Sivananda School of Yoga, Parkview, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Sivananda School of Yoga is set in a beautiful garden in Parkview, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa is a non-profit organization offering classes in every form of yoga

By Sri Swami Chidananda

The Peace Within

By Sri Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj

Blessed Immortal Atman! Beloved devotees of the Lord! Today, before the sun sets, it will be the solar New Year. Therefore, let us join together at this auspicious moment and pray for the unfolding of peace in the hearts and minds of people all over the world-in India, in nearby countries, in all countries. May people all over the world have peaceful thoughts, may they have peaceful feelings towards others, and as a consequence may they act peacefully towards each othe

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The Necessity Of Intropection

By Sri Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj

Radiant Immortal Atman! Beloved and blessed children of the Divine! Scriptures and saints and those who have had their fingers burnt by running after the objects of the world continuously warn us to be cautious in our dealings with the sense-objects of this world. For these sense-objects are deceptive, they are endowed with a false glitter and an indescribable power of deluding the mind, attracting it, enmeshing it and then enslaving it. Lord Kr

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You Are What You Choose To Become

By Sri Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj

The great Upanishadic seers of realisation have declared that life and the outcome of life for each and every individual is a matter of constant, continuous, moment by moment, choice. It s a matter of choice. What do you choose? What is your wish?

This, the great wisdom teachings of Vedanta very clearly and unambiguously state in the Kathopanishad. It is also very clearly brought home to us in the Sri

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Make This A Perfect Day

by Sri Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj

Beloved and blessed presence, adorable Holy Master, thou who hast drawn us into thy proximity at the commencement of this golden day! Bless us that we may live each moment and hour of this precious day, in our thoughts, our words and actions, in such a noble and divine way that sundown finds us higher, holier, happier for having entered into this day, finds us nearer to the goal of human existence, namely divine perfection through Self-realisation.

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