The Divine Life Society accounts of Swami Chidananda’s visions and saintly encounters

Record summary

Swami Chidananda, president of the Divine Life Society from 1963 until 2008, was associated with devotional narratives involving visions, encounters with saints, and perceived spiritual guidance at Sivananda Ashram. Such material appears in society publications, reminiscences, and recorded talks circulated during the 1970s and 1980s. The lead matters because it can be compared with guru-centered visionary testimony in other South Asian traditions. The episodes are primarily hagiographic and retrospective, and their wording, dates, and earliest publication contexts require checking against the Society’s archives and contemporaneous periodicals.