Nayaswami Jyotish shares these inspiring concepts during this week’s Inner Renewal Week at Ananda Village (excerpt from Monday’s class). Inner Renewal Week 2019 Gita Navaratna Cards
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This Life: Dream or Reality?
What does it take to have a relationship with someone also deeply serious on the spiritual path? • Master often compared life to a movie • What is the benefit of good karma, during this lifetime? • How much is this life a dream? How much should we relate to it as a reality? • Master’s concern for suffering in … Read More
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Yoganandas Technique for Practicing the Presence of God in Your Daily Life
Nayaswami Jyotish inspiringly shares Yogananda’s powerful technique of experiencing God’s presence in every moment of your life. (From his Sunday Service at Ananda Village)
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God Is Ever in the Present
God is ever in the present (Conversations with Yogananda: 340-342)
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“The Thought That You Are Not Free Keeps You from Being Free”
Why did Yogananda sometimes go to the movies? • Movie theaters: symbolic of earthly life and God’s influence behind the changing scenes • “The thought that you are not free keeps you from being free” • “Samadhi is not something one needs to acquire. You have it already” (Conversations with Yogananda: 336-340)
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Why Overcome the Ego?
When did Yogananda achieve final liberation? • Is ego-consciousness the same as self-consciousness? • The story of Byasa, Krishna, and cheese • How should one act in the world? • Yogananda’s praise for Sister Gyanamata’s consciousness • Shouldn’t we develop our own will, and not submit always to our teacher’s will? • Casting out ego-consciousness • The inner relationship with … Read More
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Is the World More Good or Evil?
Undoubtedly there is more good than evil in the world, but good deeds are not noticed as quickly as evil deeds. Shakespeare was probably right when he said, “The evil men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” This does not mean that we are not later punished for our sins and rewarded for our … 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
Spiritual Growth, Yoga Philosophy
The Second Pension
Among the many thrilling spiritual possibilities shared in the Autobiography of a Yogi, surely one of the most captivating is the idea of a “second pension.” Paramhansa Yogananda learns about this pension from Swami Pranabananda, aka the “saint with two bodies,” when he visits the holy city of Benares at the age of twelve. The exchange between the exalted swami … Read More
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Are People Part of Nature?
Each of us has a living relation to the earth. Our bodies may be compared to the earth itself. The rivers are the arteries, the stars are the eyes, and the vegetation is the hair. The same chemicals that make up the earth also make up our bodies. Both our bodies and the earth have more water than solids. The … Read More
