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Meditation and Music

David Eby

Question from Jaya: Dear experts, My life has never been the same after i came in touch with Yogananda’s teachings. I am a beginner in meditation and use the basic meditation technique on your site. Of now I do around 30-40 minutes every evening. I am also an aspiring singer with a good voice and vocal range but am struggling to hit the…

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God and the Cosmic Drama

Nayaswami Anandi

Question from KJ: If God created this cosmic drama (he himself became the world as our masters said) that we are living in and we are the actors of the cosmic drama, then we should perform the act given my God and play this drama, why do we need to go back to him? Why are we sent if he wanted us to…

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Kriya Yoga in Australia

Nayaswami Devarshi

Question from Sanket: I want to learn kriya yoga. just now i live in australia .sydney originally i m from india plz help me

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Kriya Yoga and spiritual evolution

Nayaswami Hriman

Question from ryan: how does one kriya breath equal one year of evolution? yogananda said that a thousand kriyas equal one year of evolution. therefore one might be inclined to think “well if i do 1000 kriyas a day,then in one year i should be a full blown saint.”but this is not the case. then yogananda says,if you think you can enslave god…

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True friendship or “enabling?”

Asha Nayaswami

Question from Satyanandi: This has been an issue that I have struggled with most of my adult life, and another perspective would be greatly appreciated. How do you know the difference between when your actions are feeding someone’s delusion ( such as chronic health issues as an example) and when to do God’s work and help someone? I have always sided with service…

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Proper practice of Energization Exercises

Nayaswami Seva

Question from Tony: recently I have been practicing energization with concentrtion and will alone. I am not physically tensing but sending energy mentally only. Is this practice in line with masters teachings? It does feel to me that it is.

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Chakras and the Eight Aspects of God

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from Fox Hutt: Do the 8 aspects of God correlate with the chakras? I have read that the throat chakra is associated with calmness, so I wondered if the other 7 are associated with other chakras. Thank you!

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If you find yourself on a desert island…

Nayaswami Seva

Question from Craig Berry: Hi, I am just learning the energization exercises. I have limited time in the morning to both meditate and energize. Right now I am doing some of the exercises and then meditating for 20-30 minutes. What is more important? How long will it take to learn them all? After I have learned them all, about how long will it take…

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Astral projection

Nayaswami Gyandev

Question from Dean Opseth: Do members of the Ananda community practice and openly discuss astral projection? Self Realization Fellowship guidelines discourage Kriya students to veer from the path Yogananda has laid out for them; however, astral projection (both technique and theory) seems to have such a vital potential towards one’s spiritual development.