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Swami Kriyananda

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Soul's Voyage from Bondage to Freedom

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/13

August 1990Soul’s Voyage from Bondage to Freedom answers these questions:What is karma?How does reincarnation influence karma?Is karma only individual?To what extent is an individual influenced by mass karma?Kriya yoga is a powerful tool for working out karma.Meditation, concentration and developing more devotion release binding karma.Yogananda said, “How should you love God? Love Him as the drowning man yearns for breath.”

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Lahiri and Householders

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/12

9/29/82Lahiri and Householders – how to remain focused on God while having a spiritual partner.Swami Kriyananda offers us deep insight into the life of Lahiri and his contributions to this age. Lahiri brought not only the art and science of Kriya Yoga to householders, he has also given us an outstanding example of how to live for God no matter what the outward form of our lives.Kriyananda explains how to follow your nature i.e., toward the life of gyana, bhakti or karma yoga.Lahiri wrote an

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Swami Kriyananda's 54th Anniversary of Discipleship

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/12

9/12/2002Swami Kriyananda’s 54th Anniversary of Discipleship – a life dedicated to helping people find God.This one of the most heartfelt talks in the Treasures collection by Kriyananda.He said the most important thing in his life was the quest to help others in their spiritual quest.He was changed forever at the first meeting with Yogananda. Yogananda blessed him by touching his heart. The vibration lasted about 2 minutes. He was never the same thereafter.He focused on expressing the

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Kriya Yoga - The Supreme Tool for Changing Consciousness

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/11

Spiritual Renewal Week 2007Kriya yoga is a way of life.Nayaswamis Devarshi and Maria Warner gave this talk at Spiritual Renewal Week 2007. They discuss kriya as an inwardly directed way of life that strengthens spiritual magnetism and changes our consciousness.

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Purpose of Meditation

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/10

1/21/1984Purpose of Meditation – meditation connects you to divine energyWhen practicing Hong Sau, do it with the thought that your breath is a cosmic phenomena. It is not just you breathing, you are participating in a greater flow of “cosmic breath.”At the beginning of the talk, Kriyananda says, “Any discussion of how to meditate should begin with the question, why meditation?”Meditation helps us face challenges. We can attune ourselves so completely to God that we loose the consciousness

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How to Develop Devotion - Part 2

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/09

2/19/83Part TwoDevotion is about nurturing the love of God within you. Make devotion the most important part of your life. You’ll find that understanding is given to you when you need it. You will see clearly what the realities are and what the right direction is.The heart can express your intuitive faculties. When the heart is calm and uplifted, you’ll find that it is always guided in the right direction. If it makes a mistake, then it is corrected. When you’ve reached a certain point in

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How to Develop Devotion - Part 1

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/09

2/19/83How to Develop Devotion Part One explains what Sri Yukteswar speaks of in his book The Holy Science as the ‘heart’s natural love.’ This natural love of the heart is the principal thing that moves us forward on the spiritual path.There are two basic ways to perceive things: by reason and by feeling. If we go too much toward reason, we find that this overcomes us and suffocates the feeling of the heart. If we learn to direct our heart toward the reason, if we don’t divorce the two,

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Kriya Yoga - The Essence of Yoga

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/09

Kriya Yoga – Essence of Yoga gives a comprehensive explanation of Kriya as a way of life and unites all religions. It is not just a technique.Kriya is the ancient wisdom of the masters.Kriyananda explains how to offer your self and your love to God.We can go far on the spiritual path when we neutralize our likes and dislikes.When you meditate put plans aside, either important or unimportant plans!

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How to Find Fulfillment

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/09

1/23/79How to find fulfillment – be an instrument of the Divine.Sometimes we can’t control how things turn out, but we can control the kind of energy we put out.When you have an attitude of giving a cycle is formed. Good comes back and goes out again.Ask yourself some questions:How do I find fulfillment?How do I avoid disappointment or failure?How do I find happiness?How do I avoid suffering and pain?How do I find love and avoid hatred?How do I find peace and avoid agony or anguishSome

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How to Express Your Creativity

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/09

Early 1980’sHow to Express Your Creativity – an essential element for spiritual growth.When you are trying to express creativity, go deeper and deeper into yourself until you find the core of the creative energy in the vibration of Aum and that you’re really listening to Aum and that it’s coming out of the the deepest recesses of your own nature.Try to be less focused on what you’re doing and be more be focused on the source of what is coming through you.Become aware of the inner joy and

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How to Achieve True Freedom

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/09

7/3/83How to Achieve True Freedom – practice devotion and non attachmentMost people think freedom is merely doing what they want to do.True freedom comes from devotion to God and non-attachment.Try to act according to the dictates of our soul, not our ego.

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How to Achieve Immortality

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/09

6/16/79How to Achieve Immortality is a very important and intriguing topic. One of the main points from this talk is that when we can truly express our soul qualities even though outer life is dynamic and ever-changing we remain changeless at our center.As we develop spiritually and learn to feel and act from the core of our being with an awareness that we are one with God, we are expressing immortality.As long as we have a consciousness of death and consciousness of the fear of change –

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How Do We Really Heal?

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/09

12/1/81How Do we Really Heal – total health relates to body, mind and soul.Healing can be related to the physical body but mental and spiritual healing are also important.We draw from the source of cosmic energy by the practice of willpower.The attitude of willingness improves general health.Matter is energy. Your body is a manifestation of divine energy.Sri Yukteswar said that meditation will develop the hearts’ natural love. This love fills your body with harmonious energy and your

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Houston Concert & Lecture

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/08

3/15/78“What we are really looking for is not outside ourselves, perfection and joy are inside.” — Swami KriyanandaHouston Concert and Lecture 1978 is a special Treasures offering – a collector’s item. This concert and lecture was given in Houston during the 1978 “Joy Tour” across the United States featuring music by the Ananda singing group, the Gandharvas and solos by Swami Kriyananda. He introduces the musical selections, giving the meaning behind the compositions and he also gives a

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Healing with Magnetism

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/08

6/10/78“When you strengthen your aura you can become strong enough to deflect disease.” – Swami KriyanandaThis healing seminar delves deeply into the more subtle aspects of healing. Swami Kriyananda explains how energy blockages in the spine and mental attitudes can have an impact on health. He also talks about developing positive magnetism to avoid disease and mitigate karma.

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The Guru's Grace

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/08

9/1/09The guru’s grace is with us constantly throughout the battle of life. After a battle, when we introspect on what happened, we can tune into the grace that came for that particular lesson.Kriyananda recorded 108 talks available on YouTube called The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita. He reads stanzas from the Gita then does commentary.If you wish to listen to the MP3s of individual talks listed on our website, Treasures can send them to you, no donation required unless you request them on a

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Guru Discipleship

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/08

10/29/82Guru Discipleship explains how to tune in to the guru’s guidance.When asking for guidance it’s good to pose the question, then relax and offer it up without strain. As long as there is strain or tension, there is doubt. Offer yourself up joyfully and expect an answer. This practice will develop inner strength and courage.Three aspects of a guru:1. The guru gives high teachings without personal likes and dislikes.2. The guru can transmit the power of the divine that flows from him

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The Guna's

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/08

11/1/04Gunas gives us a glimpse into the vastness of the Universe. There are many untold stories of other planets and distant realities.Kriyananda emphasizes that this vast universe is really a part of our own self. Time and space, as we think of them don’t really exist. There is only the eternal present, whether on this plane of existence or in the farthest galaxy.

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Great Blessings of Life

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/08

11/1/04Great Blessings of Life – God is your only reality.Deep meditation brings intuition. You will become more aware of subtle realities.You can’t go to heaven with a body, because that realm has a more subtle vibration.When you transition from this world to the astral world you take your conscious with you. There is no break from the physical world to the astral world, it can be a smoothe transition.A Way of Awakening: Aasta TV series from India – 365 twenty minute talk

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God Consciousness

Treasures Along the Path ·

2025/09/07

Early 80’sGod Consciousness and joy on the spiritual path are what Yogananda brought to the world.This talk includes many stories about Yogananda and provides techniques to become more God conscious in every aspect of life.Try to open your heart and mind to God’s presence within. Ask God to guide your every thought and action, no matter how mundane.

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