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The Difference between Attachment and Love
Question: Wouldn't I also be attached to a person when I truly love them? Swami Satchidananda: One should be loving but not attached. Attachment is far different from love. Attachment is always personal and selfish: "So and-so makes me happy when we are together; if I...
New Book Brings Yoga Philosophy “Off the Mat”
A new book from North Atlantic Books invites practitioners to rediscover Yoga as something far more expansive than physical postures. Yoga Off the Mat: A Practical Guide to the Wisdom of Yoga—Find Balance, Meaning, and Liberation in Your Daily Life, by longtime Yoga...
Rosa Parks: Yoga and the Practice of Quiet Strength
There is another image of Rosa Parks, far removed from the photographs most Americans know. She is not seated on a Montgomery bus. She is not being fingerprinted after her arrest. She is not standing beside Martin Luther King Jr. or addressing a civil rights...
Combating Aging with Rasayana
Rejuvenation is an Ayurvedic specialty whose main purpose is to maintain health and virility as age advances. We all age, but we don’t need in the process to enter an era of disease. We can age gracefully and avoid diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, autoimmune...
Brother David Steindl-Rast: 100th Birthday Celebration
Br. David Steindl-Rast — Grateful Living founder and beloved longtime interfaith advocacy collaborator of Swami Satchidananda — became a centenarian on July 12, 2026! Enjoy a replay of the virtual celebration, highlights of the 100th Birthday celebrations at Br....
Spiritual Luminaries Series: Aldous Huxley
From Brave New World to the Wisdom of Vedanta To millions of readers, Aldous Huxley remains the author of Brave New World, the chilling 1932 vision of a society pacified by conditioning, consumption, entertainment, and chemically induced contentment. Yet the man who...
Adaptive Gentle & Chair Yoga Teacher Training – Online September 2026
The Integral Yoga Institute of New York is presenting The Adaptive Gentle & Chair Yoga Teacher Training online starting September 9th, 2026. This training provides a solid foundation for Yoga teachers to know how to adapt traditional Yoga asana for those students...
The Charged Ground
The Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville ground is charged. Once someone tells you to notice it, you cannot stop noticing it, and I mean this in more than a figurative sense. A practitioner who arrives with a settled enough mind can feel the field the way you feel a...
Embarking on a Spiritual Odyssey, Part 29: At the Holy Feet of Silence
Sambasivam Chaitanya’s journey now brings him to Tiruvannamalai, to the holy presence of Arunachala, and to Ramanashram, where one of modern India’s greatest sages sat in the stillness of Self-realization. At Ramanashram, Advaita was no longer only a subject of...
How to Deepen Your Meditation Practice
Deepening your meditation practice requires more than simply sitting for longer periods of time. A truly effective practice depends on cultivating a sufficient level of refined energy. This energy expresses itself as alertness, mental clarity, willpower, conviction,...