The Inner Life with Asha

How to relate to your astrology / horoscope • The power of concentrating at the spiritual eye • Meeting strong negative energy • Spiritual practice by Yogananda as a boy (Conversations with Yogananda: 214-219)

Raw diets • How to relate to food • Stories of strong correctives by Yogananda, sometimes to people he met for the first time • What is death to the soul? • A woman who was overcome with doubt • Yogananda’s horoscope: “to marry three times, being twice a widower” (Conversations with Yogananda: 205-213)

Wealth and the spiritual life • A woman who tried to seduce Yogananda • A man wrongly sentenced to death (Conversations with Yogananda: 198-204)

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)