Lives of Saints

by Swami Sivananda

The present publication has verily turned out to be a treasure-trove of inspiring spiritual biography, instructive anecdotes and lofty admonitions of men and women of the highest realization. For sheer variety and range, this book perhaps has no equal. Here, two points deserve special mention.

Firstly, this book is totally non-sectarian and free from prejudice of any kind. It thus manages with marvelous success to draw out the very best from each subject it touches. Secondly, as these sketches come from the pen of a spiritual personality, they present all the lives in a distinctive spiritual perspective, which a layman writing the same biographies would hardly be able to do. This fact, in itself, enhances the worth and utility of the book a great deal.

Table of Contents:

• Publishers Note
• Prayer
• Introduction
• Saints of Ancient Times
• The Prophets
• The Acharyas
• The Saivite Acharyas of Tamil Nadu
• The Alwars or Vaishnava Mystics of South India
• Saints of Maharashtra
• Saints of North India
• Saints of South India
• Women Saints
• Sufi Saints
• Christian Mystics
• The Sikh Gurus
• Saints of Recent Times

About the Author:

Sri Swami Sivananda , born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Sage Appayya Dikshita and several other renowned saints and savants, Sri swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a life devoted to the study and practice of Vedanta.

He was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read his works is to drink at the Fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th July, 163 he entered Mahasamadhi.