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July 8, 2025

Sivananda Ashram

Sivananda Ashram Spiritual organisations with high aims and objects should be started only by Mahatmas who are absolutely free, perfect...

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My Religion, Its Technique and Dissemination

My Religion, Its Technique and Dissemination I love seclusion. I have to hide myself at times. I do not crave...

Swami Sivananda raising hands beside sacred river

Light on the Path of Renunciation

Light on the Path of Renunciation Every Religion has a band of anchorites who lead the life of seclusion and...

Swami Sivananda meditating beneath sacred trees

My Methodology to the Evolutionary Process

My Methodology to the Evolutionary Process 1. DETACHED, YET CAREFUL In my Kutir, there are many big trunks with hundreds...

Swami Sivananda wearing ceremonial robe with medals

In The Master’s Own Words

In The Master’s Own Words Taken From The Autobiography of Swami Sivananda) SIVA’S EXPERIENCE I have seen God in my...

Highest Teachings in Instructions

Highest Teachings in Instructions 1. Reduce your wants to the utmost minimum. 2. Adapt yourself to circumstances. 3. Never be...

Yoga of Synthesis

Yoga of Synthesis Yoga of Synthesis is suitable for the vast majority of persons. It is a unique Yoga. Man...

Moksha Gita

Moksha Gita Fear not, my child. In reality there is no death for thee. There is a means for crossing...

Swami Sivananda teaching selfless service and compassion

Towards Perfection

Towards Perfection STRIVE Strive. Strive to realise God. This is the purpose of human birth. The perfection of the realisation...

Smiling Swami Sivananda sharing spiritual wisdom

Essential Jnana

Essential Jnana PHILOSOPHY OF OM The sound produced in the flowing of the river Ganges, the sound that is heard...

Swami Sivananda sharing disciplined spiritual life guidance

Sivananda Gita

Sivananda Gita (Written by Swami Sivananda in 1946) I was born of P.S. Vengu Aiyar and Parvathiammal on 8th September...

Swami Sivananda inspiring selfless service through compassion

Secret of Raja Yoga

Secret of Raja Yoga ORDER IN YAMA AND NIYAMA There is a deliberate order in the five parts or limbs...

Yogasara Upanishad

Yogasara Upanishad MANTRA – 1 NOW YOGA IS EXPLAINED NOTES AND COMMENTARY Yoga is the state wherein there is no...

Swami Sivananda teaching sincere selfless spiritual living

Transcending The Mind

Transcending The Mind by Swami Sivananda I solemnly affirm that the disease of birth and death can be removed only...

Swami Sivananda sharing uplifting spiritual healing wisdom

Worship, Self-Surrender and Liberation

Worship, Self-Surrender and Liberation WORSHIP An idol (murti or vigraha), sun, fire, water, Ganges, saligram (symbol of Visnu), linga (symbol...

Swami Sivananda teaching serene Karma Yoga principles

Secret of Karma Yoga

Secret of Karma Yoga RACTISE KARMA YOGA The practice of Karma Yoga does not demand that you possess enormous wealth....

Swami Sivananda inspiring disciplined spiritual meditation practice

Understanding Karma

Understanding Karma UNDERSTAND NATURE Every man should have a comprehensive understanding of nature’s laws, and their operations. Then he can...

Swami Sivananda conquering pessimism through spiritual wisdom

The Science of Yoga

The Science of Yoga THE SUPREME GIFT Yoga is the supreme gift of India to the world at large. Yoga...

Swami Sivananda delivering inspiring spiritual discourse indoors

Epistle of Sivananda

Epistle of Sivananda What is divine life? To shed the animal in man and to sublimate the human in him...

Swami Sivananda studying sacred scriptures surrounded by books and spiritual literature

Where Everyone is Welcome and Cared For

Where Everyone is Welcome and Cared For As qualification for first class aspirants, Viveka, Vairagya, Shat-sampat and Mumukshutva are prescribed...

Swami Sivananda seated peacefully on wooden chair

Spirit of Accomodation

Spirit of Accomodation When one of my students had left the Ashram for some reason, I at once felt that...

Role of The Divine Life Branches and Spiritual Aspirants

Role of The Divine Life Branches and Spiritual Aspirants My message to individual spiritual aspirants and to the Branches of...

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Is Guru Indenspensible

Is Guru Indenspensible Aspirants need not be afraid of pitfalls and snares in the spiritual path. The whole spiritual world...

Swami Sivananda walking among devotees with garland

To Those Who Wish to Take Sannyasa

To Those Who Wish to Take Sannyasa Many sincere seekers of Truth in different parts of the world write to...

Swami Sivananda smiling with serene spiritual wisdom

Wisdom in Humor

Wisdom in Humor The following excerpts from my letters to an aspirant clearly portray my temperament which is at once...

Swami Sivananda absorbed in deep meditation peacefully

Spiritual Experiences

Spiritual Experiences 1. DAWN OF NEW LIFE I was tired of this illusory life of sense-pleasuresI became quite disgusted with...

Swami Sivananda with disciples historic group photograph image

Practical Hints on the Spiritual Path

Practical Hints on the Spiritual Path 1. TRAINING OF STUDENTS THROUGH POST I7 letters to different aspirants, delineating the methods...

Swami Sivananda holding sacred portrait with reverence

The Ideal of Life

The Ideal of Life The aim of philosophy is right living. The meaning of right living depends on how it...

Swami Sivananda walking outdoors with peaceful expression

Jnana Yajna

Jnana Yajna When I study scriptures, I mark the important portions. I constantly think over the points and reflect. I...

Swami Sivananda celebrating Makar Sankranti with disciple

Fourth Stage

Fourth Stage Young aspirants, because of old habit, used to sleep in the winter cold till sunrise or till 6...

Swami Sivananda sitting outside and reading book.

Third Stage

Third Stage Systematically to carry on the Divine Mission on a large scale, I established the DIVINE LIFE TRUST SOCIETY...

Swami Sivananda sitting with inspirational orange text.

Second Stage

Second Stage Planning and scheming were not in my nature. I depend on the grace of the Lord. I had...

Swami Sivananda meditating by a moonlit river.

First Stage

First Stage I always loved silent Sadhana in seclusion. During the day for a short period I would write some...

Woman holding an umbrella over Swami Sivananda.

On The Anvil – Sharing the Treasure Divine

On The Anvil – Sharing the Treasure Divine Some Mahatmas spend their whole life in deep study of scriptures and...

Swami Sivananda sitting in a serene pose.

What Life Has Taught Me

What Life Has Taught Me It was, I should say, by a flash that I came to the conclusion early...

Swami Sivananda sitting in ornate golden frame.

How God Care Into My Life

How God Care Into My Life It would be easy to dismiss the question by saying: “Yes, after a prolonged...

Swami Sivananda standing peacefully beside riverside retreat building

Sivananda Yoga, Talk-fourth

Sivananda Yoga, Talk-fourth In this Integral Yoga, is these a goal? Is there some way by which I can know,...

Swami Sivananda seated peacefully beside sacred river in Rishikesh

Sivananda Yoga, Talk-THREE

Sivananda Yoga, Talk THREE We have been considering the principal aspects of sadhana as expounded by Gurudev and illustrated in...

Swami Sivananda portrait collage expressing peace wisdom compassion

Sivananda Yoga, Talk-TWO

Sivananda Yoga, Talk TWO Gurudev’s Integral Yoga rests on two fundamentally vital factors: one, to see God in every face,...

Swami Sivananda wearing sacred Shiv printed shawl

Sivananda Yoga, Talk-ONE

Sivananda Yoga, Talk ONE Gurudev’s Yoga was Integral Yoga, represented by the four words “serve, love, meditate, realise”. Integral Yoga...

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