Abiding in God. This topic is synonymous with Attunement. Attunement is perhaps the most important topic in our spiritual lives. Without it, we’re like a hamster spinning in a cage. With it, we feel ever closer to God and the bliss of our soul.
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June 29, 2025 | The Redeeming Light with Nayaswami Jamuna
The question of light; its source and its purpose has interested man through the yugas. Because the night sky in every age is omnipresent, mankind has applied its mind to figuring out how the sun, moon and stars affect our wellbeing. Eventually scientists could measure the speed of light. Now we can understand that the physical world is only … Read More
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Sunday, June 22, 2025 | The Eternal Now with Nayaswami Hriman
The last several weeks’ Sunday Service topics have include “how devotees fall (spiritually)” and “how devotees rise!” Now we come to the central point: here AND now. There’s no “time” like the present, which makes it a great gift (indeed, a “present’). The very essence of the eternal dharma (teachings) is that outwardly all is flux but inwardly and in … Read More
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Sunday, June 15, 2025 How Devotees Rise with Murali Venkatrao
Bad moods are self-perpetuating. The trick, Swami Kriyananda writes, is to refuse to accept negativity as your reality. Even when in throes of fear, anger, melancholy, or grief, insist on seeing yourself as something greater. There is a deep spiritual reason why one should try to do this. The Bhagavad Gita says that the real cause of all suffering is … Read More
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Why Do Devotees Fall? with Asha Nayaswami June 8, 2025
Asha is one of the spiritual directors at Ananda Palo Alto, an author and a popular speaker. She travels internationally sharing the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda.
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June 1, 2025 | The Inner Kingdom with Nayaswami Hriman
We spend virtually all of our waking hours and lives engaged with the outer world. But did you know there is a larger, more interesting, more powerful INNER world? While not the same as science suggests, it is nonetheless telling that science describes its own version of an inner world of powerful micro-sized particles, energy packets, gravity, nuclear forces and … Read More
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Sunday, May 4, 2025 – “A saint is a sinner who never gave up!” with Rick Johnston
Swami Kriyananda’s humorous song The Philosopher and the Boatman begins with the lyrics “The way to perfection is narrow and steep. The bypaths are many, the pitfalls are deep. By theory alone, many think to arrive. Here’s one who could teach them—if he were alive!” With a deft ear for dialog, and good-natured poking at the philosopher’s puffed-up sense of … Read More