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The Mission of the Avatars: Lessons From Easter

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on Easter Sunday March 31, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is Resurrection for Every Soul Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings … Read More

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How to Live Your Highest Potential

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on January 28, 2024. How can we live our highest potential? By transcending the ego-consciousness. Swami Kriyananda gave a beautiful definition of the ego: a bundle of self-definitions. We may think of ourselves in outward forms and definitions, but that is not who we are in reality. … Read More

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Seva and Satsang with Other Sevakas Is Important

Working with others not only increases the power of what you’re able to accomplish, but it also reinforces what the power of community is. That we uplift each other so we keep our consciousness high, and trains us in qualities such as harmony and communication. Nayaswami Jyotish shares this beautiful inspiration from his upcoming book The Heart of Seva about … Read More

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Serve to Uplift Consciousness

When we serve, the mind has the tendency to be outward. And therefore we think we’re serving the bodies, or we’re serving the physical thing. But what we’re really trying to do is we’re trying to use that energy flow, to uplift consciousness. Nayaswami Jyotish shares this beautiful inspiration from his upcoming book The Heart of Seva about this important … Read More

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The Attitude with Which We Serve Is More Important than What We Do

It doesn’t matter very much what we do, because we’re going to be called on to do a lot of different tasks in any one lifetime. If we become identified with the thing that we do, it’s just another kind of self-definition. Having the right attitude, is what is going to make the difference. Nayaswami Jyotish shares this beautiful inspiration … Read More

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Seva Is a Means to Dissolve the Ego

The whole of the spiritual path is meant to dissolve the ego. Paramhansa Yogananda very strongly said, that you will never get there without selfless service, without seva. When you selflessly serve others, the masters and God flow through you, so you become a channel of blessing to other people. Nayaswami Jyotish shares this beautiful inspiration from his upcoming book … Read More