from very amongst you. Last year upon this date I could not participate in the Birthday functions because the Sivananda Cultural Association of Delhi had insisted upon my presence at their function where the Foundation Stone for their Sivananda Satsang Hall was laid by H.E. Rashtrapatiji. This time however, Gurudev granted me the privilege and joy of joining the Gurubhais in this auspicious worship of our holy Master. It was grand and elevating. All gathered devotees felt blessed by this solemn, sacred annual worship at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 15: Strive To Make Life A Perennial Divali
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 15: Strive To Make Life A Perennial Divali, Salutations in the holy name of Gurudev Sivananda and in Divine Life. Let me first of all offer you my best Goodwishes and Greeting for a Bright and HAPPY DIVALI DAY. May Joy, Brightness and Auspiciousness fill your life and may Divine Mother Lakshmi smile upon you as prosperity, plenty and progress in everything you do. Happy DIVALI to you and to all in thy home and thy friends too at energyenhancement.org
  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 16: The Mystery Of The Supreme Divinity Is Revealed In Srimad Bhagwad Gita And The Bible
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 16: The Mystery Of The Supreme Divinity Is Revealed In Srimad Bhagwad Gita And The Bible, I greet you all in the name of our blessed Lord Jesus the Christ, the Great Messenger of God, who incarnated upon earth to teach men for all times, that way of life that brings you face to face with God. In the history of mankind, there has rarely been a life as holy, as pure, as divinely compassionate and sublimely truth-filled as the life of Jesus. He was the very personification of loftiest virtue at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 17: The Holy Trail Blazed By The Lives Of Saints
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 17: The Holy Trail Blazed By The Lives Of Saints, Please accept my most reverential salutations at thy holy feet and my loving greetings and good wishes for this NEW YEAR. May all health, prosperity, happiness and fulfilment be yours throughout this year and the years ahead. God grant you joy, wisdom and grace and bless you, thy home and all that are dear to you with auspiciousness and highest good at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 18: Tour In The South. Meeting With Dadaji. The Chandigarh Conference
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 18: Tour In The South. Meeting With Dadaji. The Chandigarh Conference, Om Namo Narayanaya! Salutations in the name of Gurudev Sivananda. I greet the Lord in you all and pray that the blessings of the Lord of the Universe, Bhagawan Vishwanath, may ever be upon you and fill your life with auspiciousness, joy and prosperity. I write this to you in the fond belief that the first month of this year has been for you one of peace, good health, harmony and Spiritual progress. May this month be a blessed one too. Similarly also be the months coming ahead at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 19: The Spirit Of Mahasivaratri. Tour Of Gujarat
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 19: The Spirit Of Mahasivaratri. Tour Of Gujarat, The Divine Grace of the Lord of the Universe, Jagadeeshwara Mahadev, the Vishwa Natha, shower upon you and fill your life with Light, Joy and supreme Peace of Atman! Maha-Siva-Ratri, one of the holiest of holy days in this land of ours, would have been observed from the Himalayas to Kanyakumari by the time this letter comes to you at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 20: The Birthday Of Lord Rama. Glory To His Name
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 20: The Birthday Of Lord Rama. Glory To His Name, Om Sri Ram Jaya Ram Jaya Jaya Ram! I wish you all a very, very happy and auspicious NEW YEAR. Upon this eve of the commencement of the first month of Chaitra, at the advent of spring when you are about to celebrate the festival of Yugadhi, I send you joyous greetings for this New Year and my love and good wishes for your health, happiness, prosperity, all-round progress and success. May God grant you all that is auspicious and blessed throughout this New Year at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 21: Fresh Beginnings: New Undertakings. Gurudevs Birthday Anniversary. Special Message To Sadhaks Who Attended Sadhanasaptah At Headquarters During July 1965
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 21: Fresh Beginnings: New Undertakings. Gurudevs Birthday Anniversary. Special Message To Sadhaks Who Attended Sadhanasaptah At Headquarters During July 1965, Every one of you, all over India and the world has been in my mind during the recent period of the auspicious GURU PURNIMA and the sacred PUNYATITHI of holy Masters Mahasamadhi day at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 22: Swami Chidanandas 50th Birthday Message
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 22: Swami Chidanandas 50th Birthday Message, Blessed Self! You are now called upon to manifest in life the Truth, you have received and absorbed from Gurudev, when He lived. By the Divine will of God, a time has now come, a time of trial, testing and strengthening. Life now asks you to practise and to prove that your awakened spiritual consciousness within is more than the mere physical and mental part of your being at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 23: Sow the Seeds of Love, Peace and Brotherhood
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 23: Sow the Seeds of Love, Peace and Brotherhood, Peace Be Unto All! May individuals, groups, communities, countries, hemispheres and the whole world be blessed with the grace of Peace and Love! at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 24: Pray For Others
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 24: Pray For Others, Peace be unto all. May all individuals, groups, communities, countries and the entire Universe be blessed with the Grace of Peace and Love. At this holy Ashram of Gurudev Swami Sivananda we pray every day for peace and goodwill amongst all men and nations. In this fair land may peace, goodwill and understanding prevail from the Himalayas to the distant Cape and from the eastern hills of Assam to the westernmost deserts of Sindh and Baluchistan at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 25: Cosmic LoveThe Very Basis Of Divine Life
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 25: Cosmic LoveThe Very Basis Of Divine Life, Homage unto the Divine. May the Grace of the Supreme Being be upon you all; Glory to the Lord; My humble and sincerest GOODWISHES & GREETINGS to you for Joy, Prosperity and Success during this NEW YEAR. May Happiness and Spiritual progress mark all its days and may good thoughts, sweet and kind words and noble selfless deeds of help and service unto others fill the entire year ahead. You are Divine at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 26: Propagation Of Spiritual Knowledge
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 26: Propagation Of Spiritual Knowledge, I wish to express my great thankfulness to the numerous devotees and friends in India, as well as from several countries abroad, who have remembered me with so much kindness and love, and sent their affectionate Christmas and New Years greetings, and expressed their sincere goodwill for this servant of Gurudev as well as other Ashramites. Trying though I am to acknowledge all of them individually I avail myself of this opportunity of collectively conveying my grateful thanks to all of these blessed and gracious souls at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 27: Be A Hero In The Battle Of Life
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 27: Be A Hero In The Battle Of Life, Om Namo Narayanaya! Salutations in the holy name of worshipful Master Sivananda. I send you my greetings for the joyous Holi, the festival of Spring, the bright season of flowers, when the breeze comes to you filled with the fragrance of blossoms, and the sky is radiant with a warm brightness, after the chilly dullness of cold winter. May the fresh breeze of the Lords Divine Grace waft Peace, Joy and Universal Love into your heart and lift up your life into a higher realm of spiritual vision and beauty at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 28: Proposed Pilgrimage From Himalaya To Malaya
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 28: Proposed Pilgrimage From Himalaya To Malaya, This month, through the will of the Lord and worshipful Gurudevs mysterious hand, this servant of his has to visit Malaysia. This journey is to me in the nature of a pilgrimage rather than a spiritual tour because Malaya is sacred to us as a land where Sadgurudev in his poorvashram toiled incessantly as Dr. Kuppuswamy to bring solace and relief to the suffering people about a half century ago. It is the land wherein through fiery Karma Yoga, dynamic selfless service he attained purity of heart, Viveka, Vichara and keen aspiration for God-realisation at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 29: The Malayasians Profound Devotion To Gurudevas Mission
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 29: The Malayasians Profound Devotion To Gurudevas Mission, Om Namo Narayanaya. Salutations in the name of worshipful Gurudev Sivananda. Though this letter of mine bears the title Sivanandashram Letter, I am writing it to you all from the far-off Crown Colony of Hong Kong energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 30: Thanks And Deep Appreciations To Seekers Of Malaysia And Hong Kong
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 30: Thanks And Deep Appreciations To Seekers Of Malaysia And Hong Kong, Om Namo Narayanaya. Salutations and Greetings in the holy name of Gurudev Sivananda! May the grace of the Divine be upon one and all of you! I send you my loving good wishes from the sacred abode of Gurudev by the holy Ganges once again after an absence of one month and a half from headquarters at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 31: MontevideoStrong Hold Of Gurudevas Mission
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 31: MontevideoStrong Hold Of Gurudevas Mission, Om Namo Narayanaya. Salutations and greetings in the holy name of Gurudev Sivananda. May the grace of the Divine be upon you. As I write this letter I hear the rushing waters of the Ganges and see the clouds upon the mountain top and the entire mountains side green with fresh forest foliage, for the monsoon rains are upon us now. The intense heat of the last few weeks has now given place to heavy downpour of rains and the Ganges is in flood. The earth and the forest that had been parched and dried up have now become soaked and green everywhere at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 32: KalkiAvatar Of Hope, Foretold
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 32: KalkiAvatar Of Hope, Foretold, Accept my salutations and good wishes in the holy name of Gurudev Sivananda. May the Lords grace be upon you. I write with great joy because I have had the unique privilege of offering my devout worship on behalf of your good self and each and every individual member of the Divine Life Society, to our beloved Gurudev upon the solemn occasion of the 3rd anniversary of His Mahasamadhi. This worship was done on the 12th of July, the sacred Punyatithi and this Aradhana Puja took about four and half hours time. It commenced at about 9 a.m. and concluded at 1.30 pm at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 33: Srimad Bhagwad Gita And Gospel Of Divine Life Are Identical
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 33: Srimad Bhagwad Gita And Gospel Of Divine Life Are Identical, Glory to Lord Krishna and to Sri Gurudev Sivananda, the visible expressions of the Absolute Divine Reality. Salutations to you in their holy names at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 34: Forget Not The Goal Lead The Divine Life
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 34: Forget Not The Goal Lead The Divine Life, Glory be to the Divine. Salutations and prostrations at the sacred feet of Sadgurudev Sivanandaji Maharaj, the holy dust of whose feet is verily fit to be worshipped by all those who have found the spiritual guidance, sustenance and blessedness by worshiping them. The feet of the Sadguru serve as a sure boat to take the faithful across the ocean of Samsara to the other shore of freedom, bliss and peace. Worship and adorations to those feet that constitute the supreme source of highest happiness at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 35: Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 35: Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya, Om Namo Narayana! Loving Namaskars, Greetings and goodwill to you in the name of holy Master Swami Sivananda. My prayers to the Divine Mother, whose auspicious Annual Worship (Navaratra Devi Pooja) we have concluded a week back, to shower upon you Her choicest blessings and to grant you joy, peace and Immortality. May all your days be filled with auspiciousness and may success attend all your undertakings at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 36: The Gita And The New Testament
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 36: The Gita And The New Testament, Loving Namaskars. Greetings and goodwishes in the holy names of Lord Jesus and of Lord Krishna Whom we remember with deepest adorations and worshipful love during this closing month of this present year at energyenhancement.org
  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 37: My Message Of Truth For The New Year
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 37: My Message Of Truth For The New Year, A bright joyous auspicious New Year to you. I salute you all in the holy name of Gurudev and wish you prosperity, happiness and all blessedness in His Name during this new year and during many more years in the future. God bless you at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 38: In The Blessed Company Of Holy Saints
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 38: In The Blessed Company Of Holy Saints, This letter is being written to you from Utkala- Pradesha (Orissa), the territory sanctified by blessed Lord Jagannatha, who presides over this part of Bharatavarsha from the sacred city of Puri. May the Divine Grace of Sri Jagannath Bhagawan ever be upon you all. This time I shall take you along with me quickly over a tour of A.P. and Orissa, where as you know this servant of Gurudev has travelled to attend two Divine Life Conferences, namely, the 10th Andhra Pradesh and the 2nd All-Orissa Divine Life Conference. Our party and myself left for Delhi on the morning of the 25th December, 1966 reaching there in the evening. We could not leave as usual by train the previous night because the 24th was the important annual day of holy Christmas observance and so I had to participate in the Ashram until midnight in this celebration of joy and adoration. It was a wonderful occasion at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 39: Vast Field Of Divine Life Activities
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 39: Vast Field Of Divine Life Activities, May the Divine Grace of the Lord of the Universe, the all Auspicious Great God, Mahadeva Siva, the blue-throated, wielder of the trident, be upon you all upon this eve of the holy Mahasivaratri. Let us for a while repeat together the most sacred Divine Name of Five-letters that is pleasing to the Lord at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 40: The RamayanaThe Light-House Of India
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 40: The RamayanaThe Light-House Of India, Salutations to you in the holy name of Sri Gurudev Sivananda. May God bless you. This month sees the advent of the New Year according to the Indian Almanac both by the solar calculations as well as the lunar calculations. The Lunar New Years day falls on the 10th April and Solar New Years day on the 14th. Therefore, before proceeding further I wish to send you first my joyous greeting for this Yugadi or Samvatsara-Arambha and express my very best good-wishes to you for a bright and happy New Year. May you have an auspicious beginning, and good health, joy, prosperity, progress and success in all right undertakings. May this New Year bring you many new opportunities for selfless service, doing good unto others, acts of mercy and love, intensified spiritual Sadhana and service of the country. May you be enabled to walk the path of Dharma and do the right at every step. May this year be full of achievements and blessedness, both material and secular as well as spiritual and Divine at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 41: Divorce Not Religion From Your Daily Life
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 41: Divorce Not Religion From Your Daily Life, Om Namo Narayanaya! Loving salutations and greetings in the holy name of Gurudev Sivananda. May the spirit of his Divine Life Message he rekindled in your heart with new freshness and vigour at this moment, when the season of Spring is in its peak point and will soon lead on to the Summer. All life is quickened, newly activated in the vernal season and I pray that a perennial spring season may reign within your heart and may keep ever-fresh flowers of moral loftiness and spirituality there in at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 42: Satsang Is Gods Gift
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 42: Satsang Is Gods Gift, Om Namo Narayanaya. Salutations and greetings in the name of Sri Gurudev. May the blessings of God be with you always. As I write these lines from Gurudevs holy Ashram, the early morning sunshine falls upon me and reminds me that hot summer days have now arrived. The Sun has commenced to turn on its intense summer days and it is difficult even to imagine that just two months before in March, this place was in the grip of an almost winter-like cold wave. In the present heat one finds it difficult even to remember that recent chill-spell at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 43: Service To Suffering Humanity Is The True Worship Of God
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 43: Service To Suffering Humanity Is The True Worship Of God, Loving salutations and greetings in the holy name of Gurudev Sivananda. May the special grace of Gurudev be granted unto you upon this month, when the most holy day of Vyasa Puja or Gurupurnima occurs. Ashadha Purnima is to us all a most sacred and supremely blessed day sanctified by the ancient tradition and filled with inspiration, elevation and spiritual renewal. A new dawn awaits all Sadhakas and spiritual aspirants upon this great day. There is a subtle inner spiritual wave set up within your heart at this highly auspicious anniversary, which, if you perceive and take hold of, will take you ahead to greater heights of spiritual progress and inner unfoldment. Prepare from this day onward to meet that holy day with receptive spirit and right attitude of faith, reverence and spiritual exception. You will be immensely benefited now at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 44: Bharatvarsha Is Home Of Premabhakti
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 44: Bharatvarsha Is Home Of Premabhakti, In the holy name of Sri Gurudev I send you all my Greeting and Good Wishes. On behalf of Sri Gurudev, whose Mahasamadhi Anniversary has just been celebrated two days ago, on Sunday the 30th July, I wish you the best of health, long life, prosperity, success and happiness. May Gurudev Sivanandaji graciously grant you the highest spiritual blessedness and supreme Divine Bliss at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 45: SivanandaShining Embodiment Of Divine
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 45: SivanandaShining Embodiment Of Divine, Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya! Loving salutations and good wishes to you. I am happy to greet you all upon the eve of Sadguru Swami Sivanandajis auspicious Birthday Anniversary (80th), that devotees all over the world will be celebrating on the 8th of this month. This time the day is made doubly auspicious, due to the holy Sri Ganesh Chaturthi festival also falling on the same date. As you know, the sacred Ganesh Chaturthi worship is an annual day, specially regarded and highly suitable for making any auspicious beginning, Spiritual life and spiritual endeavour are a process of continuous renewals and new beginnings every day, as it were. It is a process of dynamic progress. You are reborn afresh in the spirit at each moment, when you make a new determination, when you take a fresh step forward, upon this path of Divine Life. It is even as we human beings look upon a new dawn and a new radiant sunrise day after day. Such is the spiritual life at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 46: Let Us Invoke Mothers Divine Benediction
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 46: Let Us Invoke Mothers Divine Benediction, May the Divine Mother bless you with health, happiness, all auspiciousness and supreme blessedness! May Her Divine Grace shower upon you always and bestow upon you long life, prosperity, success in all undertakings and unhampered progress in the path of Dharma and Virtue and Divine Realisation. May Her Shakti enable you to overcome the dark and adverse forces in life, bring about joy and plenty and crown your life with Spiritual Illumination, Bliss Divine and Supreme Peace. May you live a life triumphant, conquering all obstacles and come out victorious at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 47: Let The Light Of Virtue Ever Shine Bright In Your Character
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 47: Let The Light Of Virtue Ever Shine Bright In Your Character, Salutations and greetings of the season to you all. In the holy name of Sri Gurudev I wish you all a most happy Dipavali and pray that the radiant Goddess Lakshmi may shower Her Grace upon you and grant you prosperity, plenty, success and all-round blessedness. May auspiciousness attend upon you at every step. May health, beauty, virtue and spiritual progress accrue to you. I wish you and all your near and dear ones health, joy and advancement in life at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 48: Spiritual AwakeningPurpose Of Human Life
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 48: Spiritual AwakeningPurpose Of Human Life, Om Namo Narayanaya! Great indeed is my good fortune to communicate with you through this letter, month by month, during this present year that is now drawing to its close. Through my monthly letter to you I have endeavoured to talk to you and express myself and share my thoughts on matters pertaining to your life, to our culture, to Sanatana Dharma and to Sri Gurudevs great spiritual message and precious spiritual teachings. This to me is sacred service to Sri Gurudev and is also to me a means of keeping personal contact with you and thus coming closer to you as a member of Divine Life fraternity, brought into being by our holy Gurudev Sri Sivanandaji Maharaj. It is a joy to me therefore to keep in touch with you, through this Sivanandashram Letter in this way at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 49: Glory Of Gurudevs Universal Prayer
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 49: Glory Of Gurudevs Universal Prayer, Adorations and homage unto the supreme Universal Being! Salutations to you in the holy name of the worshipful Guru Sri Swami Sivananda. At the dawn of the New Year I send you through this letter my sincere Greetings and good wishes for your long life, health, happiness, prosperity and highest spiritual blessedness. May God shower upon you His Divine Grace, and fill all your days with joy, peace, plenty and spiritual beauty. May all obstacles be overcome, may all difficulties depart, may all problems be solved and may discord give place to harmony. May the Music of Divine Life fill your life with melody and sweetness at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 50: Live Divinely
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 50: Live Divinely, Om Namo Narayanaya! May the blessings of Sadgurudev be upon you. May He grant health and happiness, peace and prosperity to you. I am writing this monthly letter from Andhra Pradesh, where we just had the sanctifying Darshan of Lord Ramachandra at the Bhadrachalam temple. The living Deity of this temple is a unique aspect of Lord Sri Rama, as the transcendental Divine Being. The Lord is worshipped here not as Dasaratha-Rama, but as Vaikuntha-Rama. The Lord here is in the Chaturbhuja of four-handed form. He bears the Sudarshan Chakra, the sacred Shaukha and He has the bow and arrow at the other hands. The famous saint Bhadrachalam Ramadasa Swami was supremely graced by Lord Sri Rama here. Through him I pray to the Lord to bestow upon you all Vidya, Tushti, Pushti and Paramashanti at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 51: Holy Mission Of Gurudeva
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 51: Holy Mission Of Gurudeva, Om Namo Narayanaya. Loving salutations and greetings in the holy name of Gurudev Swami Sivananda. May the divine grace, of the great God, the Lord of the Universe, Jagadishwara, Mahadeva be upon you and may He grant you, progress, prosperity, success and supreme happiness both in your secular and spiritual fields of life at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 52: Wonderful Is The Significance Of Mantra-Writing
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 52: Wonderful Is The Significance Of Mantra-Writing, Om Namo Narayanaya. Loving salutations in the holy name of Gurudev Swami Sivananda. I am immensely happy to inform you all that there has been an enthusiastic response to the call for the Mahamantra Likhit Japa Yajna in connection with the forthcoming Silver Jubilee of the Mahamantra Akhanda Kirtan that has been in progress since the year 1943, from the December 3rd. Already Sri Gandhiji and Sri Govinda Rajuji of the Berhampur Branch and Smt. K. Gopalraj Urs of the Ladies Branch, Mysore have set to work starting a Mantra-writing Campaign at their places at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 53: Let Us Wake Up
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 53: Let Us Wake Up, Om Namo Narayanaya. Loving salutations and greetings in the holy name of worshipful Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji, I greet you also in the name of the Compassionate Buddha, the veritable embodiment of divine love and merciful kindness, the Light of mankind, who will be worshipped all over the world upon the coming full-moon Day of Vaisakha Purnima. That is Buddha Jayanti. This is a particularly significant and specially sacred day to this servant because it was on this day, 25 years ago, that I reached the feet of our worshipful Master, whom I had the holy privilege of serving for nearly twenty years. It was on this Sacred Buddha-Purnima-Day that I first beheld his stately radiant personality, bowing down my head in homage at his lotus feet. That blessed moment sustains this servant ever upto this present moment. Hail Buddha! Hail Gurudev Sivananda! May their grace be upon us all at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 54: Hearty Send Off From Bombay And Warm Reception At The Durban Sivananda Ashram
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 54: Hearty Send Off From Bombay And Warm Reception At The Durban Sivananda Ashram, Om Namo Narayanaya! Salutations in the name of Gurudev and my greetings and good wishes to one and all of you. This letter is being mailed to Rishikesh from the Sivanandashram at Durban, (South Africa). I despatch this with a special pleasure and eagerness. Because, I am now out of India and this letter provides me a valuable means of speaking my thoughts to you all, even though separated by thousands of miles from you, and a far distance away physically. I thank Gurudev for this facility provided through this medium at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 55: Sivanandas Mission Spreads Across The Ocean
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 55: Sivanandas Mission Spreads Across The Ocean, Om Namo Narayanaya. Salutations to you all in the holy name of Sri Gurudev Sivananda, to whose feet we have offered our hearts adoration and devout worship upon the holy day of Gurupurnima and the sacred Anniversary of his attaining to the Eternal. May the light of his teachings ever illumine lifes path for you and may his sublime spiritual message of Divine Life inspire you to walk the noble way of truth and purity, of love and goodness and of service, worship, meditation and God-realisation. May Guru Kripa ever abide with you at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 56: Sivanandas Birthday Must Be A Day Of Retrospect And Spiritual Reassessment And Self Scrutiny
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 56: Sivanandas Birthday Must Be A Day Of Retrospect And Spiritual Reassessment And Self Scrutiny, Greetings in the name of Sri Gurudev. Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya. This letter brings to you my heart-felt spiritual good wishes on the eve of the sacred SIVANANDA JAYANTI. The 8th of September is a day that shall ever be regarded by countless thousands of souls as a supremely blessed and auspicious day because it gave them that great and noble saint who brought a new awakening into their lives and whose teachings came as a great shining light to illumine their path towards Divine peace and blessedness. To all Gurudevs disciples the 8th September is a great day, which gave to them their spiritual Master, Divine guide and loving saviour at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 57: GandhijeePersonal Gospel Of Divine Life
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 57: GandhijeePersonal Gospel Of Divine Life, Om Namo Narayanaya! Loving salutations in the name of Sri Gurudev and Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of our Nation who dedicated his entire life to an attempt to re-establish the ethical ideal in the life of the people of our country. The period from 2nd October, 1968 to 2nd October 1969 is verily a hallowed 12 months, for it will constitute the Gandhi Year. It is a blessed year marking the centenary of this truly Great Souls advent upon earth. To me this Gandhi-year really signifies a Rama-Nama Year as well as a year of Truth speaking, Promise-Keeping, Self-Searching, Fasting and Praying and Selflessly Serving. To me all these mean Gandhiji. He also means to me unfailing daily prayer, deep love for India, an identification with villagers and their villages at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 58: Guru NanakWorld Awakener Of Modern Age
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 58: Guru NanakWorld Awakener Of Modern Age, Om Namo Narayanaya. Salutations and greetings in the name of Gurudev Sivananda. May the inspiration of Gurudevs sublime spiritual teachings impel you ever onward upon the shining path of virtue, noble character and moral perfection. Let Gurudevs call to spiritual life take you onwards towards the goal of God-Realisation. Ethical living and spiritual striving constitute the very soul of Bharatavarsha. These two indicate the very essence of Indian culture. Take these two away from your life, then life becomes essenceless, meaningless and useless. Without these two factors the Indian Nation and the Indian Culture will be dead things. Remember this and be awakened and alert. Lose not these laving principles of Indias existence. Keep them alive. Help to propagate these all over India, throughout the country at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 59: Swami Venkatesananda And Swami Sahajananda Living Miracles Of Gurudeva
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 59: Swami Venkatesananda And Swami Sahajananda Living Miracles Of Gurudeva, Om Namo Narayanaya! Salutation and my loving greetings to you in the name of Gurudev Sivananda. This letter brings you my very best wishes for a Happy New Year, Bright and Joyful, and containing twelve months filled with prosperity, progress, success and much auspiciousness, blessedness and peace. May Gurudevs Grace grant you great spiritual unfoldment and divine experience bringing to you peace, bliss and illumination! To my beloved fellow-seekers in India I extend my greetings for the most auspicious holy anniversary of the sacred Makarasankranti day, the day of the Uttarayana Punyakala. May this significant, sacred day mark for them a day of enhanced spiritual aspiration, for a whole-souled dedication to the quest of God over and above all other lesser objectives and pursuits of mundane life. Gurukripa shower upon you this Makarasankranti Day! at energyenhancement.org
  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 60: Mysterious Working Of Gurudevas Grace
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Advices On SPiritual Living Chapter 60: Mysterious Working Of Gurudevas Grace, Om Namo Narayanaya. Salutations and my loving greetings to you in the name of Gurudev Sivananda. This letter brings my very best wishes to you all, for this present letter, in a way, constitutes a Jubilee in itself because it is the 60th Sivanandashram Letter and it has entered therefore its Diamond Jubilee, numerically speaking. I give thanks to Sri Gurudev at this juncture of its Jubilee number for having prompted me to commence this letter when I did at energyenhancement.org

 

 

 
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