Learn this simple but effective technique as taught by Nayaswami Diksha from the Expanding Light Guest Retreat, based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.
Daily Meditator, Spiritual Growth
Om-Spirit-Bliss
Paramhansa Yogananda, brought to the West the path of Kriya Yoga and many spiritual exercises to help people attune to the consciousness of God. I experimented with one of his powerful exercises, and I’d like to share my experience with you. In the book, How to Awaken Your True Potential, Paramhansa Yogananda offers this exercise. Practice the following exercise in the … Read More
Ananda Writers Group, The Deeper Teachings, Yoga Philosophy
Is Jesus Christ a Guru?
Jesus Christ is one of the gurus on the Ananda path of Self-Realization. Paramhansa Yogananda stated that in the divine plan, Jesus Christ was responsible for the evolution of the West, and Babaji, for that of the East. It was intended that the West specialize in developing objectivity through logic and reason and that the East specializes in inner, intuitive … Read More
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Expand Your Light – Visualization and Affirmation by Swami Kriyananda
Connect with the light of your heart, and let it expand to fill your whole being, body, mind and feeling. Continue to expand your light, transforming all darkness into light, and blessings all creatures, in this short powerful guided visualization and affirmation on expanding your light by Swami Kriyananda, read by Nayaswami Diksha. This visualization originates from Swami Kriyananda’s 26-Week … Read More
Daily Meditator, Meditation, Spiritual Growth, The Deeper Teachings, Yoga Postures
The Longing to Be Free
Tips for Getting Closer to God from Swami Kriyananda To desire salvation sincerely, even once, is to enter upon the path to eventual freedom. For all desires must be fulfilled. Even so, this one desire, once entrenched in the heart, cannot but lead eventually to liberation. –The Essence of Bhagavad Gita How to enter meditation Try to center your consciousness … Read More
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Prosperity Visualization and Affirmation by Swami Kriyananda
Open yourself to the divine flow of abundance, in this short powerful guided visualization and affirmation on prosperity, by Swami Kriyananda, read by Nayaswami Diksha. Transcript Positive Thinking for Prosperity (A gentle flowing stream is playing in the background) Nayaswami Diksha: Visualize a cascade of gold coins pouring down like a waterfall. (Pause) See the cascade land, then flow upward … Read More
Daily Meditator, Meditation
The Healing Power of Meditation
One important benefit is the healing of the nervous system. Meditation gives peace. Inner peace is like a lubricating oil that enables the machinery of our lives to function smoothly. Without mental peace, our emotions, and the various challenges that we face in life create inner stress that can lead to a physical and nervous breakdown. Negative emotions create blocks … Read More
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Fulfill the Divine Plan for Your Life
Guided visualization and affirmation by Swami Kriyananda, read by Nayaswami Diksha. This visualization originates from Swami Kriyananda’s 26-week home study course: Material Success Through Yoga Principles. Music by Swami Kriyananda. Transcript Nayaswami Diksha: Visualize light descending into the world from infinity. Focus it on whatever you’re doing. Don’t mentally divorce what you’re doing in the effort to succeed from the … Read More
Spiritual Growth
25 Days off the Ground
In January of 2019, my husband Gyandev and I traveled to India. He went to northern India to share Ananda Yoga at the Ananda centers in Delhi, Pune, and Mumbai while I headed to the Ayurvedic resort in Kerala in southern India. We were to lead a tour group on an Ayurvedic Healing Retreat at the resort and I was … Read More
Daily Meditator, Spiritual Growth, Yoga Philosophy
Be Still and Know
“The soul cannot be confined within man-made boundaries. Its nationality is Spirit. Its country is Omnipresence.” – Paramhansa Yogananda Through our sixth sense, intuition, we can experience the truth of this statement. “Intuition is that power of Spirit inherited by the soul by which truth is perceived directly, without the medium of any other faculty. As the vastness of the … Read More
