Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!Deepavali — The Festival of Lamps by Swami ChidanandaFestivals, periodical religious functions, ceremonies and rites have a two-fold aspect and purpose. These are the external observances sanctified by long custom and there is the inner truth which these functions are meant to remind us of and to rekindle in us. To keep fresh in mind and to readily recall the seven component colours of the rain ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!*Role of Restraint in Sadhana* by Sri Swami SivanandaAbout one hundred and fifty miles above the Sannyasins’ colony of Rishikesh, in the Himalayan interior there is an outpost, Chamauli by name. Here they have built a sort of dam or barrage across the flow of the mountain Ganga. One fine day something happened there and the water was likely to get out of hand and burst out in an excessive flow. ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!*What is The Central Message of The Gita* by Sri Swami ChidanandaFor those who want to attain God, for those who are turning upward, what is the central teaching of the Bhagavad Gita?You see that the end citation of every chapter always says, “Thus in the Upanishad of the glorious Bhagavad Gita, the science of the Eternal, the scripture on Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah!Om Sri Durgayai Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!Durga Puja (1948) by Sri Swami SivanandaGlory to the Benign Mother by whose Grace all that is here, exists! My salutations to Her!As with the individual, so with the cosmos; nothing is possible without the Mother. Man’s progress—material and spiritual—is bound up inextricably with his mother—human and Divine. The human part of man is moulded almost entirely by his human mo ...Continue Reading

Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya!Namaste!*They are the Embodiment of what we learn from Scriptures* by Sri Swami Muktananda Anandashram, Kanhanghad, KeralaTalk delivered on the occasion of the Shodashi Celebration of Sri Swami Chidanandaji MaharajOm Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai RamSwami Chidananda’s association with Anandashram dates back to the 1930’s during Papa’s time when he was still Sridhar Rao. During Mother Krishnabai’s and Swami Satchidananda’s time we had the privilege of having his dar ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!Integral Yoga by Sri Swami SivanandaThe Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita may be called the Integral Yoga or the Yoga of the imperishable Absolute. It is not a one-sided Yoga, but the Yoga-all. It includes all the Yogas in itself. It is a means for the grand fulfilment of life, the consummation of all purposes, the perfection of being.The Gita aims at a thorough transformation and integration of every ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!How To Develop Will Power by Sri Swami SivanandaAttention, power of endurance, overcoming aversion, dislikes and irritations, fortitude in suffering, TAPAS (austerities such as standing on one foot, sitting in the hot sun) or PANCHAGNI TAPAS before five fires, standing in cold water in piercing winter, raising the hands above and keeping in the same position for an hour, fasting, patience, comm ...Continue Reading

Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!Namaste!*Sages—A Great Need For Moral And Spiritual Guidance* by Sri Swami Chidananda(Message given on the 80th Birth Anniversary of Swami Sivananda) We may say that the saints and sages of this country are, though past from the physical point of view, still living in a cosmic form in and through every true son and daughter of Bharatavarsha who has imbibed and drawn into himself or herself some part of the fundamentals of our culture. For the pattern of the daily life of every individual is ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!Mind, World, Inner Discipline And Spiritual Progress by Sri Swami SivanandaThe body is the root of the tree of Samsara or the earthly existence.There was not pot in the beginning and there will not be any at the end. But if you see the pot in the middle, then your attitude towards it should be detached i.e., you should not believe in its permanence.So also, there was no body in the beginning, a ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!*Qualifications Of A Yogic Student* by Sri Swami SivanandaThe Yogic student must have faith, devotion to Guru and the Lord. He must have faith in the teachings of his Guru and in Yogic scriptures. He must have intense aspiration and dispassion. Faith, aspiration and dispassion are the three important qualities of a Yogic student. Non-violence, truthfulness and celibacy are the three fundamental ...Continue Reading