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The following books are available in ebook editions:
A History of Books on
Shivabalayogi
Earlier
booklets and books on Shivabalayogi.
Divine Play: The Silent Teaching of Shivabala Yogi
The first book on Shivabalayogi written for and published in the West.
Clear, concise and compelling account of his tapas, travels, and blessings, with his answers to questions on a wide variety of subjects.
Available in bookstores and online bookstores, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Go to Divine Play (2004, Handloom Publishing).
Sources for Books on Shivabalayogi
The Life of Shivabalayogi: God Realization in a Modern World
The
Life of Shivabalayogi is the comprehensive story of Shivabalayogi that
draws from all available sources to chronicle his childhood, his twelve-year
tapas from 1949 to 1961, his "golden years" in Adivarapupeta from 1961 to 1963,
his travels throughout India, Sri Lanka, England and the United States from 1963
to 1991, his great samadhi on March 28, 1994, and his continued presence in the
world today.
The Life of Shivabalayogi (2024) is a revision of Swamiji's Treasure (2007). Swamiji taught through experiences and he referred to his devotees' experiences as his jewels. The experiences Shivabalayogi evokes are Swamiji's treasure, and they include experiences and visions in meditation, spiritual trance, and physical and mental healing. His biography is incomplete without including a wide range of devotees' experiences.
Shivabalayogi completed a particularly severe tapas to attain the powers (tapas shakti) necessary to guide individuals in meditation and to evoke the experiences he generously gives. That is Shivabalayogi's public mission. But his purpose also has a less public and probably more significant aspect. Swamiji often warned about the dangers facing the modern world, particularly the lack of foundation, whether spiritual or practical, nuclear and environmental pollution, and the threat of another world war. His tapas shakti also serves unseen to keep us from destroying ourselves.
The Life of Shivabalayogi is also a record of informal conversations with Swamiji in which he answered questions on a wide variety of topics: meditation, divine trance, soul connections, the importance of foundations in life, accidents and fate, Jesus and other yogis, religion and spiritual leaders, divine beings, spirit worlds, and nuclear and environmental dangers.
Go to The Life of Shivabalayogi (2024, Handloom Publishing)
Sources for Books on Shivabalayogi
Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj, Life & Spiritual Ministration
Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj, Life & Spiritual Ministration, collected and
written by Hanut Singh, was originally published by the Bangalore Trust on the occasion of Shivabalayogi’s
46th birthday on
January 24, 1981.
This was the biography that Shri Swamiji brought with him on his first visit to the United States in 1988.
More
about Life &
Spiritual Ministration.
Free download of the 1988 edition of Life & Spiritual Ministration.
Traduzione italiana:
Vita e Missione Spirituale PDF
Vita e Missione Spirituale ebook
Tapas Shakti: Shri Shri Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj
This
is the book that Shivabalayogi asked to be written in 1991 to combine his
then existing English biography (Life & Spiritual Ministration), question & answer material
collected mostly in the United States,
and devotees’ experiences, mostly in the U.S.
Published in India, Shivabalayogi presented Tapas Shakti to the
public
on the occasion of
his 59th birthday on
January 24, 1992.
Go to Tapas Shakti (original publication 1992, Bangalore, and 2016 edition)
Out of print for many years, the story of Shivabalayogi’s mahasamadhi is now
available
online without charge as an e-book.
This is the original publication published by the Bangalore Trust and presented to the public on April 2, 1995, PLUS an omitted chapter on devotees’ experiences of Shivabalayogi’s darshan through bhava samadhi since Shri Swamiji dropped his own physical form.
Please go to The Living Yogi page for more information and the download.
Yoga Vasistha Maharamayana by Valmiki
“Read the Yoga Vasistha. Swamiji’s philosophy is fully expounded in that scripture.”
The only complete, unabridged translation of Yoga Vasistha is by Vihari Lala
Mitra.
Printed in 1891, it is long out of print and copies are rare and expensive.
The complete English translation is available for purchase, revised to make this unique spiritual classic more readable and accessible.
Go to Yoga Vasistha Maharamayana (2012).
Free download of the complete Yoga Vasistha
available in two different e-book formats:
epub format (Barnes & Noble Nook & standard library)
mobi format (Amazon Kindle)
Those interested in the more esoteric aspects of meditation inspired by Shivabalayogi may find much of interest in Laghu Guru Upanishad. A disciple of Shivabalayogi and a veteran of the Indian army, Gurprasad (a pen name) has written extensively about his experiences in meditation and published it in book form under the title Laghu Guru Upanishad.
The book is available through Amazon.com.
More Information: A History of Books on Shivabalayogi
A History of Books on Shivabalayogi — Descriptions, online reads, and downloads of earlier booklets and books on Shivabalayogi.