The morning satsang · 8:25 AM Eastern, daily
Swamiji teaches every morning. You can sit in.
Every morning, Sri Swami Jyotirmayananda takes up the Ramayana and talks his way through it — story by story, as commentary rather than lecture. It goes out live at 8:25. There is no fee, no account to make, and nothing you need to know beforehand.
Want to know what he is taking up? Read where he is in the story.
Twenty-five past eight, every morning.
The satsang runs daily and it runs about an hour. Swamiji holds the morning open for it, and it takes a great deal to displace it.
It is a live class rather than a broadcast slot, so it begins when he is ready to begin — usually on the hour given here, occasionally a few minutes after. Come at 8:25 and wait a moment if the screen is still dark.
Nobody is watching to see whether you stayed. People come and go through the hour, and most listen without saying anything at all.
8:25 AM
Eastern time
Every morning, running about an hour. It may begin a few minutes after the hour — a live class keeps its own time, and we would rather say so than post a schedule it cannot keep.
Know where the commentary stands before you sit down.
The Ramayana is long and the commentary moves through it in order. Each morning's satsang is written up the same day in the Morning Satsang Notes, so yesterday's notes tell you where he is in the story and what he is likely to take up next.
Nothing on this page asks for your address. The channel never sees your number, and the course is free and ends whenever you wish.
What actually happens for the hour.
Swamiji sits and talks. He takes an episode of the Ramayana and turns it over — what the figures in it stand for, what the turn in the story asks of the person listening. It is unhurried and it assumes nothing.
Nobody will greet you or ask who you are unless you speak first.
If the morning hour is impossible where you are, the commentary is not the only door — the evening premiere and the recorded archive keep other hours.
- You do not need an account. Open the channel and the stream plays. Making one only lets you write in the chat, which most people never do.
- Come at 8:25 and give it a minute. If it has already started, arriving mid-sentence costs nothing — the commentary is not a lecture with a thesis to miss.
- Listen, and leave when you need to. There is no attendance and no expectation. Sitting for ten minutes is a real attendance.
- Ask afterwards if something opened up. Write to foundation@yogaresearchfoundation.org — a person reads it.
The evening premiere and the archive keep other hours.
A recorded lecture premieres on YouTube most evenings, and the whole recorded archive is free and open whenever you come to it.
New to Swamiji altogether? Begin with The Four Paths — a free course by email.