Handwritten notes of Swamiji

This section contains the handwritten notes of Swami Shantananda Puri Maharaj. These notes were exchanged primarily in the year 2004, when Swamiji was in mounam (silence). Most of these notes were written early in the morning. Some of them are responses to questions raised by sadhaks to help in their sadhana. We would like to offer our sincere gratitude and heartfelt thanks to Swami Sadasivananda for preserving this treasure since many years. 

• Guru's Grace
• How to do control of the mind
• I am the path, I am the destination
• Japa
• Muruganar’s watchword was HUMILITY SURRENDER
• No differentiation in One Undivided Consciousness
• Overcoming Lust and Anger
• Polemics Maha Aranyam Big Forest
• Reducing Tamas and Rajas
• Seshadri Swami
• The Destination
• Thought translated to action becomes dangerous
• Visha and vishaya
• What happens if you ignore the scriptures
• Without Grace we can do nothing by ourselves
• Ensnared Ronald Nixon
• God is the least attractive goods
• Arunachala – an aid to go beyond the form – continued
• Arunachala – an aid to go beyond the form
• Atmana Atmanam Udharet
• Brahma Vit Brahmaiva Bhavati
• How japa leads to meditation
• How to live alone without Thoughts
• Keshab and Sri Ramakrishna
• Lord’s Presence is Always There
• OM
• On Food
• On Living Alone
• Swamiji’s care for his disciples
• Time for Sadhana
• Who is foolish as per our scriptures
• All is the Lord’s will including Sadhana
• Being within the Fence
• Devotion
• Fervency in Sadhana
• Go ahead boldly
• Mano Nasa – Responsible for veiling to be Killed
• Questions put by some Foreigners in January 2004 (Handwriting)
• Questions put by some Foreigners in January 2004
• Seeking Happiness
• Somehow Cling to God
• Visit to Saints and Compassion of Saints
• What you think, so you become!
• Cross the ‘I’
• Deep Yearning for the Lord
• Glory of the Lord
• Go to the centre of the storm
• How to eliminate the vasanas
• Invoke Lord’s Grace through Prayers and Meditation
• Lead me from Time to Timelessness
• Make every moment Eternal
• Random Thoughts (Handwriting)
• Random Thoughts
• Taking the name of the Lord at all times is essential
• The Pure Mind (Handwriting)
• The Pure Mind
• The Real Sadhana
• Think of Him Constantly
• Article on Gita (Handwriting)
• Article on Gita
• Benefit of Mantras
• God is everywhere
• In Saguna, we invoke Grace
• Loving You is sufficient
• Maya veil – ever non-existent
• Omnipresence
• Practise of the Presence of the Lord
• Silence
• Swamiji’s journey – Divine Mother’s Grace
• The World is Unreal
• Vairagya – Swami Nirvedananda
• Annihilate the Mind (Handwriting)
• Annihilate the Mind
• Arunachala and the Linga (Arunachaleshwara)
• Hold Strongly to the Self
• Meditation at all times
• Mind plays
• Mother’s Grace
• Never Anticipate
• Never worry about delay
• Note on Theory of Karma
• Satasloki – How should we spend the days
• Seek Guidance from Bhagavan Ramana
• Tears and Dhyana
• The Goal
• The Human Heart
• The Miser who got Enlightenment
• The Mother’s Choice
• Weep internally
• Actions devoid of the Lord’s name
• Doership Gone - Acid test
• Dukha Sanyoga Viyogam
• Follow prescribed paths
• God’s lasso is very long
• Grace works
• Mantra Japa
• Never Dilute your Goal
• Only thing to Discover
• Reasons for Fast Walk
• Remain Uninvolved
• SHE IS ALL AND I AM HERS ALONE
• Think of Arunachala constantly
• Vairagya
• What you think, so you become!
• All experiences are False
• All Pleasure and Pain are Mental
• Blessing encourages us
• Can you fight your shadow
• Creation inseparable from the Creator
• Decline all proposals
• Human Heart opens from Inside
• Hymn to God
• I remain silent
• Manasik Puja (Puja through imagination)
• Meditation – elimination of vasanas
• Mind runs you
• Obstacles to Meditation
• Orders to remain in mouna
• Prayers from the Heart
• Realised Soul – Consider as your Guru
• Remain an Observer
• Remain in ‘I am’
• Romance to Fiction
• Soordas (Surdas)
• Swamiji’s state
• The ‘Word’
• Truth is Self
• Truth Pain
• What is sin
• Develop your own T.V
• Letter to Children who came from New York
• MRITYUNJAYA MANTRA
• Recommended Reading
• Seshadri Swami – Incident 1
• Seshadri Swami – Incident 2
• Swamiji’s schedule (sample)
• Theory vs Practice
• Worship of Lord Siva
• Advise to Monks or Sadhaks
• All doubts merge in the Sacred Silence
• Free Will vs Destiny
• Greatest Impurity
• Learn every step from the Guru
• Letter to a devotee in 2004 (Handwriting)
• Letter to a devotee in 2004
• Navarati – Nine days of Worshipping the Divine Mother
• No Experience
• No Place for Hating Anyone
• Pitfalls of Pranayama
• Readiness
• Relationship with the World
• Silence of Mouth is not Real Mouna
• Story of Krishna
• Striving for real transformation (Handwriting)
• Striving for real transformation
• A Jester with the Mother
• A Sanyasi should have no body sense
• An incident from Swami Akhandananda’s life
• Be confined only to ONE DUTY
• Chisel unwanted portions
• Desire of one second
• For how long have you forgotten Him
• How to understand the words of a Guru
• Jnana leads to Bhakti and Bhakti leads to Jnana
• Meaning of Shantananda
• Never search for Conducive Environment
• No Calculations in Sadhana
• No point fighting with a Shadow
• Vairagya in practice
• Vedanta
• Wake Up
• Who got suffering
• Why Camphor Arati
• कृपा ही केवलम – Only Grace