Spiritual Lessons

by Swami Sivananda

Life is so very complex in these days that a busy man of the world finds it very difficult to go through the Darshan philosophical books, Prasthna Traya, Sankara Bhashya, etc. So I thought it better to present the philosophical ideas, moral lessons, Upanishad utterances and Yogic facts and experiences of a practical life in a simple style, in a lucid manner, in the form of short, sweet, laconic lessons. The people nowadays want sweet, compressed, sugar-coated spiritual tablets for easy swallowing and ready assimilation. These terse spiritual lessons which are given in this book are suitable to everyone.

Some of the lessons that appeared in My Magazine of India were published in book form, Spiritual Lessons Part I, in April 34 and already two editions have been exhausted, and a third edition is in print; and the book Spiritual Lessons Part II, contains another set of 500 lessons. These practical lessons have stirred and awakened many persons to walk in the spiritual path and to do some sort of spiritual Sadhana.

Table of Contents:

• Publisher's Note
• Foreword
• Universal Prayers
• Sadguru Stotra
• God - Realisation
• Brahmacharya
• Mantras for Japa
• General Hints
• Qualifications of a Sadhaka
• What Is Bhakti?
• Mind and Its Mysteries
• What is Brahman
• Special Spiritual Instructions-II & Miscellaneous Spiritual Lessons -II
• Appendices.

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.