Swami Kriyananda - "What is your secret to being joyful?"

Answers to common spiritual questions with Swami Kriyananda.

Swami Kriyananda is a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda and is an internationally known author, lecturer, and composer. Widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on meditation and yoga, he has taught these principles and techniques to hundreds of thousands of students around the world. In 1968, Kriyananda founded Ananda Village in Nevada City, California, dedicated to spreading the spirit of friendship, service, and community throughout the world.

Ananda is recognized as one of the most successful intentional community in the world. Today, over 1000 people reside in seven Ananda communities throughout the U.S. (Seattle, Palo Alto, Portland, Sacramento and Los Angeles) and in Assisi, Italy and Delhi, India.

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• ananda
• yogananda
• kriyananda
• kriya
• yoga
• guru
• joy
• bliss
• meditation
• happiness
• peace

[manjia]

Beautiful!

[karenKristal]

I love swami kriyananda - hes such an inspiration

[bodhimian]

You aren't even the "awareness." You can be called the river of love underneath all sense activity, but thats just poetry. The true nature of being a Person is very blissful in a grounded completely satisfying way that sheds light on all things. I don't even pretend to have a significant glimpse of what the words true joy or bliss mean. I have only tasted the mud on the outskirts of God's town. :)

[33Barker]

You could also say the more you "think" about something, the farther you get away from "joy and peace." Until you "quiet" the mind through practices such as meditation you will not experience "true joy." And through your "experience" of "quiet mind" and "joy" you will understand.

[33Barker]

You could say, "Positive thought is the opposite of negative thought." It is still and "illusion" or "delusion" that keeps you stuck in suffering. Until you become "still "and notice you are the "awareness" of your thoughts, and let your mind(thoughts) die down like a "spinning wheel" until there are none, you will not experience true joy. And this isn't for you Kriyananda, I know you know, I am helping others.

[33Barker]

When you have no "positve thought, negative thought, positve emotion, or negative emotion" and you become very "still." Joy arises. And it takes time. You have to face your pain in the "present moment." If you keep running away from your emotions, aches and pains, you will never transcend it. You will just stay stuck in "illusion."

[asm1201]

Thank you very much for posting this! Just what I needed to hear right now in these times of suffering in my life! I really appreciate this!!

Love to you always!

[siv6336]

Thank you very Much Swamiji im not alone to understand the joy from within..