Conversations with Yogananda

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 (Conversations with Yogananda: 172-176)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)