Swami Sivananda

His autobiography and his teaching on the Guru

Autobiography of Swami Sivananda, his own account: his boyhood, his years as a doctor in Malaya, renunciation and sadhana at Rishikesh, and the founding and work of The Divine Life Society.

Swami Sivananda

Contents

  1. I AM BORN
  2. THE CALL OF THE IMMORTAL
  3. ON THE ANVIL—SHARING THE TREASURE DIVINE
  4. THE DIVINE MISSION
  5. MY RELIGION, ITS TECHNIQUE AND DISSEMINATION
  6. SIVANANDA ASHRAM
  7. LIGHT ON THE PATH OF RENUNCIATION
  8. JNANA YAJNA
  9. THE IDEAL OF LIFE
  10. MY METHODOLOGY OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
  11. PRACTICAL HINTS ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH
  12. SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES
  13. WISDOM IN HUMOUR

Opening pages

  1. Title page
  2. PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
  3. Śivānandastutiḥ
  4. SIVA’S EXPERIENCE
  5. SIVA’S MESSAGE
  6. HOW GOD CAME INTO MY LIFE
  7. WHAT LIFE HAS TAUGHT ME
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. PREFACE

After the chapters

  1. GLOSSARY