Treasures Along the Path

9/21/85

The purpose of relationships is to help us learn how to give.

There are many things for us to learn in relationships that move us closer to God.

When you relate to others from your center, they in in turn, relate to you on a level from their own center.

When you learn to communicate on the level of silence and respect, your relationship can grow.

We come into this world and leave it alone. When in a close relationship, it is important to leave each other space. Have respect for that space.

People are more important than things.
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7/5/84

How to Attract Inspiration and Guidance – God can draw us into realms of higher and higher inspiration if we pray and act with magnetism and expect solutions.

Kriyananda said, “The thing that works best of all, is to know that there’s an answer. If there is a problem, there’s got to be a solution.”

Sometimes when we are seeking guidance we end up saying, “I can’t do it.” If we follow with, “but God can do it through me,” we will succeed.

Share everything with God and ask for His will to be done.

If you can be non-attached to your will, guidance and inspiration will always be there.

God is not an abstraction. It is helpful to think of God as your divine mother or father, your beloved or friend. That way you can work with God by bringing Him into everything you do. Ask constantly, how shall we do this, is this what You want?
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Circa 1967
Heaven Within – experience it right here, right now

• The only way we can understand the mass of confusion and conflicting doctrines and dogmas that abound in the world today, is to understand that what we are looking for is an existential, deep, personal experience of God, our higher self, and our own reality.
• It is unfortunate to make religion a matter of fighting, dissidents, and of violent disagreement. Where there is a sincere desire for truth, even though we see truth in different ways, there should not be a question of opposition between our ways of finding truth.
• Any rule we make depends upon our present level of understanding. It is necessary for us then, to bring our religion to a new level of understanding and that level must relate to our own present. This the process of spiritual evolution.
• Kriyananda said, “I think we are on the eve of a change in the churches, a change towards mysticism and away from dry intellectual ideas about God. What people are looking for is an intimate relationship with Him. They want to bring God out of the churches and into their own homes and the marketplace. I think this is what we are coming to.”

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7/7/1984

Finding Your Spiritual Family – keeping the company of those who exemplify your ideals is key to spiritual progress.

We have an innate longing for love, joy and wisdom.

We expand our identity when we help others.

As we gain a broader sense of who we really are, we release personal desires, likes and dislikes, and become receptive to whatever God gives us in life.

You find out a lot about yourself, when you are with others – the mirror effect.

You can change your consciousness in your relationship with the infinite Beloved.
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8/28/1985

Tools for Superconscious Living – look, listen and observe everything to find God’s presence.

It takes strong magnetism to reach the state of superconsciousness. There are many kinds of magnetism. There are many types of manifestation that energy can assume.

Every single thought that you have generates its own type of magnetism and attracts to itself the kind of thought that you have put out.

A challenge in  living superconsciously, is that you have to be able to bring the thoughts down from from a higher level and  introduce a new level of consciousness into this world.

Take the new level of consciousness and offer it up to God.
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1/5/86

The importance of energy on the spiritual path is key to spiritual progress.

Kriyananda tells us that what binds us to this world and to our ego is the thought, “It’s mine.”

If we want freedom in this lifetime, we must see God as the Doer, do everything for God and not our own ego, and understand that nothing and no one belongs to us.
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2/1/2004

The True Spirit of Ahimsa – learn non-injury by respecting all, as made in the image of God.

Kriyananda explains that ahimsa, or harmlessness, doesn’t mean being a doormat. It is right and important to defend yourself, your family and your country.

The Bhagavad Gita is an allegory between the good and bad within each human being.

Truth must win the battle. This is a reality.

A Way of Awakening

Aasta TV series from India – 365 twenty minute talk series

Kriyananda reads a passage from his book Conversations with Yogananda, and gives commentary.
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8/12/84

How to find your role in life is a step-by-step process in discovering the particular way God can express Himself through you.

Kriyananda explains that our true role in life is that which will bring us closer to God and our true Self. It may not be oriented toward success in a career.

Try to understand success by finding deeper spiritual realization within yourself.

Sometimes by doing what you are good at, such as acting, can lead to egoism. It might not be the best way to grow spiritually.

The Bhagavad Gita says that it’s better to fail in your own dharma rather than succeed in someone else’s dharma.
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8/4/1984

How to Benefit from Changes in Your Life – change in life is inevitable, learn to accept it and not resist.

You can’t say there is anything in this world that is either good or bad. It’s how you take it.

Kriyananda tells us how to learn lessons and draw meaning from the tragedies and painful changes that come to us in life. 

When we learn to accept what comes with an even-minded, inward consciousness; everything God gives us becomes a blessing.
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8/14/1983

How to Deal with Temptation – temptation is that which pulls us down from our highest aspirations. 

There is no freedom if the mind is constantly drawn outward.

Observe things from an inner center, and don’t react on impulse.

Seeking fulfillment in this world is tempting because progress is based on what other people think. Spiritual progress is more subtle.

Enjoy all the little and big things we do with God’s joy.

Only be concerned with pleasing God.

Practice the presence of God all the time. Have a constant dialogue with Him.
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