Spiritual Renewal Week: Recent Episodes
Ananda
Spiritual Renewal Week is an annual summer event at Ananda Village where devotees from all over the world gather together for a week of inspiration and spiritual friendship.
Constant remembrance of God, Guru-disciple relationship; inner renunciation; discipline versus grace; meditation as an act of self-offering.
Transforming your health, energy, work environment, and material success through meditation; solving problems through meditation; tapping into superconsciousness.
Human interactions as an avenue to expanding the sense of self; seeing the highest potential in yourself and others; the practice of harmony.
Choosing to move toward the light; recognizing and overcoming deep-seated karmic patterns; changing the grooves in the brain; developing discrimination; and the ability to make right choices.
How meditation changes your physical well-being, karmic patterns, ability to deal with life’s challenges, and ability to tune in to joy.
Picking up the concept of spiritual community from the perspective of spiritual growth.
Unconditional love, God as the beloved, knowing God through the power of our intuition, with humility — all lessons from this morning’s talks.
Stories from Yogananda’s life, his “spiritual campaigns” across the West, and what he learned from his guru.
“Each of the four techniques practiced on the Path of Kriya Yoga is a way of communing with God in one of His eight aspects. With Hong-Sau we feel God as peace. Through Energization Excercises, we worship God as power. In the OM technique, we experience God as divine vibration. The practice of Kriya brings bliss.” —Nayaswami Devarshi
“I’ve been a student of mystical paths since I was a young man. But I cannot think of any spiritual master or teacher who explained the laws of spiritual development as clearly and comprehensibly as Paramhansa Yogananda.” —Nayaswami Ananta
“We have God-given free will to chose to awaken from the dream of separateness from Him. And if we make that choice,it completely changes our lives.” —Nayaswami Dharmadas
“The whole world was created for our education and entertainment. But ah, how few are either educated or entertained!” —Nayaswami Jyotish, quoting Paramhansa Yogananda
“It can be easy for us to ignore the silent voice of God. But it is harder to turn our back on the spoken voice of the Guru.” —Nayaswami Devi
We all want to help other people. Isn’t sharing God with them through meditation the highest way we can do so? —Nayaswami Bharat
Whatever is in front of me contains some aspect of God. Whatever happens to me in life presents an opportunity to seek Him. How beautiful my world is when it is animated by the light of God! —Nayaswami Ananta
“Truth doesn’t take a long time to explain itself. Self-justification, on the other hand, always does.” —Nayaswami Asha, quoting Swami Kriyananda
The human body posesses the advanced nervous system to facilitate the enormous flow of energy that is necessary for Self-realization. —Nayaswami Jyotish
The teachings brought by Yogananda are not random. They are specific to the evolution of our planet at this time. —Nayaswami Devi
The changes we see in the world today — a greater spirituality and need for God, a desire for life that is peaceful, harmonious, and sensible — will bring about more peace on earth than shouting slogans at peace marches. —Swami Kriyananda
Master (Paramhansa Yogananda) has come to bring a new way of looking at the universe, at life, at everything. –Swami Kriyananda