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Treasures Along the Path

Swami Kriyananda

Talks from Swami Kriyananda

religion & spirituality self-improvement

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12:45

Achieve Material and Spiritual Success

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/14

The talk discusses the concept of success, emphasizing the importance of balancing material and spiritual achievements. Here are some key points:Definition of Success: The talk challenges the conventional notion of success, which often focuses solely on material accomplishments. It argues that true success should also encompass spiritual growth and inner fulfillment.Examples of Success: The talk uses historical figures like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci to illustrate different aspects

9:18

Is Renunciation Necessary in Today's World?

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/13

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.To support this work, go to: https://www.ananda.org/support/treasures/

13:25

Yogananda's Birthday

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/12

Yogananda’s Birthday – Jesus and YoganandaYogananda’s birthday is January 7. This talk was given the next day at a Sunday Service. After the Sunday service reading.1/8/84Jesus 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,

114:51

Yoga Postures as an Aid to Spiritual Growth

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/11

1/11/1983Yoga 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

63:20

Yoga and Daily Life

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/10

Circa 1996Yoga 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. To support this work, go to:

18:03

Why is There Suffering?

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/09

August 5, 1984Suffering 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

27:22

What Next for Mankind

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/08

What Next for Mankind – mankind has taken a turn in the wrong direction by looking for happiness and stability in outward thingsAs 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

18:42

What is Success?

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/07

8/8/82What 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

14:32

What is Attunement?

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/06

8/29/86What is Attunement? – being open to and inwardly connected to a teacher and teaching that help you recognize your highest truth and potentialLook 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

13:26

Vibration Behind Words

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/05

The vibration behind all words is Aum.When we chant Aum we are connecting with the vibration that created the entire universeKriyananda emphasizes that merely chanting God’s name or repeating mantras is not enough. We must tune into the deeper meaning behind the words if we want to gain the inner peace, joy, and love we are all seeking.We can learn to connect with the essence of words, and especially names of God. This can bring self-realization.To support this work, go to:

17:11

Unreality of Suffering

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/04

It is possible to understand the unreality of suffering when you practice gratitude.Kriyananda describes how to express gratitude and accept life as it is – not how we wish it would be.Suffering can seem difficult or impossible in the moment, but in time, prove to be beneficial to all concerned.To support this work, go to: https://www.ananda.org/support/treasures/

11:00

Unique Essence of Each Soul

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/04

Unique Essence of Each Soul – each one of us has a distinct core, different from anyone else’s.Kriyananda encourages us to look beyond outward definitions of personality, position, or words and to see God in all forms.It is a mistake to categorize people or put them in a box because everyone is different.This talk is from A Way of Awakening Aasta TV series from India – 365 twenty minute talksKriyananda reads a passage from his book Conversations with Yogananda, and gives commentary.To

72:08

Yoga for Health & Happiness

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/04

The talk emphasizes the importance of finding balance in life by centering oneself and understanding that true health comes from aligning the body, mind, and spirit. It highlights that holistic practices and positive attitudes can significantly impact one's well-being, and that energy and consciousness play crucial roles in achieving this balance. Kriyananda also shares personal anecdotes to illustrate how centering oneself and maintaining a positive outlook can lead to better health and

11:12

Unconditional Love

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/03

Unconditional love is not conditioned by any person or circumstance.The way to cultivate love for others is to first love God and guru. When you feel that love in your heart, offer it to others.People usually offer love to others after they have received it first.Kriyananda encourages us to give love to others. When we love others we expand. To support this work, go to: https://www.ananda.org/support/treasures/

16:17

Two Great Master's

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/03

September 3, 1982Even one moment spent in the presence of a saint can be your raft over the ocean of delusion. Swami Kriyananda had the deep blessing of living with and serving Paramhansa Yogananda for three years.He also spent time with Anandamoyi Ma in India. She said that no other devotee had drawn on her spiritual essence as much as he had. They developed a close relationship. Anandamoyi Ma invited Swami to stay with her in India, but he knew he needed to return to Yogananda and fulfill

13:02

The World is What You Make It

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/02

8/2/83Conditions are always neutral, yet have the appearance of being positive or negative, good or bad—according to our own attitudes. If we are not expressing joy and love, we cut ourselves off from the divine flow—and we suffer. When we resolve to see the goodness in everything, we are seeing things as God does. In this way we can choose not to experience pain. Swami reminds us of people in concentration camps who became saints in the worst of circumstances.To support this work, go to:

101:49

Aids to Meditation

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/11/01

The talk delves into the philosophy and practice of meditation, emphasizing the dissolution of karma and the journey towards spiritual enlightenment. It discusses the importance of overcoming negative qualities through active effort and the role of good karma in transcending bad karma. The text also highlights the significance of meditation techniques, the influence of the guru, and the ultimate goal of achieving a state of divine consciousness.To support this work, go to:

18:34

True Renunciation Involves Sacrifice

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/31

True Renunciation Involves Sacrifice, but what is really sacrificed in renouncing the limitation and bondage of ego? Isn’t union with God far more desirable?Everything we give to God becomes blessed a million fold and even more so, when we give our life to God.Have a “good sense of value” and recognize that in giving our life to God, we are gaining so much more then we could ever have by holding onto the ego and our attachments to this world.This talk is from A Way of Awakening Aasta TV

26:10

Turning Human Love Into Divine Love

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/30

June 19, 1981Turning Human Love into Divine Love is an important issue on every level of life.Kriyananda encourages us to turn our human love into divine love, but also to turn all human feeling, good and bad, into divine feeling.Our feelings of love or joy can remind us of something much greater. We can commune with God in every human experience. Look for divine qualities in every person.To support this work, go to: https://www.ananda.org/support/treasures/

150:12

The Art of Discipleship

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/29

Remember then ultimately that the guru lies within your own self. He doesn't need a physical body, but he needs your body to work through. He needs my body to work through and in this way that contact can be a channel through which many can be drawn to God. Isn't it more blessed to be a channel for God than a channel for all the darkness that we see? In this world. How wonderful it is to be a laborer for God. How wonderful it is to be an instrument of joy and of light and of love. Let us

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