Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 197
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
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, Upanishadic 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.
Contents
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
FOREWORD
UNIVERSAL PRAYERS
SADGURU STOTRA
SECTION I
God - Realisation
SECTION II
Brahmacharya
SECTION III
Mantras for Japa
SECTION IV
General Hints
SECTION V
Qualifications of a Sadhaka
SECTION VI
What Is Bhakti?
SECTION VII
Mind and Its Mysteries
SECTION VIII
What is Brahman
SECTION IX
Special Spiritual Instructions-II
Miscellaneous Spiritual Lessons -II
APPENDICES
Ahimsa-Satyam-Brahmacharya
Twenty Important Spiritual Instructions
Spiritual Daily Routine