Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 267
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170520592
Description
Every one of Swamiji’s books has uniformly stressed this aspect of Sadhana-Cultivation of Virtues and Eradication of Vices. Whenever Swamiji has spoken, at mass meetings or individual conversations, he has thundered: It is only through Righteousness that you can attain the Supreme Reality.
In this volume Sri Swamiji Maharaj has given us a sweet garland of all the virtues that should adorn every earnest Sadhaka; and we offer it to the readers with our sincere prayer that it might ennoble them and divinise them, make them better and more successful men and women who would make the world they live in a vast home of peace and brotherhood.
Contents
PART I - HOW TO CULTIVATE VIRTUES
PUBLISHERS NOTE
INTRODUCTION
Abstinence
Adaptability
Adversity
Ahimsa
Alertness
Amiability
Application
Aspiration
Attention
Behaviour
Benevolence
Character
Charity
Cheerfulness
Complacency
Compassion
Consideration
Contentment
Counter-thoughts
Courage Courtesy
Destiny
Determination
Dignity
Discretion
Discrimination
Dispassion
Duty
Earnestness
Elegance
Emulation
Endurance
Equanimity
Faith
Firmness
Forbearance
Forgiveness
Fortitude
Friendship
Generosity
Gentleness
Goodness
Gracefulness
Gratitude
Heroism
Honesty
Hope
Hospitality
Industriousness
Initiative
Inspiration
Integrity
Kindness
Love
Magnanimity
Manliness
Manners
Meekness
Mercy
Moderation
Modesty
Nobility
Obedience
Optimism
Patience
Patience and Perseverance
Peace
Perseverance
Pity
Pluck
Politeness
Promptness
Purity
Regularity and Punctuality
Renunciation
Repentance
Right conduct
Self-Help
Self-confidence
Self-restraint
Self-discipline
Self-improvement
Tact
Temperance
Truth Alone Triumphs
Will-Power
Zeal
Justice
Meditation on 12 Virtues
List of Virtues to be Developed
Word-picture of Virtues
Song Of Eighteen Ities
PART II - HOW TO ERADICATE VICES
Affectation
Ahamkara
Anger
Anxiety
Arrogance
Avarice
Song of Avidity
Backbiting
Cares, Worries and Anxieties
Carelessness and Forgetfulness
Cowardice
Crooked-mindedness
Depression
Diffidence
Dilly-dallying
Dishonesty
Envy
Evil Company
Fanaticism
Fashion - A Terrible Curse
Fear
Forgetfulness
Gloom and Despair
Gambling
Greed
Hatred
Religious Hypocrisy
Idleness
Impure and Immoderate Food
Indecision
Inertia
Sense of Inferiority
Intolerance
Irresolution
Jealousy
Jilly-jallying
Manorajya
Mean-mindedness
Meat-eating
Miserliness
Name and Fame
Novel-reading
Obstinacy
Ostentation
Over-credulousness
Passion
Pessimism
Pig-headedness
Pilfering Habit
Prejudice
Moral And Spiritual Pride
Prodigality
Revenge
Rudeness
Self-assertion
Self-conceit
Self-justification
Selfishness
Self-sufficiency
Shilly-Shallying
Shyness
Slang terms and Abuses
Sleeping in Daytime
Smoking Habit
Suspicion
Tale-Bearing
Timidity
Treachery
Vanity
Villy Vallying
Worry
Destroy Evil Vrittis
List of Vices to be Eradicated