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Understanding the Guru Principle (Guru-tattva)

One of the central teachings of the Integral Yoga Tradition is also one that can be difficult to understand in the modern West: the principle of Guru. In the traditions of Yoga and Vedanta, Guru means more than an individual spiritual teacher. Behind the human teacher...

The Gateway and the Mountain: How the Yoga Sutras and the Nondual Vision Fit Together in Integral Yoga

The Recipe Swami Satchidananda once explained Raja Yoga with a recipe. In New York in September 1966, in his first conversation with a young student named Sadasivam Greenstone, he asked whether Sadasivam could cook. You get a recipe from a trusted source, Sadasivam...

The Spirit of Sat-Chid-Ananda

Looking Back at the First Ten Years In 1976, Integral Yoga marked ten years since its founder, Swami Satchidananda, first came to America and began the work that would take root as Integral Yoga in the West. To commemorate the anniversary, Satchidananda...

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The Yoga of Waves

Gerry Lopez is one of the most influential surfers and surfboard shapers of all time. Known as "Mr. Pipeline"—for his mastery of the huge waves that form large, hollow, thick curls of water that surfers can tube ride—Lopez is an entrepreneur, a family man, a movie...

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You are Light!

Let us know that in Truth you are the Divine Image, the image of God. Somehow the veil of the ego prevents you from realizing this. Just remove that veil. It is that veil that is the basis for all these mental dramas. It creates all kinds of problems, troubles,...

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