EASY STEPS TO YOGA
By
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
Sri Swami Sivananda
Founder of
The Divine Life Society
SERVE, LOVE, GIVE,
PURIFY, MEDITATE,
REALIZE
So Says
Sri Swami Sivananda
A DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY PUBLICATION
First Edition:
1939
Sixth Edition:
1999
(2,000 Copies)
World Wide Web (WWW) Edition: 2000
WWW site: http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/
This WWW reprint is for free distribution
© The Divine Life Trust Society
ISBN 81-7052-098-3
Published By
THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
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Himalayas, India.
PUBLISHERS’ PREFACE
Yoga is right living. This definition may appear to be simple, but really it is very significant,
for the meaning of right living is very wide. Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj explains in an easy and
homely style the basic principles that a beginner in Yoga has to understand and follow. These Easy
Steps to Yoga are laid out with a special view to enable the novice to ascend without much difficulty
the heights of spiritual attainment. Ethical and moral discipline forms the foundation of Yoga. Sri
Swamiji has beautifully brought together all the fundamentals: good conduct, non-attachment,
dispassion, unselfish work, sense-control, meditation and knowledge to form a connected piece of
complete information on the practice of Yoga, beginning with bodily health and training, and
ending in Self-knowledge. We bring out the sixth edition of this precious volume for the edification
of students, both in the East and the West, who have no acquaintance with the technicalities
involved in the subject, but are eager to have an adequate grasp of the main guiding principles in
living a life of wisdom arising out of divine discontent.
THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
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