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 14, 2025
Venkatesa Daily Readings Vol 1 - August 14

I am convinced that karma is “action” and not “fate”, that we do not suffer because of some unknown sin we committed in the distant past, but because of the state of ...

August 14, 2025
Insights & Inspirations (Venkatesa Daily Readings Vol 2) — Creating A Hermitage Within

There is a rather strange aspect of human nature; when we have something we want something else, and when we do not have it we miss it and long for it. Life or fate or karma throws you in the middle of ...

August 14, 2025
Song of God (Bhagavad Gita) — Chapter XI: 23-24

 This ‘fearful mouth’ is all-changing time – as revealed in verse 32. Here we are only concerned with Arjuna’s vision.