Dear Friends, A new section has been added to the website on Kundalini Awakening. The section has a total of 8 web pages. After you click on the link below, be...
Dear Friends, It is said that 125,000 recitations of a mantra will bring mantra siddhi, the realization of a notable level of benefit from the mantra. Believe...
A new addition has been made to the website, a description of the soham mantra, which is used along with the breath. It has been called the universal mantra...
Each day is a life to one who divides. The child is the next life to one who multiplies. This and the next life is real life to one who adds. This life brings...
"A human being cannot live without doing karma, actions. And when he does some karma he reaps the fruits of the actions. And those fruits lead him to do more...
Dear Friends, From time to time people ask questions like, "What is a swami?" or "Why did you become a swami?" Sometimes these are difficult to explain, so...
The chariot is used by the ancient sages as symbol for how to train your mind and senses. Though most of us do not use horse drawn chariots, the lesson is as ...
A new article has been added to the website, entitled: "What is `systematic' meditation?" The purpose of this article is to discuss what it means to go inward...
Here is a link to a page that outlines nine quotes made by Swami Rama on holistic health: http://www.swamij.com/swami-rama-holistic.htm The emphasis is in the...
Probably if I were to play back tapes of my past talks, it would be the same ideas again and again. People might say, "The swami says nothing new--the same old...
The majority of people view yoga as a system of physical culture. Very few understand that yoga science is complete in itself, and deals systematically with...
A Rare Friendship Between a Leopard and a Cow GUJARAT, INDIA, May 12, 2003: A rare phenomena has captured the hearts and minds of inhabitants of a village in...
When one learns to forget all that one remembers, then in which language will the mind think? The thinker has nothing to think upon. Therefore, there is no...
First your teacher introduces you to the real teacher within you, which is called your own conscience. Then you start counseling within: "I should not do this...
If anyone wants to be a student of the interior world, of the path of light, if he wants to do inner research, he will have to understand this point: one must...
Love and attachment are two different things. Love means giving selflessly, excluding non and including all. Attachment is possessing something. In reality, it...
Dear Friends, A new "Additions" page has been added to the website. Whenever new pages or revisions to the SwamiJ.com website are made, they will be listed...
Dear Friends, Here is an addition to the website that briefly describes the interrelationship between Yoga, Vedanta, and Tantra, which are companion practices...
Once, a journalist asked Mahatma Gandhi how to attain happiness. Gandhi answered, "When you don't have any desires, then you will be happy." Normally, you...
Yoga is one of six schools or systems of classical Indian philosophy and practice. By understanding Yoga in this greater context, it is easier to see (and...
Real power resides within, with all its potentials. The external world is a mere expression of the power residing within. It is beyond sense perception and...
In the cycle of evolution a human being has attained a status and intelligence that enables him to survey the whole of life. He has all the potentials and...
Dear Friends, A Site Search feature has been added to the SwamiJ.com website, and is at the top left of the home page: http://swamij.com/index.html In loving...
Dear Friends, Following is a news release from the Associated Press of Asia, dated January 6, 2003 relating to the slaughter of cows in India. I am not ...
