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Message for Guru Poornima

Message for Guru Poornima Sri Swami Sivananda The full moon day in the month of Ashadha is the extremely auspicious...

How to Meditate

How to Meditate By Sri Swami Venkatesananda So many textbooks are available on meditation nowadays that everyone has some idea...

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Concentration

Concentration By Sri Swami Sivananda Concentration If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn...

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The Search for Truth

The Search for Truth By SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA The Search for Truth The outlook of one’s life depends upon one’s...

Swami Sivananda writing spiritual teachings at his desk surrounded by sacred books

The Story of Veetahavya

The Story of Veetahavya Sri Swami Sivananda Now I shall tell you another path that leads to Moksha. O valiant...

Swami Sivananda blessing young child

How To Develop The Will Power

How To Develop The Will Power Sri Swami Sivananda Attention, power of endurance, overcoming aversion, dislikes and irritations, fortitude in...

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Integral Yoga

Integral Yoga Sri Swami Sivananda The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita may be called the Integral Yoga or the Yoga...

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Religion and Science

Religion and Science By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA Some scientists, and some so-called educated persons, believe that science can explain everything...

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Role of Restraint in Sadhana

Role of Restraint in Sadhana Sri Swami Sivananda About one hundred and fifty miles above the Sannyasins’ colony of Rishikesh,...

Swami Sivananda teaching Maya and Avidya

God Exists

God Exists By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA The notion of God means an absolutely perfect being. An absolutely perfect being must...

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Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland By SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA We have an inveterate obsession in our minds which prevents us almost entirely...

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A Tale For A Bala (Child)

A Tale For A Bala (Child) Sri Swami Sivananda Vasishtha said: “O undaunted Rama! the mind of a sage is...

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God

God By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA Who is God? What is God? Is there a God? Where is God? How to...

Portrait collage of Swami Sivananda with inspiring moments from his spiritual life and teachings

Conquest of Mind

Conquest of Mind Sri Swami Sivananda Conquest of Mind THAT form which the Infinite, All-pervading Atman has assumed through its...

Sakti Yoga Philosophy -ONE

Sakti Yoga Philosophy – ONE Sri Swami Sivananda The power or active aspect of the immanent God is Sakti. Sakti...

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Why Do Sadhana?

Why Do Sadhana? By Sri N. Ananthanarayanan Why Do Sadhana? We want the best food for the body, but we...

Swami Sivananda studying sacred scriptures surrounded by books and spiritual literature

Skanda Shashti Message (1945)

Skanda Shashti Message (1945) Sri Swami Sivananda Hindu festivals and celebrations have more in them than meets the eye. In...

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Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism By Sri Swami Sivananda Sage Uddalaka instructs his son Svetaketu: “Food when consumed, becomes threefold. The gross particles become...

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Man And His Mind

Man And His Mind Sri Swami Chidananda Radiant Atman! Man is man because he has a mind. Thinking, reasoning, feeling,...

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Tantra Sadhana

Tantra Sadhana By Sri Swami Krishnananda The system called Tantra has been always regarded as an esoteric and a secret...

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Affirm Truth Reject Untruth

Affirm Truth Reject Untruth Sri Swami Chidananda Radiant Atman! This week we will observe the jayanti of Adi Sankaracharya, one of the...

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True Sannyasa

True Sannyasa Sri Swami Chidananda True Sannyasa Beloved and worshipful Gurudev! Homage unto thy glorious and gracious spiritual presence, thou...

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Sin

Sin By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA In the din and noise of the world, in the midst of sensual pleasures, the...

Sri Swami Sivananda seated peacefully beside a lake with mountains in the background

Guru Sishya Yoga

Guru Sishya Yoga Sri Swami Chidananda Guru Sishya Yoga Radiant Atman! Beloved and blessed children of the Divine! It is...

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Swami Chidananda on Self-Realisation

Swami Chidananda on Self-Realisation Kind courtesy of “Tapovan Prasad.” This is an interview with our Most Revered President Swamiji Maharaj, published in...

Sivananda Yoga, Talk ONE, Action and Actor

Yoga Sadhana

Yoga Sadhana Sri Swami Sivananda OM! Salutations to that adorable Hari, than whom there is nothing greater, and who is...

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The Search for Happiness

The Search for Happiness By SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA This is the week dedicated to the considerations on the details of sadhana,...

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Science of Relaxation

Science of Relaxation By Sri Swami Sivananda Life has become very complex in these days. The struggle for existence is...

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Sandilya-Vidya

Sandilya-Vidya By SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Sandilya-Vidya Sandilya, the great Rishi, had this revelation of the Supreme Being. Vidya is a meditation, an...

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Who is a Jivanmukta?

Who is a Jivanmukta? Sri Swami Sivananda A Jivanmukta is a liberated sage. He is released even while living. He...

Swami Sivananda meditating with radiant spiritual aura symbolizing timeless wisdom, peace, and divine enlightenment

Effacement of Ego

Effacement of Ego Sri Swami Chidananda It is well to remember that Sattva, Rajas and Tamas have their own hooks...

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Purity

Purity By SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA (Dictated on October 18th, 1998) Purity is achieved by freedom from desire, and desire should...

Swami Sivananda with two young children

Become Ye Krishnas

Become Ye Krishnas Sri Swami Sivananda Children of God! The life of Bhagavan Sri Krishna is an illustration of how...

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A Project of Education

A Project of Education By SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA The world has, first of all, to stand ‘outside there’ as an...

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We Are Supremely Blessed

We Are Supremely Blessed You are verily blessed and favoured that you have been chosen. Out of countless beings, only...

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The Remover of Darkness

The Remover of Darkness Sri Swami Chidananda Radiant children of Light! Beloved and blessed Sadhakas upon the spiritual path, sincerely...

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Svarnakesa

Svarnakesa Sri Swami Sivananda ONCE UPON a time there lived a Mahatma in a beautiful valley of the Himalayas. He...

His Holiness Sri Swami Venkatesananda Saraswati with devotee

Peace

Peace By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA Peace is a divine attribute. It is a quality of the soul. It cannot remain...

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How Do Experiences Arise?

How Do Experiences Arise? Sri Swami Chidananda How Do Experiences Arise? Radiant Immortal Atman! Blessed divinities! Children of the Divine!...

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How To Find Peace

How To Find Peace Sri Swami Chidananda Direct your entire being—mind, intellect, emotions, sentiments, towards that one and only Being,...

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Divine Messengers

Divine Messengers Sri Swami Chidananda It is Knowledge of Self which helps man to attain that state of eternal satisfaction...

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Memory-Culture

Memory-Culture By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA Memory-Culture He who dwells in the subconscious mind or Chitta, and in memory, and who...

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May the Bell Ring

May the Bell Ring Swami Krishnananda recounts a classic Indian tale There is a story in the Mahabharata about a great rishi [sage],...

Swami Krishnananda meditating under Lord Krishna's divine blessings

Knowledge as Means to Freedom

Knowledge as Means to Freedom By SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Knowledge as Means to Freedom Though the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy...

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The Individual Nature

The Individual Nature By SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA The location of the individual in the scheme of things makes it inadequate...

Peaceful monk embracing sannyasa beside sacred riverside spiritual retreat

Not A Rosy Path

Not A Rosy Path Sri Swami Chidananda Gurudev says, “There is no royal road in spirituality. Adversity develops the power...

Swami Sivananda sharing a joyful moment with a devoted disciple

Happiness

Happiness By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA Happiness “At the doors of large granaries are placed traps containing fried rice (Moori) to...

Ancient guru blessing devoted disciple beneath peaceful forest hermitage trees

Guru–Disciple

Guru-Disciple By Sri Swami Venkatesananda “I always bow to the Guru who is bliss incarnate, who bestows happiness, whose face...

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The Glory of Renunciation

The Glory of Renunciation SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA This is a most sacred and auspicious day on which we have to...

Ancient guru teaching devoted disciples beside sacred river peacefully

THE FOUR SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE

THE FOUR SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA Inspiration, revelation, insight, intuition, ecstasy, divine sight and the supreme, blissful...

Saintly monk nurturing seeds of vairagya through serene meditation

Seeds of Vairagya

Seeds of Vairagya First comes Vichara, then comes Viveka. Through Vichara and Viveka flowers Vairagya. Vichara is stimulated by careful...

Swami Sivananda meditating beneath Om symbol

Sri Gurudev

Sri Gurudev Sri Swami Chidananda Sri Gurudev Almighty Lord, Father of humanity, beloved God of grace, compassion and love. At...

Krishna guiding Arjuna toward righteous duty and wisdom

Duty And Cosmic Will

Duty And Cosmic Will By Sri Swami Sadananda It is very difficult to explain what duty means. There are different...

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