Shiva Sutras

by Sukhabodhananda

Ability is an important tool in life. Ability without commitment and awareness is like a vehicle without the engine. The Shiva Sutra enhances one’s awareness in a way one sees an opportunity in a difficulty and not a difficulty in an opportunity. There is an ‘outside reality’ and an ‘inside reality’ of one’s mind. There is also another dimension called ‘spiritual reality’. To harmonize all of them is a great awakening.Ordinary being loves one’s own ‘psycho dramas’ of justification, proving one’s point of view, blaming, being helpless… and this leads one to a state of inner poverty. To free oneself from these lower states of poverty and see them as ‘errors in one’s thinking’ is part of being effective and experiencing inner prosperity.The profound teaching of Lord Shiva introduces us to A Bigger Container where one learns to be charitable to one’s own self. This practice of making A Bigger Container is essentially spiritual.Dive deep into these mystic teachings.—Swami Sukhabodhananda

Genres: Hinduism, Spirituality, Philosophy

184 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Krishnaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book I feel is a good starting point to whoever wants to read and understand the Shiva sutras. It surely makes you see things differently. For eg. when you worship God you usually visualise the form of the Lord but you don't know the meaning of his various aabhushans. The symbolic representation of each of these is explained beautifully.

When you want to learn English you don't start with a dictionary, similarly you start with this and then go on to read all the Shiva sutras to your heart's content.

Swamiji makes you see why and how you need to see life in its fullest. He says clearly that he does not give all the sutras in a detailed way, he intends to make you think things for yourself which is what a Guru does.
The various examples he gives to explain a point is what makes the discourse more memorable.

And that's one of the major reasons I'd recommend this to anyone. Thank you Swamiji for this beautiful discourse.

I'd say you would want to read this before and after you start on the Shiva sutras in its fullest form.

[Duncan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy and quick to read, there are a few genuine gems of spiritual wisdom in here, but a LOT of: repetition; waffling; and drawing odd conclusions from disparate analogies. It isn't what I expected - I was expecting a Sanskrit text with translations and commentary, but this appears to be transcription of a series of spoken work shops, complete with Indian-English vernacular.

[Vimalkumar Khubchandani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book🙂🙏

A most practical book on shiv sut ras
Swamiji explains in a nice humorous
Way how to live life
Perfect book for modern times

[Rohit Kumar · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't like these kinds of books. To make it available to more people it's dumbed down to a level with examples that damages the big picture understanding of sanatana Dharma

[Shivakumara · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is not a good description of Shiva Sutras. It is a repetitive random bunch of stories collected into one book.

[Amit Sharma · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book