Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 150
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170522382
Description
Exhaustive in its treatment of the subject of an individual liberated in consciousness into an intimate experience of the Spiritual Reality while yet living on earth in a physical human form, this work carries in its content the quintessence from both the comparatively popular and obscure texts in the vast Sanskrit scriptural literature.
Aspect by aspect, this most comprehensive single volume uncovers in simple language, all about the nature, characteristics and functions of the Jivanmukta. But its primary value and chief merit consist in the fact that it is presented by none else than a living Liberated Man, Swami Sivananda; therefore, in not a few respects, it becomes a Song on the Master himself.
To draw from the statements on the living liberated Man embedded in the Brahma Sutras, the Upanishads, the Gita, the Yoga Vasistha and the Jivanmukta-viveka of Sri Vidyaranya, is no doubt a performance quite easy of accomplishment, but that would mean a pitiful missing by formality and pre-possessive ideas, the most subtle and ethereal significances, suggestions and workings continuously proceeding from the richly illuminated, outer, dynamic, many-sided life-character of his inner liberated Yogic Consciousness. Particularly for the world of spiritual aspiration, this book from Swami Sivananda would prove itself rich in enlightenment and invaluable.
--- The Divine Life Society
Contents
Publishers’ Note
A Real Yogi I Saw a Midnight Sun
Section One - THE JIVANMUKTA GITA:
1. Jivanmukta Gita
2. What is Jivanmukti?
3. Jivanmukti is not an Illusion
4. Who is a Jivanmukta?
5. Jivanmukta - A Philosophical Description
6. Samadhi Jnani and Vyavahara Jnani
7. How to Recognise a Jivanmukta
8. Conditions of Jivanmukti
9. The State of a Jivanmukta
10. Characteristics of a Jivanmukta
11. Nature of a Jivanmukta
12. Jivanmukta - His Behaviour
13. The Signs of a Jivanmukta
14. Mind in a Jivanmukta
15. Powers of a Jivanmukta
16. The Enlightened One
17. The Aroma of a Liberated Sage
18. The State of a Realised Yogi
19. The Value of a Jivanmukta
20. Vision of a Jivanmukta
21. Experience of a Jivanmukta
22. The Jivanmukta of Cosmic Consciousness
23. Does a Jivanmukta Experience Dreaming State?
Section Two – THE JIVANMUKTA GITA IN POEMS:
1. What is Jivanmukti?
2. Who is a Jivanmukta?
3. Jivanmukta is a Real Vedantin
4. A Jivanmukta is Free from All Bondages
5. Jivanmukta's Influence
6. A King and a Jivanmukta
7. State of a Jivanmukta
8. A Jivanmukta is Not Whimsical
9. Vision of a Jivanmukta
10. Jivanmukta is One with God
11. Jivanmukta is Brahman himself
12. Experience of the Realised Man in Samadhi
13. A Jivanmukta and a King
14. A Jivanmukta's Family
15. Jivanmukta's Food and Drink
16. Jivanmukta's Bliss
17. Jivanmukta's Experience
18. Whom should we Praise?
19. Nature of a Jivanmukta
20. Jivanmuktas
21. The Glory of a Jivanmukta
22. The Jivanmukta's Prarabdha
23. Do Not Judge a Jivanmukta
24. My Ineffable State
25. State of a Jivanmukta
26. The Bliss of the Self
27. Who is Real Jivanmukta
28. Imitation of Videhamukta
29. Pseudo Jivanmukta
30. A False Jivanmukta
31. Song of Nectar
32. Song of a Jivanmukta
33. Song of Soham
34. Song of Advaita
35. Song of a Brahmajnani
36. Song of Virat
37. Nirguna Song
38. Vedantic Song
39. Quintessence of Vedanta
40. Song of Brahmamayam
41. Song of Ananda Lahari
42. Song of Vibhuti Yoga
43. Song of Chidanand
44. Song of Bliss
45. Song of Jagat Kalpana
46. Eka Sloki Upanishad
47. Song of a Jivanmukta
48. Song of Jivanmukta in Avadhuta Gita
49. Jivanmukta Sings in Samadhi
Section Three - JIVANMUKTA ACCORDING TO THE SACRED TEXTS:
50. Who is a Jivanmukta? (from Varaha Upanishad)
51. Jivanmukta and Videhamukti (from Tejo Bindu Upanishad)
52. The Nature of a Jivanmukta (from the Jivanmukti Viveka)
53. Characteristics of Jivanmukti (from the Mahavakyaratnavali)
54. Experiences of the Jivanmukta (from the Avadhuta Gita)
55. Experience of the Jivanmukta (from Ashtavakra Gita)
56. Experience of a Jivanmukta (from Tejobindu Upanishad)
57. Experiences of the Jivanmukta (from Maitreya Upanishad)
58. Experience of the Jivanmukta (from Kaivalya Upanishad)
59. Nirvana Shatkam (of Sankaracharya)
60. Atma-vidya-vilasa of Sadasiva Brahmendra
61. Jivanmukta Ananda Lahiri.