Mind Control by Swami Rama

Mind control means “to know the method of using the forces of mind.” The conscious mind is only a small part of the mind. If you know the whole mind, the totality of the mind, then the part that you use in your daily life will easily come under your control. It is not...

Knowledge of Past Births by Swami Rama

Many of you are curious and very excited to know about your past. It’s not difficult to find out what you were before. Initially, don’t go to previous lives. Instead, you can easily find out what were you when you were five or six years of age. There is a big...

The Power that Makes a Human Being, by Swami Rama

Part 2 Prana makes up the pranic sheath that connects the body to the mind. Thus, the body mind relationship comes from prana, not from the kundalini. Likewise, the power to move does not come from the kundalini. Prana is described as flowing like a current through a...

New Release: Samyama the Power of Self-Transformation, by Swami Rama

Samyama the Power of Self-Transformation is the third and final volume of Yoga the Sacred Science, a series based on Swami Rama’s comments on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and other aspects of yoga science and philosophy. Samyama represents the culmination of the sacred...

The Power that Makes a Human Being, by Swami Rama

All power comes from the center of consciousness. In the beginning in the vast ocean of bliss, there was silent movement (satyam shivam sundaram), and from that silent movement the universe manifested. All of the five kingdoms—Monera, Protista, plants, fungi,...

Meditation as Self-Therapy by Swami Rama

Part 3 Sushumna application means that the breath is flowing equally through both of the nostrils. When you have learned to understand the basic breathing exercises, then you should pay attention to the breath flowing through the nostrils. When you become sensitive to...