How do you work with your challenges? See which of these categories most closely describe you.

In the midst of these dark clouds of uncertainty, Swamiji’s life can provide us with a light to guide us forward.

“I think you and I have been brothers in a past life,” Swami Kriyananda once remarked to me.

“That’s not what I look like!” our friend objected during a self-help session she was attending. This friend (let’s call her Tara) related to us how each member of the group had been asked to look in a full-length mirror and describe how they saw themselves.

How can we turn ‘Leave it to God’ from this negative emotion to a positive one?”

Times of adversity push people toward the extreme ends of the spectrum, into wisdom or ignorance.

“How are you coping with the lockdown restrictions?” This is a common question these days.

In this time of social disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, use outer circumstances to your advantage.

Sometimes, as you can imagine, I felt overwhelmed by all of the problems and challenges we faced, and would go to Swami Kriyananda for advice and solace.

From our first day there, people kept asking us, “Have you seen Kanchenjunga yet?” In my ignorance, I didn’t even know what Kanchenjunga was, but I was pretty sure I hadn’t seen it.