Acquiring Happiness
Be Happy Under All Circumstances We can never be happy unless we are progressing and seeking satisfaction in doing so, and unless we are guarding our happiness from all the influences which destroy it. Happiness comes, not by helplessly thinking, but by living it in all the moods and actions of life. No matter what you are doing, keep the … Read More
Smile and Be Happy
Make your home a valley of smiles instead of a vale of tears. Smile now and never mind how hard it has been for you to do so. Smile now. All the time remember to SMILE NOW, and you will SMILE ALWAYS. Some people smile most of the time, while beneath the mask of laughter they hide a sorrow- corroded … Read More
Kriya Yoga and My Expectations
When I started to practice Kriya Yoga a couple of years ago, it was with a backdrop of the Autobiography of a Yogi and its miracles of Kriya highlighted in it: levitating, fighting tigers, materializing in two bodies, surviving without food and so on. My expectations – if not the same but on similar lines – touched the sky: I … Read More
The Year of “My Heart Remembers Swami Kriyananda”
This year, for us, can be most aptly described as the year of “My Heart Remembers Swami Kriyananda.” When Swamiji asked me, towards the end of his life, to write a book about my time with him, it felt like a “mission impossible.” But he had planted a seed in my consciousness, and sooner or later it had to bear … Read More
