Air date: 02 22 2026
“It’s about being happy,” says Goswami Kriyananda. ” I give you permission to be happy. You don’t need my permission, but some of you apparently feel you do.” Don’t worry about other peoples’ approval. You’re not being selfish. Just find your joy. According to the law of karma, you have worked very hard for it, so you deserve to enjoy it. “Happiness, serenity, tranquility, equanimity, and joy” says Kriyananda. “These states mean that you are wise.”
Recording date: 11 12 2006
What would be your singular goal in life, if you could have only one? “Each of us should have a goal,” says Goswami Kriyananda. “If you do not have a goal, your life will tend to be empty. If you do not have a goal, you will not strive for something. If you are not striving for something, there will be no need for self-discipline. But it is the very self-discipline by which you mature, which is the ultimate end goal of humanity.” Once you identify your goal, Kriyananda introduces a five-step process for attaining it.
Air date: 02-08-26
“Now, what is enlightenment?” asks Goswami Kriyananda. “The word is moksha. It means freedom. Freedom from your own fears, from your own limitations.” Moksha is a healing of the mind and the body. It’s a healing of the forces within you amongst themselves, as well as the healing of the forces external to you, with you and you with them. “You have a right to dream,” Kriyananda says. The secret, he adds, is keeping the blessings you attain.
Recording date: 03-15-1987
Air date: 02-01-2026
We often forget that our earth life is our spiritual life, and we are here to serve, not to be served. “Stop judging, because as you judge others, you truly judge yourself,” says Goswami Kriyananda. Think for a minute of all those terrible, sinful people who have done you wrong, he suggests. Then think of a person you truly love. Send your blessing to them, and also to those you dislike. “You will feel the divine vibration flowing back to you, balancing your consciousness and neutralizing your karma,” Kriyananda states. And you will remember why you are here.
Recording date: September 2006
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“To be born here on earth, with all its difficulties, there is a purpose,” says Goswami Kriyananda. “And maybe the purpose is to recognize that despite my pain, there are others with greater pain. Despite my loss, there are others with far, far greater loss.” Our pain and difficulty should allow us to understand and to seek to help those who are suffering. “But even in this difficult time I want to say to you, life is beautiful,” Kriyananda says. “And I think that most people are beautiful.”
Recording date: 02 04 2001
Air date: 01-18-26
In this talk about the basic steps of spirituality, Goswami Kriyananda focuses on contentment. “You need to become emotionally more stable,” he says. “You need to become emotionally more content. It’s not a question of suppressing your emotions. It’s a question of balancing them, harmonizing them, neutralizing them.” Of course, other people can trigger our emotionality. “And,” says Kriyananda, “we can choose to say, isn’t that interesting? And laugh at it and rebalance ourselves immediately.”
Recording date: 06-01-2003
Air date: 1-11-2026
“Nothing in our lives, nothing in my life, nothing in your life is yours or mine”, says Goswami Kriyananda. “Everything is really lent to us for this incarnation.” The only thing that we can take with us when we leave this life is our treasure: our memory track. To that end, Kriyananda explains, “All sadhana is directed towards two things. First remembering, and second, becoming a merit bringer, to soften the hardened hearts, to help those in need.”
Recording date: June 2006
Spiritual practice is about finding joy, says Goswami Kriyananda. “You are by nature bliss-filled,” he states. But to find your bliss, you first need to quiet your mind, which is confused and turbulent. Once you quiet the mind, you can seek out the bliss. “It’s like a gold mine,” says Kriyananda. “You have to dig for it and attune to it by means of meditation, hatha yoga, and self-discipline. All of these are to quiet the essence, to quiet the mind, so that we can see and utilize our wisdom.”
Air date: 12/28/25
In this end of the year talk, Goswami Kriyananda reminds us that “each day is a new beginning. Each new word you speak is a new beginning. Each new contact with each human being is a new beginning.” And the enemy is death, which is forgetfulness. We are immortal, but we tend to sleep through our lives. To awaken, learn what you need to learn, but then go out into the world and help. “And meditate!” Kriyananda adds. “You need to spend time to get wisdom.”
Recording date: 12/29/1985
Air date: 12/21/25
In this talk, Goswami Kriyananda teaches the practice of Santosha, or contentment. “Do that which makes you content in the short run and in the long run,” he says, “and do not do that which makes you malcontent. If one is malcontent, one will be violent.” Santosha brings happiness. “You can find happiness here and now in this moment,” says Kriyananda. “You can have it forever at any time, in any place, under any condition.”
Recording date: December 2005
