Spiritual Community, Spiritual Growth

How Meditation Changed My Life

by Nayaswami Krishna

Why Meditate? Most people are trying to achieve outward security and outward fulfillment but always find that something doesn’t go right.  There’s always something missing. That something, in the last analysis, is God. -Swami Kriyananda At age seven, I had no idea I was looking for God but when my great uncle whom I was very close to passed away, … Read More

Spiritual Growth, Swami Kriyananda

Ten Ways to Expand Your Consciousness

by Swami Kriyananda

Self-Esteem vs. Self-Respect It is quite normal for businessmen and for anyone striving for success in life to feel a need for self-esteem. Low self-esteem is an obstacle to success. If however, a person wants true happiness, it is also necessary for him to eliminate any relish in his self-importance. I suggest that the modern-day emphasis on self-esteem be changed. Self-respect … Read More

Daily Meditator, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practice

Mother, I Give You My Soul Call

by Nayaswami Diksha

In 2010, my husband, Gyandev, and I visited our friend Francis at his home in Palm Springs. He was a devotee of  Paramhansa Yogananda and took us to visit Palm Canyon, a place Yogananda had visited in the late 1920s. While there, Yogananda went into a deep period of samadhi (a state of oneness with God). After he emerged from … Read More