Most of us spend our lives trying to fix things outside—our work, relationships, routines—thinking that once everything falls into place, we will finally feel calm and fulfilled. But even after things improve, the restlessness often remains. This book begins with a simple but powerful shift: what we experience as life is largely shaped by the mind, and unless we understand how it works, the same patterns keep repeating in different forms.The Yogi's Handbook draws from the ...

In the opening volume of his memoirs, Acharya Satyananda recounts his first twelve years with his guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, during which he became the first monastic disciple of the great Tantric master. From his initiation in 1955, when he worked alongside Anandamurti in the Jamalpur railway workshop, to his years of touring India in the early sixties to build up Ananda Marga, the organization founded by Anandamurti in 1955, Satyananda gives us a rare behind-the-scenes look at a yogi...