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Treasures Along the Path

Swami Kriyananda

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Mother's Day 1980

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/29

Mother’s Day – When we celebrate Mother’s Day it can be thought of as celebrating the Divine Mother principle in all of us.Swami Kriyananda explains that all people can express masculine and feminine traits. It is good to have empathy for both men and women and look for divine qualities in both sexes.When trying to understand someone, instead of just analyzing, try to feel who he or she is – put yourself in his or her shoes so to speak. Try to feel where they are coming from.

32:01

Mastering the Creative Energy

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/29

Early 80’sMastering the Creative Energy involves the primary thought that God is the Doer and we are flowing with that energy.Kriyananda offers fresh insights for bringing creativity into every day life.He explains how to tap into the creative flow and manifest it in outward form, while remaining connected to the source of inspiration within. He also discusses the types of energy in the chakras in relation to creativity.

39:18

Master's Mahasamadhi

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/29

3/7/1976Master’s Mahasamadhi is a stirring talk about the moment of Yogananda’s death March 7, 1952.Yogananda wanted to die in service to others.He died while giving a talk at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.He was reciting the poem “My India” when he left his body.Kriyananda talks about the inspiration and power in that moment.

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Master's Birthday 1977

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/29

“May divine consciousness be born in us so we realize that we are no longer this ego or this body, but that we are sons and daughters of the Infinite, with as much right to claim His infinite joy, as any of the great masters who ever lived.” — Swami KriyanandaServe God and ask Him to act through you. Keep a positive attitude and know that He is pleased with your service. God is not an angry God. We can shut Him out by imagining that he is displeased with us.Don’t ever give up on the

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Man's Desire for Enlightenment

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/28

Circa 1975Man’s desire for enlightenment can fulfilled in higher realms than the little selfEvolution is a divine process, not an accidental evolution. Man, has a highly developed sense of discrimination in comparison to other creatures. The goal toward ultimate illumination is innate in everyone.If we want to understand our true Self, we need to trace it back to the source. Most people look for that source outside of themselves, but it can only be found within.Our senses are intended to

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Male and Female Principle of the Universe

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/27

8/8/1984The soul as beyond all gender, beyond all polar differences, it just is.” — Swami KriyanandaSwami Kriyananda explains both male and female tendencies. He gives a fascinating description of the male and female principles involved in creation and in the Creator.He says that both feminine and masculine qualities are needed to balance a person’s nature. The saints have mastered this balance. It is essential to accept who we are, either male or female. When we realize the completeness

69:08

Love: Human and Divine

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/26

November 29, 1984Love: Human and Divine – offer your love upward rather than outward.You can say that human love is divine love and divine love is in human love.There are few people who really know how to love. If you love the divine first and foremost, human love can be forthcoming.If you can think about other people first and yourself second, you are making spiritual progress.Life’s painful experiences help us to release our egoic pride and drop the sheathes surrounding our heart. Once

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Love God In All

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/25

See God as the Doer and love God in all.What binds us to this world and to our ego is the thought, “It’s mine.”If we want freedom in this lifetime do everything for God and not our own ego and understand that nothing and no one belongs to us.

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Limits of the Intellect

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/24

Kriyananda encourages us to develop our intuition, explaining that through the intuition, we gain access to the wisdom of the universe. In fact, it is only through the intuition that we can gain complete understanding of anything

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Life with Master - Part 3

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/23

Life with Master contains personal and compelling stories of Kriyananda’s time spent with Yogananda.Yogananda was deeply calm and compassionate at all times and met each person on their level and gave them his consciousness.He said, “When I am gone, only love can take my place.”Our gratitude and fulfillment comes from the opportunity to be of service to God in one another. Put other people first, and yourself last.

55:08

Life with Master - Parts 1 & 2

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/23

3/1/79Life with Master Parts One and Two – “You saw such kindness in Yogananda’s eyes, you knew he was on your side. No matter what he said, you felt this constant love and constant friendship.”These two short talks by Swami Kriyananda were given at the Meditation Retreat at Ananda Village in March 1979.Part One begins with the impressive and unusual circumstances that lead Swami to find Autobiography of a Yogi in a New York bookstore, take a bus to Los Angeles and become Yogananda’s

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Lesson of Bereavement

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/23

Circa 1968Lesson of Bereavement – whether people are with us now or not, we must understand that they are always with us in GodWhen we lose a loved one, it’s difficult not to think of the past, of both joys and sorrows.Should we forget the past? It’s not that we should forget everything, but let us not dwell in the past. Nothing really exists except the present moment.Relationships, including marriages are filled with mixed experiences including happiness, harmony, love, peace and also

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Swami Kriyananda's 80th Birthday Talk

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/23

Kriyananda’s 80th birthday 5/19/2006 – reminiscing about his life in service to God and his guru. Kriyananda had just finished The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita and read from the 7th chapter, 3rd stanza “Among thousands of men, scarcely one strives for spiritual perfection. And among those blessed ones who seek me, scarcely one out of many thousands perceives me as I am.”Kriyananda tells stories about his youth, his search for truth, becoming Yogananda’s disciple and his life of service to

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Inner Experience of Truth

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/23

3/16/96“The search for truth that you are looking for begins with the inner search.” — Swami Kriyananda Kriyananda gives an in depth and fascinating discussion of the nature of “truth.” Weaving in aspects of his own search for truth as a young man, he shows that truth is something much deeper than mere facts. It can only be found by inner experience. We can all begin to experience the truth residing in our own true Self. We do it by deepening our connection with God and raising our level of

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The Importance of Renouncing Ego

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/23

11/1/04The importance of renouncing ego and becoming one with God is paramount. All people have a common goal: to realize that there is no separation between us and God.We don’t renounce anything by renouncing ego. We gain everything that is God’s. It’s the worldly people who are renunciates, because they have renounced God in exchange for worldly things that in the end, give nothing back. God will give you everything He has if you bring Him into your life.

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How to Work with Your Emotions

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/22

3/80How to Work With Your EmotionsThis talk describes how to work with your emotions in a way that creates greater harmony and inner freedom. Kriyananda clarifies what it means to truly live from our center and how we can work with our emotions in a way that creates a greater sense of harmony and inner freedom.Kriyananda explains that there is a big difference between calm feeling and restless emotion. Emotions – both good and bad – keep us bound to duality and prevent us from seeing things

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How to Use Your Emotions for Your Highest Good - Part 2

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/22

10/23/82How to Use Your Emotions for Your Highest Good – if you can you get to the center of an emotion or feeling, and really accept it for what it is, suddenly you discover that it’s gone.Part 2 – QuestionsSwami asked for questions at the end of his talk. We made the questions a separate MP3 for your convenience.Here is a sample question: Would you talk about the difference between emotion and feeling?Answer: Emotion is agitated or ruffled feeling. Emotion is feeling and reacting,

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How to Use Your Emotions for Your Higher Good

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/22

10/23/82How to Use Your Emotions for Your Highest Good – if you can you get to the center of an emotion or feeling, and really accept it for what it is, suddenly you discover that it’s gone.Part 1 – TalkSwami Kriyananda gave many talks on how to handle our emotions and this one takes a different twist.He said it helps us to think of this topic in relationship to our spiritual development. Instead of thinking of conquering, rising above or suppressing your emotions, it’s better to approach

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How to Spiritualize Your Relationships

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/22

1/9/82How to Spiritualize Your Relationships – relationships represent our soul’s desire to expand. We will eventually merge with infinity.Relationships provide an excellent opportunity for growth. We can see our faults, rid ourselves of false expectations and learn unconditional acceptance and love.Try to understand relationships from the highest, not the lowest in yourself and others. When you reinforce the good habits you are helping yourself and others spiritually.When there is a

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How to Rule the Kingdom of the Mind - Part 2

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/22

7/5/83Learning how to rule the kingdom of the mind is a lifelong study in discrimination and concentration.Kriyananda speaks of the characters in the Bhagavad Gita. Each one represents inner qualities of our mind that are often conflicted.Become victorious over the ideas that we are limited to this body and this physical plane.When you come to the point of understanding that you are not comprised of personality traits, then you will be able to help redirect your character toward that which

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