Mother Ganga

by Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj

Table of Contents:

• Publisher's Note
• Sivanandashram Prayer
• Prayer to the Seven Sacred Rivers
• Ganga Mahatmya
• Book one
• Mother Ganga
• Chapter 1: The Glory of Ganga
  • The Ganga Bath
  • Ganga - The Form of Vishnu 
  • Mysterious Spiritual Vibrations
  • The Equal Vision of Mother Ganga
• Chapter 2: Mysterious Powers of the Ganga Water
• Chapter 3: Kirtan on the Ganga
• Chapter 4: Ganga Dussera
  • The Curse of Kapila
  • The Bhagiratha's Penance
  • Lord Siva Receives the Ganga
  • Through Rishi Jahnu's Ears
  • Ganga Saptami and Ganga Dussera
• Chapter 5: When Ganga Assumed the Form of a Woman 
  • Vasishtha's Curse on the Ashta Vasus
  • The Eighth Child of Ganga Devi
  • The Return of Devavrata and the disappearance of Ganga Devi
• Chapter 6: When Goddess Ganga Was Faced with a Problem
• Chapter 7: Garmukhtesvar - The Place where Goddess Ganga Appeared in Human Form
• Chapter 8: Some Pauranic Stories on the Birth of Ganga
• Chapter 9: Ganga and the Birth of Lord Subrahmanya
• Chapter 10: Gangotri and Gaumukh
  • The Scenery at Gaumukh  
  • The Route  
• Chapter 11: Journey to Gangotri
  • The Temple
  • Gouri-Kund
  • Pandava-Dhuna
  • Life at Gangotri
• Chapter 12: Hymns to Ganga
  • Adorable Mother Ganga!
  • Queen of All Rivers!
  • Gangotri
• Chapter 13: Ganga Kirtan Dhvanis
• Chapter 14: Worship of Mother Ganga in Sivanandashram
  • All Souls' Day
• Chapter 15: Learn These Lessons from Mother Ganga
• Book Two
• Ganga Stotras (In Sanskrit)
• Book Three
• Appendices
  1. Glory of Ganga
  2. Waves of Ganga
  3. Jnana Ganga.

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.