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
God! God! God! (by Paramhansa Yogananda)
Nayaswami Jyotish shares this beautiful poem by Paramhansa Yogananda during his inspiring Sunday Service talk at the new Temple of Light at Ananda Village, July 7th, 2019. From the depths of slumber, As I ascend the spiral stairways of wakefulness, I will whisper: God! God! God! Thou art the food, and when I break my fast Of nightly separation from … Read More
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
Meditation Therapy for Health (With Nayaswami Jyotish)
Nayaswami Jyotish shares this practical and transforming meditation for improving our health. #health #healing #meditation #meditationtherapy
Is Inner Communion the Best Way to Worship?
Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Jyotish recorded at Ananda Village on May 21st 2023. How do we worship properly in spirit and in truth? First, we silence the mind sufficiently through meditation so that we are able to do it. But what does it mean to worship in spirit, to worship in truth? Nayaswami Jyotish explains the … Read More
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
Attuning to the Supreme Gives Power to Service
We think that the spiritual path is one way. But what is the path? It is the dissolving of the ego, and there are many ways to get there. If we practice seva, attuning to the Supreme will give power to our service. Nayaswami Jyotish shares this beautiful inspiration from his upcoming book The Heart of Seva about this important … Read More
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
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
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