瑜伽到底是什麼？又不是什麼？What is Yoga？
斯瓦米·悉瓦南達談「瑜伽」
So says Swami Sivananda about Yoga
現在的生活充滿壓力和透支，充滿緊張和煩躁，充滿激情和匆忙。如果人們可以實踐一些瑜伽的基本原則，就可以更具備能力去處理自身如此複雜的存在。
Life today is full of stress and strain, of tension and nervous irritability, of passion and hurry. If man puts into practice of a few elementary principles of Yoga, he would be far better equipped to cope with his complex existence.
瑜伽是一個整體的教育體系，不只是關於身心的教育，更包括對內在精神的教育。
Yogais a system of integral education, education not only of the body and the mindor the intellect, but also of the inner spirit.
瑜伽是正知正行的藝術。懂得這門藝術的人是快樂、和諧、寧靜的，完全不緊張的。
Yoga is the art of right living. The Yogin who has learnt the art of right living is happy, harmonious and peaceful. He is free from tension.
瑜伽並不需要你逃離生活，只是需要你將生活靈性化。
Yoga does not want a turning away from life. It demands spiritualization of life.
瑜伽並不是什麼脫離生活的東西，而是一種生活方式。
Yoga is primarily a way of life, not something which is divorced from life.
瑜伽並不是為行動而行動，而是帶著正確態度的高效率行動。
Yoga is not for saking of action, but is efficient performance in the right spirit.
瑜伽並不需要你逃離家庭，而是一個過程，一個帶著全新的理解去塑造個人對家庭和社會的態度的過程。
Yoga is not running away from home, but a process of moulding one』s attitude to home and society with a new understanding.
From Bliss Divine by Swami Sivananda 摘自斯瓦米?悉瓦南達的《神聖福佑》
Swami Sivananda
斯瓦米?悉瓦南達
斯瓦米?悉瓦南達（ 1887～1963）是一位偉大的印度聖者。畢生用英文著書三百餘部，深入淺出弘揚瑜伽哲學。他是全球悉瓦南達瑜伽扶檀多中心背後的靈感源泉。他所教授的「綜合瑜伽」綜合了經典瑜伽四道，他終其一生在實踐「服務，仁愛，奉獻，凈化，冥想，醒悟」，並以此做為其主要的教學理念，堪稱為服務全人類的典範。
