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NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
STORY OF SWAMI SIVANANDA
I thank you very much for the parcel of books
you have so kindly sent to me.
Of the three, as usual, I like very much the
souvenir "Bhumandaleswar" which contains your
pictures with various personalities and shows your
multifarious activities. "Why Swami Sivananda
allows himself to be photographed so often and why
is it his pictures are splashed in almost every book
or publication from Sivananda Nagar?" Such a querry
was posed among others by an Australian who, some-
time ago, was staying with me and claimed to be a
student of psychology. Such a doubt, fortunately,
has never crept into my mind, be it that the mind is
no less sceptical than the Occident's, because of the
atmosphere in which I have had my education.
While I have always liked reading your books
beause of their simple and direct approach, I have
liked much more publications which contain pictures
about your activities. As opportunity to see you in
person or sit at your feet for many days is not within
my good fortune, it is most certainly exhilarating and
inspiring to see you in such pictorial publications as
"Bhumandaleshwar". This is the case not only with
me but also with the other members of my family,
Priya included. And I have no doubt that this must
be the case with many others. There must be quite
a number who not only delight to see you in such
pictorial publications but feel inspired and elevated
even as I am, everytime.
NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
STORY OF SWAMI SIVANANDA
I thank you very much for the parcel of books
you have so kindly sent to me.
Of the three, as usual, I like very much the
souvenir "Bhumandaleswar" which contains your
pictures with various personalities and shows your
multifarious activities. "Why Swami Sivananda
allows himself to be photographed so often and why
is it his pictures are splashed in almost every book
or publication from Sivananda Nagar?" Such a querry
was posed among others by an Australian who, some-
time ago, was staying with me and claimed to be a
student of psychology. Such a doubt, fortunately,
has never crept into my mind, be it that the mind is
no less sceptical than the Occident's, because of the
atmosphere in which I have had my education.
While I have always liked reading your books
beause of their simple and direct approach, I have
liked much more publications which contain pictures
about your activities. As opportunity to see you in
person or sit at your feet for many days is not within
my good fortune, it is most certainly exhilarating and
inspiring to see you in such pictorial publications as
"Bhumandaleshwar". This is the case not only with
me but also with the other members of my family,
Priya included. And I have no doubt that this must
be the case with many others. There must be quite
a number who not only delight to see you in such
pictorial publications but feel inspired and elevated
even as I am, everytime.