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Advices on Spiritual Living Advices on Spiritual Living By Sri Swami Chidananda A DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY PUBLICATION First Edition: 1974 (1,000 copies) World Wide Web (WWW) Edition : 2000 WWW site: http://www.dlshq.org/ This WWW reprint is for free distribution © The Divine Life Trust Society Published By THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY P.O. Shivanandanagar—249 192 Distt. Tehri-Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh, Himalayas, India. Contents Foreword To Awaken You Sivananda Gurudev Came Who Is Divine Mother Durga? Let Virtue Rule Thy Life! Start A New Life Now Resolve To Follow Divine Life Noble Task Of True Discipleship Strive To Live Ideal Life May The Great One Inspire You Make Renunciation The Basis Of Your Life And Actions Enshrine Thy Guru In Thy Heart! Practice Gita Teachings How Best To Celebrate Sivananda-Jayanti Ma Anand Mayee Graces Sivananda-Jayanthi-Celebrations Strive To Make Life A Perennial Divali The Mystery Of The Supreme Divinity Is Revealed In Srimad Bhagwad Gita And The Bible The Holy Trail Blazed By The Lives Of Saints Tour In The South. Meeting With Dadaji. The Chandigarh Conference The Spirit Of Mahasivaratri. Tour Of Gujarat The Birthday Of Lord Rama. Glory To His Name Fresh Beginnings: New Undertakings. Gurudev‟s Birthday Anniversary. Special Message To Sadhaks Who Attended Sadhanasaptah At Headquarters During July 1965. Swami Chidananda‟s 50th Birthday Message Sow the Seeds of Love, Peace and Brotherhood Pray For Others Cosmic Love—The Very Basis Of Divine Life Propagation Of Spiritual Knowledge Be A Hero In The Battle Of Life Proposed Pilgrimage From Himalaya To Malaya The Malayasians‟ Profound Devotion To Gurudeva‟s Mission Thanks And Deep Appreciations To Seekers Of Malaysia And Hong Kong Montevideo—Strong Hold Of Gurudeva‟s Mission Kalki—Avatar Of Hope, Foretold Srimad Bhagwad Gita And Gospel Of Divine Life Are Identical Forget Not The Goal Lead The Divine Life Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya The Gita And The New Testament My Message Of Truth For The New Year In The Blessed Company Of Holy Saints Vast Field Of Divine Life Activities The Ramayana—The Light-House Of India Divorce Not Religion From Your Daily Life Satsang Is God‟s Gift Service To Suffering Humanity Is The True Worship Of God Bharatvarsha Is Home Of Premabhakti Sivananda—Shining Embodiment Of Divine Let Us Invoke Mother‟s Divine Benediction Let The Light Of Virtue Ever Shine Bright In Your Character Spiritual Awakening—Purpose Of Human Life Glory Of Gurudev‟s Universal Prayer Live Divinely Holy Mission Of Gurudeva Wonderful Is The Significance Of Mantra-Writing Let Us Wake Up Hearty Send Off From Bombay And Warm Reception At The Durban Sivananda Ashram Sivananda‟s Mission Spreads Across The Ocean Sivananda‟s Birthday Must Be A Day Of Retrospect And Spiritual Reassessment And Self Scrutiny Gandhijee—Personal Gospel Of Divine Life Guru Nanak—World Awakener Of Modern Age Swami Venkatesananda And Swami Sahajananda Living Miracles Of Gurudeva Mysterious Working Of Gurudeva‟s Grace Foreword We are happy to present to all members of the Divine Life Societies in India and abroad as well as to spiritual seekers in general, these thoughts of Revered Sri Swami Chidanandaji that cover a variety of matters, all of which are however connected directly or indirectly with spiritual life and ethical ideals of man. These expressions of his inner feelings and thoughts were communicated from time to time to the world of seekers and spiritual aspirants, through a series of letters which Revered Swamiji wrote each month addressing the members of the Divine Life Society all over the world. They appeared under the caption of: “The President Writes” and later on as: “Sivanandashram Letter”. The contents of this present handy little book comprise such monthly letters written over a period of five to six years soon after the passing of the Most Worshipful Master, Sri Swami Sivananda Gurudev. From the Holy Ashram in Rishikesh Revered Swamiji kept contact with the spiritual fraternity of all sincere seekers striving to lead a divine life by means of these monthly letters. These letters bring you in touch with Swamiji‟s views and vision which he seeks to share with you all. We owe this publication to the generous and loving gift of Mother Yvounne Lemoine of France, who had the eager desire that some inspiring teachings of Revered Swami Chidanandaji must be made available especially to the seekers in France and other European countries as well as the West in general during the occasion of his present birthday on 24th September 1974. Thus the present volume comes as a Birthday Gift from Mother Yvounne to all those who have had the opportunity of meeting Swami Chidanandaji and listening to his teachings during his travels abroad. Our deepest appreciation of her generous goodwill towards all. A special word of thanks is due to the Manchandani Brothers Proprietors of the Nilum Printing Press who very kindly worked with great earnestness to accomplish the printing work within less than three weeks in order to bring out this book in time. Our very grateful thanks to them. 24th September 1974 DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY Sivanandashram Letter No. I To Awaken You Sivananda Gurudev Came Blessed Atma-Swarupa! Dear & Revered Member, Glory Be to the Divine! God Bless you! Thou art Immortal Soul! Thou art Atman, ever-pure, ever-free, ever-perfect, eternal and divine! Thou art Imperishable Spirit, ever existent, conscious and blissful. Remember this always! Your main purpose and important duty is to express and radiate blessedness and pure love and be aware of your true essential nature at all times and under all circumstances. Never forget this! In earnest prayerfulness and deep worshipfulness at the sacred feet of blessed Master, our Gurudev Swami SIVANANDA I speak this above admonition unto you all, upon this first occasion, I have of addressing you all, through the pages of your own Wisdom Light monthly journal. I humbly speak thus in the holy Name of our Guru Sivananda Dev, as the merest instrument of His, through whom He carries on now, His sacred mission, of loving and ceaseless spiritual service of you all. My heart‟s fervent prayer is that this servant of His even as He worked all His dedicated and noble life during the past more than thirty momentous years. In this life I shall strive to translate this prayer into personal action and live to serve. This shall be my endeavour as a servant of Satgurudeva and as His instrument even as it is of my worthy Gurubhais here at this Ashram. In this endeavour His spiritual Presence shall be my guide and His grace, my sustainer, and His remembrance, my strength. May the Divine inspire and help me in this sacred labour of love! Gurudev Sivananda came to awaken you all. He came, lived, taught and worked to awaken, inspire, guide, lead and to illumine. Swamiji awakened you to the true meaning and Goal of your life, inspired you to aspire and strive for that Goal, guided you on your path towards its attainment and led you onward towards illumination. You who have been most fortunate as to receive His awakening spiritual impulse and to get the inspiration of His thrilling teachings and be guided by them, you must now go onward and rise upward upon the spiritual Path with keen aspiration, perseverance and zeal. Let unabated be thy enthusiasm and sustained be thy fervour. Be a sincere seeker and an earnest Sadhak. With joy lead the Divine Life. Adopt the twin motives of Sadhana and Selfless Seva. Become established in truthfulness. Deviate not from Virtue. Pure be thy heart and mind. Let kindness and love dwell in your thoughts, words and actions. May the spirit of Gurudev and His universal teachings light up your life and make all your actions luminous with the rare quality of Dharma and spirituality. God bless you! 1.10.1963 —Swami Chidananda. Sivananda Ashram Letter No. II Who Is Divine Mother Durga? Blessed Immortal Atman! Dear & Revered Member! Om Namo Narayanaya. Jai Sivananda! When this letter reaches you, we would have just passed the solemn, auspicious and most joyous period of the sacred nine-day worship of the Divine Mother. It is now the holy period of Navaratri as I write this for your November Wisdom Light. The atmosphere is surcharged with deep devotion to Maha-Devi and vibrant with the fervour of worshipfulness, adoration and prayer. Our thoughts are filled with the glorious Divine Mother, and Her Blessed and wondrous manifestation as Durga- Lakshmi-Saraswati. She is the great Mystery, the inscrutable Power of the Supreme Brahman, who holds in Her Hands both bondage and Liberation. The Grace of the Divine Mother it is, that enables you to walk the path of Divine Life. Through Her benign blessings you are able to shine as a sincere spiritual seeker and a man of Dharma. To worship the Mother with Devotion is to be immediately uplifted by Her Strength and Power. She works within your inner being as the triple force of destruction, evolution and illumination. Destroying the impure and vicious aspects of one‟s lower nature, the unworthy, base, and bestial in the individual personality, and helping evolve the human nature into sublime heights of goodness, nobility and the purity of beauteous virtue. She illumines the Jiva with supreme divine wisdom. Thus the Divine Mother is the very life and support of the aspirant‟s spiritual Sadhana. She makes your quest fruitful with Attainment. The Divine Mother grants Kaivalya Moksha or eternal release and immortality. To worship and to adore the Blessed Mother is to welcome Her Divine Help in working out your highest good and everlasting welfare.
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