Ananda Gita: The song of bliss

by Swami Sivananda

Table of Contents:

• Publisher's Note
• Introduction
• What is divine life  
  • Divine Life
  • Religion
  • Essence of Gita
• Way of attainment
  • Sadhana
  • Satsanga
  • Guru Is Necessary
  • Virtue and Vice 
  • Pleasure and Pain
  • All about Mind
  • How to Control the Mind?
  • Sankalpa and Its Destruction
  • Ahamkara or Egoism
  • Way to Peace
  • Special Instructions
• Karma yoga
  • Practice of Karma Yoga
  • Anasakti Yoga
• Bhakti yoga
  • What Is Bhakti Yoga
  • Power of Prayer
  • Surrender and Grace    
• Raja yoga  
  • Elements of Raja Yoga
  • Vrittis
  • Ahimsa
  • Satya
  • Brahmacharya
  • Kriya Yoga 
  • Pranayama
  • Concentration
  • Meditation
  • Obstacles in Meditation
  • Experiences in Meditation
  • Samadhi
  • Sleep and Samadhi    
• Other yogas
  • Hatha Yoga
  • Asana Yoga
  • Benefits of Asanas
  • Kundalini Yoga 
  • Lambika Yoga 
  • Nada Yoga
  • Japa Yoga
  • Yogas of Synthesis    
• Jnana yoga  
  • Yoga of Wisdom
  • Nature of the Atman
  • Thy Real Nature
  • Maya
  • Nature and Workings of Maya
  • Avidya
  • Good and Evil
  • Puriashtaka Body
  • Bondage and Liberation
  • Bliss, immortality, freedom
  • Vivarta Vada
  • Vichara
  • Discrimination
  • Vairagya
  • Who am I?
  • Pranava or Om
  • Asparsa Yoga 
  • Moksha or Final Blessedness
  • Immortality
  • Bliss Absolute
  • What Is Jivanmukti
  • Who Is a Jivanmukta
  • Essence of Upanishads
  • Essence of Yoga Vasishtha 
  • Gist of Vedanta    
• Upasamhara
  • Mokshapriya Addresses His Guru
  • Swami Sivananda to Mokshapriya.

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.