Time: 78:02
Archive Date: 6/14/84
Treasures Offering: November 2008

Invigorate and deepen your meditation practice, regardless of whether you are a novice or advanced on the spiritual path. Swami Kriyananda discusses in depth the eight aspects of God: peace, calmness, light, sound, power, joy, love, and wisdom.

True meditation is being completely absorbed in an actual experience of God. Swami tells us that the practice of meditation is very different from the actual experience. In this “treasure,” Swami guides us through several beautiful visualizations on the eight aspects of God, helping us to go beyond the mental idea and into the true experience.

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Time: 79:54
Archive Date: 8/7/82
Treasures Offering: October 2002

In this talk Swami tells us how outward development and action can be an aid to our spiritual progress. He discusses the qualities of non-attachment, centeredness, service, patience, and magnetism, and helps us to understand their importance from both inner and outer perspectives. For example, regarding service; Swami reminds us that leaders must offer their work and themselves humbly to others, or they risk falling from ego centeredness. Yogananda was humble and respectful to all whom he met, although he towered above them spiritually.

Swami also talks about dealing with negative people or negative personal traits, and he reminds us to work on only one battle at a time. We can’t reach our goals by forcing issues — we have to build our foundations carefully and ensure the energy is right. We must fight the battles we can win, and in doing so develop the strength that will help us conquer the more difficult ones.

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Time: 79:54
Archive Date: 9/22/84
Treasures Offering: May 2004

In this rare talk on healing, Swami gives specific healing techniques as well as deep insight into what true healing is.

Whatever our physical or mental ailments, Swami stresses that true healing is ultimately spiritual. He also discusses the crucial role of high energy and strong willpower in healing ourselves and others. He discusses the vital role of energy and joy in healing.

Swami tells us that as we move into a higher age and begin to understand how to harness energy, the role of medicine will change. In the healing process, medical doctors will begin to rely more on energy than on medications. There are many different techniques of healing but all of them, ultimately, relate back to that which will help to increase or unleash our energy.

He also reminds us that the source of all disease is ignorance of who we are and why we’re here. To truly heal, we must attune ourselves to spiritual realities by living in God and higher consciousness. Through meditation and the grace of God and by remembering always that true healing comes from the Infinite, we can overcome spiritual ignorance.

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Time: 75:86
Archive Date: 8/29/86
Treasures Offering: January 2008

Attunement is the essence of discipleship. In this talk from Spiritual Renewal Week 1986, Swami Kriyananda describes what attunement is, why we need it, and how to attain it.

Swami emphasizes that if we want to be spiritually free, attunement to the guru is vital. He explains that although spiritual teachings and techniques can be found in books, spiritual freedom can only be found by attuning ourselves inwardly to a true master. He uses many powerful examples from his own life to remind and inspire us to attune ourselves more deeply to Master in everything that we do.

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Time: 70:08
Archive Date: 8/6/83
Treasures Offering: July 2005

Success is usually equated with wealth, fame and great achievements but in this talk Swami gives us a different definition of success. He explains that true success should be measured by what we have become through our efforts rather than by the thing we are trying to achieve. We are the most important end product of anything we strive to accomplish.

For the devotee, according to Swami, success must be understood in terms of whether it is helping us grow closer to our own highest reality, union with God. We must remember that everything we accomplish in this world will be left behind at death. The only thing we take with us is our consciousness – the type of energy and qualities we have developed along the way.

An interesting point that Swami makes is that it takes the same qualities to achieve material success as it does to achieve spiritual success – great concentration and energy. Swami tells us success is vitally important in life and something we should all strive for. It’s really a matter of how we define success and the quality and direction of the energy we put out.

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Time: 70:95
Archive Date: 3/80
Treasures Offering: October 2009

Swami gives deep insight on how we can work with our emotions in a way that creates greater harmony and inner freedom. He clarifies what it means to truly live from our center and gives guidance on how we can work with our emotions in a way that creates a greater sense of harmony and inner freedom.

Swami explains that there is a big difference between calm feeling and restless emotion. Emotions – both good and bad – keep us bound to duality and prevent us from seeing things as they really are. Calm feeling is a reflection of our true essence and has no opposite. Swami explains that Patanjali’s aphorism, “Yoga is the neutralization of the waves of feeling,” when rightly understood, leads to the kind of inner joy and freedom that is unaffected by outer circumstance.

At the end of this talk, we have included three questions and answers that address common issues: how to know the difference between suppressing an emotion and transcending it; the appropriateness of frankness; how diet can affect our emotions. Swami clearly answers these questions, helping us understand how we can bring the practice of yoga into every aspect of our lives.

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Time: Not Available
Archive Date: 1/9/82
Treasures Offering: February 2003

Swami Kriyananda states that relationships represent our soul’s desire to expand, to unite with others, and to ultimately merge with infinity. They provide an excellent opportunity for growth by helping us to see our own faults, rid ourselves of false expectations, and learn unconditional acceptance and love.

Swami also tells us to allow healthy space in our relationships, how to discuss difficult issues at appropriate times, and to give others the right to learn from their own mistakes.

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Time: 72:25
Archive Date: 7/6/85
Treasures Offering: July 2000

Swami explains that we have only one final destiny — one from which we cannot escape: we’ve come from God and will return home to Him. Whatever individual or mass (i.e. family, community) karma with which we are born can be improved in the future by putting out spiritual effort now.

We can directly influence our soul’s evolution by the amount of positive energy we manifest. As light can transform the darkness, so also can spiritual effort, positive energy, and will power dissolve the negative karma that might have ensnared us.

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Time: 76:34
Archive Date: 8/22/90
Treasures Offering: January 2002

This subject embodies some of the most important teachings of our path. Understanding karma and reincarnation helps us make sense of life and death, world events, poverty, illness, social injustice, and much more.

In this recording Swami Kriyananda brings these truths to life as he reads selections from his book, The Essence of Self-Realization, and then offers his own deeper reflections and commentaries. He gives important clarification on the subject of mass karma, the nature of our physical, astral and causal bodies, and how “bad karma” is dissolved through the practice of Kriya Yoga.

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Time: 57:44
Archive Date: 4/30/79
Treasures Offering: September 2007

This lecture given by Swami Kriyananda in 1979 is still amazingly relevant to what’s happening in the world today. He describes how prevalent fear and anxiety in the world come from not living from our center and not abiding by the laws of the universe.

In this talk, he gives valuable counsel on how to live more from our center and as a result, naturally radiate love and joy to our troubled planet. Swami points out that hatred is only a diminution of love, love being the true center of all things. This center resides within each of us and the farther we get from that center, the more susceptible we are to states of fear, insecurity, and confusion.

Swami strongly encourages us, in fact emphatically urges us, to live more from our center because as we do so, we become the positive change we want to see in the world.

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