What did Paramhansa Yogananda talk about when he was with close disciples? Asha shares insights and spiritual gems to help guide our lives as we slowly read through, and talk about more than 300 Conversations with Yogananda. These conversations, many of which are answers to questions, were lovingly captured by his disciple, Swami Kriyananda, in the 466-page book that is … Read More
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Swami Kriyananda was often present when Yogananda spoke with other disciples, when he spoke with visitors, and when he discussed his writings. Swami Kriyananda faithfully wrote down many of the conversations.
In his book Conversations with Yogananda, he includes not only Yogananda’s words as he first spoke them but also the added insight of a close disciple who spent decades reflecting on them.
In this class series based on the book, Nayaswami Asha again brings Yogananda to life through Swami Kriyananda’s insight and faithful recording of his guru’s words.

Why Did God Make the Material World so Appealing?
Why did God create us? • What is the purpose of the ego? • How science and religion differ in their search for truth • Why did God make the material world so appealing? (Conversations with Yogananda: 3-7)

Why Some Grow Faster, Spiritually, Than Others
The guru as a spiritual doctor • How we grow in understanding • Why some of us grow much faster than others, spiritually (Conversations with Yogananda: 8-9)

What is the Nature of the Self? Who Am I?
What is the guru’s consciousness? What is the nature of the Self? • Who am I, really? • Why did God create the universe? • The dream nature of the world • How to achieve spiritual liberation (Conversations with Yogananda: 10)

How to Achieve Freedom from Pain and Separation
The dual nature of the universe • How to achieve freedom from pain and separation • How to find God (Conversations with Yogananda: 10)

How Can We Know What Is Right to Do?
The guru knows every thought we think • How to win respect from others • How do we know what is right to do? • Is divorce contrary to spiritual teachings? Lower and higher duties—and how to tell the difference • What is a vow? • Is it right to take a vow if we are not living up to … Read More

How to Overcome Failure
Taking a vow of renunciation • The guru teaches through suffering, if needed • God will never let us down • How to overcome failure • When do our desires take root in us? • Suicide seems like an effective way to leave this delusive world; why do spiritual teachers say not to commit suicide? (Conversations with Yogananda: 17-18)

What If We Think the Guru Is Wrong?
Does God judge us when we fall short? • The relationship of the guru with an errant disciple • What if we think the guru is wrong? • Keen intelligence on the spiritual path—a two-edged sword (Conversations with Yogananda: 19-21)

How the Guru Trains the Disciple
Reading the lives of great saints • Which saints Yogananda recommended as “in our own line” • Who made God? • What is the cause of the universe? • The guru as a mirror • How the guru trains us to see our limitations • What is the difference between devotion and emotion? • How Yogananda chose ministers • Churches … Read More

The Purpose of Evil and Suffering
How to achieve a state of deep meditation • The purpose of evil and suffering • Everyone has the sacred right of free will (Conversations with Yogananda: 28-32)

How Important Is Good Diet to the Spiritual Life?
How important is good diet to the spiritual life? • “Always remain in the Self” • Are UFOs real? (Conversations with Yogananda: 33-36)

God’s Consciousness Is in Every Atom
“The universe is teeming with life” • God’s consciousness is in every atom • All of creation is a mixture of 3 qualities of consciousness (gunas): darkening, activating, clarifying/elevating (Conversations with Yogananda: 37–39)

What are the Yugas?
Indian’s ancient system of Yugas, describing vast cycles of time and history • What are the Yugas? • What Yuga are we in today? (Conversations with Yogananda: 40)

Are We in a Rising or a Falling Age?
Are we in a rising or falling age? • What are the characteristics of Dwapara Yuga? (Conversations with Yogananda: 40–41)

Do We Always Reincarnate on the Same Planet?
Do we always reincarnate on the same planet? • A curious story of a ghost who asked Yogananda for release • Is it good to watch spiritual movies? (Conversations with Yogananda: 41–45)

How to Achieve Spiritual Realization
Western and Eastern approaches to renunciation • Kriya Yoga • How to achieve spiritual realization • Monastic obedience • Suppression • How to tame the ego (Conversations with Yogananda: 46–48)

The Difference Between Men and Women
The difference between men and women • The guru’s training: embarrassing the ego • Testing the disciple (Conversations with Yogananda: 49–55)

The Needs of Our Families vs. a Life of Renunciation
The needs of our families vs. a life of renunciation • Is a happy marriage possible? • Personal vs. public altars (Conversations with Yogananda: 56–63)

Loving God and Loving People: Are Both Needed?
Loving God and loving people • Yogananda’s detailed vision for his work in India • Yogananda’s plans for Swami Kriyananda (Conversations with Yogananda: 64–66)

How Successful Communities Make Decisions
California: an ideal environment for the practice of yoga • How successful communities make decisions (Conversations with Yogananda: 67–69)

The Company of Friends on the Spiritual Path
The company of friends on the spiritual path • Human love and eternal love • Accepting people into the monastic life • How to transform emotion into devotion (Conversations with Yogananda: 70–74)

How to Strengthen Devotional Fervor
Outward displays of devotion • How to strengthen devotional fervor • How to overcome temptation • What is sleep? • Yogananda’s thoughts about sectarianism (Conversations with Yogananda: 75–80)

How to Respond to Opposition and Negativity from Others
How to respond to opposition and negativity from others • Thomas á Kempis and The Imitation of Christ • The greatest obstacle on the spiritual path (Conversations with Yogananda: 81–86)

The Need for a Guru
Fully liberated saints – what does it take? • The need for a guru • The love of the guru • What happens if we reject the spiritual life? (Conversations with Yogananda: 87–90)

What is Ultimate Spiritual Freedom?
What is ultimate freedom? • How to work with a stubborn or restless mind • The role of self-discipline • Yukteswar’s strong discipline — why he trained Yogananda in this way • When does one become a Master? (Conversations with Yogananda: 91–96)

What is Samadhi?
Dr. Lewis’s mother’s death and reincarnation • What is samadhi? • The dual consciousness of the Master: human and Divine • The responsibility of the disciple to share with the guru • Fundamentalism (Conversations with Yogananda: 97–101)

Is Material Blessing a Sign of Spiritual Development?
New Age ideals: manifesting wealth, health, and material success • Is material blessing a sign of spiritual development? • Will power) finish what you start (Conversations with Yogananda: 102–103)
Non-Attachment and How to Care for the Things of This World, Including the Body
Non-attachment and how to care for the things of this world, including the body • How important is a good diet? • Moderation and austerity on the spiritual path • Should I see a doctor when I am ill? • How are we healed? • What does it mean when a Master becomes ill? (Conversations with Yogananda: 104–109)

Why is Suicide Not a Helpful Solution to Great Suffering?
Astral illness • What books are best to read? • Why is loyalty to a path helpful? • Suicide is the lack of desire for anything of this world – why is it not beneficial for the devotee? (Conversations with Yogananda: 110–112)

How Long Does It Take to Attain Spiritual Freedom?
The karma of rejecting the love of a Master • How long does it take to attain spiritual freedom? (Conversations with Yogananda: 113–114)

Remarkable Stories and Experiences with Yogananda
A story of Master, Swami Kriyananda, and Laurie Pratt (Tara Mata) • A failed attempt to entrap and embarrass the Master • When Yogananda will be reborn, and where • A vision of Divine Mother (Conversations with Yogananda: 115–119)

Yogananda’s Thoughts on Marriage
The most beautiful couple • Yogananda’s thoughts on marriage • The householder path (Conversations with Yogananda: 120–121)

Are Yoga Postures Helpful for Spiritual Growth?
Yoga postures and the spiritual path • Yogananda’s advice to nuns about their appearance • Marriage and the spiritual life • Sensitivity to the needs of others • How Yogananda overcame severe pain (Conversations with Yogananda: 122–131)

Stories of Miraculous Healings by Yogananda
How to seek God • Stories of miraculous healing • Yogananda brings someone back from the dead (Conversations with Yogananda: 132–136)

Yogananda’s Teachings on Vegetarianism
Bringing someone back from the dead • an unusual “surgery” to heal someone’s heart condition • Diet is individual—Yogananda’s advice to Dr. Lewis • Yogananda’s teachings on vegetarianism • Faith and common sense — what is the right balance? (Conversations with Yogananda: 137–144)

The Meaning of Personal Challenges
Your own past lives • Seeing psychics • The two greatest barriers to wisdom • How Yogananda spoke to a man who had long worked against him • The meaning of personal challenges (Conversations with Yogananda: 145-149)

The Three Great Delusions: Wine, Sex, and Money
How to cultivate a desire for God • The three great delusions: wine, sex, and money (Conversations with Yogananda: 149)

Why Is Meditation Helpful for Spiritual Growth?
How to cultivate a desire for God • Why is meditation helpful on the spiritual path? • Kriya Yoga • Hong Sau in the spine • Offer everything mentally to God • See good in all, and you will see God everywhere (Conversations with Yogananda: 149)

Seeing God in Everything
The importance of meditation on the spiritual path • Seeing God in everything • Yogananda reminisced about meditating in a deep basement of a Benares Temple • Yogananda helps a childhood enemy (Jotin) overcome anger (Conversations with Yogananda: 149–151)

Men and Women: How They Are Influenced by Reason & Feeling
How to overcome anger • Men and women: how they are influenced by reason & feeling • Yogananda as a flawless mirror • Yogananda’s extraordinary mental fluidity (Conversations with Yogananda: 152–154)

Yogananda as William the Conqueror in a Previous Life
Reuniting with a disciple after many years: Oliver Rogers • “You have clear sailing” • How was Swami Kriyananda able to remember so many things that Yogananda said? • Yogananda’s sweetness and his power • Yogananda as William the Conqueror in a previous life (Conversations with Yogananda: 155-159)

What Is the Consciousness of a Liberated Master?
How does a liberated Master live in this world? What is their consciousness? • Yogananda as William the Conqueror and historical inaccuracies • Swami Dhirananda and his past life with William • Non-attachment at the time of death • Sexual attraction, and the spiritual power inherent in man’s creative force (Conversations with Yogananda: 160-165)

Is It Okay to Watch Television?
God is the doer • Is it okay to watch television? • The stories of the life of Krishna) how to share them with others (Conversations with Yogananda: 166-168)

Pleasing Others
Krishna’s relationship with the gopis: an allegory • Attachment to money • God watches the heart • Pleasing others • What is true Karma Yoga? (Conversations with Yogananda: 169-171)

How Loved Ones Communicate with Us After Death
Grief over the death of a loved one • How loved ones communicate with us after death • Some desires are best fulfilled in the astral world) noble, beautiful desires • Is everyone conscious in the astral world? • How to draw a spiritual soul into the womb • A miraculous initiation of a couple, though the wife was dead … Read More

When Does the Soul Enter an Unborn Child’s Body?
When does the soul enter an unborn child’s body? • Heeding the advice of a guru, even in little things • Yogananda’s aunt saw him naked and chastised him) “The sin is in you” • The karma for those who marry out of necessity (Conversations with Yogananda: 177–180)

Why Many Leave the Spiritual Path for a Worldly Life
How we leave the path • Worldly life and the energy field it generates • What it takes to find God • Men and women on the spiritual path • Yogananda’s consciousness “I am in so many bodies” • “Wherever God is, there his saints come” • Many saints appeared to Yogananda (Conversations with Yogananda: 181-185)

What is an Avatar? Yogananda’s Mission
The need for masculine power in Yogananda’s mission • What is an avatar? • Who was Yogananda in former lives? • What is the future of our planet? • Indians are reincarnating as Americans and Europeans, and the reverse, to usher in a higher age (Conversations with Yogananda: 186-192)

Challenges in the Early Days at Mount Washington
Challenges in the early days at Mount Washington • Yogananda’s love for Rajarsi • Yogi Ramiah • The necessity to free others before you can become free, yourself • Meeting with Ramana Maharshi (Conversations with Yogananda: 193-197)

Wealth and the Spiritual Life
Wealth and the spiritual life • A woman who tried to seduce Yogananda • A man wrongly sentenced to death (Conversations with Yogananda: 198-204)

How to Relate to Food
Raw diets • How to relate to food • Stories of strong correctives by Yogananda, sometimes to people he met for the first time • What is death to the soul? • A woman who was overcome with doubt • Yogananda’s horoscope: “to marry three times, being twice a widower” (Conversations with Yogananda: 205-213)

How to Relate to Your Astrological Horoscope
How to relate to your astrology / horoscope • The power of concentrating at the spiritual eye • Meeting strong negative energy • Spiritual practice by Yogananda as a boy (Conversations with Yogananda: 214-219)

Overcoming the Tendency to Put out Less Energy
Overcoming the tendency to put out less energy • Raising children to be ”good, but not too good“ • What it takes to become a saint • Yogananda’s work with the monks in his last few years • Why many monks left Mount Washington • Yogananda asks Kriyananda to take responsibility for the male monastics • Early rules and tests … Read More

Sexuality and the Spiritual Life
Renunciation • Kriyananda’s experience guiding the monks at Mount Washington • Rules and challenges • Sexuality and the spiritual life • What is evil? (Conversations with Yogananda: 224)

What is Evil?
Evil as the absence of true joy • The choice between seeking God and turning away is absolute • Steadfastness on the path • Stubbornness • Spiritual sleepyheads • What is bad karma? (Conversations with Yogananda: 225-228)

How to Find God
How to find God • Gossip and rumors • How to prepare for a public talk (Conversations with Yogananda: 229-231)

Inner Experiences in Meditation
Inner experiences in meditation • The effect of money on people’s consciousness (Conversations with Yogananda: 232-234)

How to Overcome Moods
What causes moods? • How to overcome moods • Over-intellectuality / pedantry (Conversations with Yogananda: 235-236)

What Is True Intelligence?
What is true intelligence? • How was Master able to know so much about medicine, or communicate perfectly in Spanish, without any training? • Separation of the sexes in the monastery • How Yogananda disciplined those who made errors on the path • How to overcome negative gossip about you by others (Conversations with Yogananda: 236-239)

Yogananda’s Thoughts on Marriage, Renunciation, and Sex
Yogananda’s thoughts on marriage, renunciation, and sex • Three yogis buried for hundreds of years, and still alive, are unearthed, deep in samadhi (Conversations with Yogananda: 240-242)

Sex and Temptation: How to Overcome Thoughts of Sex
Sex and temptation • How to overcome thoughts of sex • Peggy Deitz and Master’s instruction to her, to teach Kriya Yoga • Is meditation more important than work for God? • How to develop devotion (Conversations with Yogananda: 243-248)

Habits Can Be Changed in a Day
Our earthly father and our Heavenly Father • Stories of monastics relating to their earthly families • Habits can be changed in a day • How to change habits quickly • Yogananda resting in the desert • How the Master corrects his disciples • Loyalty is the first law of God (Conversations with Yogananda: 249-257)

Loyalty Is the Greatest Law of God
Loyalty is the greatest law of God • How to develop devotion • “Suffer little children to come unto me” • Perseverance • “People are so skillful in their ignorance” • Can the soul ever be destroyed? • Spiritual truth) directional or absolute? (Conversations with Yogananda: 258-263)

Why Practice Kriya Yoga?
Is it permissible to kill insects like mosquitos or flies • Where do germs come from? • Mahatma Gandhi practiced Kriya Yoga • Yogananda’s true spiritual family • Why practice Kriya Yoga? (Conversations with Yogananda: 264-268)

The Importance of Kriya Yoga
The importance of Kriya Yoga • How to practice Kriya • How many Kriyas? • What causes the Kundalini to rise? • Should we take the Bible literally? • Was Moses a Master? (Conversations with Yogananda: 268-272)

How to Free Yourself from Sex Desire
How to free yourself from sex desire • Renunciation or married life—which is most beneficial for spiritual growth (Conversations with Yogananda: 273-274)

Where Does Healing Come From?
Where does healing come from? • Will power (Conversations with Yogananda: 275-276)

How to Relate to a Spiritual Organization
Organizational challenges • How to relate to a spiritual organization • The benefit of being alone more (Conversations with Yogananda: 277-278)

The World as God’s Movie
What are the senses? • The world as God’s movie • How to achieve spiritual freedom (Conversations with Yogananda: 279-281)

Sharing Miracles with Others
Sharing miracles with others • How does God heal? • Who am I? • The difference between an avatar and a master • What is a jivan mukta? • What is truth? • How to be honest with others (Conversations with Yogananda: 282-288)

What Is the Karma for Soldiers Who Kill Others in Battle?
What is the karma for soldiers who kill others in battle? • Yogananda, Truman, and the Korean War • Masters and worldly affairs • Past lives of famous people (Conversations with Yogananda: 289)

God is the Guru: How to Develop Devotion
God is the guru • How to find God • How to develop devotion (Conversations with Yogananda: 290-291)

How Long Are We on the Spiritual Path?
How long are we on the spiritual path? • Lemuria • Humor and joking (Conversations with Yogananda: 292-293)

Living in the Now
Living in the now • The world, from a God’s-eye perspective • Nostalgia, regret, hope, fear (Conversations with Yogananda: 294)

The Dangers of Men and Women Mixing in the Monastery
The dangers of men and women mixing in a monastery • How the Master sees us (Conversations with Yogananda: 295-297)

What Brings Us Together, Life After Life?
How the Master sees us • What brings us together, life after life? (Conversations with Yogananda: 297-301)

What Was Yogananda Like?
Divine Mother appears and speaks to Yogananda at a Christmas meditation • What was Yogananda like? Personal qualities, characteristics • A Master lives in the moment (Conversations with Yogananda: 302-303)

What Was Yogananda Like? Personal Qualities, Characteristics
What was Yogananda like? Personal qualities, characteristics • A Master lives in the moment • Intuition on the spiritual path (Conversation 303)

How to Cultivate Intuition
The purpose of spiritual organization • The need for intuition • What to do at the end of meditation techniques • How is intuition cultivated? • Why did Yogananda put so much emphasis on the teachings of Jesus? • why didn’t Master teach about all religions? • What is Self-realization? • Which is better: to live in the world or … Read More

Why Does God Keep Himself Hidden from Us?
What does it mean to work for God? • Why does God keep himself hidden from us? • Expanding our sympathies beyond ourselves and our family (Conversations 307-308)

What Was Master’s Mission?
What was Master’s mission? • The householder and renunciate paths • Underlying oneness of all religions • Self-realization as the goal of all spiritual practice • Spiritual training and character development of children • Spiritual principles as practical in all aspects of life • Babaji’s commission to Lahiri Mahasaya (Conversations with Yogananda: 308)

What Did Yogananda Predicted for Swami Kriyananda’s Future?
Does the disciple need to help the teacher in his work? Or may he focus on his inner development? • What did Yogananda predict for Swami Kriyananda future? (Conversations with Yogananda: 308)

How Does Science Make New Discoveries?
Ideas are universally, not individually rooted • How does science make new discoveries? • How can we develop wisdom? • Is art and science important to the development of the world? (Conversations with Yogananda: 309)

Is There Something at the Controls of the Universe?
Why do people doubt the existence of God? • Is there something at the controls of the universe? • Does Satan really exist? What is evil? (Conversations with Yogananda: 310-311)

Does Satan Really Exist? What Is Evil?
Is there something at the controls of the universe? • Does Satan really exist? What is evil? (Conversations with Yogananda: 311)

Is Evolution Real?
Is evolution real? • How does God see the world? • What is past and what is future? • Yogananda’s foreknowledge of his future work in America • What did Master mean when he urged us to “resist” delusion? (Conversations with Yogananda: 312-314)

What Is Grace? Is It Randomly Bestowed?
What is God’s grace? Is it randomly bestowed? • A time when Master’s organization was tested by Satan and many left (Conversations with Yogananda: 315)

Who Were the Masters in Former Lives?
Who was Lahiri Mahasaya in a former life? • Who was Babaji in a former life? • Yogananda as Arjuna in a former life • Bhagavad Gita commentaries: “A new scripture is born” • “Millions will find God through this book” • Why this commentary was unique (Conversations with Yogananda: 316-317)

Master’s Predictions
Yogananda’s thoughts about the 20th century wars • The Cold War as a world war • Coming trials for humanity • Master’s predictions about a coming depression more serious than the Great Depression of the 30s • A “terrible cataclysm” • How to prepare • Yogananda’s vision of “world brotherhood colonies” • Yogananda’s vision of James Coller as soon to … Read More

The Need for Common Sense on the Spiritual Path
Intelligence and common sense are needed on the spiritual path • “To those who think me near, I will be near.” • Master’s timing in coming to America • The desire for miracles • Overcoming doubts on the path • Why is humility helpful? (Conversations with Yogananda: 321-324)

The Importance of Relaxation
Trying too hard to meditate • The importance of relaxation • The right balance of relaxation and will power (Conversations with Yogananda: 325)

How to Develop Humility
The importance of deep relaxation in meditation • Visualizations for relaxing the body • Sitting completely still • Visions of America while Yogananda was at Ranchi school in India • How to develop humility • “I killed Yogananda long ago. No one dwells in the temple now but God.” (Conversations with Yogananda: 326-329)

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

“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)

God Is Ever in the Present
God is ever in the present (Conversations with Yogananda: 340-342)

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

Simplify Your Life
What is superstition? • Fascinating astrological and related instructions Master gave to his disciples • “It is easy to be spiritual if you follow a few rules” • SImplify your life • Don’t mix too much with others • “Seclusion is the price of greatness” • Yogananda teachings) a new expression of religion • Why materially poor Indians are generally … Read More

What Is Raja Yoga?
Which branch of Yoga did Yogananda teach? • What is Raja Yoga? • If you love yourself, how can you love God? • Offer the good and bad you do to God • How to break the barrier of egoic self-identity • God as the doer • What does it mean to “be practical in your idealism”? (Conversations with Yogananda: … Read More

Yogananda’s Interpretations of the Rubaiyat
Yukteswar’s training: deep scriptural study • Yogananda’s interpretations of The Rubaiyat • How people come to the spiritual path • Yogananda as “just a bulge in the ocean” • The importance of taking care of the body when younger • “Fools argue, but wise men discuss” (Conversations with Yogananda: 358-363)

How to Pray
A disciple who took many photos of the Master • Does God answer our prayers? • How to pray (Conversations with Yogananda: 364-365)

Where Does Wisdom Come From?
Where does wisdom come from? • What is clear discrimination? • What is the role of reason? (Conversations with Yogananda: 366)

How to Win the Love of God
How to win the love of God • How to relate to the people in our lives • What was the purpose of Yogananda’s work? (Conversations with Yogananda: 367-368)

What Are Moods?
“Master, how will I know your will, once you have left your body?” • “Behind every rosebush of pleasure lies a rattlesnake of suffering, coiled and ready to strike” • What are moods? • Can we still help others if we are weak, ourselves? • Visions during meditation (Conversations with Yogananda: 369-374)

Meditation and Service
Meditation and service • During the Hong-Sau technique, how to deepen natural pauses between breaths (Conversations with Yogananda: 375-376)

How to Become a Master in This Life
Hong-Sau in the spine • How to become a master in this life • Yogananda’s thoughts on hypnotism • Two kinds of poverty • Churches and good works • The essence of spiritual teaching (Conversations with Yogananda: 377-381)

Does God Answer All of Our Prayers?
Overcoming laziness • Does God answer all of our prayers? • Why did Master included Jesus on the altar in his temples? • Why was Master sent to the West? • God is dreaming through us • “Make your heart a hermitage” • Never count your faults • Indifference • “I go through your souls every day” • “If you … Read More

The True Meaning of the Indian Caste System
Yogananda’s thoughts on race • The true meaning of the Indian caste system • How to develop intuition • “What comes of itself, let it come” • How to correct a wrong in the world (Conversations with Yogananda: 389-391)

How to Overcome Suffering
“I scold those who listen” • How to pray to God • Judging the spiritual attainment of others • What pleases the guru? • How to overcome suffering • Drinking alcohol • Yogananda’s frequent urging to build world brotherhood colonies (Conversations with Yogananda: 392-397)

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Swami Kriyananda was often present when Yogananda spoke privately with other close disciples, when he received visitors and answered their questions, and when he was dictating and discussing his writings. His book, Conversations with Yogananda, shares many of these gems from Yogananda, allowing us, too, to receive his wisdom, delight in his humor, and be transformed by his love. Ananda’s … Read More

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The Illusion of Time and Space (With Swami Kriyananda)
Swami Kriyananda reads and comments on his book “Conversations with Yogananda.” TV series “A Way to Awakening” recorded in India. ABOUT SWAMI KRIYANANDA In 1948 at the age of twenty-two, Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) became a disciple of the Indian yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda. Yogananda is best known for his spiritual classic, *Autobiography of a Yogi*. In his book … Read More

How the Masculine and Feminine Energies Help Keep Balance in the World (With Swami Kriyananda)
Swami Kriyananda reads and comments on his book “Conversations with Yogananda.” TV series “A Way to Awakening” recorded in India. ABOUT SWAMI KRIYANANDA In 1948 at the age of twenty-two, Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) became a disciple of the Indian yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda. Yogananda is best known for his spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi. In his book … Read More

Yogananda’s Teachings on the Yugas – The Cycles of Time (with Swami Kriyananda)
Swami Kriyananda reads and comments on his book “Conversations with Yogananda.” TV series “A Way to Awakening” recorded in India. ABOUT SWAMI KRIYANANDA In 1948 at the age of twenty-two, Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) became a disciple of the Indian yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda. Yogananda is best known for his spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi. In his book … Read More

The Cycles Of Time – Part 2 (With Swami Kriyananda)
Swami Kriyananda reads and comments on his book “Conversations with Yogananda.” TV series “A Way to Awakening” recorded in India. ABOUT SWAMI KRIYANANDA In 1948 at the age of twenty-two, Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) became a disciple of the Indian yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda. Yogananda is best known for his spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi. In his book … Read More