Air date: 10/26/25
What are the correct thoughts that lead to freedom and happiness? And what are the erroneous thoughts that lead us to unhappiness and confinement? To find out, we must teach the mind to become detached. “Too often in life we make decisions from distress, pressure, anger, anxiety, fear or restlessness,” says Goswami Kriyananda. Meditation, contemplation and just being happy will allow us to act from a position of mental quietude and strength.
Recording date: 10/2/2011
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Air date: 10/19/25
Of those who have left their physical vehicle, Goswami Kriyananda says, “They are not dead. They live within us, and are alive in another place.” In this video Kriyananda tells how we can help those loved ones who have gone before. He also urges us not to waste the human life we are living, but to be happy and try to share our happiness with all around us.
Recording date: 11/13/2005
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Air date: 10/12/25
The theme of this talk is: “sitting here, doing nothing, spring comes”. “When you have a problem, just forget it. Let go of it,” says Goswami Kriyananda. “Become peaceful, and then look at the problem.” Now that you can see it clearly, do something about it. “When your mind is emotional, you’re going to make the problem worse or bigger or more difficult,” Kriyananda explains. Just relax, be grateful, and spring will come.
Recording date: 11-5-2005
According to Goswami Kriyananda, “The battle is the battlefield of your emotions for you, the battlefield of my emotions for me, and the battlefield of other people’s emotions for us.” Other people are highly emotional and they ’emote’ us, and we respond emotionally and we ’emote’ them. The end result? Disaster. Gratefulness helps us to center our emotions. The result? “We can get out of our nightmare state and see the world as it really is.” says Kriyananda.
Gratefulness means being able to appreciate your good karma from the past. People are too prone to worry about their bad karma, Goswami Kriyananda says. As Sri Shellyji explained it: “Well of course you have bad karma from the past. You’ve been down here at least 350,000 times. Just think of all the good karma you have collected. Why don’t you draw on that?” In this talk, Goswami Kriyananda explains how to move past yesterday and transcend memory.
The infinity of life, things, thoughts, ideas, people and goodness is there for us to taste. “But we have to see it,” says Goswami Kriyananda. “And the only way we can see it is by opening our eye. The only way we can open our eye is by opening our heart. The only way you can open your heart, truly, in this stage of your evolution is to be grateful for what you have.
We’ve all had our minds play tricks on us. Goswami Kriyananda explains that “the undisciplined mind is like a hungry demon. Learn your mind’s weaknesses and how to constructively occupy it.” The key is to do it yourself. Many people want us to follow them and adopt their teachings. What philosophy, what school should you belong to? “The school of books,” answers Kriyananda. Study and learn for yourself, and find out what you really want.
Recording Date: 9/10/1989
Life is all about being happy, says Goswami Kriyananda. So why are we so often unhappy? “The mind is really the enemy,” he explains. “The mind says, ‘Well, I don’t have this. Well, I do have this. Well, I want that and I don’t have it. Well, I got it. Now I want to get rid of it.’ Instead of locking into yesterday and into the future with possessiveness and aversion, just let go. Be free. It’s called moksha, liberation.”
Recording Date: 12/11/1988
In order to help others, the first thing you need is self esteem. “We have all been hurt intentionally and unintentionally. We have all been hurt consciously and unconsciously. But we must learn to love ourselves now. We must learn to respect ourselves,” says Goswami Kriyananda. We must accept the blessings that come from mother, father, friends. And what we need, what we accept, is also what we should give to others.
Recording Date: 11/20/1989
Recording Date: 4/10/2005
You are the master of your life,” says Goswami Kriyananda. “All the bad and difficult things that have come into my life, I realize I have really, really worked very hard to bring them into my life.” The antidote to our own difficult karma is to help others. Bless those who don’t seem to deserve it. Let them know you love them and wish to help them if they wish to be helped. But, says Kriyananda, “Ultimately only you can speak the magic mantra: Aham Brahmasmi. I am the creative principle. My beloved, it is your life. Do not give it to another.”
Recording Date: 4/10/2005
