Collection I
For the mind that will not settle
Restlessness, worry, the thinking that gets louder when you try to rest. Swamiji has taught on the mechanics of the mind — and what stands behind it — for sixty years.
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The whole collection, one catalog. Ask it for what you need.
Every recorded lecture, every book, every magazine volume the Foundation keeps — indexed in one place, every recording free. Search it, browse by scripture or by series, or take a shelf we have already chosen. No one is handed twelve thousand hours at once.
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Often asked for: fear meditation the mind karma death
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Three ways into the same library.
The collection is one; the doors are three. Come in by the subject on your mind, by the format you prefer, or by the great commentaries taken whole.
By scripture & topic
Start from the text you want taught, or from the question you are actually carrying.
By format
The same teaching lives in several media. Choose the one that fits your day.
Every entry carries its date, its place, and the text it was taught from.
By series
Whole scriptures, taught lecture by lecture across years. The long way — and the deep one.
- The Yoga Vasistha
- The Bhagavad Gita
- The Raja Yoga Sutras
- The Upanishadsseveral texts
- The Ramayanastill growing
The full register of series is below — with where to begin in each.
The great commentaries, taken whole.
Whole scriptures, taught lecture by lecture — some across four decades in the same hall. Each series page hands newcomers the same three lectures to begin with, so the count below is a fact about the collection, not an assignment.
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Series 01 · Vedanta
The Yoga Vasistha
The longest sustained commentary in the collection — one scripture, taught across four decades in the South Miami lecture hall. The archive's spine.
Recorded over four decades
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Series 02 · Scripture
The Bhagavad Gita
The Gita verse by verse — action, devotion, and knowledge treated as one teaching, not three moods. The most-recommended entry for readers who want the source text.
189 lectures on the eighteen chapters
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Series 03 · Practice
The Raja Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The classical manual of meditation, taught sutra by sutra. If your question is how to practice, this is the series the librarians point to.
50 lectures on the sutras
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Series 04 · Vedanta
The Upanishads
Lectures across several of the principal Upanishads — the oldest strata of the teaching, where the question "Who am I?" is first asked in earnest.
Several texts taught line by line
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Series 05 · Still being taught
The Ramayana
The one series that is not finished. Swami Jyotirmayananda, at ninety-five, is still teaching — so this shelf of the archive keeps growing.
Still growing Open the series — begin with three
Counts are the catalog's, kept current as digitization continues.
Four collections, kept by the librarians.
Each shelf gathers teachings from across the decades around one question. Open one and you are searching the archive itself — not a shortlist of ours.
Collection II
Meditation, taught from the beginning
Not an app's three minutes of calm — the practice itself, taught plainly and in order by a teacher who has kept it for a lifetime. Posture, breath, concentration, and what they are for.
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Collection III
Who am I? — the central question
The question the whole archive circles. Vedanta's account of the Self, taught not as philosophy trivia but as something to be verified in your own experience.
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Collection IV
Death, grief, and what does not die
The teachings people ask for when philosophy stops being optional. Swamiji speaks about mortality the way the scriptures do — directly, and without dread.
Open the collectionFour ways in, each opening onto the recordings themselves.
The voice in the catalog is still teaching.
Most archives outlive their teachers. This one has not. Swami Jyotirmayananda, at ninety-five, is still teaching — and each evening a recorded teaching from the collection premieres on YouTube as a shared watch. The archive is still growing.
Six decades on, the teaching continues and new recordings still join the collection.
Meet the teacherYou were never meant to read the whole library.
Twelve thousand hours is the Foundation's responsibility, not yours. Take one week, and find out whether this teacher is yours — the catalog will still be here.
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A welcome and seven lectures. A few minutes a day.
Or let the library come to you — one teaching a month, by email, with its date, its place, and a few lines of context.