Swami Sivananda
aspiration. It gives encouragement and
SWADHYAYA
“ Swadhyaya is daily study of religious
scriptures and books written by realized
sages. ”
  
“ When you read the lives of saints and
spiritual books, a host of powerful and positive
ideas rush to your mind and, at once, your
mental powers are sharpened. They at once
inspire the man and lift him and enable him to
conquer the lower forces in his everyday life.
Therefore, swadhyaya should not be given up
even for a single day in the life of a sadhaka. ”
   “ Scriptures contain the wisdom of sages and
“ Swadhyaya inspires and elevates the mind
to high spiritual altitude. It clears doubts. It
weeds out unholy ideas. It cuts new spiritual
grooves for the mind to move on. It reduces
wandering of the mind. It helps concentration.
It forms a kind of lower ‘ savikalpa samadhi ’. It
serves pasture for the mind to graze upon.
When you study the sacred books, you are in
tune with the authors who are realized souls.
You draw inspiration and become ecstatic. ”
   meditate will lead you to super-consciousness.
“ Swadhyaya strengthens the flickering faith.
It induces strong yearning for liberation or
illumination. It places before you a list of saints
who tread the path, encountered and removed
difficulties and thus cheers you up with hope
and vigour. It fills the mind with ‘ sattva ’ or purity
.. it inspires and elevates the mind. It helps
concentration and meditation. It cuts new
‘ sattvic ’ grooves and makes the mind run in
these new grooves. ”
  
“ Spiritual books act as consoling
companions under all vexing circumstances,
ideal teachers in all difficulties, as guiding lights
in the nights of nescience and folly, as panacea
for evils, and as shapers of destiny. ”
  
saints, philosophers and mystics. By
swadhyaya, master the secrets of all scriptures,
know the exact nature of things, and tune your
localized being or individualized personality
with the workings of the divine nature of the
laws of truth. Wisdom is the key to the plenitude
of power and joy. ”
  
“ When, thus, the entire inner nature is
transformed into divine, then, a single effort to
You will then realize God in the twinkling of an
eye ! ”
source : “ Bliss Divine ” by Swami Sivananda
 Be A Master
Swami Sivananda

18
Guiding Principles for The Masters of
Pyramid Spiritual Societies Movement

 Meditate in the right way .. i.e., Anapanasati .. and teach

everyone this same way of Anapanasati.
 Read right spiritual books .. e.g. by Osho, Lobsang
Rampa, Castaneda, Jane Roberts, Annie Besant, Linda
Goodman, Deepak Chopra, Sylvia Browne etc., etc.
 Exchange meditational experiences with everyone.
 Spend .. much time .. every day .. in silence ; worldly gossip
is absolutely forbidden.
 Utilize full-moon nights for intensive meditation.
 Utilize pyramid energy for meditation, as much as possible.
 Give-up all medicines ! Only meditational energy heals !
 No meat .. no fish .. no eggs ! Be a vegetarian ! Eat according
to need, not according to greed ! Eat only when you are
hungry !
 Spend much time in pure nature e.g., forests, meadows,
rivers and mountains etc.
 No ‘ spiritual ’ clothing ! No ‘ sacred ’ body-marks ! No change
to any ‘ spiritual ’ name !
 Impart meditation training to children, right from their child-
hood.
 Learn to live as Masters and never as disciples.
 Reject money exchanges in meditation-training programs.
 No worship of idols ! No worship of Living Masters !
 Overcome personal problems using own meditational
strength.
 Enjoy normal sexual lives ! No sanyasa !
 Establish pyramid meditation centres in all villages,
towns and cities.
 Publish meditational experiences and personal spiritual
transformation.

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