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Significance of The Holy Guru-Purnima Day

Significance of The Holy Guru-Purnima Day

Jul. 6 | Sankaram Sankaracharyam Kesavam Badarayanam; Sutra-Bhashya-Kritau Vande Bhagavantau Punah Punah I adore Lord Siva, Lord Vishnu, Bhagavan Vyasa and Sri Sankaracharya. I again and again prostrate to Sri Vyasa who wrote the Vedanta Sutras, and to Sri Sankaracharya...

Sri Gurupurnima Live

Sri Gurupurnima Live

Jul. 6 | Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya!Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya! We are pleased to inform all devotees of Worshipful Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj that we are going to stream the Gurupurnima, 60th Sadhana Week(11th...

Guru Purnima Message

Guru Purnima Message

Jul. 6 | July 1964 Om Namo Bhagavte Sivanandaya! Salutations and worshipful Pranams to the sacred lotus-Feet of the Guru whose form is to be an object of our meditation, whose feet are to be adored, whose words are most holy truths and whose Grace grants us supreme...

The Role of The Guru

The Role of The Guru

Jul. 6 | Ajnana-Timirandhasya Jnananjana-Salakaya; Chakshurunmilitam Yena Tasmai Sri Gurave Namah. Prostrations to that Guru who, by the collyrium-rod of Knowledge, opens the eyes of those who are rendered blind by the darkness of ignorance (Guru Gita). The Guru...

Guru-Bhakti Yoga

Guru-Bhakti Yoga

Jul. 6 | Just as Kirtan-Sadhana has been made the special Kali-Yuga Sadhana for quick God-vision, even so herein you have the new Yoga, a Yoga most eminently suitable for this age of doubt and scepticism, pride and egoism. It is Guru-Bhakti Yoga. This Yoga is...

Waste not this Rare Human Birth

Waste not this Rare Human Birth

Jul. 6 | (H.H. SRI SWAMI SIVANANDAJI MAHARAJ) Guru Purnima Message-6th July 1963 (Saturday) Salutations again and again at the Holy Feet of the great Sage, Sri Vyasa Bhagavan or Sri Krishna Dwaipayana, who edited the Vedas, composed the Brahmasutras, and wrote...

SRI GURU PURNIMA 2025

SRI GURU PURNIMA 2025

Jul. 1 | SRI GURU PURNIMA, SADHANA WEEK ANDTHE SACRED PUNYATITHI ARADHANA OFGURUDEV SRI SWAMI SIVANANDAJI MAHARAJ The Holy Sri Guru Purnima will be celebrated at the Headquarters Ashram on the 10th of July, 2025, and the 62nd Anniversary of the Punyatithi Aradhana...

SANYAS CALLS YOU

SANYAS CALLS YOU

Jun. 30 | Swami Sivananda The Sanyas Flag was worshipped. Siva, in the course of a brilliant oration explaining the significance of the Sanyas Flag, said: ‘The flag flutters in the air: it calls you all—‘Come, embrace Sanyas’. One day or the other,...

Valedictory Function

Valedictory Function

Jun. 30 | Photos taken during Valedictory Function of 103rd Basic Yoga Vedanta Course.

Sri Ganga Dashahara

Sri Ganga Dashahara

Jun. 5 | Photos taken during Sri Ganga Dashahara Celebration at Sri Viswanath Ghat, Ganges Bank, Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh-Himalayas.