An archive, kept open · Miami, since 1969
For six decades, Sri Swami Jyotirmayananda has taught Vedanta and the great scriptures of India — lecture by recorded lecture. None of it was written for an algorithm. Every recorded lecture is free.
17,690 recorded lectures — on tape, film, and video, digitized and kept by the Foundation.
Most archives outlive their teachers. This one has not. Every morning, from the hall in South Miami, Swami Jyotirmayananda takes up the Ramayana and talks his way through it — live, about an hour, no fee and no account to make.
8:25 AM Eastern, every morning. 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.
Everyone arrives carrying something. Choose the door that fits, and we hand you three teachings — not three thousand.
Worry that has become the weather of the day — racing thoughts, thin sleep, no off-switch. Begin with one short teaching on how the mind steadies.
Begin hereWho am I? Why do we suffer? What is all this for? The questions Vedanta was built to answer — studied with a teacher, not skimmed.
Begin the pathThe practice taught plainly — posture, breath, and inner focus, from the first sitting onward.
Learn the practiceThe Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Yoga Vasistha — taught verse by verse across decades.
Enter the libraryYou already sit, study, or serve — the introductions are behind you. The long series run verse by verse for hundreds of hours, and the Foundation is preparing a members’ room for sustained, live study.
Go deeperEach door opens onto a short, chosen path — never onto the whole archive at once.
Born in Bihar in 1931, Sri Swami Jyotirmayananda has taught Vedanta nearly every day for over sixty years — and almost all of it was recorded as it was given. The archive is his life's work. Keeping it open is ours.
Nobody should be handed twelve thousand hours on a first visit. These are the doorways we hand every newcomer — the same ones, every time.
A short welcome, then one lecture a day for seven days — arranged in order, with a clear finish line. By Sunday you will know whether this teacher is yours.
Seven recordings · a few minutes a day
Begin the weekThe longest sustained commentary in the collection — hundreds of hours on a single scripture.
South Miami · recorded across four decades
Open the seriesSwamiji's counsel on anxiety, gathered into a short guide you can read tonight. Free, sent by email.
Published by the Foundation · free, by email
Get the guideEach month the Foundation selects one recording and sends it with its date, its place, and a few lines of context. The archive does not expire.
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