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 28, 2025
Venkatesa Daily Readings Vol 2 Only God Knows How

My guru often pointed out, "Serve someone self-forgetfully." If you are able to reach that point of self-forgetfulness in the service of even one person, then it is possible for ...

August 28, 2025
Bhagavad Gita - Song of God - Chapter 11: 49-50

Stand alone on a sand dune in a vast desert. Float alone on a wooden plank in the middle of an ocean. Sit alone in a dense forest, with not a ...

August 29, 2025
The Supreme Yoga - The Yoga Vasistha Section V (On Dissolution) — 34/39

PRAHLĀDA continued to contemplate: Ah, I now recollect the truth that I am the self which is omnipresent, in which there is no conceptualisation.