<![CDATA[Yoga in Essence : Lives & Lineages]]>https://www.yogainessence.com/s/libes-and-lineageshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Q9!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d1b93aa-f5ce-4c2b-9754-f393f3aa393e_327x327.pngYoga in Essence : Lives & Lineageshttps://www.yogainessence.com/s/libes-and-lineagesSubstackTue, 05 May 2026 18:00:36 GMT<![CDATA[The Boy Who Asked "Who Am I?" The Life of Ramana Maharshi ]]>https://www.yogainessence.com/p/the-boy-who-asked-who-am-i-the-lifehttps://www.yogainessence.com/p/the-boy-who-asked-who-am-i-the-lifeFri, 06 Mar 2026 18:30:35 GMTYou wake up at 6am. Roll out your mat. Move through your sun salutations. Post a photo. Caption it: morning practice.

And somewhere in the back of your mind, you call yourself a yogi.

There is nothing wrong with any of that. The mat is a beginning. The body is a doorway.

But there was a boy in Tamil Nadu in 1896 who never once stepped onto a mat. Who neve…

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]]><![CDATA[The Seer and the Seller: What Swami Vivekananda’s Encounter with Kali Reveals About Real Yoga]]>https://www.yogainessence.com/p/the-seer-and-the-seller-what-swamihttps://www.yogainessence.com/p/the-seer-and-the-seller-what-swamiWed, 05 Nov 2025 10:20:42 GMTModern yoga is often described in terms of wellness, alignment, or lifestyle, yet the word yoga originally meant something very different. It was not about flexibility but vision- a darshana, a way of seeing. The ancient teachers spoke of yoga as direct perception of truth, where the wall between the self and the sacred dissolves.

That kind of seeing onc…

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