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Swami Kriyananda

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Transforming Emotion Into Devotion

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/28

Transforming Emotion into Devotion – make your feelings calmly focused.Devotion is deepest when not influenced by emotions. Yogananda said, ‘to demolish the mountain of delusion before you, inward focus is needed.’The balancing scales of maya balance every suffering with a joy, every pain with a pleasure.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 followed by a

16:49

Transcending Sense Attachment

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/28

9/1/09Transcending sense attachment involves working with habits.Kriyananda discusses the power God and Guru’s grace to change our lives.The grace of God can help us transcend sense attachment.Changing habits can transform our consciousness.In the Bhagavad Gita the mighty charioteers are symbols for the senses.Kriyananda gives a detailed commentary about a conversation between Duryodhana (King Material Desire) and Dronacharaya (habit).Kriyananda recorded 108 talks available on YouTube

60:52

OM Vibration (SRW 1972)

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/27

This is a spiritual talk that explores how to encourage positive qualities like courage, faith, will, peace, conquering moods, and right action, using uplifting messages and sayings from a spiritual teacher. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on inner transformation rather than guilt or negativity, encouraging individuals to see themselves as inherently good and capable of growth, regardless of past mistakes. Kriyananda suggests that true fulfillment and happiness come from aligning

41:37

Time

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/27

6/5/83Time - time is movement, it does not exist in the Infinite. The reality of time is not what it seems to be, everything is happening right now.We experience time by relating things to other things. When there is complete stillness, there is no longer anything to compare it with, so we can experience timelessness, especially in meditation.Personality is only superficial. Underneath appearances are attributes of courage or its opposite, weakness.The process we all go through a process of

75:30

The True Meaning of the Resurrection

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/27

4/2/1983The True Meaning of Resurrection – how to meet life’s tests in a Christ-like wayIn this fascinating talk, Kriyananda gives us deep insight into the life of Christ and how we can become Christ-like in our own lives. The principles in this talk are timeless.To support this work, go to: https://www.ananda.org/support/treasures/

50:29

The State of Superconsciousness

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/26

7/18/1982The State of Superconsciousness – our journey on the spiritual path is to learn how to live superconsciously.Kriyananda explains the qualities and benefits of living with higher consciousness. He tells us what we can do to reach that heightened state.The primary difference between the subconscious, conscious, and superconscious mind is the expansion of awareness.Everyone can have higher consciousness by putting into practice basic principles of positive and simple living and high

76:14

The Role of Yoga in the Modern Age

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/25

7/12/1983The Role of Yoga in the Modern Age – practicing yoga principles can change lives and attitudes.Yoga is vitally important to the evolution of our planet.Those who practice yoga teachings help bring superconscious solutions to the challenges of our time.The pivotal point that ‘matter is energy’ can change the thinking of generations to come.To support this work, go to: https://www.ananda.org/support/treasures/

44:08

The Rhythm of God

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/24

3/7/1986The Rhythm of God – be aware of the presence of God and everything will flow naturallyWhen we feel inner attunement with God, everything else flows.Obedience to a Self-realized guru helps us to avoid distractions and pitfalls on the path to God.We need the stillness of meditation to receive perceptions of truth. When you receive guidance in mediation, repeatedly test that guidance. It may may change over time.To support this work, go to: https://www.ananda.org/support/treasures/

65:32

The Practice of Joy

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/23

Circa 1978The practice of joy is a quest to feel the presence of God’s joy in everything we do.We all know the spiritual truth that “joy is within you” but there are times when this can seem to elude us.In this “gem,” Kriyananda gives clear guidance how to find joy within and live in joy all the time, no matter what our outer circumstances are.Joy is the true essence of who and what we really are. When we expand our consciousness and begin to see our unity with all life, we awaken that joy

61:32

The Power of Kriya Yoga

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/22

Kriyananda talks about the ego and expanding your awareness beyond the sense of self. He also discusses how the practice of kriya yoga can expand our awareness to more subtle levels of reality.To support this work, go to: https://www.ananda.org/support/treasures/

91:28

The Paths of Yoga

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/21

10/26/1982The Paths of Yoga – there are many different paths of yoga including, raja, gyana, bhakti & karma yoga.The different paths of yoga are interrelated. The paths unite in the stillness of meditation.The essence of raja yoga is meditation and communion.Yogananda taught the teachings of Krishna along with the teachings of Christ.You need devotion to be able to renounce the fruits of action. You do it because you want to please God.The higher states of consciousness include the

94:14

The Path to Divine Union

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/10/21

8/22/90The Path to Divine Union is an in-depth discussion of the guru-disciple relationship.Divine love and deep meditation is necessary for divine union.The path of raja yoga transforms human consciousness into divine consciousness.The Path to Divine Union is the fourth in the series of 5 classes given during Spiritual Renewal Week 1990. It is based on Kriyananda’s book The Essence of Self-Realization. The readings from the book are direct quotes from Yogananda.Tribute to Lorne

97:47

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/

45:07

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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