Swami Sivananda – författare

Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj was a doctor before he embraced the holy Order of Sannyasa. Even before he began his medical career, he enthusiastically conducted a medical journal called "Ambrosia" in which he published regularly articles on health and hygiene, diet and healing.

This volume from the pen of the sage-doctor is of the greatest value, not only to the members of the medical profession, but to the layman as well who will gain immense knowledge from it, for enjoying good health and long life.

A saint''s life is the ideal for all to emulate, a pattern for everyone who would make his own life sublime. It is an open book from which to learn the lessons of divine life. However much one tries to gain knowledge of spiritual truths from scriptures and texts, it is not until one actually sees someone in whom those truths shine exemplified that one is ready, willing and eager to realise those truths in actual daily life. That is the purpose that this inspiring book serves.

This celestial scripture, the enthralling story of the sixty-three Nayanars, the towering spiritual giants of South India, has the potential to bring about a spiritual renaissance, nay, a revolution throughout the world. It is a book to jolt one out of his spiritual lethargy, a book to shake one out of spiritual slumber and a book to heal one''s chronic spiritual blindness.

This book contains the biographies of the sixty-three Nayanar saints, and an authoritative article on the Saiva Siddhanta philosophy.