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:
- On Free Will
- Beauty and the Psychology of Desire
- On Meditation and Service
- Total Thought and Meditation
- What is the Self?
- The Higher Self
- The Good and the Bad
- Where is the Soul?
- The Absolute
- Tapas or Austerity
- Universal Action and Duty Towards Others
- How to Let God into the Heart
- Wanting Only God
- The Inadequacies of Science
- Sexual Impulse Versus Meditation
- Diagnose the Illness of Life and Go Beyond
- Energy Conservation
- Looking for Happiness
- Spiritual Atmosphere & God-World Relation
- Concepts of God
- The World's Movement from Materiality to Spirituality
- The Phenomenon and the Noumenon
- The True Heart
- The Connection Between Body and Mind: The Ishtadevata
- God and Liberation
- The Last Thought
- Female Mountains
- Religious Consciousness
- Beautiful Thought
- Eastern and Western Thinking
- The Senses: Two Kinds of Sacrifice
- Intellectual Understanding
- The Tenth Obstacle
- Four Kinds of Conflict
- Activity After Enlightenment
- On Patanjali's Yoga
- Satsanga
- Test of Our Progress on the Spiritual Path
- After Self-Realisation
- Creation of the World
- Karma
- Queries of Seekers
- Hindu Gods and the One God
- On Work and Meditation
- On World Crisis
- The Self In the Deep Sleep State
- Knowledge and Material Power
- The Relationship Between Brain and Mind
- The Higher Reality and the Eternal Impulses
- What is Yoga?
- Methodist Ministers
- Who is Your Neighbour?
- War
- Who is a Guru?
- The Necessity for a Guru
- After the Guru Has Left the Body
- The Guru-Disciple Relationship
- Living the Truth
- Devotion and the Nature of Ignorance
- When God Wants You
- Degrees of Karma
- The Aim of Education
- The Balance of Nature
- Three Kinds of Meditation
- The First Thought and the Great Thought
- Sadhana Can Be Done Anywhere
- Renunciation and Transformation
- Fear of Losing the World
- The Seven Stages of Enlightenment
- 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.
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