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BIOGRAPHY OF A MODERN SAGE

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and works of swavni sivananba

Published by

THE DTVINE LIFE SOCIETY P.O. SH IVANANDANAGAR-2

49 192 Distt. Tehri-Garhwal, Uttaranchal, Himalayas, ndia I

Price I

I Rs.250/-

Edition: Second Edition:

First

1985

2006

[ 1500 CoPies ]

@The Divine

Life Trust SocietY

lsBN 81-7052-1866 EO 66

Published by Swami Vimalananda for printed by him at The Divine Life Society, Shivanandanagar, and the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy Press'

P.O.Shivanandanagar,Distt.Tehri-Garhwal,Uttaranchal' Himalayas,India

CONTENTS Introduction How C'od Came Into My Life

I

Chapter 1: Heritage and Childhood Chaptcr 2: Mcdical Carcer

5

Senewang Estate

t3 l8 l9

Johore

23

Malaya Life With The Doctor

Ghaptcr 3: Bcnunciation Sannyas

40 45

Chapter {: Swarg Arhram A Glimpse of Real Sadhana Samadhi

Cheptcr 5: Birth of the Mirsioa The First Book The First Disciples The First Evangelical Mission Swarg Ashram Sadhu Sangha

Chepter 6: Thc

26

Secoad f,eaunciation

The First Step Sivananda Ashram The Divine Life- Trust Society The Divine Life Society The Ashram Grows Treatment of Visitors Training in Self Reliance Blueprint for the lnstitution

53 53 70

74 7+ 75

85 94

96 99

t02 103 105

t12

il6

t22

Sivananda: Biography of a Modern Sage Chapter 7: Formal Training Definition of a Disciple Maker of Saints Touchstone of Discipleship

125

t28 133

t37

Chapter 8: Llnconventional Methods

t45

Freedom and Discipline Laziness Sannyas

l+9 159

Chapter 9: Guru and Dirciple

162

Discipleship Supreme Solicitude Sowing the Seed Self-purification Welfare of Disciples

152

164 166

t7t t74 t75

Chapter 10: Integral Perfection

t7g

Religious Freedom Attitude to Money

195 198

Health Re-defined

200

Chapter 11: Devotion

208

Satsang

208

'

Songs

2tt

Prayer

212

Worship Japa: Mantra Repetition

215

22t

Chapter 12: Sivananda's Daily Life

225

Chapter 13: Miracles

239

Chapter 1{: The Ascailant

258

Chapter 15: Milestones All India Tour

26'

Parliament of Religions Platinum Jubilee Sivananda Literature Festival

Chapter 16: The Mission Spreado Western Disciples Branches

263 292 296 302

305 305 315

The Divine Life Spirit

3t7

All-World Religious Federation All-World Sadhu's Rderation Dynamic Spiritual Awakening

319 320

322

Contents

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Sadhana Weeks

325

Birthdays His Voice Immortalised

33+

Chaptcr 17: Sivananda Medical Organication

336

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Sivananda Hospital Sivananda Eye Hospital Eye Camps

3+3

Health Education Universality of Outlook Sivananda Ayurvedic Pharmacy ldeals of a Selfless Worker

3+8 350

Chapter 18; Communication and Education

3+4

345

354 355

559

Photggraphic Studios The Post OIIice

359

Sivananda Primary School Sanskrit Sivananda Music School The College of Yoga and Vedanta Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy The Sivananda Regalia

366 368 369

Yoga Museum

377

Chapter 19: Disrcmination of Spiritud Knowledge

36+

37t 373 376

378

Swarg Ashram

378

The Mighty Spirit

390

The Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy Press

391

Spread of Teachings Physical, Mental and Moral Welfarc Sivananda Literature Research Institute

Translatione

396 400 405 406

Sivananda Literature Dissemination Committee

406

Journals

407

Epilogue

409

Chaptcr 2O: Lart Dayr

4tI

Appcodir

4t4

Glocoary

42t

Sivananda: Biogaphy of a Modcrn Sagc

lv

We arc

inffir,d a:

H.H. Sri Swami Venkatesananda Mahar{, whose mammoth task o compile and edit dmost 300 of Swami Sivananda's books ino 19 raolumes, in spie of his demanding programmes ahd hiling health.

it was

H.H. Sri Swami Chidananda Mahani for gaciously allon'ing us the publishinS riShts for the first edition of these volumes.

H.H. Sri Swami Krishnananda tvlahaqi for his most comprehenGeneral lntroduction to the volumes and for his support at various stages of the project. sirrc

Swami Brahmnnanda for his patient and painstaking help with the sanskrit quotes, etc.

Sri Narasimhulqji of the Divine Life Society Press, Rishikesh, for his continued encouragement.

Swami Venkatesananda's many devotees around the world who helped with typing and checking the manuscripts.

Swami l,akshmi Ananda for the final editing. Denotees of Sivananda Ashram, Fremantle, Western Australia, who have so lovingly prepared the manuscrips for the press.

Jan Rolfe for the graphics.

The Publr'shers.

Intrcduction

GENERAL INTRODUCTION by Swami Krishnananda

The Problem Stated The world we lirrc in is observed o be a solid mass of matter. Bven our olvn bodies ane seen to be parts of physical nature 'governed by mechanistic laws, which alonb appears to be all that is real. [t has become a commonplace idea today, especially in the unirrerse of science, that life is suictly determined R th. Law of causality which rules over the entire scheme of the world. We are told that distinctions that are supposed to subsist between such realms of being as matte! life and mind are only superficial and are accounted for by the grades of subdety in the manifestation and spreading of particles of matter. Even the orgranism of the human body, which appeanr to defr the laws of the universal machine that modern science envisages, is explained away as only one of the many forms of the working;s of the brute force of matter which is the ultimare stuffof all thing;s. The natural consequence of such a theory as this is the

astonishing condusion that human life, like every other material substance in the world, is complercly determined by blind causal laws and the so-called free-will of marr is subservient to them, if not a mere chimera. When we protest that man is not merely'matter but also mind, it is o