Note to Yoga Practitioners
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SADHANA CHATUSHTAYA BY SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
First Edition: 1958
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
During recent years there has been a great spiritual revival and people in India and abroad have taken seriously to the study of Yoga and Vedanta. But, in practice, it has been found that there is—in keeping with the rapid tempo of life itself in the modern world—an unpardonable hurry and neglect of essentials in the field of the practice of Yoga, too. Seekers after Truth are impatient to enter into the Transcendental Realm of Self-realisation; practitioners of Yoga expect to enter into Samadhi a week after taking up the practice "concentration and meditation".
The all-important preparation is woefully neglected. Our ancient scriptures have given the place of greatest prominence to these preparatory steps—Yama-Niyama or the Sadhana Chatushtaya. His Holiness Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, too, has been forewarning students of Yoga not to neglect this; and as a matter of fact he has declared that the greater the attention paid to these preparatory steps—the cultivation of virtues and the eradication of vices—the more rapid would the march of the seeker towards the Goal be.
To the sincere and earnest seeker after Truth, therefore, this book is a boon. It gives him the key to success in Yoga.
Publishers
31st December 1958
The above is quoted from H.H. Swami Sivananda’s book.
First Edition: 1958
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
During recent years there has been a great spiritual revival and people in India and abroad have taken seriously to the study of Yoga and Vedanta. But, in practice, it has been found that there is—in keeping with the rapid tempo of life itself in the modern world—an unpardonable hurry and neglect of essentials in the field of the practice of Yoga, too. Seekers after Truth are impatient to enter into the Transcendental Realm of Self-realisation; practitioners of Yoga expect to enter into Samadhi a week after taking up the practice "concentration and meditation".
The all-important preparation is woefully neglected. Our ancient scriptures have given the place of greatest prominence to these preparatory steps—Yama-Niyama or the Sadhana Chatushtaya. His Holiness Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, too, has been forewarning students of Yoga not to neglect this; and as a matter of fact he has declared that the greater the attention paid to these preparatory steps—the cultivation of virtues and the eradication of vices—the more rapid would the march of the seeker towards the Goal be.
To the sincere and earnest seeker after Truth, therefore, this book is a boon. It gives him the key to success in Yoga.
Publishers
31st December 1958
The above is quoted from H.H. Swami Sivananda’s book.
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