Kindness: Inspiration for the Week

Kindness: Inspiration for the Week When you can view all human beings as members of your own extended family-your brothers and sisters, mothers, fathers, and children-then you will find wherever you go that love awaits you, welcomes you! It is God who gazes back at you, when you behold Him in all! Kindness is the recognition that all are truly … Read More

PODCAST Episode 9: Active Relaxation

How do you relax and surrender without becoming lazy or complacent? In this episode, we ask Narayani and Shurjo about the very important and terribly neglected role of relaxation in human life. The guests discuss this powerful tool and how to balance relaxation with dynamism. They also share easy yet profoundly transformative tools given by Paramhansa Yogananda’s to relax the … Read More

Jai Ma – Devi Kirtan

“The Divine Mother is most anxious to have you back with Her, but first you must prove to Her that you want Her alone. You must cry urgently and unceasingly; then She smiles and is with you instantly.” —Paramhansa Yogananda

Income: Inspiration for the Week

Money should be seen as an energy-flow, not as something that can be hoarded. For when money is treated as a material reality, it blocks one’s creative flow. Money, like matter, is only frozen energy. Energy is what creates matter. It is energy that forever moves, changes, and dissolves matter. Matter, untouched by energy, is inert. If you need to … Read More

Your Spiritual Questions Answered

1. I am often told by people that I am holding on to experiences from the past and that is what’s stopping me from progressing. And I should forgive and forget and start afresh. My question is – Is it so easy to forget our past or anything that has hurt us deeply? How does one forgive then? 2. How … Read More

PODCAST Episode 7: Love and Relationships

What is the difference between love, relationships, friendships? Why did Paramhansa Yogananda call friendship the highest form of relationship? This week, Yogananda’s disciples Narayani and Shurjo talk about how to create harmonious, joyful, in-sync relationships. A must-hear!

Class 64: Autobiography of a Yogi

After his Kriya initiation, and his experience of unbroken Samadhi, all Lahiri Mahasaya wanted was to stay like this forever, at the feet of his Guru. But Babaji had other plans. Babaji’s plans for us too, seldom match what we want, but if we, like Lahiri Mahasaya, say, “yes, my guru” then freedom is assured.