Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! The Heart of the Spiritual Problem by Sri Swami Chidananda It is not at all flattering, but unless there is honesty about oneself we cannot step into spiritual life even if we know all about Vedanta. For the spiritual life has two dimensions. One is the Vedanta /siddhanta/ (doctrine) of the ultimate experience, but the other is /vyavahara/ (worldly activity). Unless Vedanta is brought ove ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! Bases of Spiritual Sadhana by Sri Swami Sivananda A man abandoning society and activity as evil and shutting himself up in seclusion, isolated from mankind so that he might grow in virtue and into sainthood through meditation, will in all probability be found to be less ready to overlook the transgressions of an erring brother than a practical humanitarian earnestly exerting himself in th ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! The Rugged Path by Sri Swami Sivananda Nothing that is worthwhile is to be achieved without undergoing a corresponding amount of pain and suffering. No enduring ideal can be attained without tire and sweat. The seed splits and perishes to put forth the plant. The flower lays its life to give place to the sweet fruit. It is in the furnace that gold emerges from the ore. Even so, the price ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! True Sannyasa by Sri Swami Chidananda This being Gurudev’s /sannyasa /day, let us consider what sannyasa is, what constitutes /sannyasa. /Guru Maharaj was very specific about it. He said that merely shaving the head and putting on coloured cloth does not make you a /sannyasin. /A change of location does not make you a / sannyasin. /Coming away into seclusion or sitting on a mountain top o ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! Devotion to the Lord by Sri Swami Sivananda Do you really want God? Do you really thirst for his Darshan? Have you got real spiritual hunger? These are essential questions which you should every day of your life put yourself to. He who thirsts for the Darshan of the Lord only will develop love unto Him. To him, He will reveal Himself. God is a question of supply and demand. If there is a ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! Samskara Raksha—Protection of Spiritual Impressions by Sri Swami Sivananda For some months you remain in closed rooms and you progress well with good concentration and meditation. All on a sudden, some disturbance or the other comes and upsets your meditation. Your friends are your real enemies in one way. They drag you for some business or the other into the world. You are drawn forcibly ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! The Key To Your Transformation by Sri Swami Chidananda Radiant Atman! The words /aviveki, viveki /and /sadhaka /refer to three different types of individuals. An /aviveki /is a person who does not discriminate. All the lessons in life which God sends him or her are wasted, because he or she is in /ajnana /(ignorance). And /ajnana /is the outcome of /aviveka /(non-discrimination). On the other han ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! Affirm Truth Reject Untruth by Sri Swami Chidananda /Beloved Immortal Selves!/ Radiant Atman! This week we will observe the /jayanti /of Adi Sankaracharya, one of the greatest of Self-realised souls and philosophers this world of ours has produced. Leaving home, in a spirit of renunciation and aspiration to realise the Reality, at the tender age of eight years, he completed an unbelieva ...Continue Reading

Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! In Search of Peace by Sri Swami Yogaswarupananda /A message given for the Seventy-Fifth Birthday Anniversary of Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj/ After reading abridged edition of Mahabharata, I too thought of going to Himalayas for Mahaprasthana, to reach heaven like Pandavas to obtain supreme peace. On seeing the railway map that the last station to Himalayas is Rishikesh, travelled by train for four days without foo ...Continue Reading

Om Saravanabhavaya Namah! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! Namaste! Skanda Shashti Message (Delivered in 1946) by Sri Swami Sivananda /Beloved Immortal Selves!/ Skanda Shasthi is the six-day-worship of Lord Skanda or Karttikeya. He is the spiritual son of Lord Siva. Lord Skanda is worshipped with intense devotion by a very large section of people throughout Southern India and Sri Lanka as well. The origin of Lord Skanda, the purpose of His Avatara a ...Continue Reading