Om Namo Bhagavade Sivanandaya

Established in 1949 by Sri Swami Sivananda

Launch: Centenary Picture of the Year - 2020

Published in News & Reports
Read 845 times
Rate this item
(0 votes)

The dates 01 June 2024 and 10 July 2025 mark the centenary of two important events in the calendar of Divine Life Society of South Africa: the Sannyas Anniversary of our Gurudev, Sri Swami Sivananda, and the Birth Anniversary of our Spiritual Head Sri Swami Sahajananda, respectively. The society will be releasing a number of publications as part of our centenary celebrations. 

It is an honour to offer at the feet of Sri Gurudev and Pujya Swamiji , our fourth picture, in a series of 10 pictures of Sri Gurudev. This picture will be for the year 2020. Each subsequent year we will have a different picture released. 

When a devotee posed a question to Sri Gurudev enquiring about why Gurudev takes so many pictures, Sri Gurudev responded as follows, "The force behind the system of visual education, which psychologists today claim as being infintely superior to textbooks, will be apparent if you reflect over a very common phenomenon. Leave on your table in the study a few good books, a few pictorials and a few photographs. Let your children, your friends, come into the study. What do they pick up first? Not the books. They pick up the photographs first, and then the pictorials. It is true that your lustre is tranferred onto the photograph. Therefore to a devotee, the picture of the Lord, and to a disciple, a picture of the Guru, is a living presence. It is necessary for meditation." We also recall Pujya Swamiji asking us to page through the book Swami Sivananda in Pictures daily and to view 10 pictures of the Master before we sleep. The benefit of such Darshan can only be experienced by practice. 

We hereby launch our centenary picture for the year 2020 in the name of our Divine Master, Sri Swami Sivananda and Pujya Swamiji and offer our gratitude for their continued guidance and protection upon all devotees. 

Gurudev Centenary 2020

Last modified on Tuesday, 04 February 2020 10:56
Super User

Hi my name is Marcubie and I have been the Creative Director on Medunten Technology. The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls pronunciation 

Website: themesoul.com
More in this category: Report: Mahasivaratri 2020 »

Left Home Image

Gurudev Centenary 2024

Sri Swami Sivananda

(1887 - 1963)

Forthcoming Functions

Publications

"Sure Ways for Success in Life and God Realisation"

"Sure Ways for Success in…

April 30, 2015

Size: 14.8cm x 20cm Soft Cover: Pages: 320 Pages Donation (SA): R50 Foreign: $15 Sure Ways for Success In ...

"Path of Divine Grace, Volume 2"

"Path of Divine Grace, Vo…

April 30, 2015

Size: 14.5cm x 20.5cm Soft Cover: Pages: 244 Pages Donation (SA): R25 Foreign: $10 The eagerly awaited s...

"Path of Divine Grace, Volume 1"

"Path of Divine Grace, Vo…

April 30, 2015

Size: 14.5cm x 20.5cm Soft Cover: Pages: 244 Pages Donation (SA): R25 Foreign: $10 The first of 4 Volume...

"Practice of Karma Yoga"

"Practice of Karma Yoga…

April 30, 2015

Size: 14.8cm x 21.2cm Soft Cover: 233 pages Donation (SA): R30 Foreign: $12 The nectar-like teachings of...