Swami Krishnananda
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This lecture series entitled the heritage of Indian culture was given by Swami Krishnananda during the course of eight Sunday evening satsangs in 1980. Here Swamiji highlights the vision of India which sees the totality of the various manifestations of life and visualizes the one in the many and how this has relevance of culture and civilization the role that philosophy religion and scripture have played and why Indian culture has remained so rich and vital ...
How rare it is to find a teacher of supreme truth whose knowledge is without equal, whose ability to teach is unparalleled and whose primary concern is to render the utmost benefit to the students seated before him. Such a one was Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj. Not only was he a master of yoga, Vedanta, the philosophy of both the East and West, he was also a saint and sage of great attainment. He was not someone who merely lectured from book knowledge; when he ...
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras as aphoristic prescriptions in the form of pithy one-liners for leading the mind into deeper states of absorption in the state of Samadhi, where the individual merges with the Absolute. A tranquil mind is a prerequisite for attaining higher states of awareness and the Yoga Sutras are a graduated manual for the achievement of this goal. The aphorisms, as they are in their original form, cannot be easily understood. Swami ...
The present publication meets a significant demand of seeking minds for a text-book on the metaphysics of a spiritual view of life, which goes into heart of its questions and processes and supplies the needs of the contemplative as well as the practical side of an earnest search for Reality. This book by Revered Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj is a valuable guide to the student as well as the philosopher of life, a practical directive to seekers on the spiritual ...
The wonder of creation is what generally stimulates the highest possible reaches of thought and feeling. The objective universe , remaining, nevertheless as a universal inclusiveness, encounters us as an intelligent and purposive operation motivated by a central aim arising from the very heart of all things. Such a fundamental essence has been called God in theological terms, as the Absolute in Philosophy, as the very Substance that transcends even space and ...
The Upanishads have always been acknowledged as veritable mines of Transcendental Wisdom. They are fountain-sources and treasure houses of Divine knowledge. But they are something more, too. In them we have not only the revelation of the radiant realms of the Supreme Brahman-Consciousness, but also the shining pathway that leads one to it - the secrets of Vedanta-Sadhana or Jnana-Yoga. This book is a forceful and brilliant monograph on this theme which forms the ...
Placed in the exciting context of an imminent war between cousins descending from a common ancestry, the Gita gospel purports to dramatize the perpetual conflict of cosmic forces which, on the one hand, gravitate towards the Supreme Absolute, and on the other, rush to immolate themselves in the diversity of names, forms and the processes of phenomenal universe. The lectures which embody the contents of this stimulating book cover the entire range of the ...
The necessity which any religious adherent or spiritual seeker would feel for a book of this kind should be obvious. Generally, religion goes by rituals and performances of general routines come by way of tradition, but the mind of man, being what it is, also moves with the routine and does not always feel competent to visualize the vital role that religious observances play as vehicles which embody a deeper significance that may best be described as spiritual. ...
The outlook of one's life depends upon one's conception of reality. The structure of the universe decides our relationship with things. What is known as a vision of life is just the attitude which the individual is constrained to develop in regard to the atmosphere of the universe. Such an exalted conception of the totality of experience may be designated as the ph8ilosophy of life. It is, thus, philosophy which determines human conduct and enterprises of every ...
Most Revered Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj is one of the foremost exponents of spiritual, religious and philosophic thought, whose writings have illumined countless seekers all over the world. The Attainment of the Infinite is a series of six discourses spoken during Sadhana Week in 1996. this is the first new publication to be released since Swamiji attained Mahasamadhi in 2001, and is a clear guide, lovingly explained, for the spiritual aspirant whose goal ...
The Katha Upanishad may be regarded as a most appropriate introduction to spiritual life in general. The story with which the Upanishad begins provides the proper foundation for commencing a study of the science of the higher life of man. From the exoteric ritual of the performance of sacrifice and charity by Sage Vajasravasa, the Upanishad takes us to the spiritual longing of the seeker, Nachiketas, which moves along a definite pattern of development. In the ...