Is Renunciation in Today's World? delves into the concept of intuitive guidance and how to discern and align with God's will. It emphasizes the challenges of recognizing divine guidance amidst personal desires, attachments, and cultural conditioning. provides practical advice on cultivating openness, non-attachment, and humility to better perceive spiritual direction.
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Yogananda’s Birthday – Jesus and Yogananda

Yogananda’s birthday is January 7. This talk was given the next day at a Sunday Service. After the Sunday service reading.
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Jesus was born Jewish, but they couldn’t accept his teachings of truth.

There was too much formalization of religion at the time.

Jesus taught his disciples how to get back to the true spirit of religion, a true and direct experience of God. Yogananda taught this as well.

Kriyananda talks about the deeper meaning of the gold, blue and white aspects of the spiritual eye. The ‘star in the East at the birth of Christ was actually the light seen at the spiritual eye and was the symbol of the coming of an avatar.
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1/11/1983

Yoga Postures as an Aid for Spiritual Growth – yoga practice can deepen meditation and make you more centered.

This talk offers good advice about daily life on the spiritual path.

Learn to control the mind and become more aware.

We are here to find out who and what we are. Hatha yoga can be an aid to spiritual development. It can help us go about daily life in a more harmonious and centered way and help keep the body healthy.

When you practice hatha yoga you become aware of your body as a body of light. You strengthen the light with your practice.

Yoga postures manifest an upward flow of energy in the body.

The attitudes of the mind can be expressed in the posture of the body, as a physical manifestation of the subtle energies in the body.

It is best to sit for meditation with a straight spine.
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Circa 1996

Yoga and Daily Life: commentaries for a ‘thought for the day’ – interspersed with music by Kriyananda.

Sample thought for the day:

Make everyone feel that they are special in your eyes – not in any particular way, necessarily, but above all, because every human being is your brother or sister in God!

This is a nice recording to listen to in the car.

These passages were first published in a book: Do It Now. Later published as the book Do it Well.
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August 5, 1984
Suffering brings wisdom and leads us toward higher reality.

The ultimate cure for suffering is God.

If you look at suffering abstractly, you can say there is no suffering. The only reality is God, and God is joy, not suffering. When joy diminishes, it can appear that you are suffering.

Evil is that which pulls us away from our central joy.

God created everything from thought. The underlying reality of energy is thought, and the underlying reality of thought is divine consciousness or God.

Good and evil are dreams of the Infinite.

To love people is to love them with their motives. To love God is to love without motive. To love God within people is to love without motive. And when we have no motive at all, the ego is out of the picture.
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What Next for Mankind – mankind has taken a turn in the wrong direction by looking for happiness and stability in outward things

As long as we look for solutions outside ourSelves, we will suffer.

People all over the world are facing economic challenges as well as the growing potential of war.

The consequence of taking what you want from other people without regard of giving back, is that you get a feeling of tension, something doesn’t feel right, yet people continue to act in this way. The result is unrest within and without.

The solutions lie within each individual to get back in touch with the things that are really important.

The leading mission of every soul is to find oneness with God and know that “we are a part of all that is.” God is in all things and in all people.
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What is success – a manifestation of God’s grace.

Kriyananda encourages us to measure our success more by the spiritual qualities rather than by our outer accomplishments.

Be an open channel for God’s grace to flow through you. The channel is blessed by what flows through it.

Success, the way it is normally understood, will not necessarily give us what we are really looking for – happiness and inner freedom. If we really want to succeed in life, Kriyananda explains, we must challenge ourselves and reach for the highest in all that we do. Do it with and for God.
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What is Attunement? – being open to and inwardly connected to a teacher and teaching that help you recognize your highest truth and potential

Look for a spiritual path that will give you these three things: right teaching, right technique, and right teacher. Attune yourself to the teacher through the techniques and the teachings and you will find that your life will change in away that you could never change by yourself.

What is truth? It is you – your own highest self – who you are. The guru doesn’t give you himself. He aligns your molecules to make you a magnet that will draw God to you.

The real teaching on the spiritual path has to do with a state of consciousness more then anything else. It’s not only the things that you do.

Teachings in books don’t convey what a connection with a master teacher does. Being inwardly connected to a spiritual master is necessary.
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