The Inner Life with Asha

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)

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)

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)

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 as a monastic? (Conversations 303-306)

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

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)

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

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

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

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