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Self Reliance
Every Sunday morning Ananda Village residents and guests meet for meditation, chanting, readings, and a sermon by one of the Ananda ministers. Recording of a part of the Sunday Service is posted online within a few days.
Marga and Peter Goering
In God’s eyes, when human beings go astray, there is nothing to forgive. All of us are aspects, only, of His own Self.
He who made us resides in us. He is not far away from us in some far-off heaven. His call to us, always, is to return to our own home, within.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ananta and Maria McSweeney
Prayer is a power, provided we believe deeply in that power. When our thoughts and feelings are strongly focused and then united in growing awareness to the Divine Presence within, they can bring even seemingly unrealistic wishes to fulfillment.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Anandi and Bharat Cornell
God knows everything already. He knows what is in your heart. It is you who need to clarify your feelings, that you attune yourself to Him in turn more clearly. For only by such clarity will you be able to receive perfectly what He gives you.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Latika Parojinog and Nitai Deranja
Jesus Christ and Sri Krishna, both, advised praying to God as personal. Yet both emphasized also that God is above form, and that He must be sought, ultimately, in Infinity.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Devi and Jyotish Novak
If a person is true to his highest priorities, he will generally find that his other needs are fulfilled naturally as well.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Parvati and Pranaba Hansen
The struggle Jesus describes is not a war against unknown enemies, but the struggle with our own attachment to all that is nearest and dearest to us, humanly speaking. Ultimately, it is a war against the ego itself, and against anything with which we surround ourselves to bolster the ego’s fragile sense of security.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Durga and Vidura Smallen
Human will is, as Paramhansa Yogananda used to say, guided by whims and limited understanding. The divine will is in harmony with every level of reality. Though the divine will sometimes appears to us, at first, to be wrong, it proves always, eventually, to be for our highest good.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Swami Kriyananda
Let no one tell you what your path to God ought to be. Many are the paths. Select your own according to the dictates of your own nature, no matter how out of step that puts you with other people.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Peter and Marga Goering
The intellect separates; it analyzes, then puts things together again piece by piece. Intellect lacks intuition’s flow, which descends smoothly, like a river, from the superconscious.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Swami Kriyananda
Free will is a basic principle of life. God never coerces: He invites us to live in such a way that we find fulfillment in ourselves.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Dave and Maria Warner
That which the ego relinquishes, offering it up to soul-consciousness, is reclaimed forever in cosmic consciousness. Nothing is ever lost.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Catherine and Peter Van Houten
Nowhere do we find Jesus condemning, or even gently criticizing, other spiritual masters. His criticisms were reserved for worldly attitudes, and for those hypocritical Pharisees who had allowed religion to become, for them, a pretense.
–Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Sunday Service with Swami Kriyananda
Yogananda, quoted in The New Path, said, “I used to think Satan was only a human invention, but now I know, and add my testimony to that of others who lived before me, that Satan is a reality.
“He is a universal, conscious force whose sole aim is to keep all beings bound to the wheel of delusion.”
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Latika Parojinog and Nitai Deranja
There are exoteric truths, and there are also esoteric truths. There is that which is revealed impersonally and left up to us to interpret — such as the thunder and our perception of it as divine wrath; the rain and our perception of it as God’s sympathy. But behind even God’s most open expressions there lies impenetrable mystery.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Bharat and Anandi Cornell
In the case of subtle knowledge, the main disadvantage in making it universally available is the harm it might do to one who isn’t ready for it, and who might even mock it.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Parvati and Pranaba Hansen
Even a mountain guide wouldn’t presume to do one’s climbing for one; his purpose would be only to help the neophyte to climb safely. To have a wise guru is not a sign of weakness, but of plain common sense.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Anandi and Bharat Cornell
Self-confidence and self-effort are necessary, as the ignition of a car is necessary to the motor.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Diksha and Gyandev McCord
Our strength must come from within, but it must be coupled with recognition of our inner link with broader and higher realities.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Minister:Swami Kriyananda
For disciples of this path, the more, in their hearts, they live consciously in the presence of the masters, the more they will find the divine presence living within them.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Anandi and Bharat Cornell
The divine light—pure, calm, liberating—is the only final cure for every kind of delusion: ill health, emotional grief, and spiritual ignorance. Seek it daily in the silence, in deep meditation.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Parvati and Pranaba Hansen
God is with us now as much as He will ever be. It is not Him who needs to come to us: we need to come to Him! And that process of coming is a matter of transforming our self-perception.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Lisa Powers and Nitai Deranja
Divine blessings are not common in this world. They are extraordinary. When they come, we should give them priority over any other consideration.'
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Dharamadas and Nirmala Schuppe
Doubt not the power of delusion. Respect it indeed, fear it, though not in the sense of cowering before it. Yogananda said, “One is not safe until he attains the state of final union with God.”
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Anandi Cornell and Latika Parojinog
The legend of Adam and Eve describes how the first human beings dissipated their spiritual energy, centered in the spine. The spine is the channel through which flows the river of baptism and of spiritual life.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Diksha and Gyandev McCord
God sent different religions into the world to satisfy different human needs. Each person should find those practices and observances which are compatible with his own nature.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Devi and Jyotish Novak
The path to inner freedom was described by Yogananda in these words: “Be always calmly active, and actively calm.”
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Catherine Van Houten and Seva Wiberg
See everything that comes to you unasked for as a manifestation of God’s will. Be grateful for the pains you experience, for they are healing strokes of His love.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Anandi and Bharat Cornell
Don’t be satisfied with goodness born merely of ego-definitions.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Dave Warner and Seva Wiberg
Our faith is the attractive power of our underlying state of conciousness. Goodness attracts goodness. Evil attracts evil. Whatever there is in you of lightness or dark, offer it up to the heights.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Devi and Jyotish Novak
Divine consciousness is capable of taking the base metal of worldliness and transforming it into the spiritual gold of divine wisdom and love.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Catherine and Peter Van Houten
Was Jesus a human being, merely? Those who, on Palm Sunday, called him “King” little realized the actual nature of his kingdom. His consciousness was centered in Infinity.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Anandi and Bharat Cornell
When we give love to others, we discover love in ourselves. And when we serve others, we feel an expanded sense of joy.
—Bharat, quoting Swami Kriyananda
Ministers: Diksha and Gyandev McCord
Even if we are not perceiving God at the moment, living in the thought of Him will enable it to happen in time.
—Gyandev McCord
Ministers: Devi and Jyotish Novak
The biggest problem with relying too much on logic and reason is that it keeps us bound to the world of sensory perceptions.
—Jyotish Novak
Ministers: Latika Parojinog and Nitai Deranja
Words, even though appearing in the scriptures, are no substitute for direct perceptions of truth.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Catherine and Peter Van Houten
Intellect alone can never lead one to truth. Without fixity of purpose, born of the heart’s devotion, the intellect wanders endlessly.
—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light
Ministers: Peter and Marga Goering
Christianity describes the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. In Vedanta philosophy, the Father is “Sat,” or existence beyond creation; the Son is “Tat,” or the Christ Consciousness reflected within creation; and the Holy Ghost is the “Aum” vibration.
—Peter Goering
Ministers: Dave and Maria Warner
If we think of God in terms of “cold spiritual mathematics,” we hold Him at a distance. But if think of Him as the Presence that beats in our hearts, we make Him our own.
—Maria Warner
Ministers: Anandi and Bharat Cornell
When the ego steps out, God steps in.
—Anandi, quoting Rajarsi Janakananda, Yogananda’s most advanced disciple
Ministers: Devi and Jyotish Novak
An Avatar is not different in his or her substance from what we are, in our true selves.
—Devi Novak
Ministers: Anandi and Bharat Cornell
Whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and reestablish virtue.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Ministers: Peter Van Houten and Seva Wiberg
The practice of Kriya Yoga is the ultimate “democratic” process of spiritual development: anyone, anywhere can become spiritually liberated.
—Peter Van Houten
Ministers: Dave and Maria Warner
When our lives are dedicated toward service to others and toward loving God, we start recognizing who and what we really are.
—Dave Warner
Ministers: Devi and Jyotish Novak
Everything we experience, touch, taste, and feel, originates from the majestic stillness of God.
—Devi Novak
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