About
Swami Sivananda Saraswati was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a prolific author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta, and a wide range of spiritual subjects. A physician before renouncing the world, he founded the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh and trained a generation of teachers who spread yoga internationally, including Swami Vishnu-devananda and Swami Satchidananda. He advocated an integral approach combining karma, bhakti, jnana, and raja yoga.
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Books
Experience the power of Hatha Yoga as a tool for spiritual transformation. Providing symbolic and mythological context for each asana, the Hidden Language method encourages you to take Hatha beyond the physical. Explore twenty-two asanas through symbol and metaphor. Spiritualize your Hatha practice.
Kundalini, the primordial energy resides in all of us, lying dormant at the base of our spines. Very few know the secret of how to arouse it from its slumber. But now with the world familiar with yoga and its efficacy, the custodians of this knowledge have thought it prudent to open the doors to hitherto secret practices and reveal the what, why and how of Kundalini practice. Kundalini Yoga for All will take you through this journey with explanations of the various stations you will encounter. Starting with cleansing and tuning your body to the step-by-step guide of your daily Kundalini yoga practice, this book will empower you to experience your highest potential in brain, body and awareness to meet all challenges of life with equanimity and experience bliss which is every human's birthright. Take this exciting journey within to discover the divine energy, so you can enhance every sphere of your life-professional, personal and spiritual.
“The Call" is the true story of a German woman who, in 1950, made telepathic contact with an Indian yoga master, Swami Shivananda, was trained by him for three years, and traveled to India in 1953 to spend five months at the master's ashram. The book mainly documents her time spent in India.
This instructive book carries in itself a life-transforming value. None who reads it, with the needed interest and attention, will ever feel inclined to remain unchanged in personal nature and untransformed in conduct and character. A good deal of careful judgment and confidence would assist us in asserting that no one who reads this work, will fail to resist the readiness to make of his own will a Power that alters and exalts his own life and destiny. The work is fraught with implicit guidance for turning our personalities into forces of compelling influence and charm, and for rendering our lives into so many grand stories of the epic unfoldment of the Divine Truth we enshrine, the Divine Light we bear, and the Divine perfection we hold in our inner being. This, then, is a simple, straightforward, inspiring book that holds out many methods for the culture and nurture of thought power. It is also a work that presents us with many useful suggestions which enable us to reach a region beyond the terrain of thought and its power, a realm of transcendental Experience and God-consciousness.
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