Clarity Magazine, Daily Life

Personal Remembrances

The highest octave of joy is bliss, which was Kriyananda’s state of consciousness in these last years. Many times he would say privately, “I feel so much bliss I can hardly stand it.”

Clarity Magazine, Coping with Loss

In Loving Memory: Tributes and Condolences

Dear Swamiji, I love you, and will miss you! But I’ll carry your words with me, which you said when I asked how I could serve Master better: “Love him with all your heart. Don’t worry about the details — the love, that’s the important part.” Nabha Cosley, Ananda Village

Clarity Magazine, Daily Life

The Significance of His Life

Kriyananda came into this life with an unusually high level of spiritual realization and a very clear sense of his duty to God and Guru.

Clarity Magazine, Coping with Loss

How to Solve the Mystery of Life after Death

The existence of life after death is the greatest mystery guarded by nature. No one is allowed, no matter how great a saint he might have been, to come back after death and tell the masses of people of the life-eternal.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth

Attunement and Discipleship

The simple truth is: no human being can make the leap from ego-consciousness to cosmic consciousness by merely believing in that infinite consciousness.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritualizing Relationships

Paramhansa Yogananda’s Spiritual Family

The stronger the family, spiritually speaking, the greater its attractive pull on new souls that may still be wandering in search of an identity of their own.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritualizing Relationships

How Can We Love Everyone?

All of us are products of God’s bliss. How could anyone not want—each according to his own understanding—to reclaim that bliss?