Welcome

Welcome to the Swami Venkatesananda Website.  We are currently revising a newer version (but it is not yet posted to the web). 

Swami Venkatesananda - like his master, Swami Sivananda - can be regarded as a sage of practical wisdom.

Focusing on issues that concern and unite all branches of yoga, it is our intention to provide materials that will enrich and enliven your understanding and practice of yoga.

Although our new version of this website has been delayed, we are happy to announce that progress is being made, and while we work on that effort, we'll continue to add some features to this current site.  By way of example, we will occasionally post readings from Swami Venkatesananda's translation of The Yoga Vasistha in our daily readngs section. For these postings, we will be using portions of Swami Venkatesananda's 1971 two volume edition, entitled The Supreme Yoga.  Look these occasional postings during the months of August and September of 2025. 
 

Thank you for your patience. 


Daily Readings

The next three daily readings are shown below. You may also view a complete listing on our Calendar of Daily Readings.

August 27, 2025
Venkatesa Daily Readings Vol 2 The Fragment and The Totality

Wisdom and intellect are completely interrelated. If your intellect is dull, the wisdom that is derived through that intellect is also dull. The dull intellect thinks that one point of view is ...

August 27, 2025
Bhagavad Gita - Song of God - Chapter 11: 47

Dr. Zimmer, in his monumental work on “Philosophies of India”, expresses the view that before the vedā were introduced into India by the invading Aryans (there are others who question this!) there flourished there a ...

August 27, 2025
Venkatesa Daily Readings Vol 1 — Development & Clairvoyance

 Self-development is like the unfolding of the spirit that is already there. But I am not able to discover that spirit all at once, because the spirit is ...