Author: Swami Chidananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 422
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
You have come here, on your Journey; this is only a journey. You don’t belong here. And at the end of the journey-you have to leave and go. So nothing is really yours here.
But remember: there is a force within, which is trying to draw everything, back towards its source and center. Everything is saturated by that great power. And so everything is to be treated with reverence.
Like a river that ever flows on, that stops not until it reaches the ocean, may he stream of you life move in but one direction. No mater how much it may twist and turn, let it keep moving in one direction only, back into the ocean of satchidananda, which is your source and origin.
What is Gangaji meditating upon? Gangaji is meditating only upon sagar (ocean). Day and night she meditates on sagar and flows steadily towards it. And the culmination is that there is not Ganga. Afterwards, there is only sagar. The Ganga of your mind should always be aware only of sagar.
-Swami Chidananda
Blessed Devi! You are my first Guru. Everything man learns from you. You are the Guru of Gurus. You are the embodiment of Patience, sacrifice and service. Divine qualities are your innate nature. You will attain God-realisation quickly, Faith and devotion are your very nature. The destiny of the whole world Lies in your hands. The future destiny of the world Depends to a large extent On the training you impart to your children.
-Swami Sivananda
Contents
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
A MESSAGE
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
PRAYER
CHAPTER I
Modesty-the Strength of Maidenhood
CHAPTER II
Chastity-The Light of Wifehood
CHAPTER III
Magnanimity-The Glory of Motherhood
CHAPTER IV
Divinity-The Culmination of Selfhood
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE DIVINE LIFE CREST