Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Namaste! Where is Our Location? by Sri Swami Krishnananda This is the blessed day of the advent of worshipful Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, whom we remember and worship. Magnanimous and superb in his personality, Sri Gurudev strode this Earth as a veritable colossus of spirit, awakening mankind to the consciousness of the higher values of life. Without physically moving out of this country he actually stirred the minds of everyone into an awareness of something above the visib ...Continue Reading

Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *The Three Governing Factors of Sadhana* by Sri Swami Sivananda Many people even after studying classic works on religion and philosophy, do not know what they should do in practice to attain the goal of life, viz., God-realisation, and they seek enlightenment on this. The three things essential for God-realisation are: (1) constant remembrance of God, (2) cultivation of virtues and (3) spiritualisation of all a ...Continue Reading

Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *Testing One’s Spiritual Progress* by Sri Swami Chidananda Some time back one of our Divine Life Society Branches printed a card with the title "Spiritual Barometer." It was meant to show the progress a person had made upon the spiritual path, in spiritual qualities and in all the various dimensions of spiritual life. For example, how far had you moved towards maturity in your newly unfolded spiritual ...Continue Reading

Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *The Light of the Himalayas* by Srimati B. Sita Rai, New Delhi /The sky may be dark and stars may not shine, The Sun may dwell in the Deep Divine, But on the stormy night when Fate declines, The Light of the Himalayas ever shines./ It was the cold month of January. As a ship that was lost in the sea without a compass, so I was lost in this world of worries and sorrows, where there were stormy nights and dark wate ...Continue Reading

Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *The Remover of Darkness* by Sri Swami Chidananda Radiant children of Light! Beloved and blessed Sadhakas upon the spiritual path, sincerely aspiring to lead the spiritual life of servicefulness, worshipfulness, meditativeness and God-awareness. To you all assembled together here, please ponder in whose presence you live and move. You live in the presence of Gurudev, one who is known as a Guru, and your ancient ...Continue Reading

*New Year Message* *The Passage of Time for the Experience of Eternity – New Year's Message given in 1993* by Sri Swami Krishnananda The New Year is approaching. Time passes. The passage which is known as temporal is also the process of the evolution of the universe. There is a progressive march of the constituent elements of things in the passage of the time process. When a particular specialised occasion arises in this progression of the time process, we call that particular event or occasion by a designation as a ...Continue Reading

Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *The Divine Commander* by Sri Swami Chidananda Radiant Immortal Atman! Beloved and blessed children of the Divine! Members of the spiritual family of beloved and worshipful Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, gathered in his spiritual presence this early morning! This morning you have contemplated the Eternal, you have contemplated the Divine, in chanting His Divine Name, in silent inner prayer, through / kir ...Continue Reading

Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *Behold The Light of Lights—The Atman* by Sri Swami Chidananda Dipavali or Divali means a ‘row of lights’. This festival falls on the last two days of the dark half of Asvina (Sep.-Oct.). For some it is a three-day festival: the first day is Naraka-Chaturdasi, the second is Lakshmi-Puja on the New Moon day and the third is Bali-Padya. The festival of Dipavali is observed as the joyous commemoration of the victor ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Durgayai Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *Navaratri Durga Puja, Its Significance -- 1946* by Sri Swami Sivananda Religious observances, traditional worship and Vratas at times have more than one significance. Apart from being the adoration of the Divine, they are commemorative of stirring bygone events, allegoric when interpreted from the Occult standpoint, and lastly deeply significant pointers and revealing guides to the Jiva o ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *We Are Supremely Blessed* by Sri Swami Chidananda You are verily blessed and favoured that you have been chosen. Out of countless beings, only a few strive to attain a state of perfection which takes one beyond sorrow and which bestows eternal blessedness and supreme peace. To have come into such a Path is itself a great grace. You may be a Sannyasin, a householder, a businessman or a st ...Continue Reading