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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...

DLS Branch Meet, SADHANA SHIVIR-SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE

DLS Branch Meet, SADHANA SHIVIR-SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE

Jul. 2 | ANNOUNCEMENT SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE TO COMMEMORATE 75 YEAROF FOUNDATION OF THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETYVADODARA BRANCH From 30th October to 1st November 2025 By the grace of Most Worshipful Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj and Bhagavan Sri Dwarkadheesh,...

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.

101st Sannyasa Diksha

101st Sannyasa Diksha

Jun. 2 | 101st Anniversary of Sannyasa Diksha Celebration of H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj on 1st June 2025 at Holy Samadhi Shrine, Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh-Himalays.

TRUE SANNYASA

TRUE SANNYASA

May. 26 | By Sri Swami Chidananda This article is from the book Awake! Realise Your Divinity!. Beloved and worshipful Gurudev! Homage unto thy glorious and gracious spiritual presence, thou who art the light, the life and the soul of this Ashram that...