Swami Medhananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and an academic philosopher, currently serving as Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood. He is also the Hindu Chaplain at UCLA and the University of Southern California.
In the previous installment of the Spiritual Odyssey series, we paused after Ramaswamy’s time at Sri Ramanasramam to explore another voice from the Tamil spiritual world that had helped form him: the beloved poet-sage Avvaiyar. Before following Ramaswamy on his...
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...
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...
It all started in June 1968. I had just graduated from Columbia University with a degree in math and philosophy. But after all those years of studying Eastern and Western philosophy, much of it still felt theoretical. I wanted a real practice. Then I noticed an ad in...
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