Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *What is Health?* by Sri Swami Sivananda What is health? It is that state of equilibrium of the three humours of the body, viz., /Vata, Pitta/ and /Kapha/ (wind, bile and phlegm), wherein the mind and all the organs of the body work in harmony and concord and man enjoys peace and happiness and performs his duties of life with comfort and ease. Health is that condition in which man has go ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *Mind—A Great Blessing and a Great Curse* by Sri Swami Chidananda Today I have the privilege of sharing with you a subject that has been suggested as something that might be very helpful to all who have recognised that the human status is not the top rung of the evolutionary process, but on the contrary it is the commencement of the evolutionary process upon a different dimension. Biologi ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *The Moment of Surrender* by Sri N. Ananthanarayanan A very important reason why man should try to realise God is that it is the only way to get out of the miseries of the cycle of birth and death. There is no second solution. Mark it carefully. There is no second solution. There is no alternative to realising God if you want to escape the miseries you are subject to. The alternative to G ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! Why Do We Have To Search For Our Own Souls? by Sri Swami Krishnananda To the question, "Why do we have to search for our own souls," Revered Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj replied as follows: "There is logical contradiction in that things are outside us. By logic it can easily be seen that the universe is one whole of which we are parts. For example, the hand in our body. It appears to be outside our body. ...Continue Reading

Om Namah Sivaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *Lord Siva, The Master Yogin* by Sri Swami Krishnananda Mahasivaratri is the glorious annual occasion when we offer special adorations to Lord Siva as the austere and the contemplative aspect of God the Almighty. We conceive God as glory, as creativity, and as austerity. Vishnu is glory and magnificence, Brahma is creativity and force, and Siva is austerity and renunciation. It is said that Go ...Continue Reading

*New Year Message* *Make A Beginning -- Start From Today* by Sri Swami Sivananda Upon the substratum of Timeless Eternity Maya in Her own mysterious baffling manner marks time. In the ceaseless onward flow of Time definite periods have become distinct and divided into centuries, decades, years, months, etc. They have acquired a force and significance through long convention. All over the world the old year has just now passed out and a New Year has commenced. Through age long association of ideas this time has come t ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *Knowledge, Meditation And Spiritualising Your Life* by Sri Swami Chidananda The supreme goal of life has been declared to be /brahma-jnana, /the ultimate spiritual knowledge that brings about enlightenment and illumination and liberates the individual soul from the necessity of once again coming into this plane of pain and death—putting an end to this unending wheel of transmigration. W ...Continue Reading

Om Saravanabhavaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *Skanda Shashti Message (1947)* by Sri Swami Sivananda /Priya Atman,/ It gives me immense delight to send this Message on such an auspicious occasion, the Pratishtha Ceremony of Sri Balasubrahmanya and Sakti Vel. “Even if, Muruga, Thy Name once told, Your grace descends with Love manifold Let me Thy Name Muruga, Parama Kumara, once repeat, And Thy grace to protect shall descend on m ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Durgayai Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! *The True Significance of Devi Puja -- 1947* by Sri Swami Sivananda India now celebrates after the achievement of Her long-cherished goal of Independence, the nine-day worship of the Divine Mother—the Durga Puja. It is important for all to know and rightly understand the real spirit and significance of this worship so that tangible spiritual and material benefit of a lasting character may ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! See God in All by Sri P. Ganesh Prasad Once Gurudev was standing alone with Swami Chidanandaji. Casually he asked his birthday. Swamiji said that it was 24th September. Immediately Gurudev responded, "My birthday is on 8th September and yours is on 24th September. It will be an inconvenience for the devotees to visit the ashram twice in the same month. Hence, from now on, your birthd ...Continue Reading