With Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on February 8, 2026.

He discusses the central importance of attunement to God and the guru as the heart of the spiritual path. Using a prayer for illumination from Yogananda's Whispers from Eternity, he explains that spiritual progress comes not through outer knowledge alone, but through aligning one’s will with God’s will. The guru is described not as a person, but as a divine consciousness assigned to guide each soul back to enlightenment.

While many teachings exist to guide life and meditation, the “skeleton key” to spiritual freedom is attunement—offering one’s love and self-will to God. The main obstacle is not lack of knowledge, but the ego’s resistance to surrendering its attachments and desires. God does not force anyone; through the law of love, He gently draws souls back when they are ready. True attunement is vibrational and intuitive, like tuning an instrument—not merely intellectual. By loving, serving, meditating, and inwardly offering oneself to the guru, one gradually aligns with divine guidance.

Nayaswami Jyotish concludes that everything on the path comes down to this: freely offering one’s love and will to God. Through that attunement, divine guidance becomes clear, and the soul is led toward lasting fulfillment and union with God.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

The Importance of Soul-Receptivity

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John states:

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.

This was a passage Paramhansa Yogananda often quoted to his disciples. “Be in tune,” he would tell them. “Delusion can’t touch you, if you will keep in tune.”

“A few of you will fall,” he said once. “But it needn’t be, if you would stay in tune.”

Of a disciple who became highly advanced, even though she didn’t meditate much, he said, “She got there by attunement.”

To one who found meditation difficult, he said, “I will meditate for you, as long as you stay in tune.”

Truth is a state of consciousness, not a well-worded definition. It is in that consciousness, above all, that our lives are transformed. Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the tenth Chapter:

To those who are ever attached to Me, and who worship Me with love, I impart discernment, by means of which they attain Me.

Out of my love for them, I, the Divine within them, set alight in them the radiant lamp of wisdom, thereby dispelling the darkness of their ignorance.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.