What does samyojana mean? In Sanskrit, it means knots which are within us and these knots have to be opened. They are chains which bind us spiritually. Continue reading
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The true meaning of visualization
What is the meaning of visualization? The gross meaning is to anticipate, envision or create. There is a spiritual meaning of visualization and that is the practice we are seeking. How can we develop visualization? It is a question asked so many times of Gurus. Yet it is a word used so frequently by us in our daily life. In the context of Yoga sadhana, Swamiji answered this question. Continue reading
Our role as Yoga teachers in 2025
What should we do as Yoga teachers?
Our responsibility as Yoga teachers is to enable our students to understand the following principles. Continue reading
Welcome love, goodbye resentment
Dear ones, the year is going to end soon. Let us pause and think of all the good things that happened in 2024. In this category, I am putting what made you laugh, sing, dance and pleased. Continue reading
Quotes from the Masters
Simple life is a veritable blessing, because it makes one free from cravings and desires, which cause suffering and pain. Continue reading
The different pratyaharas
Dear Ones, I have been writing about Pratyahara as explained by Swami Niranjananda Saraswati. I will go through the list. Continue reading
The art of Happiness is Empathy
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another. – Alfred Adler
Feel the sentiments of others being like one’s own self. This is what Atmabhava means. It is a Sanskrit word that means the existence or being of one’s self. It is composed of the words atman and bhava. It also means all-encompassing affection, which is sympathy and feeling oneness with others, identifying with their woes. It is a pure form of worship of the Supreme Divine Being, the consciousness or God. Continue reading
What is our understanding of Prana
Swami Niranjananda gives the best explanation. My experience is that every time I read the writings of the Masters, I find that I learn something new or my understanding gains more clarity. My Guru, Swami Satyananda said to me, ‘Be curious, inquisitive and have an open mind.’ I have followed his wise advice and along the path have been finding more and more precious insights, which I can share with you, dear ones. Continue reading
Be still, be silent, be a witness
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to unmasked, it has no choice. – Franz Kafka
Why are we fearful of fear?
Dear ones, none of us is free from our thoughts? They are the culprits, who build on our feelings and emotions. They are very comfortably sitting on the sofas of our mind. They are chilling out and clapping their hands, when we listen to them and feel worse. What is interesting is that they are in everyone’s minds and they do not need to step out. Continue reading
Break up with Besties
There are two aspects of individual harmony; the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world in the individuals and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. – Hazrat Inayat Khan
If only all of us could be harmonious in our thoughts and actions, there would be peace and harmony in the world. Continue reading
998 – Our quest for mysticism
Mysticism is the belief that one can experience a direct connection with God, or a unifying principle in life. It can also refer to any altered state of consciousness or ecstasy that has a spiritual or religious meaning. In Hinduism one seeks the union with a higher being and this can be described as a mystical dimension. Continue reading
968 – What is Samadhi?
Samadhi is the awareness already existing in us. Samadhi is absolute equilibrium. The state of samadhi includes all dimensions of awareness, external and internal awareness. They both have to be experienced simultaneously. In the practice of meditation, one transcends the external experience, but one has to reach out to the external consciousness. In samadhi the mind, the self, the spirit becomes homogenous, and for that spirit, for that consciousness, which is samadhi, both internal and external awareness are the same. – Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Dear ones, what is the path for us? Sadhana and becoming aware of the pause between our ingoing and outgoing breath.
Aim Hrim Klim
936 – Swami Sivananda’s views on Yoga Sadhana
Our param guru, Swami Sivananda, said that when one performed one’s yoga sadhana one must involve all of one’s faculties. This means practicing with one’s mind and body. This can be accomplished by awareness, visualization and detachment. Continue reading
925 – World Yoga Day
Yoga will emerge as a mighty culture and change the course of world events.
My only request for aspirants is; be constantly aware of the spiritual self beyond the body and mind.
Transform every act of yours into an act of Yoga.
Pain is a cross on which nature hangs a man whenever She wishes to make him a sublime superman.
by Swami Satyananda Saraswati. 1963 Continue reading