Health and Happiness

by Swami Sivananda

This work on health by Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj gives a detailed and comprehensive idea about the fundamental laws of health and hygiene. It provides the key to real happiness, which can be achieved only through radiant health of body, mind and soul.

The book has been divided into ten chapters. Nature's aid to health, dietetic principles, a detailed analysis of all the vitamins, physical culture (including Yoga exercises), ethical and spiritual observances and their influences on health, home treatment of diseases, are some of its salient features. A separate chapter has been devoted to "Care of the Eyes". It is hoped the readers will be immensely benefited by perusing and following the precepts contained in this work.

Table of Contents:

• Publisher’s Note
• Mahamrityunjaya Mantra
• Causes of Disease
• Health and Happiness
• Prayer to Mother Nature
• An Open Letter to All
• What is Health?
• Nature Cure and Health
• Diet and Health
• Discovery of Vitamins
• Dietetic Principles
• Care of the Eyes
• Physical Culture
• Home Treatment of Diseases
• Ten Commandments
• See Good in Everything

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.