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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...
Questions & Answers with Swami Sarvapriyananda: Atman & Anatman?
At the Vedanta Society of New York, Swami Sarvapriyananda recently addressed various topics including: How to understand Advaita’s Atman and the Buddhist doctrine of no-self? After enlightenment, why might one still show anger or other ordinary human reactions? How...
The Yogic Secret to Inner Peace
Renounce everything that would disturb your peace. Then, serve others by helping them find that same peace. Whatever be your position in life, learn to be a renunciate. You don't need to leave things and go away from where you are. A truly renounced, dedicated person...
The Real You Never Dies
Everybody has to die one day or another. Nobody can avoid death. That’s why we should know what death means. In death, we simply lose our body, that’s all. But the real you is never born and never dies. It is only the body that dies. Of course, we all should try to...
Return to the Source
This meditation on Sri Ramana Maharshi's instruction to Frank H. Humphreys (a devotee of Sri Ramana) is read by Buddhist nun, Samaneri Jayasāra, whose YouTube channel is filled with the highest spiritual teachings from various traditions for the purpose of deepening...
Yoga and Nonduality: How Do These Teachings Relate?
Many sincere seekers encounter both Yoga and nonduality and wonder: Are these the same? Are they different? Does one contradict the other? At first glance, they can seem to point in opposite directions. Yoga speaks of discipline, purification, practice, and gradual...
The Timeless Wisdom of the Thirukkural
For more than 2,000 years, the Thirukkural has stood as one of the crown jewels of Tamil literature—a concise yet profound spiritual guide composed of 1,330 couplets, each offering deep insight into virtue, ethical living, love, and the art of creating a harmonious...
Prana: The Subtle Current of Awakening
The yogic masters describe prana as the subtle current that sustains body, mind, and spirit. For most, it remains hidden beneath the surface of breath. But for those who practice deeply, prana is revealed as the very thread of consciousness itself. To know prana is to...
Tasting the Spiritual Fruit
Every year on his birthday, as we gathered to honor Sri Swami Satchidananda, the tables would turn in the most profound way. Rather than our offerings of gratitude and celebration taking center stage, Gurudev would bless us with a birthday message brimming with wisdom...