Jivanmukta Gita

by Swami Sivananda

Table of Contents:

• Publisher's Note
• A Real Yogi
• I Saw a Midnight Sun
• Section - I: The Jivanmukta Gita
  1. Jivanmukta Gita
  2. What is Jivanmukti?
  3. Jivanmukti is Not an Illusion
  4. Who is a Jivanmukta?
  5. Jivanmukta : A Philosophical Description
  6. Samadhi Jnani and Vyavahara Jnani
  7. How to Recognise a Jivanmukta
  8. Conditions of Jivanmukti
  9. The State of a Jivanmukta
  10. Characteristics of a Jivanmukta
  11. Nature of a Jivanmukta
  12. Jivanmukta : His Behaviour
  13. The Signs of a Jivanmukta
  14. Mind in a Jivanmukta
  15. Powers of a Jivanmukta
  16. The Enlightened One
  17. The Aroma of a Liberated Sage
  18. The State of a Realised Yogi
  19. The Value of a Jivanmukta
  20. Vision of a Jivanmukta
  21. Experience of a Jivanmukta
  22. The Jivanmukta of Cosmic Consciousness
  23. Does a Jivanmukta Experience Dreaming State?
• Section - II: The Jivanmukta Gita in Poems
  1. What is Jivanmukti?
  2. Who is a Jivanmukta?
  3. Jivanmukta is a Real Vedantin
  4. A Jivanmukta is Free from All Bondages
  5. Jivanmukta's Influence
  6. A King and a Jivanmukta
  7. State of a Jivanmukta
  8. A Jivanmukta is Not Whimsical
  9. Vision of a Jivanmukta
  10. Jivanmukta is One with God
  11. Jivanmukta is Brahman himself
  12. Experience of the Realised Man in Samadhi
  13. A Jivanmukta and a King
  14. A Jivanmukta's Family
  15. Jivanmukta's Food and Drink
  16. Jivanmukta's Bliss
  17. Jivanmukta's Experience
  18. Whom should we Praise?
  19. Nature of a Jivanmukta
  20. Jivanmuktas
  21. The Glory of a Jivanmukta
  22. The Jivanmukta's Prarabdha
  23. Do Not Judge a Jivanmukta
  24. My Ineffable State
  25. State of a Jivanmukta
  26. The Bliss of the Self
  27. Who is Real Jivanmukta
  28. Imitation of Videhamukta
  29. Pseudo Jivanmukta
  30. A False Jivanmukta
  31. Song of Nectar
  32. Song of a Jivanmukta
  33. Song of Soham
  34. Song of Advaita
  35. Song of a Brahmajnani
  36. Song of Virat
  37. Nirguna Song
  38. Vedantic Song
  39. Quintessence of Vedanta
  40. Song of Brahmamayam
  41. Song of Ananda Lahari
  42. Song of Vibhuti Yoga
  43. Song of Chidanand
  44. Song of Bliss
  45. Song of Jagat Kalpana
  46. Eka Sloki Upanishad
  47. Song of a Jivanmukta
  48. Song of Jivanmukta in Avadhuta Gita
  49. Jivanmukta Sings in Samadhi
• Section - III: Jivanmukta According to the Sacred Texts
  1. Who is a Jivanmukta? (from Varaha Upanishad)
  2. Jivanmukta and Videhamukti (from Tejo Bindu Upanishad)
  3. The Nature of a Jivanmukta (from the Jivanmukti Viveka)
  4. Characteristics of Jivanmukti (from the Mahavakyaratnavali)
  5. Experiences of the Jivanmukta (from the Avadhuta Gita)
  6. Experience of the Jivanmukta (from Ashtavakra Gita)
  7. Experience of a Jivanmukta (from Tejobindu Upanishad)
  8. Experiences of the Jivanmukta (from Maitreya Upanishad)
  9. Experience of the Jivanmukta (from Kaivalya Upanishad)
  10. Nirvana Shatkam (of Sankaracharya)
  11. Atma-vidya-vilasa of Sadasiva Brahmendra
  12. Jivanmukta Ananda Lahiri.

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.