SPECIAL INSIGHTS INTO SADHANA
No. 7
By
SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA
from
Early Morning Meditation Talks
Sri Swami Sivananda
Founder of
The Divine Life Society
SERVE, LOVE, GIVE,
PURIFY, MEDITATE,
REALIZE
So Says
Sri Swami Sivananda
Sri Swami Chidananda
A DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY PUBLICATION
First Edition: 1997
(2,000 Copies)
World Wide Web (WWW) Reprint : 1999
WWW site: http://www.rsl.ukans.edu/~pkanagar/divine/
This WWW reprint is for free distribution
© The Divine Life Trust Society
No. 7
Special Insights into Sadhana
on
Thursday: The Day of the Guru
Published By
THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
P.O. SHIVANANDANAGAR—249 192
Distt. Tehri-Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh,
HIMALAYAS, INDIA.
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
This special series of eight booklets is being published between September 1996 and
September 1997 in honour of the 80th Birthday Anniversary of H.H. Sri Swami Chidanandaji
Maharaj, the President of the Divine Life Society.
Each booklet contains several of his early morning meditation talks given on special
spiritual occasions in the sacred Samadhi Hall of the holy founder of the Divine Life Society and
Sivananda Ashram, H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. The series of eight booklets covers the
entire year of special occasions and festivals celebrated in the Ashram.
The talks contain penetrating insights into the meaning and purpose of sadhana as Swamiji
takes advantage of these occasions to point out the fundamentals required for success in the
spiritual quest such as devotion to the goal, discrimination, obedience to the Guru, faith in God and
oneself, and a divinely lived life.
The spiritual advice and encouragement contained in these booklets will be an inspiration
and help to earnest spiritual seekers throughout the world.
THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
PREFACE
The whole year for the Hindu is a continuous observance of some sacred day of worship or
other. The year is completely built around a great many days of sacred worship of various
expressions of the one non-dual Divine Reality.
Each month is significant for the presence of some importan