Attaining Harmony & Cosmic Consciousness
The goal of yoga is attaining cosmic consciousness. The more we can establish harmony with life and other people, the closer we come to that place of enlightenment.
Category: Sunday Meditations
How to Improve Your Spiritual Life
If you improve your spiritual life, you will also improve your earth life, because the two are the same. Above all, have an attitude of goodness toward all life forms.
Corridors of Merit
Do you feel that God, or Life, is punishing you? It is not so. This earth life is the Garden of God. We need to turn within and see what is wrong.
Don’t Be Afraid To Make Mistakes
Life is about making mistakes. “We’re so afraid we’re going to make a mistake that we play it safe and do nothing,” says Goswami Kriyananda. “And that’s the biggest mistake.” Using skillful means, you must learn to gamble. What do you want out of this incarnation? “We are immortal,” Kriyananda reminds us. “Not your body, not your mind, not your thoughts, but you, the spirit. I thought that was wonderful until I realized, my God, I have to live with me for eternity. And I couldn’t change the world, so obviously I had to change me.”
What Is Happiness?
“The average human being is unhappy,” says Goswami Kriyananda. “A person who is unhappy is a person who is greedy, which is to say a person who is malcontent, which is to say a person who is fearful.” When people have very strong emotions, two fears arise. There is the fear that I’m not going to get the fulfillment of this emotion, or someone’s stopping me from getting it right away. “The goal of yoga is to attain the state of santosha, contentment.,” Kriyananda states. “If you are content, happiness will sprout from that state of contentment.”
You Are The Creative Principle
We have come here to learn one simple lesson: Aham Brahmasmi. “What that means is you are the creative principle of your life,” says Goswami Kriyananda. “You are not a victim.” For most of us, yesterday is a nightmare, and tomorrow is a giant apprehension. Here in the centered moment, “you can change the potentiality of tomorrow,” says Kriyananda. “And you can change yesterday by changing your attitude towards it, by forgiving, and by being forgiven.”
Recording date: 11 09 2003
How Can Kriya Yoga Really Be Applied in Your Life?
Air date: 03 01 2026
In Ancient Egypt, Kriyananda tells us, a departed soul would have to answer two questions in order to proceed to the higher realms: ‘Did you bring joy?’ and ‘Did you find joy?’ We are meant to bring our joy with us when we leave the body. “If you haven’t found joy here on earth,” Kriyananda says, “what makes you think you’re going to find any in the next world? Life is about bliss, about joy.”
Recording date: 10 21 2007
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It’s About Joy (Ananda)
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 Do You Want to Accomplish in Life?
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.
What is the Enlightenment?
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