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Spiritual Instructions to Laypeople and Monks — Seraphim of Sarov

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Spiritual Instructions to Laypeople and Monks

Духовные наставления мирянам и инокам

Retrato de Serafín de Sarov pintado en vida
bySeraphim of Sarov

Short chapters on God, faith, hope, prayer, tears, sorrow and despondency, peace of soul and its preservation, guarding the heart, the light of Christ, attention to oneself, silence, fasting and the active and contemplative life, with advice for the novice and for the superior. Woven from quotations of Isaac the Syrian, John Climacus, Barsanuphius, Gregory of Sinai, Ephrem and John Chrysostom, they convey a sober hesychast teaching: the Jesus Prayer repeated in the mind, inner peace as the condition of all light, and caution towards contemplation without a guide. It is the earliest and least manipulated source of his teaching.

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Authorship note

Taken down orally by the Sarov monk Sergius (Vasiliev), who also wrote the first life (1837). Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow corrected them before printing: on 2 August 1838 he wrote that he had changed or supplemented expressions so that the language should be more correct and to guard against misunderstanding ideas expressed in an unusual way. They were published in 1839 within the life of the hermit Mark. The number and order of chapters vary by edition: about 33 in the original, 30 in Elagin and Chichagov, 43 in Denisov (1904).

Editions and translations

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English

  • Little Russian Philokalia, vol. 1: St. Seraphim of Sarov

    St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina (CA), 1996

    Translation: Seraphim Rose

    ISBN 9780938635307

    Primera ed. 1978; 158 pp.

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  • St. Seraphim of Sarov: Widely Beloved Mystic, Healer, Comforter and Spiritual Guide — Seraphim of Sarov

    St. Seraphim of Sarov: Widely Beloved Mystic, Healer, Comforter and Spiritual Guide

    Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Belmont (MA), 1980

    Translation: Constantine Cavarnos y Mary-Barbara Zeldin

    ISBN 9780914744474

    Incluye la Conversación y los consejos espirituales.

  • The Spiritual Instructions of Saint Seraphim of Sarov

    Dawn Horse Press, 1973

    ISBN 9780913922057

    Edición publicada por la organización de Adi Da Samraj; registrada en Open Library.

Русский

  • Краткое начертание жизни старца Саровской пустыни, схимонаха и пустынника Марка (con «Духовные наставления отца Серафима»)

    Troitse-Sérguieva Lavra, 1839

    Primera edición: 10 pp. sobre Marcos y 64 pp. de Instrucciones.

  • Духовные наставления мирянам и инокам

    Azbuka very (edición digital)

    Texto cotejado de las ediciones de 1839, 1856, 1863 y 1903–1904.

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Français

  • Séraphim de Sarov

    Desclée de Brouwer, 1979

    ISBN 9782220022208

    Biografía de Irina Goraïnoff con los escritos.

Español

  • Serafín de Sarov. Biografía y escritos — Seraphim of Sarov

    Serafín de Sarov. Biografía y escritos

    Ediciones Sígueme (col. Ichthys), 2006

    ISBN 9788430114351

    Biografía de Irina Goraïnoff con la Conversación y las Instrucciones; 208 pp.

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Sources

  • Serafín de Sarov (atrib.). Духовные наставления мирянам и инокам [Instrucciones espirituales a laicos y monjes]. Recogidas por el monje Sergio (Vasíliev) de Sarov, revisadas por el metropolita Filaret (Drozdov) y publicadas en Краткое начертание жизни старца Саровской пустыни, схимонаха и пустынника Марка. Troitse-Sérguieva Lavra, 1839. Texto cotejado (ediciones de 1839, 1856, 1863 y 1903–1904) en Azbuka very.

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