Yogaswami of Nallur

His Songs and Sayings

The fundamental aim of all religions is the realization of Truth. This is a matter of direct experience, in which neither the mind nor the intellect nor any human faculty is involved. It is a question of being.

One such ‘realized soul’, Yogaswami of Nallur, lived in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, for over ninety years, and left his body only in 1964. This site records some of his songs and sayings, which flowed from him spontaneously and were recorded by anyone who happened to be present.

Natchintanai: Sayings of Yogaswami

Now available for free download as Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files:

• Table of Contents (106 kb)
• Introduction (182 kb)
• Prose Yogaswami Wrote (114 kb)
• Songs Yogaswami Sang (554 kb)
• Appendices (125 kb)

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