Yogananda with Yukteswar

Yogananda Yukteswar, originally uploaded by Tone 777.

Om - ashram ceiling

om ceilin, originally uploaded by ๑۩۞۩ Enchantress ۩۞۩๑.

Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda, originally uploaded by Yadupati.

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, originally uploaded by Yadupati.

Yogis

Fakirs, originally uploaded by Yadupati.

Kriya Babaji

Kriya Babaji, originally uploaded by Yadupati.

Sadhu in Nepal

Sadhu in Nepal, originally uploaded by Yadupati.

19th century ashram

19th century ashram, originally uploaded by Yadupati.

Happy Diwali, originally uploaded by /\/\ @ r 0 0 |\| 3 |).

Pink and blue, originally uploaded by earth2marsh.

The Dancing Shiva - Nataraj

The Dancing Shiva - Nataraj, originally uploaded by drona.

Distant Rain

Distant Rain, originally uploaded by Harshad Sharma.

Indian Saddhu

My friend Babu, originally uploaded by vodkamax.

Meditation

Varanasi, originally uploaded by dwrawlinson.

Water, Earth & Sky

Toward the Promised Land, originally uploaded by Java Cafe.

A beautiful Hang Zhou sunset

Sunset & me, originally uploaded by Laurence Shan.

Sort of makes me feel like I'm sitting right there meditating next to a beautiful lake.

"Simplify, simplify," said Thoreau. "Most everything is a distraction."

The life of sensation is the life of greed....It requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. -- Annie Dillard

This quote would describe me perfectly if not for Natalie's temperance:

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536)

Books are definitely one of my weaknesses.

"There are wild wandering Sufis called qalandars, who are constantly tickled with life. It's scandalous how they love and laugh at any small event. People gossip about them, and that makes them deft in their cunning, but really a great God-wrestling goes on inside these wanderers, a flood of sunlight that's drunk with the whole thing..." - Rumi

Short Video Clips of Paramahansa Yogananda

Yogananda walking in New York:


Yogananda performing a wedding ceremony:


Yogananda's instructions on sleeping:


More instruction on sleeping:


Paramhansa Yogananda & Swami Sri Yukteswar:


Yogananda early years:

Some Nice Pictures of Chinese Mountains for Meditation

(image sources 360.Bolaa, Xinhuanet, Chinese image-aggregator sites)

Video of Sivananda Yoga Teacher's Training Course in Indian Ashram

Yoga Ramdev 2

Yoga exercises. Pranayama

Yoga Ramdev 1 - Kind of Weird, but interesting

More B.K.S. Iyengar from 1938

B.K.S. Iyengar Practicing Pranayama

Krisnamacharya Yoga Film 1938 (Silent)

B.K.S. Iyengar 1938 Newsreel Part I (Silent)