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Treasures Along the Path

Swami Kriyananda

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How to Rule the Kingdom of the Mind - Part 1

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/21

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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How to Trust and Recognize Inner Guidance

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/20

7/4/85Knowing how to recognize and trust inner guidance is a process of attunement. When we are inwardly attuned to God’s grace, His guidance can come. We need to open the door to allow the divine to flow through.Part of receiving inner guidance is to first ask the appropriate question. Phrase it in a clear way in the heart, then offer it up to the spiritual eye. You can trust the inner guidance you receive, when there is a calm feeling.It can be beneficial to ask teachers and friends you

78:03

How to Prepare for Death

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/19

6/11/1983How to Prepare for Death – if you aren’t ready for death, you’re not ready for life either.Our entire life can be a preparation for the moment of death, when our mind should be completely focused on the goal to find God.We can rise above body consciousness and overcome our attachment.All that you are is within yourself. Everything can change, but you can remain content within.

78:24

How to Know and Do God's Will

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/18

8/13/83How to know and do God’s will is an impersonal process and depends on attunement.God’s will is is beyond good and evil. What makes it good or evil is what it does to us.God’s will brings us in harmony with Him. As we get more in tune with Him, we will feel more and more joy in our heart. We must have a healthy respect for our own ability to be mistaken. Sometimes people get a little intuition and then ‘run to the ends of the earth with it. Sometimes God’s will is to go in one

45:16

How to Inspire Spirituality in Others

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/17

10/10/82How to Inspire Spirituality in Others – consider what the person needs to hear and also consider what they would be open to hear.You don’t want to impose your beliefs. You want to help them where they are.Be a channel of Divine Joy. When we feel the divine blessings ourselves, we can transmit that to others.Kriyananda tells a story of arriving at a college where he was going to speak to the students on the subject of yoga. He found about a campus wide protest.He began by talking

29:09

How to Be a True Christian

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/16

2/17/1985How to Be a True Christian – become free of ego so the light of Christ can shine throughThe central teaching of Christ is given in the Gospel of St. John: “As many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God.”We need to draw the Christ consciousness to ourselves dynamically. We can’t do that by passively saying, “I believe.”

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How to Achieve Spiritual and Material Success

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/16

8/3/86You can achieve spiritual and material success by concentration and right attitude.Success is usually equated with wealth, fame and great achievements. True success should be measured by what we have become through the process.Success means:being successful in the eyes of God and in your own consciencedoing what you know is righ

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Great Blessing: Giving Your Life to God

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/16

11/1/2004One of the great blessings of giving your life to God is that you can be more free of ego involvement, and eventually be one with God!Try to get away from the thought “I” am doing this or that, but think of God as the Doer in all things.You don’t need to go to a Himalayan cave and meditate or remove yourself from society to be a renunciate. You can practice renunciation in any circumstance. It’s not important what you are doing, such as serving a family, but it is important how you

16:09

God's Impersonal Love

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/16

1/11/04Gods Impersonal Love – the truth is, that God’s love is always impersonal because the love He gives is given equally to all, saints and sinners alike.Truth and love are always impersonal because they are the divine essence beyond all form.We limit God’s power to work in our lives when we confine Him to a certain definition.This talk is one in a series of 365 programs recorded for Aasta TV in India – A Way of Awakening. The 20 minute talks are based on readings from Kriyananda’s book

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Experience: The Basis of Religion

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/16

2/1/2004Experience: The Basis of Religion is based on the principle that we can’t know religion only with the mind, we must experience it in our lives and in our hearts.The world is on the eve of a radical change in religion.If God is bliss, then experiment and try to find that out for yourself!A Way of AwakeningAasta TV series from India – 365 twenty minute talk seriesKriyananda reads a passage from his book Conversations with Yogananda, and gives commentary.

107:58

Energy and Magnetism

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/16

7/16/82Energy and magnetism are interrelated and attitudes greatly affect our magnetism. Being kind is magnetic – being unkind is unmagnetic, being joyful is magnetic and being moody or unhappy is unmagnetic. Certain colors are more magnetic than others.Karma can be mitigated by increasing the level of energy in your body and mind, which will also improve your aura so that you are protected from negative energy. When your aura is strong it can actually influence outward events.Kriyananda

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Christ and Krishna

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/15

12/23/1979Christ and Krishna – both known for their divine peace and love.Swami discusses the similarities in the circumstances of the births of these two great avatars, and how the hand of God was working in their lives from the beginning.The restlesness of the worldly mind extinguishes the divine presence.

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Being and Doing

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/15

8/13/1981Being and Doing – the spiritual path is not doing, but being.It is primarily through selfless, serviceful activities that we develop our higher qualities.In being kind to others, we develop kindness. We need to continue to “do” until we lose the thought that “I am doing it.”When you have an expanded consciousness you are able to better cope with reality.When you think if ‘I and mine’ you are never content. You always want something more. This world will never be perfect.

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Ashtanga Yoga - Part 2

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/15

10/28/82Part TwoThis talk is full of inspiring wisdom from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Kriyananda begins the second half of this talk byaddressing the “right question” as he put it, “Who am I?”The principles in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras hold a subtle and higher dimension if you view them not just as stages to go through, but apply the principles inwardly to your spiritual life and development.Kriyananda comments on the sutras. Truthfulness means a willingness to be demonstrated wrong on any

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Ashtanga Yoga - Part 1

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/15

10/28/82Ashtanga Yoga – eight-limbed stages of spiritual growthPart OneKriyananda explains that ashtanga literally means “eight-limbed.” These eight ‘limbs’ are stages of growth, like steps in the direction toward spiritual fulfillment. Instead of calling it a ‘system’ it’s more like a ‘way’ of yoga.He gives commentary on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras that help us understand how to apply the aphorisms in daily life. He says that there is only one reality in everything, and that we are expressions

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The Art of Superconscious Living

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/15

8/25/86The Art of Superconscious Living is remaining positive, energetic and enthusiastic!When we tune-in to the superconscious mind, we are tapping into divine consciousness and opening ourselves to the reality of our oneness with God.Attitude is very important to higher thinking.As long as we live in a little human form, we’re going to suffer as well as have temporary fulfillment. But, nothing that we experience in the ego is permanent.

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Ananda Village Open House Talk

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/15

June 9, 1990In 1990, Swami Kriyananda wanted to host an event to tell local residents in Nevada County more about what happens at Ananda Village.He mentions many aspects of community life, including the broader sense of kinship and service to our greater community in Nevada County, and not just the Village residents and guests who come to stay at our Retreat.He expressed that Ananda people are not trying to be exclusive among themselves. He said, rather, we would like you to know that ALL

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A Tribute to Swami Kriyananda

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/15

5/17/2003A Tribute to Swami Kriyananda – reminscences by students who he inspiredA talk given by eight of Ananda’s leaders at Ananda Village at Kriyananda’s birthday weekend May 2003.This panel presentation is an informative and meaningful account of Kriyananda’s contribution to Paramhansa Yogananda’s world mission including establishing communities, education, books and music.

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The Power of Kriya Yoga

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/15

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.

101:05

Kundalini

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/14

1/29/1983Kundalini – energy in the spine is neutral in itself, and becomes affected by our thoughts.When we hold negative thoughts, the energy finds a place to live in the spine in the lower chakras. Unless these vorticies of energy are released, the kundalini energy is blocked.Negative thoughts cause a downward or outward energy movement. Positive thoughts cause an upward energy movement.If you focus on how to free up your energy, how to find more peace, love and joy, you can live in a

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