Meditation Talks - 2007-2008

  • 1. You Won't Let Go
  • 2. Wisdom
  • 3. Integrating Our Spirtual Life
  • 4. Want Nothing
  • 5. The Repetition of God’s Name
  • 6. The Power and the Efficacy of God’s Name
  • 7. Going Beyond the Good and the Pleasant
  • 8. The Meaning of Yoga
  • 9. Choosing the Highest
  • 10. Success that Knows No Failure
  • 11. It Must Become Our Passion
  • 12. Not Knowing but Trusting
  • 13. Stop Being Mediocre
  • 14. Seek the Eternal
  • 15. Use Your Common Sense
  • 16. The Real Good
  • 17. Finding the True Path
  • 18. Part of the Whole
  • 19. The Yoga of Taking Refuge
  • 20. Liberation from the Mind
  • 21. Absolute Faith
  • 22. Resolving a Paradox
  • 23. Seeing Work as an Expression of God
  • 24. Listen and Follow
  • 25. What is Our Perspective?
  • 26. Dealing with Desires
  • 27. Rising Above Avidya Maya and Vidya Maya
  • 28. Abide in that Mystery
  • 29. The Fundamental Error
  • 30. It is Our Choice
  • 31. A New Angle of Vision
  • 32. Let Go Totally
  • 33. The Ultimate Purpose of Our Spiritual Life
  • 34. True Spiritual Life
  • 35. What We Can Never Know
  • 36. Let Us Choose the Natural State
  • 37. The Natural State
  • 38. We Require Understanding, Devotion, and Will
  • 39. Energy and Intelligence
  • 40. The Spiritual Life Begins when We Know Who We Are
  • 41. The True Joy of the Spiritual Life
  • 42. Let Everything Be as It is
  • 43. Dynamic Surrender
  • 44. The Importance of Truth
  • 45. What the Creation Stories Can Teach Us
  • 46. We Are Body, Mind, and Spirit
  • 47. Steadfastness
  • 48. We Contain All
  • 49. We Are Part of God’s Omnipresence, Omnipotence, Omniscience
  • 50. See God in All
  • 51. A Simple Sadhana
  • 53. The Path and the Goal
  • 54. True Victory
  • 55. We Say, “My Mind”
  • 56. A Mind That Will Cooperate
  • 57. Simple Faith
  • 58. Being Unreasonable
  • 59. The Need for Dispassion
  • 60. Where Is Happiness?
  • 61. Meditation and Liberation
  • 62. Here and Now
  • 63. A Simple Practice
  • 64. The Right Premise
  • 65. The Way of the Tortoise
  • 66. Conversion
  • 67. We Too Will Fly
  • 68. Live in the Natural State
  • 69. Our Natural State
  • 70. Practice the Reality
  • 71. Taking Refuge and God’s Name
  • 72. Change Your Angle of Vision - I
  • 73. Be True to Yourself
  • 74. The Hidden Intelligence
  • 75. Enter the Mystery
  • 76. Identify with the Knower
  • 77. It Is the Self Realizing the Self
  • 78. Finding Happiness
  • 79. Transcending Like and Dislike
  • 80. Introspection and Meditation
  • 81. We Must Be God-reliant, Not Self-reliant
  • 82. Taking Refuge
  • 83. The Day Before Victory
  • 84. Making God Real - I
  • 85. Making God Real - II
  • 86. Remembering the Example of Lord Hanuman
  • 87. The Unique Power of God’s Name
  • 88. Want Nothing - I
  • 89. Want Nothing - II
  • 90. Wanting What You Have - I
  • 91. Wanting What You Have - II
  • 92. Needs and Wants
  • 93. Hopes and Expectations
  • 94. Our Relationship to the Guru
  • 95. Change Your Angle of Vision - II
  • 96. Rubbing Away the Ego
  • 97. Dharma in All Its Fullnes
  • 98. The Invisible Intelligence
  • 99. Success and Failure
  • 100. The Ground of Being
  • 101. The Essence of Surrender
  • 102. After the Mountaintop
  • 103. Becoming Lighter
  • 104. An Understanding Heart
  • 105. The Importance of Dispassion for Our Spiritual Life
  • 106. Worship Virtue As Your God
  • 107. Accepting Our Humanity
  • 108. Reality is Now
  • 109. The Worship of Lord Skanda
  • 110. Taking Important Things Seriously
  • 111. Living Simply
  • 112. Choosing the Good over the Pleasant
  • 113. Changing Our Thinking
  • 114. The Essential Sadhana
  • 115. Completing Our Yoga
  • 116. See God in All
  • 117. Transcend Your Feelings
  • 118. Yoga in the Midst of Difficulties
  • 119. Beyond All Concepts
  • 120. Letting Go of the Lower
  • 121. Becoming Living Vedantins
  • 122. We Are Unlimited Potentiality
  • 123. A Subtle Point
  • 124. Our Desire Nature
  • 125. Seek, Find, Enter, Rest
  • 126. Give, Purify
  • 127. Do It Now
  • 128. Maintaining Our True Identity
  • 129. Helpful Practices In A Busy World
  • 130. Count Your Blessings
  • 131. The Practical Way to Correct Our Wrong Identification
  • 132. Recovering Our Memory
  • 133. The Strength of Non-resistance
  • 134. Simple but Not Easy
  • 135. Acknowledging God
  • 136. Know Thyself
  • 137. Being and Doing
  • 138. Gurudev’s Way
  • 139. The Real Purpose of Our Spiritual Life
  • 140. All Means All
  • 141. Beyond Happiness and Unhappiness
  • 142. Total Satisfaction
  • 143. Finding Happiness
  • 144. Finding Happiness and Avoiding Suffering
  • 145. The Real Cause of Suffering
  • 146. The Only Way Out
  • 147. Making Our Spiritual Practices Fruitful
  • 148. A Fundamental Truth of Spirituality
  • 149. The Christmas Spirit
  • 150. Becoming Alive in the Spirit
  • 151. Be Awake! Be Alive!
  • 152. Realizing the Possibility
  • 153. Being Awake and Alive
  • 154. Awake to the Image of God
  • 155. Regaining Our Soul
  • 156. Welcoming the New Year
  • 157. Be Like Babes
  • 158. Abide in the Light
  • 159. Persistence and Surrender
  • 160. Making Our Spiritual Life Progressive Once Again
  • 161. Why Do We Not Surrender?
  • 162. Surrender, Yet Take Responsibility
  • 163. The Key to Effort
  • 164. Making Effort
  • 165. Back Your Will with Effort
  • 166. The Razor-Edge
  • 167. Freedom from Experiences
  • 168. This Too Will Pass
  • 169. God’s Grace Is Always Blowing
  • 170. Makara Sankranti: Solar New Year
  • 171. The Law of the Mind
  • 172. Liberation From The Mind
  • 173. The Importance of Understanding
  • 174. Defining Ourselves
  • 175. Truly Understanding The Path
  • 176. Do Your Duty to Perfection
  • 177. Be a Conscious Expression of God’s Will
  • 178. The Subtle Awareness
  • 179. Virtue As Yoga
  • 180. The Power of Virtue
  • 181. The Miracle of Ahimsa, Satyam, and Brahmacarya
  • 182. What We Are Called To
  • 183. Overcoming Circumstances
  • 184. The Map Is Not the Journey
  • 185. The Revelation of the Ever-revealed
  • 186. Being Aware of Both Avidya Maya and Vidya Maya
  • 187. See Everything As Divine
  • 188. Meditation and Introspection
  • 189. Feeling the Need of God and Guru
  • 190. You Are Unique but Not Special
  • 191. Take Impersonal Truths Personally
  • 192. Gurudev’s Angle of Vision
  • 193. Changing Our Perspective
  • 194. On Heaven and Hell - I
  • 195. On Heaven and Hell - II
  • 196. We Need Both Worship and Work
  • 197. What is Happiness?
  • 198. The Essence of the Spiritual Life
  • 199. We Are the Ultimate Knower
  • 200. Recognizing What Our Goal Really Is
  • 201. Nothing for Me, Everything for God
  • 202. The Spiritual Life is Ultimately Simple
  • 203. Beyond Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas
  • 204. Seeking God's Will
  • 205. The Middle Path
  • 206. Our True Home Beyond Ego
  • 207. Listen to the Silence
  • 208. Choose To Be the Victor
  • 209. Struggle
  • 210. The Only Purpose of Our Spiritual Life
  • 211. The Guru Is His Teachings
  • 212. Our Relationship with the Guru
  • 213. Right Motivation
  • 214. We Are Where We Are Meant To Be Now
  • 215. Guru Purnima 2004
  • 216. The Fruit of Austerities
  • 217. Never Give Up
  • 218. Guru Purnima 2006
  • 219. Change Means Opportunity
  • 220. Simple Answers
  • 221. What Is To Be Renounced?
  • 222. Forms of Sannyasa
  • 223. Swamiji’s Ninetieth Birthday
  • 224. An Intimate Relationship
  • 225. Claim Your Birthright Now
  • 226. Offer It All to God
  • 227. The Perfect Balance Between Doing Good and Our Highest Welfare
  • 228. Swami Krishnananda’s Birthday
  • 229. H.H. Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj
  • 230. The Blows of Life
  • 231. Responding to Life
  • 232. Upon What Premise Are We Living Our Lives?
  • 233. The Best Cure for Ego and Desire
  • 234. Never Give Up
  • 235. Claim Nothing
  • 236. True Surrender Makes Us All One
  • 237. The Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday
  • 238. The Call of Christ and Krishna
  • 239. We Are Already What We Are Seeking
  • 240. The Necessity of Faith
  • 241. The Path and the Goal
  • 242. We Must Choose
  • 243. The Hidden Intelligence
  • 244. Be Gunatita
  • 245. The Present Moment
  • 246. Reconciling Free Will and God’s Will
  • 247. Go Beyond!
  • 248. Transcending Our Feelings
  • 249. There Is a Difference Between the World and Samsara
  • 250. It Is Our Choice
  • 251. Spiritual Life is an Art and Science
  • 252. The Two Universal Forces
  • 253. New Possibilities
  • 254. Remembering Lord Dattatreya
  • 255. True Wisdom
  • 256. Resolving Differences
  • 257. Everything Is Divine Now!
  • 258. Living the Divine Life
  • 259. Our Real Purpose is to Live a Divine Life
  • 260. Rama Navami
  • 261. The Importance of Will
  • 262. An Iron Will
  • 263. The Necessity of Determination and Persistence
  • 264. Identification
  • 265. The Importance of Be Good, Do Good
  • 266. Sri Hanuman Jayanti
  • 267. Why Are There So Few Saints in the World?
  • 268. Spiritual Experiences
  • 269. Beyond Direct Experience
  • 270. The True Path
  • 271. The True Goal
  • 272. To Abide in Oneness, Become Undivided
  • 273. Where are we Rooted?
  • 274. Overcoming Confusion
  • 275. Master of Our Mind
  • 276. The Impersonal Perspective
  • 277. Our Purpose on Earth
  • 278. True Devotion
  • 279. Commitment
  • 280. The Greatness of Gurudev's Universal Prayer
  • 281. Listen with an Understanding Heart
  • 282. Freed for the Welfare of Others
  • 283. Why the Guru Is Necessary
  • 284. Obedience Is Better than Reverence
  • 285. Be Real
  • 286. Change Your Angle of Vision - III
  • 287. Happiness is in Trusting God
  • 288. We Have Always Been Free
  • 289. Remembering Who We Are
  • 290. The Necessity of Belief
  • 291. The Purpose of Our Spiritual Practices
  • 292. Never Neglect the Foundation
  • 293. The Highest Morality
  • 294. Our Background of Thought
  • 295. Strength of Character
  • 296. Vigilance and Persistence
  • 297. Simplicity and Humility
  • 298. Misunderstanding Subtle Spiritual Truths
  • 299. Be Happy and Live To Make Others Happy
  • 300. Being Positive
  • 301. The Importance of Understanding - II
  • 302. Self-effort and Desirelessness
  • 303. Spiritual Life Means Purification
  • 304. Knowing Who We Really Are
  • 305. Having Everything
  • 306. Practice and Dispassion
  • 307. Finding Permanent Satisfaction
  • 308. Do Your Duty
  • 309. Listening With Our Entire Being
  • 310. Two Essentials for Our Spiritual Success
  • 311. Coping in the 21st Century
  • 312. Welcome the Challenge Ahead
  • 313. It Is Our Fundamental Belief That Counts
  • 314. Listening to God
  • 315. Battling the Ego's Desire for Comfort
  • 316. Gurudev's Secret
  • 317. Becoming Less and Less
  • 318. The Ideal of Constant God-remembrance
  • 319. Go Out Into the Darkness
  • 320. A Barometer of our Spiritual Life
  • 321. Being Real
  • 322. Let Go of Everything that We Are Not
  • 323. We Need a Firm Conviction
  • 324. Making Choices
  • 325. The Importance of Being Awake
  • 326. Being Confident of Success
  • 327. Making God Real
  • 328. Go to the Source
  • 329. Leave Everything Else to God
  • 330. You Are Too Interested in Things
  • 331. There Is No Happiness Without Peace
  • 332. New Possibilities Depend Upon Letting Go
  • 333. Highest Sadhana
  • 334. Offer Everything to God - I
  • 335. Offer Everything to God - II
  • 336. Our Fundamental Decision
  • 337. Being Stretched
  • 338. The Crucial Importance of Discrimination
  • 339. Seeking Truth
  • 340. Total Satisfaction
  • 341. Living Life Intelligently
  • 342. Japa
  • 343. The Lord is Both the Known and the Unknown
  • 344. The Evolution of the Soul
  • 345. Choosing Wisely
  • 346. Like a Little Child
  • 347. The Great Benefit of the Mahamantra
  • 348. Akhanda Kirtan
  • 349. We Choose
  • 350. Vigilance is Key
  • 351. Common Sense
  • 352. The Right Reason to Be in the Spiritual Life
  • 353. The Humbler Practices
  • 354. Images of God
  • 355. Aasram Celebrations
  • 356. Three Stages of the Spiritual Life
  • 357. Beyond the Mind
  • 358. Beyond Judgment
  • 359. We Must Be Grounded in Both
  • 360. Affirming “I am Brahman"
  • 361. Seek, Find, Enter, Rest in God
  • 362. Simple Spiritual Instructions
  • 363. Be Bold but Cautious
  • 364. Worship Virtue
  • 365. Why Are We Here?
  • 366. God in the Dryness