![]() The Sannyas Corps launches mass awakening campaigns. A young child in one household, a modest housewife or an aged grandfather in another-is a member of the Divine Life Army: he or she wins others' hearts and their allegiance to Lord Sivananda too. The Advance Bases are found all over the world in every home. Ganga's all-purifying purity and Himavan's mighty protecting arms. The Sivananda Sannyas Corps forms the "Front Rank" of the Adhyatmik Divine Life Army that has its Headquarters at Shivanandanagar in the impregnable fortress of Siva's Divine presence. All Work is worship if the angle of vision is changed: to proclaim this Truth is Siva's Mission. There Sadhakas and Saints may be either cooks or clerks, typists or teachers, doctors or devotees, Sankirtanists or Scavengers, professors or proof-readers. The Sivananda Ashram with its multifarious activities is itself Siva's Mission on exhibition. To spiritualise the every-day activity of man, and to make Man'S Life on Earth a Life Divine-is Siva's Mission. Constantly he reminds each man of his divine nature, raises him to his divine stature, so that he can regain his spiritual heritage. Remoulding man in the image of God is Siva's mission. ![]() Standing on the Supreme Common Ground of all faiths, viz., God-consciousness, Siva roars his message of Divine Life so that people belonging to the various sects and sections might pay attention to their ranks and strengthen their force by rousing themselves to the full realisation of their glory. He reminds the followers of all the religions, of the ethical bases of the religion they profess, the spiritual goal they have to achieve. He makes a Jew a real Jew, a Christian a true Christian, a Hindu a real Hindu, a Moslem a faithful Moslem, a Buddhist an ideal Buddhist. Siva's Mission is thus not proselytization but purification. Siva has effectively proved by his glorious life and illuminating teaching that when man's gaze is directed towards the world, his heart generates the undivine current of egoism, desire, hatred, and the like: and that when the gaze of the same man is turned towards God, from him flows the current of love, harmony, peace, selfless service-in short divinity. Siva's Mission is just this turning man's gaze towards God, opening out a window in his consciousness through which man would perceive God, immanent in all creation, through transcendent, too. Siva's Mission in this incarnation is to re-establish Dharma. Siva has delivered the message, demonstrated its practicability and its glory, founded an institution to perpetuate this, and strengthened this with his own divine Sat-Sankalpa and the spirit of dedication of his immediate disciples.ĭetails of this gigantic work are given in the following page. Siva has combined in himself (a) the sage who is beyond all "organisations" and "institutions," ever eager to give, give, and give everything away, (b) the President or Secretary of an institution who is eager to create, to build, feeling it is his for whatever he wishes to do with it, and (c) a servant of the society, bound to serve the institution, to save its properties, which he does not regard as his, but towards which he has specific responsibilities because mysteriously Siva has been able to play triple role simultaneously, has he been able to turn out such enormous work. How Siva's works could spread so wide, so fast, is a mystery which no one but he could explain. This leaflet of Twenty Instructions guides millions all over the world today. ![]() This itself is proof positive of his divinity that Siva the mendicant, just a Sadhu living on alms obtained from the Swarg Ashram could give shelter to a good devotee-pilgrim to Badrinath for one night, and the next morning give him a piece of paper on which Siva had jotted down twenty points, suggesting to him (the pilgrim) that he should print and distribute the "Twenty Instructions" widely. ![]() Starting from scratch, Siva has himself done what (i) he and his immediate associates, (ii) his direct disciples, and (iii) their disciples ought to have done in due course of time. In less than thirty years, Siva has done what would have been difficult for even a man of success to do in 90 most active years.
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