Living Grace

We are always serving something. We constantly give our attention, energy, and emotions to an ideology, people, and our happiness projects. Fearful people serve fear. Angry people serve anger, and loving people serve love. This is more than a quaint psychological...

In order for Karma Yoga to be truly Karma Yoga, it has to be rooted in a spirit of non-attachment. This means that we give of ourselves without any expectation of receiving and that we are not attached to the outcome of our service. To the degree that we want things...

Too often, people tend to reduce the path of Kriya Yoga only to meditation. While the life of the yogi is grounded in meditation, Karma Yoga, defined as service to God, guru, and others, is of equal importance. The Karma Yogi is the mother getting up in the middle of...

We do not have to hunt for God as if God is lost. God dwells within us, and we exist within the nest of God’s presence. The problem is that our attention tends to be infatuated with everything but God, when in reality spirituality is an inside job. Our conscious...

Monday: Yogananda taught, “Jesus Christ is very much alive and active today…. With his all-embracing love he is not content to merely enjoy his blissful consciousness in heaven. He is very much concerned about mankind and wishes to give his followers the means to...

Paramahansa YoganandaFrom Babaji and Jesus to Lahiri Mahasaya and then to Swami Sri Yukteswar, Paramahansa Yogananda was given the tremendous task of disseminating Kriya Yoga to the West, indeed to the whole world. Though he left his body in 1952, he continues to lead...