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October 5, 2026

Practical Vedanta

Practical Vedanta by Swami Sivananda YOU must be a practical Vedantin. Mere theorising and lecturing is only intellectual gymnastics and...

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Thoughts of Vedanta

Thoughts of Vedanta by Swami Sivananda VEDANTA is that sublime philosophy which teaches that the individual soul is identical with...

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Light of Vedanta

Light of Vedanta by Swami Sivananda A STUDENT of Vedanta should study again and again the Upanishads which are but...

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Vedanta – Thy Birthright

Vedanta – Thy Birthright VEDANTA is the religion of the Upanishads. It is the property of all. It has no...

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Easy Steps to Vedanta

Easy Steps to Vedanta by Swami Sivananda 1. Adhyasa The Jiva falsely superimposes the body and other limiting adjuncts which...

Philosophy of Raga Dvesha

Philosophy of Raga Dvesha by Swami Sivananda Raga and Dvesha (likes and dislikes) only constitute this Samsara or this world...

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Gospel of Vedanta

Gospel of Vedanta by Swami Sivananda Tell, me, friend, who has filled the sky with the clouds, who holds the...

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Brahman Exists

Brahman Exists by Swami Sivananda Salutations to that non-dual Brahman which is the causeless cause, which is the source for...

Brahman

Brahman by Swami Sivananda You dream sometimes that you are dead and that your relatives are weeping. Even in that...

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Brahman – One Without a Second

Brahman – One Without a Second he Vedas exclaim from time immemorial, Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti, Existence is One,...

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Gist of Vedanta

Gist of Vedanta It is the nature of man to strive for happiness but all the happiness which he can...

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Introduction to Vedanta

Introduction to Vedanta by Swami Sivananda Vedanta is the culmination of the Vedas. It is entering into the study of...

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What is Vedanta

What is Vedanta by Swami Sivananda VEDANTA is no creed, no ceremony or form of worship. It is the science...

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Essence of Jnana Yoga

Essence of Jnana Yoga What is Ajnana? To identify oneself with the illusory vehicles such as body, mind, Prana, senses,...

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Foundations for Education

Foundations for Education Education is the process of the gradual and systematic summoning of the tendency in the human being...

Knowledge as a Means to Freedom

Knowledge as a Means to Freedom If our search is for freedom, knowledge is regarded as an endeavour towards the...

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The Best Part of Knowledge

The Best Part of Knowledge The whole of the spiritual life is an acquiring of spiritual knowledge. The guru is...

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The Four Sources of Knowledge

The Four Sources of Knowledge Inspiration, revelation, insight, intuition, ecstasy, divine sight and the supreme, blissful state are the seven...

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Follow the Wise

Follow the Wise The Rishis and the Seers tapped the source through living the Truth. They had deep penetration into...

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There is Only Suffering in this World

There is Only Suffering in this World Birth is suffering; disease is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow, grief, pain, lamentations...

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The Fleeting Nature of Things

The Fleeting Nature of Things lifeTime is the rat that cuts off the thread of lire in this universe. There...

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How Rotten Physical Beauty is

How Rotten Physical Beauty is The body has a tendency to rot. Egoism lives in this body as the master...

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Money is a Source of Misery

Money is a Source of Misery Money is a source of pain and misery. You want wealth and are guilty...

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Tyaga is True Heroism

Tyaga is True Heroism Here, you see Nachiketas the hero of heroes, a boy of 10 or 12 years, who...

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Real Svarajya is Atma Svarajya

Real Svarajya is Atma Svarajya From the Transcendental viewpoint, what is this Svarajya in this earth-plane after all? What is...

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Your Wretched State

Your Wretched State Desire, anger, jealousy, worry, anxieties, cares and excitements torment you every second. Deaths of persons whom you...

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Sensual Life is Shameful Life

Sensual Life is Shameful Life You are but repeating the same actions as yesterday, yielding but momentary happiness or delusion,...

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Sense Life is a Terrible Bondage

Sense Life is a Terrible Bondage If you want God and God alone, kick off the world ruthlessly. Enough of...

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Waste Not Precious Life

Waste Not Precious Life You do not know even a single Sloka of the Gita or the Upanishads. You do...

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Advaita and Vishishtadvaita

Advaita and Vishishtadvaita Both systems teach Advaita, i.e., non-duality or monism. There exist not several fundamentally distinct principles, such as...

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The Royal Science and Brahma Vidya

The Royal Science and Brahma Vidya By Swami Sivananda “Kingly science, kingly secret, the supreme purifier is this, realisable by...

Brahma-Vidya and Upanishads

Brahma-Vidya and Upanishads by Swami Sivananda The school of philosophical thought known as the Vedanta is also called Uttara-mimamsa. The...

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The Great Reality and its Nature

The Great Reality and its Nature By Swami Sivananda The Struggle for the Infinite The empirical examination of experience shows...

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Fitness for Wisdom

Fitness for Wisdom By Swami Sivananda One who is fit for receiving Wisdom of the Self shall receive it ‘in...

Gist of Wisdom

Gist of Wisdom by Swami Sivananda It is in the nature of man to strive for happiness but all the...

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The Yoga of Wisdom

The Yoga of Wisdom by Swami Sivananda The body is composed of the five elements and is unintelligent. It is...

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