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20/10/2025

Yoga a lifestyle 🧘🏽

_Ultimately, yoga is a lifestyle. It is not a practice. For, once the yogic principles are imbibed and become part of li...
18/10/2025

_Ultimately, yoga is a lifestyle. It is not a practice. For, once the yogic principles are imbibed and become part of life, the attitudes, perceptions, interactions, the mind, actions and behaviours will improve._

Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati

“Instead of guiding yourself according to the opinion of everyone, listen only to the voice of your soul and follow its ...
18/10/2025

“Instead of guiding yourself according to the opinion of everyone, listen only to the voice of your soul and follow its dictates.”

Today’s inspiring words from Paramahansa Swami Satyananda Saraswati.

If you want to improve yourself and become creative, happy, satisfied and successful, take everything in life as a form ...
05/10/2025

If you want to improve yourself and become creative, happy, satisfied and successful, take everything in life as a form of sadhana.
- Swami Niranjanananda

“One who is able to find their balance is known as a Yogi. A Yogi is not a person who practises Yoga; a Yogi is a person...
27/09/2025

“One who is able to find their balance is known as a Yogi. A Yogi is not a person who practises Yoga; a Yogi is a person who has been able to find inner balance. That happens with awareness, when you become a drashta as a natural culmination of the awareness you have developed.” - Paramhamsa Niranjananda Saraswati , Bihar School of Yoga

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During the sacred nine nights of Navaratri, we honor the many forms of Durga, the radiant embodiment of the divine femin...
26/09/2025

During the sacred nine nights of Navaratri, we honor the many forms of Durga, the radiant embodiment of the divine feminine.

One of the most meaningful practices at this time is the recitation of the Durga mantras. Along with these, devotees also chant the Saundarya Lahari and the 32 names of Durga, each sound carrying its own blessing.

This vibration is believed to stimulate the spirit, awakening inner transformation.

We chant Durga’s mantras not just for their power but for their profound ability to help us overcome life’s obstacles, bringing about personal growth and inner strength.

Swami Satyananda Saraswati, was a Sanyasi, yoga teacher and guru in both his native India and the West. He was a student...
25/09/2025

Swami Satyananda Saraswati, was a Sanyasi, yoga teacher and guru in both his native India and the West. He was a student of Sivananda Saraswati, the founder of the Divine Life Society, and founded the Bihar School of Yoga in 1964. He wrote over 80 books, including his popular 1969 manual Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha.

We are so blessed to have Swami ji as our guru.

In trying to overcome addiction, how does one start when the mind is dissipated and addicted to so many bad habits, not ...
19/09/2025

In trying to overcome addiction, how does one start when the mind is dissipated and addicted to so many bad habits, not only to drugs? What are the first steps?

The patient’s or sufferer’s recognition that he or she is under the influence of an addiction is one factor. The type of therapy that is followed, whether it is medication or yoga, is another. However, recognizing that one is suffering from an addiction and adopting a process to overcome the addiction is not the complete approach. A different understanding of the mind has to be created and instilled in the sufferer with the help of the therapist.
The common form of treatment is to go to a therapist or yoga teacher and say, “ Look, I have this problem. Can you help me? “ They will give some medication or a set of practices to do, and that is the end of it. In both situations it like saying, “If you have a headache, take an aspirin and see me tomorrow morning.” There has to be an understanding of the functions of one’s mind. We have to provide a direction for the mind to express itself while it is undergoing therapy. The focus should on the positive aspects of life, where there can be some artistic expression.
Along with therapy, if we can suggest the development of a hobby like painting, music or sculpture, it will provide more focus for personal expression. When you are fully involved and engrossed in the hobby, you will not feel the need to take any stimulants that can be addictive. Having a positive hobby also helps to manage desires of a self-destructive nature.

Source: Yoga Sadhana Panorama Vol Four
Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati

Woman is one of the finest creatures of the creator and there is no reason why she should be bared from spiritual life. ...
15/09/2025

Woman is one of the finest creatures of the creator and there is no reason why she should be bared from spiritual life. Women are very psychic by nature and we should allow them to raise their consciousness and develop this part of their personality. Why should they not become clairvoyants, telepaths, prophets, scholars and sannyasins?”

- Swami Satyananda (Bihar School of Yoga)
(In this photo Swami Satsangi )



🌸 Sri Swamiji Samarpan Diwas—the day when he had complete surrendered🌸It was on 12th September 1947 that Sri Swamiji rec...
12/09/2025

🌸 Sri Swamiji Samarpan Diwas—the day when he had complete surrendered🌸

It was on 12th September 1947 that Sri Swamiji received initiation into the Dashnam order of Sannyasa from Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati, on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh.

Swamiji did not call this day Sannyasa Diwas, he called it Samarpan Diwas—the day when he had complete surrendered.

In the words of Swami Sivananda:

“Few would exhibit such intense Vairagya at such an early age, Swami Satyananda is full of Nachiketa Vairagya”

“Satyam is that luminous flame which will go on spreading the name of Siva and the light of his teachings throughout the entire world. Swami Satyam is satyam indeed in word, thought and deed.”
— Swami Sivananda Saraswati

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