The Song of the 18 Ities Sung by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh

Swami Sivananda was a great world teacher, writing over 300 books, most of them in English, on various practical aspects of Yoga and spiritual life. He also composed and sang in his Ashram satsangs a number of instructive songs, including this, the:

Song of the Eighteen Ities

Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,
Sincerity, simplicity, veracity,
Equanimity, fixity, non-irritability,
Adaptability, humility, tenacity,
Integrity, nobility, magnanimity,
Charity, generosity, purity.
Practice daily these eighteen ‘ities’,
You will soon attain immortality.
Brahman is the only real entity,
Mr. So and so is a false non-entity.
You will abide in eternity and infinity;
You will behold unity in diversity;
You cannot attain this in the university.
You can attain this in the Forest University.

(The verses in the video are edited, lacking the last 6 shown in this full version, due to the constraints of a video "short."

Swami Nirmalananda (Abbot George Burke), head of Atma Jyoti Ashram (Light of the Spirit Monastery) met Swami Sivananda in the last year of Swami Sivananda's life, and spent time at Sivanandashram. He has recorded a number of podcast recalling those meetings at: https://ocoy.org/podcasts/

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