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Swami Kriyananda

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The Need for Self-Realization

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/21

8/20/1990The true purpose of life is to find God. The Need for Self-Realization is the need to know the truth. “The truth simply is.” Everyone must be able to know the truth by consulting their intuition. You can accept truth intellectually. It’s more difficult to accept emotionally. Whenever we have a desire, we are not fully accepting what is.When you are looking for truth, you need to step back. When you are not so close to the issue you can make decisions with detachment.To support

49:36

The Guru-Disciple Relationship - Part 2

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/20

4/16/82The Guru-Disciple Relationship includes becoming more open and receptive to the guru and to life itself.Kriyananda discusses key elements of discipleship including loyalty, magnetism and the pitfalls of becoming dogmatic. Understanding loyalty and what it is we are being loyal to, is crucial to right understanding of the guru-disciple relationship.To support this work, go to: https://www.ananda.org/support/treasures/

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The Guru-Disciple Relationship - Part 1

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/20

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The Essence of Thanksgiving

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/20

11/23/1978The Essence of Thanksgiving – love God in the same spirit in which He gives to us.What we can be most thankful for is the opportunity to serve God. Kriyananda reminds us not to measure our spiritual lives by the gifts God gives us, but by what we are willing to give to God.The capacity for being grateful is a mark of refinement, not expressing gratitude, but feeling it. Many people express gratitude but don’t really feel it. Gratitude is the feeling of appreciation and trying to

41:13

The Balanced Life

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/19

9/25/1982The Balanced Life – be enthusiastic but also use poise rather than just racing aheadWhen we get involved in delusion, fluctuations become exaggerated and pull us in different directions. Try to neutralize the differences to remain balanced.Meditation helps maintain balance in life.Souls possess both masculine and feminine natures.When our masculine qualities such as impartial service and dispassion are offered into feminine qualities of love and compassion, we attain a broader type

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Techniques for Joyful Living

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/18

3/7/1978Techniques of Joyful Living Part 3 & Rajarshi JanakanandaIn our first talk Techniques of Joyful Living Part Three Swami Kriyananda concluded his weekend workshops in Albuquerque, New Mexico in March 1978 with a discussion on willingness followed by a reading from his first edition of The Path. The reading is his first-hand account of Yogananda’s passing at the Biltmore Hotel March 7, 1952.The second talk Rajarshi Janakananda was given to Ananda Community residents on May 6,

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Superconscous Living-Part 3

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/17

7-14-1979Superconscious Living - transform lower energy into higher energy.The light burns away our darkness. Truth lives at the heart of our mistakes. Love transforms grief. Pain can transform into joy.Release the negative into the positive.The more you can live in the state of joy, the more you will find that you have good health and you are in harmony with everything.To support this work, go to: https://www.ananda.org/support/treasures/

82:15

Superconscious Living Awareness - Part 2

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/16

1980Superconscious living brings solutions to all challenges.From Swami Kriyananda:When you avoid problems, it’s not the problem that gets bigger, it’s that you get weaker and smaller.We need challenges to become strong and to understand things more clearly. Put energy into positive thoughts and solutions. Don’t wait passively for something to happen.Look at challenges as opportunities. View a challenge impersonally and call it a ‘situation’ for which you are looking for solutions. For

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Superconscious Attunement Ceremony

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/15

Superconscious Attunement Ceremony 2/14/87This is a highly experiential event including:PrayerChantingIn depth affirmations – The eternal life of God flows through me. I was made for Thee aloneA Talk by KriyanandaReleasing blocked energy in the spine – Aum SwahaOneness song – explanation, and everyone sings. Later titled Joined in Prayer with changed notes and melody.Original recording includes group healing prayers. They were mostly inaudible and 1987 prayers are of course no longer

109:53

Strategies for Daily Battles of Life

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/14

Strategies for the daily battles of life from the Bhagavad Gita contains subtle teachings in the Gita and the individual and inward battle of Kurukshetra.Within our individual consciousness there are thousands of citizens, some are noble, but some are under the influence of maya/delusion.The true races of people, in a spiritual sense, are not to color of their skin, but the different races are but two, those who are dedicated to matter and the things of this world and the people dedicated

56:53

Spiritualizing Relationships

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/14

7/14/84Spirtualizing RelationshipsSpiritualing relationships is essential in our search for God. We can find God in everyone and relate to one another from that basic premis.When we develop our own spiritual qualities the magnetism is created that will help us find God. It will help us find God if we are looking for God in human beings and especially in our closest relationships.

44:30

Spiritualizing Family Life

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/14

10/10/1982Spiritualizing Family Life includes loving family members and relating to them from the soul level.We are placed with people according to what they draw out of us and what we draw from them. We learn life’s lessons together.Accept that each person in his own time may be able to learn a life lesson, and it can’t be forced to happen.If one person in a family seeks God, others in the family will be brought closer to God.

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Spiritual Tests & Right Attitude

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/14

Circa 1980Spiritual Tests – Right Attitude is the fruit and the groundwork from deep meditation.When you feel deep peace in meditation, the goal is to express peace through you in daily life.How can you maintain right attitude under any circumstance? You can take responsibility for your shortcomings but don’t dwell on them. The solution is to always offer them into the Light.You can’t expect to please God if you can’t win the love of your fellow man.

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Spiritual Marriage and Family

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/14

8/2/80Spiritual Marriage & Family – a fascinating study of how to developa more expansive consciousness in yourself and others.Kriyananda explains how to best relate to your spouse, family or anyone without emotion and from a higher state of consciousness.Kriyananda begins with an overview of the soul’s evolution and alsodiscusses a two-fold purpose to spiritual marriage:1. to become more selfless2. to develop a broad cosmic vision that we are a part of the Great Spirit

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Spiritual Astrology

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/13

12/1/81Spiritual Astrology studies the planetary influences in our lives. However, we can lessen planetary obstacles. Meditation and devotion help us overcome them.Most importantly, don’t let negative influences stop you. We can overcome anything with the power of God behind us.

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Simple Living & High Thinking

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/13

7/8/84Simple Living and High Thinking shows how to simplify our lives, both inwardly and outwardly. This will free up energy that can be devoted toward our spiritual growth.Kriyananda emphasizes finding a balance in the way we live.It can be said that simple living and high thinking means simple living and “God” thinking. Put God first, and do everything for Him.

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Service is Joy

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/13

3/10/1985Service is Joy – when you work selflessly it is joyWe are serving when we look beyond our own personal reality and offer ourselves, and all that we do, into the greater, universal flow.We need to tune into God’s power and inspiration, and consciously channel it into all we do. We can do nothing, yet God can do anything through us.

27:35

Self-Effort and God's Grace

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/13

Circa 1974Self-effort and God’s grace – using willpower and relaxationEverything takes a certain amount of self-effort, but we really need to let God do the work and realize divine influence is with us all the time. Use your will to flow with the divine currents.Try to expand your consciousness in your work, in your sharing with others, in your feelings, actions, words, and in every circumstance.Life is full of obstacles on the path to God. It’s like playing golf. There are sand traps

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Self-Acceptance: The Key to Spiritual Progress

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/13

Circa 1983Self-Acceptance – identify and accept the highest within you.Usually, when we think of self-acceptance, we think of accepting our faults. In this talk, Kriyananda tells us that if we are to really grow, we must identify with the highest within us rather than the lowest. The “self” Kriyananda is referring to is our Higher Self. He explains that by identifying with our perfection, our true Self will shine through.

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Self-Realization: Loving God

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/12

February 21, 2001Love a higher truth than yourself. Love God.Yogananda taught the the truth is infinite, it has no boundries, such as race or religion.Yogananda was an expression of infinite consciousness.Learn to hold your peace wherever you are, in the city or the country.Ananda music written by Kriyananda uplifts, it is not emotional.Ask at every turn, 'God, what do You want?' You will find that He gives you guidance.Communities are a solution. People can learn to live together and seek

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