Teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati: Satyananda Centenary Series (Set of 7 Volumes: VII to XIII)

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The satsangs of a realized master are a gift that inspires and blesses all who receive his wisdom and grace. From the 1960s to the 1980s Swami Satyananda's extensive international touring yielded a wealth of spiritual teachings spanning a vast range of subjects. Renowned for their depth of insight, clarity and compassion, the eternal truths revealed in these satsangs are presented in this comprehensive set of volumes Teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati, for the upliftment of seekers everywhere.

In 1982, Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati embarked on a whirlwind tour through South India. In just twenty-two days, he visited four states and nine cities and gave over sixty talks and interviews on the subject of yoga and spiritual life, addressing a wide spectrum of society.

Teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Volume VII covers the cities of Bangalore, Mysore, Trivandrum and Coimbatore.

Swami Satyananda was born in Almora (Uttaranchal) in 1923. Drawn to spiritual life from an early age, he left home at the age of eighteen, and in 1943 surrendered himself to Swami Sivananda in Rishikesh who initiated him into Dashnami sannyasa in 1947. He served his guru for twelve years, perfecting every aspect of spiritual life. Thereafter, he travelled through- out the Indian subcontinent as a wandering ascetic.

Realizing the need of the times as scientific rendition of the ancient system of yoga, he founded the International Yoga Fellowship in 1956 and the Bihar School of Yoga in 1963. During the next twenty years, Swami Satyananda hoisted the flag of yoga in every corner of the world, consolidated BSY into a foremost institution of yoga, and authored over eighty major texts on yoga, tantra and spiritual life.

'Satyananda Yoga' became a tradition which combines classical knowledge with experiential understanding and a modern outlook. In 1984, he founded the Yoga Research Foundation to synchronize scientific research and yoga, and Sivananda Math to assist the underprivileged. In 1988, at the peak of his achievements, he renounced everything and adopted kshetra sannyasa, living as a paramahamsa ascetic. In 1989 Rikhia was revealed to him, where he came to live and performed higher vedic sadhanas in seclusion. Receiving the command to provide for his neighbours in 1991, he allowed the ashram to help the underprivileged villages in the region. From 1995 onwards, he performed a twelve-year Rajasooya Yajna with the sankalpa of peace, plenty and prosperity for all, and in 2007 he announced the establishment of Rikhiapeeth with its mandate to 'serve, love, give'.

Swami Satyananda attained mahasamadhi, a yogic accomplish- ment of discarding the body at will to become one with the universal consciousness, in 2009, in the presence of his disciples.

In 1982 Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati embarked on a whirlwind tour through South India. From 20 January to 11 February, in just twenty-two days, he visited four states and nine cities accompanied by a group of sannyasins. He gave over sixty talks and interviews in schools, colleges, at Rotary and Lions Clubs, Sikh and Jain community centres, industrial townships, a Sanskrit Academy and to the general public. His schedule was so busy that, as he said himself, 'sometimes there was no time to eat'. He thus continued to fulfil Sri Swami Sivananda's mandate to take yoga 'from door to door and shore to shore'.

This was Sri Swamiji's third visit to the South of India. In 1950, he was the secretary to Swami Sivananda on his All- India Tour. In the late 1950s, he visited temples and holy places as a parivrajaka, mendicant sadhu. Later in 1982, the purpose of his visit was to bring the message of yoga to every section of society, as the founder of the Bihar School of Yoga and a luminary of yogic renaissance.

This volume is a compilation of all satsangs given by Sri Swami Satyananda on his 1982 South India tour, being published as part of the series Teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Sri Swamiji spoke on many subjects related to yoga and its relevance to modern India.

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