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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...

Sri Adi Sankaracharya Jayanti on 02nd-May-2025, Friday

Sri Adi Sankaracharya Jayanti on 02nd-May-2025, Friday

May. 16 | Sri Jagadguru Adi Sankaracharya By Swami Sivananda Introduction Chaos pervaded all through India in the matter of religion and philosophy. Sect after sect, such as Charvakas, Lokayathikas, Kapalikas, Shaktas, Sankhyas, Buddhas and Madhyamikas sprang...

Significance of Ramnavami

Significance of Ramnavami

Apr. 6 | by Swami Sivananda Om Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram SALUTATIONS to Lord Rama, an Incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who is measureless, who is of the nature of pure Consciousness and bliss, who is the consort of Sita, Master of Sri Hanuman, and the Lord of the...

Sri Rama Navami Programme Schedule

Sri Rama Navami Programme Schedule

Apr. 3 | Jai Gurudev ! Om Shree Ramaya Namaha ! THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY HEADQUARTERS, SHIVANANDANAGAR SRI RAMA NAVAMI CELEBRATION PROGRAMME Sunday 6th April 2025 5.00 To 6.00 A.M. Brahma Muhurta Meditation at the Holy Samadhi Shrine with Early...