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The Meaning of Inner Communion
5/19/84The Meaning of Inner Communion is learning to receive the power from God to transform our lives.This talk is from a satsang Swami Kriyananda gave to the Ananda ...

Spiritual Communities: Living for a Higher Purpose
8/26/85In Spiritual Communities: Living for a Higher Purpose, Kriyananda describes his dream for Ananda and the importance of living for a higher and broader purpose.M...

Houston Concert & Lecture
3/15/78“What we are really looking for is not outside ourselves, perfection and joy are inside.” — Swami KriyanandaHouston Concert and Lecture 1978 is a special Treasu...

Phenomena vs. Experience
Phenomena vs. Experience – the difference between a fleeting experience and a true and lasting one.There will be an underlying consciousness of joy and deep calmness w...

Ananda Community Goals
6/17/1979Ananda Community Goals – helping people develop a cooperative spiritSwami Kriyananda participated in a conference on communities in 1979. He met Peter Caddy w...

Karma Yoga
Circa 1978Karma yoga – service to God as an extension of meditation• We tend to compartmentalize our work and meditation, but the two are really complimentary. Work is...

Vibration Behind Words
11/1/04The vibration behind all words is Aum.When we chant Aum we are connecting with the vibration that created the entire universeKriyananda emphasizes that merely c...

Tools for Deepening Your Meditation
11/1/04Tools for Deepening Meditation include calming the mind and becoming still enough in body and mind to receive higher consciousness.Become one pointed in your go...

How to Be a Channel of Light in Challenging Times
1/17/84How to be a Channel of Light in Challenging TimesWe can and must be channels of light in challenging times. Although given 27 years ago, this talk is just as r...

Meditation - What It Is and How to Do It
Circa 1982Meditation: What it is and How to Do It, can invigorate and deepen your meditation practice, whether you are a novice or advanced on the spiritual path.Swa...

How to Be a Channel
September 3, 1987 - Land of Golden Sunshine Play ReadingHow to be a Channel – allow the grace of God to flow through you uninterruptedlySwami Kriyananda reads a revise...

The Need for a Guru
1/5/1979The Need for a Guru – seek a higher consciousness than your ownIf you want to climb a mountain, seek a guide who knows that skill. If you want to progress spir...

Discipleship in the Modern Age
1979Discipleship in the Modern Age – put aside how we would like things to be, embrace how things really are.Discipleship can bring a deep sense of attunement with the...

Yogananda: Incarnation of Divine Love
6/28/84Yogananda: Incarnation of Love – each story in this talk is a road map for finding deeper attunement with the guru.Swami Kriyananda recounts many stories of how...

Yogananda: Saint for Modern Times
1/27/83Yogananda was a saint for modern times in every sense of the term. Performing miracles and eminating divine love were as much a part of his life as of any saint...

The Importance of Attunement
1/5/1986The Importance of Attunement – when you think the guru is near, he is near – at all times!Kriyananda paraphrases Lahiri Mahasaya statement about Yogananda, “Fo...

Experience: The Basis of True Understanding
8/21/90Experience: The Basis of True Understanding – the world is on the eve of a radical change in religion.People want proof based on experience of the teachings.We ...

Expansiveness
11/1/04Expansiveness is a foremost quality of Yogananda. For example, he talked about UFO’s, interstellar travel, and life on other planets. He said that subtle forces...

A Message of Unity - Tribute to Paramhansa Yogananda
1/25/97“Yogananda came to bring the world the understanding of the unity of mankind, not the unity from an outward standpoint, but the unity from within.” — Swami Kriy...
