Health and Healing

The Power of the Mind

by Tyagi Ranjit

I would like to share this beautiful story from the “Autobiography of a Yogi” with you that can help to remind us in these challenging times, to strengthen our minds using all the powerful practices and techniques that we know and most of all to strengthen our faith in God. We all know that the law of magnetism governs the … Read More

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Learn to See, Feel and Think Differently

by Swami Kriyananda

To find God, it will help us to try to see, feel, and think of everything differently from what we are accustomed to doing. That is why, among devotees in India, much is made of the importance of bhav, right spiritual attitude. We must try constantly to rise above seeing everything in reference to our egos, and stop thinking, “My … Read More

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Realization vs. Book Learning

by Paramhansa Yogananda

Western philosophers have always assumed that Truth can be known by dialectics and reason. Immanuel Kant was the first one to question if man had the faculties required to know Truth adequately. The great Sage Patanjali, who lived long before Kant, gave conclusive proof that settled the dispute about the nature of the instruments of man’s faculties required in knowing … Read More

Spirituality in Daily Life

The Importance of Yoga in the World Today

by Swami Kriyananda

There are certain concepts that are part and parcel of the teachings of yoga, which is really an all-embracing approach to life. One of these key concepts is that this world is made of consciousness. It is not our brain that produces consciousness, but rather consciousness that produces our brain. In physics they speak of potential and kinetic energy. If … Read More

Spiritual Growth

Lessons in Spirituality

by Paramhansa Yogananda

I have not come to you to give you intellectual sermons. I do not like to blindly give you the thoughts of others. You can read books for yourself. When I speak to you, I shall tell you what I feel of God. I shall tell you what I hear from God. It is my privilege to bring to you … Read More

Right Attitudes

Kindness in Truthfulness

by Swami Kriyananda

Patanjali, in the Yamas (the proscriptive principles) of his Yoga Sutras, had an interesting way of advising aspiring yogis to be truthful. He wrote, “Avoid non-truthfulness.” Indeed, if there is no reason to conceal a truth, isn’t it likely that one will want to be truthful? What Patanjali was saying, then, was not so much that truthfulness is a virtue … Read More