Treasures Along the Path

Kriyananda talks about the ego and expanding your awareness beyond the sense of self. He also discusses how the practice of kriya yoga can expand our awareness to more subtle levels of reality.
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1/29/1983

Kundalini – energy in the spine is neutral in itself, and becomes affected by our thoughts.

When we hold negative thoughts, the energy finds a place to live in the spine in the lower chakras. Unless these vorticies of energy are released, the kundalini energy is blocked.

Negative thoughts cause a downward or outward energy movement. Positive thoughts cause an upward energy movement.

If you focus on how to free up your energy, how to find more peace, love and joy, you can live in a higher way.

Kriya yoga, devotion and meditation can be very helpful.

Another important practice is to focus at the point between the eyebrows at all times. Kriyananda said  Yogananda would go around with his concentration at the point between the eyebrows as much as he could, to train his mind to be constantly uplifted. It’s very good to practice this. Gradually it will become a habit and you will find that the energy focused there becomes very powerful.
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August 1990

Soul’s Voyage from Bondage to Freedom answers these questions:

What is karma?

How does reincarnation influence karma?

Is karma only individual?

To what extent is an individual influenced by mass karma?

Kriya yoga is a powerful tool for working out karma.

Meditation, concentration and developing more devotion release binding karma.

Yogananda said, “How should you love God? Love Him as the drowning man yearns for breath.”
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9/29/82

Lahiri and Householders – how to remain focused on God while having a spiritual partner.

Swami Kriyananda offers us deep insight into the life of Lahiri and his contributions to this age. Lahiri brought not only the art and science of Kriya Yoga to householders, he has also given us an outstanding example of how to live for God no matter what the outward form of our lives.

Kriyananda explains how to follow your nature i.e., toward the life of gyana, bhakti or karma yoga.

Lahiri wrote an interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita.
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9/12/2002

Swami Kriyananda’s 54th Anniversary of Discipleship – a life dedicated to helping people find God.

This one of the most heartfelt talks in the Treasures collection by Kriyananda.

• He said the most important thing in his life was the quest to help others in their spiritual quest.
• He was changed forever at the first meeting with Yogananda. Yogananda blessed him by touching his heart. The vibration lasted about 2 minutes. He was never the same thereafter.
• He focused on expressing the teachings as Yogananda taught them to him, to bring Yogananda’s energy forth.
• Kriyananda built cooperative communities and teaching centers worldwide and wrote over 150 books and over 400 pieces of music.
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Spiritual Renewal Week 2007
Kriya yoga is a way of life.

Nayaswamis Devarshi and Maria Warner gave this talk at Spiritual Renewal Week 2007. They discuss kriya as an inwardly directed way of life that strengthens spiritual magnetism and changes our consciousness.
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1/21/1984

Purpose of Meditation – meditation connects you to divine energy

When practicing Hong Sau, do it with the thought that your breath is a cosmic phenomena. It is not just you breathing, you are participating in a greater flow of “cosmic breath.”

At the beginning of the talk, Kriyananda says, “Any discussion of how to meditate should begin with the question, why meditation?”

Meditation helps us face challenges. We can attune ourselves so completely to God that we loose the consciousness of the small self and merge into the Divine.

Kriyananda explains that the breath is the result of the movement of energy in the spine.

You can use this recording for personal or group meditations.

There are three MP3’s: The entire talk, the chant, and the 24 minute guided Hong Sau meditation.
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2/19/83

Part Two

Devotion is about nurturing the love of God within you. Make devotion the most important part of your life. You’ll find that understanding is given to you when you need it. You will see clearly what the realities are and what the right direction is.

The heart can express your intuitive faculties. When the heart is calm and uplifted, you’ll find that it is always guided in the right direction. If it makes a mistake, then it is corrected. When you’ve reached a certain point in your devotion, God saves you from your mistakes. You’ve won enough of His attention so that he won’t let you go too far in the wrong direction, he’ll pull you back.
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2/19/83

How to Develop Devotion Part One explains what Sri Yukteswar speaks of in his book The Holy Science as the ‘heart’s natural love.’ This natural love of the heart is the principal thing that moves us forward on the spiritual path.

There are two basic ways to perceive things: by reason and by feeling. If we go too much toward reason, we find that this overcomes us and suffocates the feeling of the heart. If we learn to direct our heart toward the reason, if we don’t divorce the two, then it is possible for us to have the balance where each one helps the other. Devotion needs to be kept in a state of reason because it could become fanaticism. We need to have the hearts natural love but not with outpouring of emotions.

What is the difference between feeling and emotion? Feeling, in the context of developing devotion, means being calm as opposed to excited. Excited feeling is emotion. Without the excitement, feeling will automatically aspire upward toward the spiritual eye.
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Kriya Yoga – Essence of Yoga gives a comprehensive explanation of Kriya as a way of life and unites all religions. It is not just a technique.

Kriya is the ancient wisdom of the masters.

Kriyananda explains how to offer your self and your love to God.

We can go far on the spiritual path when we neutralize our likes and dislikes.

When you meditate put plans aside, either important or unimportant plans!
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