JNANA YOGA SUTRA(SWAMI SIVANANDA YOGA SUTRA.5)

JNANA YOGA SUTRA(SWAMI SIVANANDA YOGA SUTRA.5)

JNANA YOGA SUTRA.1(OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA.

Knowledge of Brahman is the highest virtue.The lover

of wisdom yearns for knowledge as a cure for the

ignorance which cling to him.

Due to ignorance the pure Self is identified with the

empirical mind and the gross body.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.2 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Salvation is neither in heavenn or in Mount Kailas.

It is in our own heart.Self-analysis will show you

what you really are.

Know the source of freedom,

the root of bliss and be free!

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.3 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Find out the seaker of speech,

              the seer of sights,

             the hearer of sounds.

You will attain immortality.

Discover the true Reality,in the heart of our

own subjectivity,in the very depth of your own being.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.4 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Brahma Jnana alone is the cure for the disease of

ignorance.

The ultimate Reality is one,infinite,eternal ,self existent,

self-luminous,self-contained.

Brahman alone is the ultimate Reality.All life,all power

comes from Him alone.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.5 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

The absolute is divisionless,and hence changeless.

the absolute iis infinite.therefore it must be .Perfect.

Brahman is infinite,therefore it is full.He is the only

reality.There is nothing worth coveting or desiring in

the world.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.6 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

The Atman or Brahman is self-luminous and shines

independently by itself.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.7 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

That beyond which there is nothing,that which is the

innermost self of all, is Brahman.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.8(OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

The Atman is sinless,birthless,deathless,timeless,

spaceless,sorrowless,hungerless,thirstless.

That deathless,decayless,changeless thing is the

Atman.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.9 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

The Atman cannot be doubted because it is the essential

nature of him, who denies it.

The Atman cannot be proved for it is the basis of all

proof.

Knowledge comes through

  Purva Punya (past good deeds)

  satsang (association with the saints)

  Guru seva(service of the Master) and

Vichar (reflection)

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.10 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Speak not of the unspeakable ,

Measure not the inmeasurable.

Become silent.

Enter the Silence.

My child meditate.

Come into the deep, deep quiet.

Come into the profound,infinite silence or peace.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.11 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Change is motion.

Change is Samsara.

Changelessness is Brahman.

The unchanging basis is Brahman or Atman.

That which is changeless amidst the changing names

and forms, that Brahman is art thou.O beloved discilple !

Meditate on this and be ever blissful and free !

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.12 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

The highest end of life is to realise the true nature of self.

Awake and realise that you are pure and immortal.

Be quiet and know that you are Brahman,the immortal.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.13 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

By knowing the self alone can you cross the ocean

of death. There is no other way.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA 14 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Renunciation is the only royal road to self-realisation.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTA 15 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

Tranquility which nothing can touch,supeme peace

without a ruffle, light and bliss unalloyed--such is a

glimpse of self-realisation.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.16 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

This world is like the foot print of a calf or a dog when

compared to the infnte Brahman.This earth is but an

infinitestmal speck of dust compared to the infinite Sachidananda.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.17 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

You can study philosophical books as much as you like.

You can deliver lectures through out your global tour ,

You can remain in a Himalayan cave for a hundred

years or practise Pranayam for fifty years.Yet you

cannot attain emancipation without the realisation of

the oneness of the Self.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.18 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Annihilate ignorance and acquire the state of non-dulaity.

The false identification of the Self is the primary cause

of bondage,all sorrow and all pain.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.19 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

The inexhaustible,supreme divine treasure, the Atmic

pearl is locked up in the chambers of your heart,in

the casket of silence.

Unlock it with the key of Self-knowledge or Brahma

Jnana.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.20 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Petty fears,petty pleasures,petty worries are the products

of ignorance.Overcome them through wisdom.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.21 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Wisdom is the perception of non-difference,ignorance

is the reverse of it.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA 22 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

To identify oneself with the all-pervading Brahman is

Jnana. All is God.

           All live and move in God.

God is immanent.He is hidden in all these forms like

electricity in wire.

OM NAMO NARAYANA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.23 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Calmness,courage,joy,happiness,bliss,cheerfulness

will only come to you,if you realise the unity in one-ness

which lies hidden in all names and forms.

For this the ego must be burnt to ashes.Then alone

will the Atman shine in its pristine splendour and glory.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.24 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

"Love thy neighbour as thyself."

The highest Vedantic teaching is presented here in the

simplest of words.

:I am Brahman."

This truth is to be lived,not to be merely pronounced

with the mouth.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.25 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

You are divine.

Tat-Twam-Asi---Thou art That.

This is the ideal of Vedanta.

The Lord breathes in all life.

Man in his essential or true nature is God.

O Ram, in essence, thou art free,thou art divine,thou

art pure and immortal.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.26 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Self analysis will show you what you really are.

Self-realisation is attained through discrimination,

through enquiry of "Who am I?"

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA 27 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Solve first the"Who am I?" problem.All other problems

will then be automatically solved.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.28 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Search with in and realise the knower of all thoughts.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.29 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Immortal,taintless,past the boundaries of death art thou.

O John!

Think intensely upon the Supreme Being,who is your

indweller and your All -in -all.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.30 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

Look upon the world as a mirage,as a fleeting flash of

lightning.

Maya will not then touch you.

Death will not approcah you.

Examine the mind.Find out the unsubstantiality of this

world and enter the Atman within.You will then shine in

your pristine glory.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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JNANA YOGA SUTRA.31 (OF SWAMI SIVANANDA)

RADHE KRISHNA,

A Jnana Yogi sees Atman everywhere through his eye

of wisdom.There is no thought of the self in him.He feels

the world as his own self.He thinks and feels and works

for others.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA.

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