PARAMAHAMSAJI SWAMI SATYANANDA 1923-2009

We honour the life of the founder of the Bihar School of Yoga and Satyananda Yoga worldwide. His teachings and inspiration will live on through the many people trained in this tradition, the Satyananda Yoga Centres & Ashrams, and all the written publications (Yoga Publications Trust, Munger, Bihar, India).

Swami Satyananda

Excerpt from High on Waves

Soaring High

The hamsa has flown away,

Soaring high with its wings spread

Across the infinite sky.

It has been searching for its ultimate abode

Since many yugas.

Knowledge it has received in abundance

From the jnanis of the world,

Grace and blessings of the divine too.

Still today it is restlessly flapping

Its wings in search.

Looking down at its own creation

Of the three worlds

Etched across the horizon,

Yes, it is flying high,

And flying ceaselessly in search,

Witnessing the world down below as leela.

Alone, all alone, in the infinite sky

My soul is flying to unite with its beloved.