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by Swami Krishnananda

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The daily sessions which the Swamiji holds with varieties of visitors to the Ashram attract people from different parts of the country and abroad, since these occasions provide to people homely atmosphere to express their longings, their questions, their enquiries and their difficulties which range over a wide area of human life. This book consists of answers that Swamiji furnishes over a long period.

Table of Contents:

1. On Free Will
2. Beauty and the Psychology of Desire
3. On Meditation and Service
4. Total Thought and Meditation
5. What is the Self?
6. The Higher Self
7. The Good and the Bad
8. Where is the Soul?
9. The Absolute
10. Tapas or Austerity
11. Universal Action and Duty Towards Others
12. How to Let God into the Heart
13. Wanting Only God
14. The Inadequacies of Science
15. Sexual Impulse Versus Meditation
16. Diagnose the Illness of Life and Go Beyond
17. Energy Conservation
18. Looking for Happiness
19. Spiritual Atmosphere & God-World Relation
20. Concepts of God
21. The World's Movement from Materiality to Spirituality
22. The Phenomenon and the Noumenon
23. The True Heart
24. The Connection Between Body and Mind: The Ishtadevata
25. God and Liberation
26. The Last Thought
27. Female Mountains
28. Religious Consciousness
29. Beautiful Thought
30. Eastern and Western Thinking
31. The Senses: Two Kinds of Sacrifice
32. Intellectual Understanding
33. The Tenth Obstacle
34. Four Kinds of Conflict
35. Activity After Enlightenment
36. On Patanjali's Yoga
37. Satsanga
38. Test of Our Progress on the Spiritual Path
39. After Self-Realisation
40. Creation of the World
41. Karma
42. Queries of Seekers
43. Hindu Gods and the One God
44. On Work and Meditation
45. On World Crisis
46. The Self In the Deep Sleep State
47. Knowledge and Material Power
48. The Relationship Between Brain and Mind
49. The Higher Reality and the Eternal Impulses
50. What is Yoga?
51. Methodist Ministers
52. Who is Your Neighbour?
53. War
54. Who is a Guru?
55. The Necessity for a Guru
56. After the Guru Has Left the Body
57. The Guru-Disciple Relationship
58. Living the Truth
59. Devotion and the Nature of Ignorance
60. When God Wants You
61. Degrees of Karma
62. The Aim of Education
63. The Balance of Nature
64. Three Kinds of Meditation
65. The First Thought and the Great Thought
66. Sadhana Can Be Done Anywhere
67. Renunciation and Transformation
68. Fear of Losing the World
69. The Seven Stages of Enlightenment
70. The Blessings of Swami Sivananda.

About the Author:

Swami Krishnananda was born on the 25th of April, 1922 into a highly religious and orthodox Brahmin family, and was given the name Subbaraya. At an early age, he had become very well versed in the Sanskrit language and its sacred texts. The longing for seclusion pulled him to Rishikesh, where he arrived in the summer of 1944 and met Swami Sivananda, who initiated the young Subbaraya into Sannyasa on the sacred day of Makara Sankranti, the 14th of January, 1946, and gave him the name Swami
Krishnananda.

Swami Krishnananda is a highly respected philosophical writer, especially on metaphysics, psychology and sociology. Swamiji's books are known the world over as excellent presentations of answers to the daily questions that arise in the day-to-day confrontations of a human being. Swami Krishnananda was the General Secretary of The Divine Life Society from 1961 until 2001. Swamiji was a direct disciple of His Holiness Swami Sivananda, founder of this Institution. Swamiji attained Mahasamadhi in 2001.