From his child hood days, he was deeply drawn towards spiritual subjects and especially towards Yoga sastra. He took a Voluntary retirement from the Police Department of Andhra Pradesh and began devoting his time towards the upliftment of the poor and educating the people about Hindu Dharma and its eternal verities”.
All his devotees in Chennai are delighted to note that Swamiji is visiting Chennai today (1st of November 2007) and that they are going to have his ‘Dharshan’ in Chennai.
Sadguru Sivananda Murty is going to give a talk on a very relevant and important subject “CITIZENS AND SANATHANA DHARMA” at the Centenary Hall, P S Higher Secondary School, R K Mutt Road, Mylapore, Chennai on the 2 November, 2007 at 6 pm.
As a great patriot, his love for our great country and its ancient culture rooted in Sanathana Dharma is indeed phenomenal and unique. He has travelled extensively all over India including the troubled border areas and performed over 450 Rudrayagams for the protection of Hindu Dharma in all corners of the Country.
As a spiritually powerful public communicator, he constantly exhorts in all his public lectures that all citizens, including Sanyasis, who are dependent on Society are duty bound to think and act as custodians and trustees of public welfare. He is a walking encyclopedia on Hindu Dharma, History, Indian Fine arts like, Music, Dance, Drama and literature.
His essays on contemporary subjects like cultural, political and spiritual history were serialized in a Telugu daily, and was later published in two volumes under the name of ‘’Bharatiyata.’’ His commentary on Kathopanishad received profound acclaims from the Paramacharya of Kanchi and Sringeri Shankaracharya
His public speeches on contemporary issues have been published under the title “THOUGHTS OF A SEER”.
His views on “Perspectives for Indian Constitution”, “Values: Science and Technology”, “Bharateeyata”, “Science and Religion”, “An Aspect Of National Welfare and Security”, “New Dimensions in Technical Education for The 21st Century”, “Internal Dimensions of National Security” and various other seemingly intractable problems affecting our sick nation today, founded on his unmatched spiritual experience and transcendental wisdom, are indeed enlightening, exhilarating and elevating.
His policy prescriptions for pulling our shattered nation out of the current mire of chaos and confusion are based upon Sanathana Dharma. The clarion call of Swami Dayanand Saraswaty (1824 - 1883), the founder of Arya Samaj in the 19th century, was “GO BACK TO THE VEDAS”. The clarion call of Sadguru Sivananda Murty to our nation today is “GO BACK TO THE SANATANA DHARMA” in every field of our national life.
To quote the words of Sadguru Sivananda Murty in this context : “ What is this Bharateeyata? We have heard that Sanatana Dharma is the basis of our Bharateeya Culture. We have heard that Sanatana Dharma indicates that it has no beginning or end. It is an all time Truth relating to this world.
The Dharma comes from Dharayiti which provides a platform to human life on this earth. How old is our culture? How ancient is our history? Who are the authors of this Sanatana Dharma? We can only understand a country’s culture with a historical perspective. But Bharateeyata and Sanatana Dharma cannot be understood this way since history can only help us to know the antiquity of a culture to a period not long before the Christian Era. Our culture is much anterior to Ithihasas Ramayana and Mahabharatha or even the Scriptures.
Puranas speak about the great characters around which great events are woven which speak about Sanatana Dharma. We worship Rama and Krishna who lived in Sanatana Dharma… Rama was the personification of Dharma. Ramo’Vigrahavin Dharmah. He was God among men, a human being among gods. Greatest human beings are worshiped in this land…. Rama was an ideal ruler. Rama-Rajya is our ideal for governance. Personality of Lord Rama should reflect in the governance of the country.
Everyone need not worship Rama but one should emulate him irrespective of one’s color, cast, religion etc. The men in government should not act out of fear, for any personal gain, or out of any prejudice or hatred. The citizens should also act on these lines to get good governance. Dharma is all pervading. It should be reflected in thought, word and action. In Western culture, everything is right in love and war.
In Sanatan Dharma, love has a dharma and war has a dharma. Everything is not right. Voice of Dharma has to be heard in the inner core. Our heart should develop attitude of listening to the voice of Dharma”
As a spiritual leader Sadguru Sri Kandukuri Sivananda Murty, is in the immemorial tradition of great Rishis, Saints and Sages of India going back to the dawn of history. His AMRITOTSAVAM was celebrated on a grand scale with joy and fervour by thousands of his disciples in India and abroad in December 2003. All his disciples from various walks of life viewed his AMRITOTSAVAM as a supremely auspicious occasion for thanks giving to the great Mahadeva for conferring affection and offering benediction to one and all who come to him to seek his solace and blessings.
To quote the words of one of his disciples Prof A.Prasanna Kumar: ‘’Sri Sivananda Murty Guru is more than a Guru. He is energy and grace personified. His disciples feel secure in his presence. He does not seek anything from anyone, for that matter does not need anything for his own self. He offers advice and guidance for those who seek it with a smile that disarms and a kindness that overpowers.
The relationship between the Guru and Sishya is not easy to describe. Faith cannot be explained. It has to be experienced.’ The reverence, affection and veneration shown and expressed by them towards their Guru in eternally beautiful words of spiritual power all proclaim to the world ‘OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI SIVANANDAYA’.
To quote the sublime words of David Frawley about Sadguru Sivananda Murty: ‘’We cannot entirely rely upon our own ability to contact God within. Yet many of the external means of approaching God that are available to us are also not reliable. The solution is that we must find a true Guru or Spiritual Master to aid us in our internal quest.
A true Guru is an enlightened soul who is in communion with Isvara, the supreme Guru, and can bring the divine word into human expression. Sadguru Sivananda Murty is such a true Guru. He has represented the role of a true Guru in an age in which the Guru business has often all but obscured it, keeping that ancient role alive and vital for the future of humanity. May the light of his teaching spread to all corners of the planet.’
Sadguru Sivananda Murty Swami, through his writings and speeches, has made it clear that we are intellectually poor, inwardly torn, profoundly uneasy and ignorant of the future. I can summarize his message to us: “Spirit is lost in the clamour of daily events. We don’t hear with an inner ear nor do we see with the third eye. We witness a nonsense world full of shapes, forms and pressurized events.
The spiritually creative part of us has died an early death. We are left with a chorus of voices screaming, ‘Be this! Be that! Work at a job you hate! Build a career u hate! Money and power are the only measures of success in life!” But the truth of the matter is very different. Happiness is the only measure of success in life. All the rest is wisdom proposed by spiritually deaf, dumb and blind people.”
Since the Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting and Hindu-hating UPA Government is hell bent on torpedoing and destroying for ever the Rama Setu Bridge in Rameshwaram which has withstood the onslaught of centuries, I requested Sadguru Sivananda Murty to give a message to the nation.
He has given this inspiring message: “Rama Sethu controversy should not have a place in a true democracy. The sentiments of millions should be honoured without researching into the nature of that structure; whether it is man made or otherwise etc.
Even if it is a natural formation, it is enough that the great King Rama walked across those rocks to destroy a wicket outside enemy with sufficient provocation. Ramayana is history and Rama is still a much-adored hero who had destroyed the agents of an outside enemy like Ravana harming the people inside the Southern Peninsula.
The underwater formation of a ridge could have been crossed by makeshift floating bridges by the followers of Sri Rama. Call it monkey- made if not man- made; nevertheless the stone ridge can be treated to have a historic significance. If it is monkey made as it is believed, it is much more precious.
A small bridge in Europe gains great historic importance because perhaps Napoleon had crossed that bridge. Such is the sentiment in any nation about any historic structure. The Government should honour such feelings and sentiments in a true democracy”.
The quintessence of Sadguru Sivananda Murthy’s spiritual message is as follows:
Have unshakeable faith in God and His Will; Take thorough refuge in Him; Give up all your unfounded fears, all anxieties, all doubts and all thoughts of weakness; Remember that you have put yourself under the guidance and control of an all-powerful being; Submit, resign, surrender yourself to Him; Be always cheerful, peaceful and blissful. God is always in you and you are always in Him. He and you are one. This is the Truth.
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