"The Importance of Seeing God as the Doer" (Ask Me About Truth #34 With Swami Kriyananda)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- ABOUT SWAMI KRIYANANDA
In 1948 at the age of twenty-two, Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) became a disciple of the Indian yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda. Yogananda is best known for his spiritual classic, *Autobiography of a Yogi*. In his book he recalls his experiences growing up in India and his life in America. He writes of meeting the great spiritual master Babaji, and how Babaji reintroduced the life changing meditation technique of Kriya Yoga. He tells of his life with his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, of his guru Lahiri Lahiri Mahasaya, and his meeting with Anandamoy Ma. He tells about his experience in cosmic consciousness (samadhi) and his trips to see many of the saints in India and his trip to the Kali temple.
Yogananda moved to America and developed the energization exercises and taught the meditation techniques of Hatha Yoga and especially Kriya Yoga. He founded Self Realization Fellowship and spoke often of the need for world brotherhood colonies.
At Yogananda’s request, Swami Kriyananda devoted his life to lecturing and writing, helping others to experience the living presence of God within. He taught on four continents in seven languages over the course of 65 years. His talks, his music, and his many books have touched the lives of millions. An advocate of simple living and high thinking, his more than 150 books emphasize the need to live wisely by one’s own experience of life, and not by abstract theories or dogmas. A composer since 1964, Walters has written over 400 musical works. His music is inspiring, soothing, and uplifting.
He taught meditation to thousands and has initiated many into the life changing technique of Kriya Yoga. His books and teachings on spiritualizing nearly every field of human endeavor include business life, leadership, education, the arts, community, and science. He wrote extensive commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita, both based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. He is known as the “father of the intentional communities movement,” which began in the United States in the late 1960s, fulfilling Yogananda's dream.
He founded the first of what are now 10 Ananda communities worldwide in 1967 near Nevada City, California. Other Ananda communities have developed over the years to include Ananda Palo Alto, Ananda Sacramento, Ananda Portland, Ananda Seattle, Ananda Los Angeles, Ananda Assisi in Italy, and Ananda India near Delhi and Pune. Each community has a spiritual focus (a teaching center and temple) and a community (homes where members live). More than 1,000 people live in these intentional spiritual communities. Swami Kriyananda’s example of inspired leadership was the reason for Ananda’s success. He uplifted and encouraged people through personal example, spiritual counseling, writing, lecturing, music, and prayer. He trained the current Ananda leaders in much the same way: free from egoic motivation, always placing the spiritual needs of others foremost in all decisions. He was a patient and sensitive teacher, allowing people to learn by experience, and never placing institutional needs ahead of the needs of an individual. “People are more important than things” is one of the foremost guiding principles of Ananda. And “Where there is adherence to dharma [right action], there is victory,” is another.
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ABOUT PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
Paramhansa Yogananda, born in 1893, was the first yoga master of India to take up permanent residence in the West. Yogananda arrived in America in 1920, and proceeded to travel throughout the United States on what he called his “spiritual campaigns.” Hundreds of thousands filled the largest halls in major American cities to see the yoga master from India. Yogananda continued to lecture and write up to his passing in 1952. Paramhansa Yogananda’s initial impact on the western culture was truly impressive. But his lasting spiritual legacy has been even greater. His *Autobiography of a Yogi*, first published in 1946, helped launch a spiritual revolution in the West. Translated into more than a dozen languages, it remains a best-selling spiritual classic to this day. [Read free at ananda.org/aut....] The path of Kriya Yoga, which combines the practice of advanced yogic techniques with spirituality in daily life, can be learned at ananda.org/kri....
ABOUT ANANDA
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I love these video's, Thanks Ananda!!!
If his eyes are moving downward, his consciousness is moving downward.
Beautiful!
Thank you very much Swamiji.
And a very special thanks to Ananda Worlwide for this posting.
Love, Light & Blessings to all.
Namaste'!
Jai Guru!!!
Thank you Swamiji for such enlightening message
Thank you so much for posting this ! The whole Ask me about Truth Series is one of the most wondeful things that happened to me. I am so happy to finally have discovered the right path for me. Swami Kryananda is such a wonderful teacher. He was a very special human being. I wish i could have spent some time with him personally
Thank you.
The way to get rid of the ego is to realize that God is the doer and that you are not the ego. You are not God and you are not the ego. When you really get that then you disappear and when you are taken out of the equation there is only peace.
I love you swamuji Kriyananda!!! 😍😘😗😇🤗
thank you
Peace on earth
Thank you. I read this in more detail in a recent book by Swamiji. Would you happen to know what that is? I checked the Essence of the Bhagavad Gita, The Biography of Yogananda and the Hindu Way of Awakening and will keep looking. If you happen to remember, please let me know, In Master, raja
I wish there would be books of Kriyananda in my country Guatemala
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Hello, there is something i have not been able to understand about what Swami Kriyananda says between 8:35 and 8:49. First, he says that is the object moves downward, then that means that the eyes are moving up (which is positive). Later, he says that if it moves downward, "I don't know . . . the energy must be going downward". Am i missing something or could someone please clarify?