Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Saravabhavaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!Thaipusam by Swami SivanandaThaipusam which falls in the month of Thai (January – February) is celebrated with intense devotion by a very large section of the Tamil people throughout the world. It is celebrated on the full moon when the constellation Pusam is on the ascend. Lord Skanda is the spiritual son of Lord Siva. On this day the Lance (Vel) was given to him by His ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!Conquest of Mind by Swami SivanandaTHAT form which the Infinite, All-pervading Atman has assumed through its power of imagination is called ‘mind’. Mind creates and destroys. It creates the whole universe by its power of imagination. The chief characteristic of the mind is imagination. Mind is the creator and enjoyer of all happiness and miseries. It is the cause for bondage and liberation. Min ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!Auspicious Beginning by Swami KrishnanandaWe regard this day of January 14th as very auspicious. It is called in India the Makara Sankranti, which is when the sun crosses the Tropic of Capricorn. Slowly winter will begin in Australia and summer will come to the northern hemisphere. This day is very auspicious for various reasons. It is at this very sacred moment that we gather here with a commo ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!A Tale For A Bala (Child) by Swami SivanandaVasishtha said: “O undaunted Rama! the mind of a sage is not any different from Brahman. The mind of the unenlightened one is the cause of his ignorance and error. There are infinite Shaktis in Brahman, namely, Iccha Shakti, Kriya Shakti, Jnana Shakti, Bhuma Shakti, Akarta Shakti, etc. The Supreme Brahman is full, perfect and undecaying. His power of ...Continue Reading

*New Year Message**The Call of The Higher Life* by Sri Swami Sivananda*Taken from Divine Life Magazine 1953*The New Year heralds to you the advent of a time when you have to cast a retrospective look at your experiences and achievements of the past and use your higher reason to direct the course of your life towards better aims and ideals and better methods of endeavour. The past leaves its impressions on the present, and the present contains the future as a potentiality. Let the future, therefore, be the result of a na ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!Namaste!The Incarnation of Christ by Swami Krishnananda(Talk given on Christmas Eve, 1997)There is a coming into being which is known as the birth of a human individual in this world. There is another kind of coming which is the descent of an Incarnation. Both are certain types of coming, but they are totally different in their structural pattern and the purpose for which they manifest themselves.The h ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! Glory of Satsang by Swami Sivananda /Speech at the Gita Mandir Dehra Dun, on 7th March, 1954/ This is a dream within a dream. They say that the world itself is a long dream. This is a dream within a dream. My health does not permit me to tour about. I like to go about; I like to work. I want to do intense work. But my present health does not permit this kind of touring work. Yet remainin ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! Love And Love Alone Can Transform Evil For Ever by Swami Sivananda In times of yore, a small Ashram consisting of a few huts and a temple, surrounded by a big garden of flowers, herbs and different kinds of plants and trees, was situated, far from towns and cities, on a hill slope by the side of a swift-flowing stream adjoining the Oudh Forest. A saint along with his six disciples used to ...Continue Reading

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