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Living the Divine Life

Only when you have purified the heart, silenced the mind, stilled the thoughts and surging emotions, withdrawn the outgoing senses, thinned out the Vasanas,...

Tyaga is True Heroism

This World is in dire need of heroes and leaders who can help and lead people in the right path and show them the...

Where Are the Vedas Preserved?

The Vedas are the primary source of profound infinite knowledge about the existence of mankind. Passed on from generation to generation as a guideline to...

Bear Insult. Bear Injury

Bear insult. Bear injury. This is the highest yoga, the highest Sadhana. Sadhana means spiritual practice. Why is bear insult, bear injury considered to be...

Karma Yoga: The Foundation Of Sadhana 1

Audience: Should the practice of karma yoga always take priority over pranayama and asanas? Swamiji: While I am practising intense pranayama along with meditation I...

Ishwara Pranidhana

The final Niyama of Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga (Raja Yoga) is Ishwara Pranidhana. This is surrender of the ego, the will, to the Absolute. We...

More on Meditation

Samadhi or blissful divine experience arises when the Ego and the Mind are dissolved. Samadhi is a state to be attained by one’s own effort....

Ayurvedic Yoga for Anxiety

Anxiety in Ayurveda is seen as an energetic imbalance of the nervous system. Anxiety is understood to be caused by the imbalance of the Vata...

Meditation And The Self

When the surface of a lake is still you can see the bottom very clearly, but it is impossible to do so when the...