Early Teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati (Set of 2 Volumes)

The Satsangs of a realizes master are a gift that inspires and bless all who receive his wisdom and grace. during the 1960s and 1970s Swami Satyananda's yoga courses at the Bihar School of Yoga and tours throughout India yielded a wealth of spiritual teachings spanning a vast range of subjects. Renowened for their depth of insight, clarity and compassion, the eternal truths revealded in these satsangs are presented in the Early Teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati for the upliftment of seekers everywhere.

Early teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati volume II is a compilation of talks and lectures given between 1962 and 1979. Swami Satyananda discusses a wide range of topics including hatha yoga, meditation, kriya yoga and tantra. He explains how yoga can be applied in education, the world of business and science, to benefit not only the individual but society at large. Swami Satyananda's teachings are characterized by simple language, profound insights, deep intelligence and compassion for humanity.

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 ash ram 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 accomplishment of discarding the body at will to become one with the universal consciousness, in 2009, in the presence of his disciples.