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Periodical: Divine Life (Rikhikesh)

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Divine Life, The.
The Official Organ of the Divine Life Society / Speeches and Writings of Sri Swami Sivananda.
1939 Monthly

Ananda Kutir, Rishikesh, India. Language: English.
Publisher: Swami Krishnananda; Siva prem; The Divine Life Society.
1/1, 1939.
24 pp., 3 Rs. inland, 7s. foreign.

This was the organ for the teachings of Swami Sivananda Saraswati (1887-1963) and the Divine Live Society he founded in 1936, offering "Valuable Spiritual Instructions on Karma, Bhakti, Yoga, Vedant and Philosophy." He was a proponent of Vedanta and what he called the "Synthesis of Yoga," a syncretistic version of yoga easily adopted by lay people and Westerners, particularly. He started his ashram, Ananda Kutir (Abode of Bliss) in Rishikesh in 1934 to teach his disciples Universal Brotherhood and the value of selfless service.

Other Sources:Stanford; Emory University
Issues:Divine Life V6 N8 Apr 1944
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Divine Life is the journal of Swami Sivananda's Divine Life Society at Rishikesh, a Hindu devotional and philosophical review rooted in Advaita Vedanta and the yoga of selfless action. Its pages expound Sri Sankara's teaching of the one absolute Brahman as being-consciousness-bliss, the world as the play of Maya, and the Gita's distinction between renouncing works and renouncing their fruits. Practical counsel on self-control, sattvic diet, and the suppression of selfish desire accompanies devotional essays on faith and God. Though shared Sanskrit vocabulary can make it read as 'occult' to a keyword panel, it belongs to mainstream Hindu religious teaching rather than to the Western esoteric currents that dominate this collection.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Yoga and Vedanta