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Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad November 2017 ==================================== OM Namo Bhagawate Sivanandaya! OM Namo Bhagawate Chidanandaya! OM Namo Narayanaya! ================================================================== "Foundation of Yoga" - By Sri Swami Sivananda  "Develop
virtues like generosity, forgiveness and love. Mere Yogic Kriyas alone
will not help you much. Do self-analysis daily and eradicate your faults
and evil, slavish habits. Rectify your defects such as selfishness,
pride, jealousy and hatred. You must cultivate a compassionate and
loving heart first. At all times you must share what you have with
others and practice selfless service. Then only will you get purity of
heart.Yoga is unity, identity, homogeneity, oneness and sameness with God. Many aspirants neglect these preliminaries and jump, out of curiosity, to Yogic Kriyas for getting psychic powers. It is really a serious blunder. They will have a hopeless downfall. Therefore, be careful. Mere Yogic Kriyas cannot bring about the desired results. The purification of the heart is of paramount importance. It is a blessing to be a Yogi. Practice Yoga and preach. Hatha Yoga ensures good physical and mental health. You must utilize this to the best advantage by deep meditation on the Atman or inner Self. Self-realization should be your goal. This should be achieved by the constant remembrance of God, by righteousness, by a life of virtue and by the practice of Yoga. Every activity - from the rearing of children to the management of the home - can be readily converted into Yoga. Kindly study the first six chapters of the Gita again and again. Merely running away from crowds is not a sign of Yoga. The performance of all actions as an instrument in His hands, and with the consciousness that this world is pervaded by Him, the Supreme Spirit, is called Yoga". - Swami Sivananda <<Read More>> ================================================================== " Song Celestial" - Bhagawad Gita on sacred Sri Bhagavad Gita Jayanti (November 29, 2017) "Though engaged in the performance of worldly duties, one who is regular in the study of the Gita becomes free. He is the happy man in this world. He is not bound by Karma. Just as the water stains not the lotus leaf, even so sins do not taint him who is regular in the recitation of the Gita. All the sacred centers of pilgrimage, like Prayag and other places, dwell in that place where the Gita is kept, and where the Gita is read. All the gods, sages, Yogins, divine serpents, Gopalas, Gopikas (friends and devotees of Lord Krishna), Narada, Uddhava and others (dwell here). Help comes quickly where the Gita is recited and, O Earth, I ever dwell where it is read, heard, taught and contemplated upon! "The Gita is the most beautiful and the only truly philosophical song. It contains sublime lessons on wisdom and philosophy. It is the “Song Celestial”. It is the universal gospel. It contains the message of life that appeals to all, irrespective of race, creed, age or religion. The Gita contains the divine nectar. It is the wish-fulfilling gem, tree and cow. You can milk anything from it. It is a book for eternity. It is a vade-mecum for all. Peace, bliss, wisdom, Brahman, Nirvana, Param Padam and Gita are all synonymous terms." - Sri Swami Sivananda << Read More>>
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"Yoga
& Vedanta" : Blessed Divinities! Sadhaks and seekers! From your
ancient, effulgent past, as your heritage and birthright, you have
inherited two great treasures—Yoga and Vedanta. Vedanta is divine
wisdom, knowledge of the Divine Reality, the great Reality. Yoga is the
science of entering into a conscious relationship with that knowledge,
experiencing that knowledge, realising that knowledge. 
"Yoga
way of Life brings Happiness of sound mind in sound body.
Yogic living implies discriminative living. Yoga is
equanimity, equipoise or equilibrium. It is skill in the
performance of actions.Yoga is disconnection from union with
pain and freedom from attachment and desires it is turning
away of the senses from the objective universe and
concentrating of the mind within." - Swami Adhyatmananda