Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!
Namaste!
"Celebration of Krishnanandaji's birthday is worship
of Brahman. Many people's faculties are developed.
Every man's eyes are opened. Everyone begins to think
such celebrations are very necessary." - Swami
Sivananda
"Krishnanandaji is a wonder to me! He has excelled me.
He has excelled Sankara. He has excelled
Dakshinamoorthy." - Swami Sivananda
"He is very quick in his work. He has vast and deep
knowledge of Vedanta. It is all God's Grace. It is not
merely due to study in this birth. It is all due to
Purva Samskaras. His knowledge is a treasure for those
aspirants, who care to learn, study and imbibe the
knowledge from him." - Swami Sivananda
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Today (April 25) is the holy occasion of worshipful
Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj's 89th birthday
anniversary.
In honour of this occasion, we uploaded an article by
Sri Swami Chidananda titled "Swami Krishnananda--The
Ideal Saint" at:
http://www.dlshq.org/saints/krishna_ideal.htm
In addition, several new lectures (text, audio and
video) have been uploaded to Swamiji's site. They are:
1) Video: The Samvarga Vidya of Sage Raikva: The All-
Absorbent Meditation
http://swami-krishnananda.org/disc/disc_188.html
2) E-book: The Philosophy and Psychology of Yoga
Practice
Chapter 1: The Beginning of Philosophical Enquiry
http://swami-krishnananda.org/phil-psy/phil-psy_01.html
3) Discourse: Spiritual Meditation
http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/disc/disc_190.html
Yours in the service of Gurudev,
Pannirselvam
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Book Synopsis
A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought
in India
By Swami Krishnananda
This rapid yet comprehensive survey, by the saint and
sage, ranges from the Vedas and the Upanishads to the
Smritis, and includes the Itihasas and Puranas, the
Bhagavadgita, Yoga Vasishtha, etc. Good thumbnail
sketches of subjects to which whole libraries and
cultures are devoted.
There are two ways of studying a subject: to approach
it as a process and to appreciate it as an essence. In
the former procedure of study, the subject is viewed
as history; while, in the latter, it is taken in its
capacity as that permanent element which moves
unaffected through history, as the thread which
connects its parts. This dual role of any feature is
seen to be mutually related in all things,-in the
individual, the society and the universe. Just as, for
instance, the human being is a changing and growing
process of personality and experience and is at the
same time something unique in itself, incapable of
comparison and timeless in essence, all
manifestations, qualities and relations, forms and
actions, embody this peculiarity of nature. The
history of philosophy busies itself with the process
of the unfoldment of reality through the vehicle of
human thought; the philosophy of history unravels the
pearl that is hidden beneath the waves of historical
movement.
The themes presented in this book reveal the manner in
which different sources of knowledge in India have
attempted to portray the truths of life in their
ultimate references. From the richly grown valley of
the Vedas, there is a rise to the towering peaks of
the Upanishads. Further on, it is not another ascent,
but an artistic display of the beauty of human emotion
in a blend of love and dignity which is lavishly
raised as a fitting superstructure on the esoteric
grandeur of these sky-scraping cliffs,-a work
marvellously executed in the Epics and the
Bhagavadgita and proclaimed untiringly in the Puranas.
The other outer reaches of this superb achievement of
human genius are the laws of society, the rules of
living and the cry of the soul for the Infinite, which
longs for the God of the cosmos on one hand and the
subliminal consciousness on the other, between which
there has never been a choice. Man speaks to himself
in his innermost secrecy.
There is more information at:
http://www.dlshq.org/books/ek1.htm
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