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.
What is wisdom?” Goswami Kriyananda asks. “Wisdom is learning to do that which will bring a peaceful mind.” Wisdom also is learning not to do that which disturbs your mind. “What do you value, truly value?” Kriyananda asks. “That is what your life should be about.
According to my Guru, Sri Shellyji,” says Goswami Kriyananda in this video, “the first step in avoiding obstacles on the pathway is to make your earth life as harmonious as possible.” Nobody seems to have time for the spiritual life because they’re so busy with the earth life. “So simplify, simplify, simplify,” says Kriyananda.
It is not enough to love that which we love,” says Kriyananda. “It’s not enough to love that which we value. It’s not enough to wish goodness for the select few, but for all life forms. You and I, we are part of life. Really, we’re not apart from that life.” In this Noon Meditation, Kriyananda suggests ways to make positive energies manifest in and through us.
