How Meditation Helps
People used to think that Yoga only meant standing on the head and doing some breathing techniques. But a very important practice is meditation—working directly with the mind. After all, the body is only a concrete expression of the mind. If you change the mind, you...Learning the Method of Direct Inquiry
It’s nearly impossible to calm the waves of the mind completely, but we can learn to dive under them. You don’t have to make all the waves calm. The Bhagavad Gita says that the mind gets tossed like a boat on the surface of wavy water. It’s very hard to keep the mind...Integral Yoga Meditation Retreat in Thiruvannamalai, India: December 28, 2018 – January 6, 2019
Thiruvannamalai is where Sri Ramana Maharshi settled to do his sadhana and the ashram he founded was where Sri Swami Satchidananda sat at the holy feet of this great sage in the 1940s. In Thiruvannamalai, mantras vibrate subliminally in the air, and the spiritual...Swami Satchidananda Remembers: “My Guru, Sri Swami Sivanandaji”
At one time, there were four great holy sages who were living in different parts of India. They must have had some sort of communication between themselves because they all said goodbye, one after the other, within the same period. Swami Ramdas, who was a great Bhakti...Support the Magazine
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The Living Gita: The Complete Bhagavad Gita: a Commentary for Modern Readers by Sri Swami Satchidananda Get this and other ebooks by H. H. Sri Swami Satchidananda.