This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.
This colorful volume is the work of Peter Max, a German artist, who dedicated this book to the brothers and sisters of the Integral Yoga Institute. The founder of the Integral Yoga Institute was Satchidananda Saraswati, an Indian man who was a religious teacher, spiritual master, and master yogi. Peter Max apparently asked him to come visit New York City in 1966 and soon thereafter Swami Satchidananda moved to America and started the Integral Yoga Institute, which still exists today.
Swami Satchidananda first gained public attention as the opening speaker in Woodstock in 1969. He was a spiritual guru to numerous celebrities and musicians as he sought to bring understanding among all religions of the world. 
The text that accompanies Max’s artwork is credited as coming from Swami Sivananda, another Hindu spiritual teacher and proponent of yoga.
Max’s illustrations are very visually striking with extremely saturated colors that are paired with Swami Sivananda’s words…
“You may wrongly think that you have kept your thoughts in secret. The thoughts of anger, lust, greed, jealousy, revenge and hatred produce impressions on your face.”
Thought. [With the words of Swami Sivananda, Himalayas]. Editorial assistance by Arjuna (Victor Zurbel). New York, Morrow, 1970 can be found in Widener’s collection.
Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager, for contributing this post.