Sivananda Diamond Jubilee Year Book. Life and Teachings Series No. 6. Philosophy & Teachings of Swami Sivananda

1. I bow to Siva the ornament cf A.nanda Kutir the embodiment of Self-born bliss whose welthought-out and proficient expositions save the distressed that have fallen into the sea of birth and death and whose flow of eloquence surpasses the majestic flow of the Ganges which bears the waters of its expansive and spring-less lake unobstructed along (the sides of) the snow-coverd Hirna'ayas. [...] Like the true spiritual surgeon that he is he applies the lancet of his unfaltering judgment exactly at the spot whether the operation has to be made if the disease (Maya) is to go and the patient is to be saved. [...] The memory of the past proves the previous birth as well as the existence of the soul. [...] The body the senses the mind and the 'ntelleet are merely the outer covers which conceal the inner permanent Reality. [...] He is the Nirguna Brahman of the Upanishads who is highly eulogised in a variety of ways by the Rishis and seers of the Upanishads.