
In 1948 the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy was organized. In 1936 was born The Divine Life Society. He settled down at Rishikesh in 1924, practiced intense austerities and shone as a great Yogi, Saint, Sage and Jivanmukta. It was divine dispensation and the blessing of God upon mankind that the doctor of body and mind renounced his career and took to a life of renunciation to qualify himself for ministering to the soul of man. He discovered that people needed right knowledge most of all dissemination of that knowledge he espoused as his own mission. He had earlier been editing a Health Journal and wrote extensively on health problems. His passion for service drew him to the medical career and soon he gravitated to where he thought that his service was most needed. Added to this was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. Being the outcome of personal experience of the revered author and written with a practical end in view, "MIND-ITS MYSTERIES AND CONTROL" is a treasure worthy to be possessed and constantly.īorn on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Saga Appayya Diskhita and several other renowned saints and savants, Sri Swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a life devoted to the study and practice of Vedanta. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj to write this comprehensive work "MIND-ITS MYSTERIES AND CONTROL." It is meant of serve as a valuable guide to all aspirants and is also of immense help to anyone in any walk of life.


The vital importance of the subject, therefore, prompted H. Controlling and subduing it is the most vexing of problems to the earnest seeker of happiness. An undisciplined mind makes a man a slave and wrecks his life. To everyone striving for success in life, the invariable stumbling block proves to be the turbulent vagaries of the mind.
