From Merging with Shiva by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami NO GOOD, NO BAD Each experience that we have is a good experience, because it molds us. It shapes...
From the book: Samadhi - The Highest State of Wisdom By Swami Rama http://www.swamij.com/swami-rama-guru.htm GURU AND THE LIGHT WITHIN If you prepare yourself...
From: http://www.swamij.com/mantra-use.htm (Useful graphics are at this link) THIRTEEN TIPS ON HOW TO USE A MANTRA MANTRA USE: Following are 13 practical tips...
Press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/1/prweb336859.htm YOGA DAY USA AND THE DISTORTION OF YOGA IN AMERICA To understand the distortion of Yoga in...
From: http://hrih.net/patanjali/introduction.htm Truth is concurrence between thought, word and deed. It must be true to fact and at the same time pleasant. If...
TYPES OF MEDITATION—PART TWO Swami Bhajanananda Swami Bhajanananda was the editor of Prabuddha Bharata from 1979 through 1986 and has contributed many...
TYPES OF MEDITATION—PART ONE Swami Bhajanananda Swami Bhajanananda was the editor of Prabuddha Bharata from 1979 through 1986, and has contributed many...
From: Perennial Psychology of the Bhagavad Gita By Swami Rama THREE ATTRIBUTES (GUNAS) OF THE HUMAN MIND The human mind is composed of three gunas (qualities):...
From the book: Vedantic Meditation By David Frawley THE SPACE WITHIN THE HEART There is a space within ourselves, the space within the heart. It is not a...
REMEMBERING IN THE NEW YEAR The wave forgets the truth that it is ocean, thinking itself to be the grand shape, which it has temporarily taken. For a while, it...
From Merging with Shiva by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami FIND THE CORE OF YOUR BEING The superconscious mind and the body of the soul have been around a long...
LOVE IS THE LORD OF LIFE Swami Rama Those who are aware only of their birth and life on this platform of existence always remain afraid of so-called death. Yet...
From: http://www.swamij.com/timeplace.htm TIME AND PLACE FOR MEDITATION Swami Jnaneshvara Choosing a regular time and place is a real key to progress in ...
BREATH AWARENESS AND MEDITATION Swami Rama Breath awareness is an essential part of meditation. The most well established schools of meditation teach breath...
From: http://www.swamij.com/about.htm ABOUT THE SWAMIJ.COM WEBSITE http://www.swamij.com The goal of this website is that the ancient teachings of self- ...
LARGEST MERCURY SHIVALINGAM IN THE WORLD CREATED IN UJJAIN, INDIA Siddha Ashram and Acharya Mahamandaleshwara Swami Nardanand Paramahansa Maharaj have...
From Merging with Shiva by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami THE IMMORTAL BODY OF THE SOUL As soon as we start on the path to enlightenment, we begin to wonder ...
From the Book: Vedantic Meditation By David Frawley SELF-INQUIRY AND ITS PRACTICE The practice of Self-inquiry, called Atma-vichara in Sanskrit, is the most...
THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF SUGAR AND YOGA Throughout the highs and lows of life, whether bad times or good, whether living in darkness or light, untruth or...
INNER PEACE Swami Rama Inner peace and happiness is a subject that concerns everyone, It concerned the ancients, and it is our concern today as well--to ...
A student went to his meditation teacher and said, "My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs ache, or I'm constantly falling asleep. It's...
YOGA: WHAT FOR? by Georg Feuerstein You can practice Yoga for all sorts of reasons: to remain fit; to stay healthy or recover your health; to balance your...
YOGA—WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT By Swami Chidananda In Sanskrit, the primary definition of the term Yoga is the state of union with the Divine or the...
From: http://www.swamij.com/four-ashrams.htm LIVING THE FOUR ASHRAMS OF LIFE Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati PLANNING LIFE IN FOUR STAGES: In the ancient Indian...
"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...
KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL LIVING Swami Rama Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those...
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,...
From the book Enlightenment Without God By Swami Rama A commentary on the Mandukya Upanishad, which succinctly describes the Om mantra and the four levels of...
I am telling you to face this reality: the path to enlightenment and unfoldment is not really so austere, abstruse, or difficult -- it's actually very easy....