Exercise and Good Health, by Swami Rama

The two different kinds of physical exercise essential to good health are stretching exercises such as the yoga postures and aerobic exercises such as jogging. Both are very beneficial for cleansing, relaxing, and revitalizing the body and for helping it function...

Let the Bud of Life Bloom, by Swami Rama

If there is to be any higher civilization in the world, it will start from family life. The family institution is higher than all temples, churches, and synagogues. Householders are the real foundation of society. If you are a householder, do not feel that your role...

Divine Grace, by Swami Rama

Grace dawns when action ends. In the effort to understand life and approach death meaningfully, vairagya and abhyasa are the responsibility of the seeker. When these two are truly undertaken, another help follows. That help comes in the form of guru and grace, each...

Emotions, by Swami Rama

Today, there is chaos all over the world, not because there are no intelligent people, no emotional human beings or no healthy persons. What is the problem with our human society? Despite many experiments conducted on three levels—mind, body, and matter—we have not...

Mantra, by Swami Rama

Your mantra has a form; all sounds have a form. The sound of Om creates a form. It has not been created by an artist according to his imagination. The sound of Om has produced this image and this becomes its symbol. So this is a symbol of a sound called Om. And that...

Ahimsa, by Swami Rama

Love bears all things and endures all things. Nowhere will you find a true definition of love except in yoga science. In yoga science ahimsa means love. A means “no,” himsa means “killing, hurting, harming or injuring with mind, action and speech.” If you follow these...