BLISS IS WITHIN
By
Sri Swami Chidananda
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:
1991
(3,000 Copies)
World Wide Web (WWW) Edition: 2000
WWW site: http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/
This WWW reprint is for free distribution
© The Divine Life Trust Society
ISBN 81-7052-091-6
Published By
THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
P.O. SHIVANANDANAGAR—249 192
Distt. Tehri-Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh,
Himalayas, India.
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
Sri Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj has been giving innumerable talks during his extensive
tours both in India and abroad. Only some of them are available to us in the form of recorded
cassettes; out of which only a small percentage have been transcribed, edited and printed. Swamiji’s
lectures are simple, lucid, inspiring, absolutely practical and universal in nature. To ensure that his
inspiring and life-transforming talks reach a maximum number of spiritual seekers and that this
treasure is not lost to posterity, a systematic effort is needed to get them transcribed, properly edited
and printed.
We have great pleasure in bringing out twenty-five lectures by Sri Swami Chidanandaji and
releasing the volume “Bliss Is Within” on the eve of his Amrita Mahotsava (75th
Birth-Anniversary) which falls on 24th September, 1991.
23rd September, 1991
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CONTENTS
Publishers’ Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Spiritual Life: Its Relevance in the Modern Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Divine Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Vedic Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Introduction to the Gita. . . . .