This is a big subject with many anecdotes and suggestions possible. A few offered here include one’s motivation for meditation; the role of the heart; the practice of mindfulness during […]

Kriya Yoga, made popular by Yogananda’s life story, can be described in many ways: it is a technique of meditation; it is given in the relationship of discipleship to the […]

Many of us have experienced the “roller coaster” effect of meditation – sometimes we feel like we are doing well, going deep and feeling great peace, and sometimes no matter […]

This week begins a four-part class in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The Yoga Sutras are among the core scriptural sources chosen by Paramhansa Yogananda when he came from India […]

I read a poem by the medieval woman saint, Mirabai as quoted by Yogananda in Chapter 7 of his life story. For “all thy getting, get understanding” and that understanding […]

Swami Kriyananda tells us that our soul loves to meditate, but the ego doesn’t!  The ultimate goal of meditation is for the ego to dissolve back into the infinite consciousness […]

Few people realize the connection between Gandhi and ML King. King was a follower of Gandhi. He visited India and met with Gandhi’s successors. In his first civil rights protest in Montgomery, Alabama, he made Gandhi and his teachings household word in the deep South!  

According to legend, the female Sphinx lived outside the city of Thebes and tested travelers with a riddle: what creature has one voice but, in the morning, has four feet; in the afternoon two feet; and in the evening, three feet?

“The characteristic features of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple-guru relationship.”   This sentence encapsulates the timeless and ever timely reality that life is both objective AND subjective.

Each person who strives for maturity must come to grips with the influences of their upbringing. But it’s more nuanced than just “blaming” your parents etc. We attract that which […]