Our World — A Magnification of Light (With Swami Kriyananda)

Recorded June 29, 2003 in Seattle.
In this talk, Swami Kriyananda addresses an age-old question: What is the light that the scriptures speak so much about? Kriyananda explains the transformative power of Divine Light, recounting incidents that illustrate it as the ultimate remedy for delusion, sickness, and ignorance. This light symbolizes understanding, truth, enlightenment, and joy (bliss).

Kriyananda emphasizes the quest for joy as the ultimate goal of all human endeavors. He emphasizes that this search is universal and notes that all beings inherently possess light and joy. Kriyananda states that true happiness and joy are intrinsic qualities of the soul, attainable through spiritual awakening and alignment, rather than through external pleasures or material success. He also speaks about the compassionate guidance of God and Gurus, who come only to help us find and reclaim that light, which is our birthright.

Kriyananda introduces his book, God Is for Everyone, which elaborates on the idea that everyone, often unknowingly, is seeking God through their pursuit of happiness and avoidance of pain. The book shares teachings that illuminate the spiritual path and emphasize the importance of embracing and practicing these teachings in everyday life for spiritual freedom and joy.
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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". Yogananda moved to America and developed the energization exercises and taught the meditation techniques of Hatha Yoga and especially Kriya Yoga.

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 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. Ananda is a worldwide movement to help individuals realize the joy of their own higher Self.

Find out more at https://www.ananda.org/
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 https://ananda.org/autobiography/.] The path of Kriya Yoga, which combines the practice of advanced yogic techniques with spirituality in daily life, can be learned at https://ananda.org/kriya-yoga/.

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