Sivananda Upanishad, Plain Living and High Thinking

 "Sivananda Upanishad" compiled by Swami Vishnu devananda

  ॐ

1st September 1949

Sri R.C.Bannerjee, Calcutta

If you have no dispassion, if there is no strong aspiration, if there is no purity of heart, you will fail to attain God-realisation.

Comfort, luxury and sensual pleasures dull the mind and incapacitate it for higher intellectual and spiritual work. Therefore shun comfort, luxury and pleasures. Have plain living and high thinking.

Om tat Sat,

Sivananda

The "Sivananda Upanishad" is a compilation of Swami Sivananda's correspondence with followers all over the world. They are in his handwriting which is not always easy to decipher! This book was compiled by my Guru, Swami Vishnu devananda, founder of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Organisation. Alongside the letters, he has arranged photographs of Master Sivananda, some of them with captions. It's a wonderful book to keep by your altar or bedside. Every page is filled with inspiring messages. In the back of the book, there is a section on Swami Sivananda's biography. This book can be obtained through the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashrams and Centres worldwide. 

Please check through their websites in your nearest centre http://www.sivananda.org/