Both a renowned Sanskrit scholar and yogi, Swami Venkatesananda - like his master, Swami Sivananda - can be regarded as a sage of practical wisdom.

   Focusing on issues that concern the daily practice of all branches of yoga (Hatha, Karma, Bhakti, Raja and Jnana), it is our intension to provide materials that will enrich and enliven your own practice of yoga. 

   Our thanks to our good friends for helping us digitize the Chiltern Yoga Trust's edition of The Bhagavad Gita, Song of God, with the entire edition added to the site on June 17th, 2008.  See our MP3 Libraries for Talks on The Upanishads (mp3 audio), six talks given by Swami Venkatesananda in 1980 in Perth, Australia for the Chiltern Yoga Trust and and Gita Talks: The Sixth Chapter. 

  Thanks to the work of many friends of Swami Venkatesananda, we have been able to publish Enlightened Living, The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, (often referrred to simply as The Yoga Sutras). Here we have posted the final version, with the changes made by Swami Venkatesananda himself. He considered earlier editions to be in need of revision, and made the necessary revisions in a small printing that was published in South Africa in 1975.  The 1975 edition, available here, should be considered to superceed not only the previous versions, but even his text which appeard in publications after 1975, including a text which appeared in 1998.