Kriyananda shares wisdom from his 50 years of counseling spiritual seekers. The most common complaint? “They’re doing it to me!” “Whatever comes into your life and my life, we’ve worked like hell to get it,” says Kriyananda. “I created it and I have to correct it.” You’ll help both yourself and others if you learn to not always insist on your own way. In this talk, Kriyananda offers simple guidelines for creating win-win situations.
Purifying our minds is essential for both spiritual and worldly success. To do this, we must center and balance our energies. “Once one has found comfort in this world one is able to transcend this world,” says Goswami Kriyananda. “And it is the transcendence that brings the goodness.”
Happiness and freedom aren’t states of chaos, Goswami Kriyananda says. “If you cannot bring the body into a state of discipline you cannot discipline the mind,” he explains. “If you cannot discipline the mind you cannot discipline the spirit. If these three things are not disciplined there will be no joy.” Start now and be free this day, be free this month, be free always. Above all, be happy.
The thing that gives value to you is helping the world,” says Kriyananda. “It’s helping those you love or don’t love, those who are weaker, those who have a momentary piece of bad karma.” But how do we obtain something meaningful to give or share? Kriyananda urges all of us to develop ourselves according to our strengths. Dream the dream that brings you bliss, then find greater bliss by sharing.
The secret in life, and it’s a hard secret to understand, is what do you want?” says Goswami Kriyananda. If you’re not where you want to be, ask yourself, what do you value? To get what we value, we need to change what we are doing, saying and thinking, and balance our lives. “The balancing of my life has to be with my attitude,” says Kriyananda. If we balance our attitude, then the solution to our problem will come, and we will be able to move ahead.
Some day you may trip over your own shadow and see in front of you the face of God, as I did,” says Kriyananda. “In order to unite, unify, make a Cosmic Consciousness of two states of consciousness, so that they become one, you must develop self confidence.
We all need to elevate our consciousness so we stop dwelling on the negatives of the past. We have a tremendous bank of good karma that we can use right now. Goswami Kriyananda tells how love and unselfish service can bring about an elevated consciousness to start drawing on the good, positive acts we have done.
We are constantly judging ourselves too harshly, says Goswami Kriyananda. We need to learn to relax, but continue to move forward on the spiritual journey. “If you take life too seriously, if you take yourself too seriously, before you know it your intuition will not be functioning,” says Kriyananda. “It is possible for you to be happy, really happy, by being yourself.
In this talk, Kriyananda tells how to go about preparing for enlightenment. “You need to find bliss, joy and happiness here and now,” he says. “If you have it here and now, you will have it in the astral. If you have it in the astral, you will have it in the next lifetime.”
Discipline is something that comes because we realize who and what we are in the stream of existence,” says Goswami Kriyananda. Self discipline can never be forced on us. True self discipline is the only way we can grow and evolve spiritually and help others.
