Nayaswami Jamuna

Jamuna poses the question: What is it that leads us to spiritual understanding? We often begin with books, but to truly grow in spiritual understanding, we must have an experience of something beyond what we understand.

Jamuna explores the Biblical quote “the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not” in the lives of Paramhansa Yogananda and of Martin Luther King, Jr. The light of God is in our own consciousness, and we can bear that light out into the world.

Karma: What does it mean to us in our daily lives? It’s often a question of attitude and our reaction to what happens around us. Attachment to things brings us unhappiness and trouble. Bondage or soul freedom; the choice is ours. And the right spirit can take us to freedom!

Beginning a superb talk, Jamuna asserts that God didn’t create the world; he became it.  And from that flows an inner relationship that we can draw on in prayer.  Her tale of a boy’s enchantment with boats, and of the awareness and skills needed for successful navigation, is a rich metaphor for faith.  Presented with wisdom, insight and feeling, it’s … Read More

Drawing on the true story of the man who traversed a high wire between the Twin Towers, Jamuna gives a riveting talk on the tightrope as a metaphor for the spiritual path. “The bypaths are many, the pitfalls are deep!”, a phrase from a song by Swami Kriyananda, describes our own return path to Joy and to God. Whether high … Read More

Jamuna explores the topic of light; both in the physics of Einstein, and in the healing, transforming light of spirit described by Yogananda in his autobiography and in a vivid passage from a Catholic nun relating her mystical experience of the divine light.

Glittering with gems of wisdom, Jamuna’s talk provides the devotee with a trove of “sacred keys to unlock the door to our soul nature.”

From a truth-seeker’s perspective, Jamuna explores Christ’s challenging words from Matthew 10: “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I am come not to send peace, but a sword.” The sword is that of discrimination, of discerning which influences come from outside ourselves, learning how to live in our inner sense of what is right, and … Read More

“The true path begins when you open your heart. Because God is Love, and he’s waiting. He wants to live His dream through you; that’s what He’s waiting for. And the only way that He can live His dream through you is through your love.”

Jamuna gives some great examples of intuition, which Yogananda defined as “the soul’s power of knowing God”.