The Inner Life with Asha

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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)

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)

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 • Firmness on the path (Conversations with Yogananda: 220-224)