04/07/2026
Yogic Lifestyle
Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati
The yogic lifestyle is not difficult. It is not a lifestyle of renunciation. It is a lifestyle of understanding your relationships and associations with the world of objects, the senses, and people whom you consider your own. That is the yogic lifestyle. If you can be aware of yourself, your reactions and performances, and try to better them every moment, yoga becomes a lifestyle. When you are seeking excellence in whatever you do in life, after perfecting the awakening of energy, then that excellence is the outcome of the lifestyle and becomes the hallmark of the human personality. Then the yoga culture is developed where you are able to live in two dimensions: the material and the spiritual. This is not just scriptural talk. There are examples in history of people who have achieved this, and their inspiration continues to motivate us until today.
Start your journey anywhere, yet know that yoga begins as yoga practice and becomes yoga sadhana as you go deeper. When you fulfil the sadhana, yoga becomes a lifestyle, and when you express what you have gained in your life, it becomes the culture, the sanskriti, and the samskara of yourself.