#YOUTUBE OM NAMO NARAYANAYA SWAMI VISHNUDEVANANDA FULL#

It is the full Reality that alone can be the goal of life.

Only that which is Real can be the goal the unreal cannot be the goal of life, nor can a partial reality be the goal of life. If the goal of life should be God-realisation, God should be the Reality, because we cannot regard an unreality or a lesser reality as the goal of life. Vairagya, or sannyasa, is the necessary result that follows spontaneously and logically from the acceptance of the reality that the goal of life is God-realisation. We need not make another statement about it. Vairagya, renunciation or sannyasa, spontaneously flows from the acceptance, from the heart, of the fact that the goal of life is God-realisation. When we say that the goal of life is God-realisation, we have said everything that needs to be said. But to saints of the type of Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, it was a calling of life and not a mere intellectual conviction or a rational acceptance. Slowly, this concept is becoming more and more academic these days, i.e., it is accepted only by the intellect as a logical conviction and a rational acceptance of spiritual values but has little bearing on the practical life of people. In all His books, Swamiji emphasises the practical application of Yoga philosophy over theoretical knowledge.įondly recalling how His Guru authored many books, Swami Krishnananda says, 'Most of his earlier writings began with this proclamation: 'The goal of life is God-realisation.' He would commence his work-be it a book, or an essay, or a message, or even a lecture-with the sentence, 'The goal of life is God-realisation'. Swami Sivananda, a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta, who studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years, is also a prolific author who wrote 296 books on a variety of subjects, viz., metaphysics, yoga, vedanta, religion, western philosophy, psychology, eschatology, fine arts, ethics, education, health, sayings, poems, epistles, autobiography, biography, stories, dramas, messages, lectures, dialogues, essays and anthology.

But Swami Sivanandaji had equal regard for both.' Thus, Swami Visvanandaji Maharaj was his Diksha Guru, while Swami Vishnudevanandaji Maharaj was his Sannyasa Kriya Guru. The ritualistic confirmation of this Jnana Sannyasa was subsequently performed by the great Sri Swami Vishnudevanandaji Maharaj of Kailas Ashram. Jnana Sannyasa implies Sannyasa without ritual.

It was a unique coming together of two personalities, as if ordained by God Himself, and Jnana Sannyasa, as it is known, was offered to Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. Swami Krishnananda writing of this chance meeting between the two spiritual stalwarts says, 'Swami Visvananda Saraswati is little known to the public and, perhaps, personally he was not even acquainted to Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. On 1st June 1924, He met His Guru, Swami Visvananda Saraswati, but for a few minutes, and from whom He received initiation into the sacred order of Sannyasa. After that we did not have a flood of that kind', Swami Krishnananda reminisced. The next big flood we had was, of course, in July 1963, immediately after Swami Sivanandaji’s Mahasamadhi, when it flooded Sri Gurudev’s Kutir neck-deep. It was the biggest flood ever seen in Rishikesh. In all the rivers of India there was flood beyond limit. 'Everywhere there was water and water alone. 'It was the year when there were unprecedented floods', Swami Krishnananda says. arrived in Rishikesh in the year 1922 when there was practically nothing in Rishikesh except a few almshouses (kshetras) and sadhus staying in isolated thatched huts. Since its founding in 1936, it has been the centre of spiritual teaching and learning for many spiritual aspirants, who regard it as a holy place of pilgrimage. Swami Sri Sivananda Saraswati Maharaj of Rishikesh, the founder archarya of the Divine Life Society, a Hindu spiritual organisation and an ashram at Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh, India.

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