Navaratri

Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati Navaratri is one of the most ancient methods of recognizing the force, the shakti, the power and wisdom of God. There has been much speculation about who…

Pratyahara

Paramahamsa Niranjanananda, Satsang at Satyananda Ashram Aube, France, November 1994 Modern psychology speaks of three states of mind, the conscious, subconscious arid unconscious. Yoga speaks of four mental states, jagriti,…

Pratyahara (Sunday Satsang)

Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati Sage Patanjali speaks of asana as sthiram sukham asanam. Does it mean that asana is that in which one is sthira and sukhi, or does it mean that sthirata and sukha are outcomes of practising…

Collective Consciousness

Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati, from yogamag 2015 There was a question: Will the entire human civilization be united into one consciousness once the individual ego disappears? There are many theories. It…

The Path of Experience

Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Yogamagazine 1980 There is a mysterious substance behind man’s existence. The wise men have tried to define and explain it, but most people have not yet been…