New Dawn Radio Show Talks by Swami Kriyananda
Based on Swami Kriyananda’s book of daily inspiration, “Do It Now,” each of the 260 talks addresses the topic of the day. Recorded by Kriyananda a few years ago, the talks are alive with wisdom, practical advice, and deep relevance to the challenges of modern life. Five new talks are available every week in MP3 format, and via podcast.
As a Podcast 
A new way to listen to our audio recordings by having MP3s “delivered” to your computer. No iPod or portable MP3 player is required.
As an MP3 download, click below. (13 minutes each)
October
Week 4
Day 1: "Don’t compare others’ fortunes to your own. Rejoice with them in their successes, which have been earned by them. Your own, too, will be uniquely yours: They can belong to no one else.”
Day 2: “Hold good will in your heart for all mankind. For we are all travelers in a vast desert, struggling to reach the sea. We need one another’s cooperation, and friendship, and support — lest in the heat of travel our strength be exhausted, and we collapse alone on the sand.”
Day 3: “As you wash your body, so wash your heart daily of the impurities of attachment and desire.”
Day 4: “Imagine your attachments soaring like balloons high into the sky. Watch them vanish into the distance. Then return your mind’s focus to your own heart; enjoy, there, the feeling of relief and inner freedom.”
Day 5: “As you begin this day, tell yourself, 'Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes! Everything that I have long dreamed of doing I will accomplish in this, my new life.'”
Week 3
Day 1: "To attract abundance, see money as a flow of energy, not as a static quantity. See life as a flow also, not as a fixed pattern. Think of life as a glass, and of abundance as a flow of water. Water can fill the glass only in liquid form, not as a block of ice.”
Day 2: “In any effort to improve your life, work first on improving yourself. To depend on others’ good treatment of you is a slave’s attitude. Become a cause in your life, not an effect. Self-dependence is the mark of heroism.”
Day 3: “Include success for others in your dreams for your own success. Better a stream that irrigates a green valley than a desert oasis, surrounded by vast stretches of sand.”
Day 4: “Attachment is like an unripe fruit, which clings to the tree even when buffeted by winds. Be like the ripe fruit, which falls without effort at the first touch of a breeze.”
Day 5: “A true friend is one with whom you can weep, not one with whom you only laugh. Weep with others in their sorrows. But never weep for yourself.”
Week 2
Day 1: "Do things, not for applause, but for the far more satisfying approval of your conscience.”
Day 2: “Gain wisdom from experience; don’t seek it from books. What you read will never be wholly yours until you’ve lived it.”
Day 3: “Do your best; then leave the consequences to work themselves out. Attachment to results only diminishes the ability to work effectively in the present. But with non-attachment, if success in one endeavor proves a shimmering mirage, your energy will remain free to try again, and ever yet again.”
Day 4: “Whenever you see colors that you like especially, absorb them into yourself; let them vitalize your aura. Liking for a particular color may suggest a need for it, as the craving for a particular food may indicate elements that are lacking in one’s diet.”
Day 5: “Practice patience. For patience is the straightest and smoothest highway to success.”
Week 1
Day 1: "Be less concerned to express yourself cleverly than to express what is true. For cleverness is like stylish clothing: useless, if it covers a corpse.”
Day 2: “Gain wisdom from experience; don’t seek it from books. What you read will never be wholly yours until you’ve lived it.”
Day 3: “Develop loyalty — to your family, your friends, your chosen path in life. Loyalty, like a rudder, will hold your ship true to its course. Be loyal above all to the truth as you yourself best understand it.”
Day 4: “No one else, ever, will be as good at being you as you are. Be true to yourself, to your understanding, to your ideals. Your contribution to humanity, then, will be unique and valuable.”
Day 5: “Make creativity a philosophy of life — not originality, in the sense of being different, but creative originality in the sense of developing perceptivity from within. The first step to creativity is perceptive imitation of excellence. The second is to view each situation as unique and as requiring, therefore, perceptive handling. The third is to draw from that situation some hidden truth, as you yourself are best able to perceive it.”
