Living Grace

Swamiji Sri YukteswarSwami Sri Yukteswar, Yogananda’s guru, was born on May 10, 1855, at Serampore in Bengal, India. He was a direct disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya and is considered to have attained the spiritual stature of an incarnation of wisdom. Very interested in...

Lahiri MahasayaLahiri Mahasaya was born on September 30th 1828 in the village of Ghurni in Bengal, India. Lahiri's guru Mahavatar Babaji appeared to him while he was hiking in the Himalayan foothills near Ranikhet. In fact, their meeting was a wonderfully blissful...

Mahavatar BabajiNothing is known about the birth and life of Mahavatar Babaji, who reveals himself to very few. The deathless avatar resides in remote regions of the Himalayan Mountains in India. When he revived the lost meditation technique known as Kriya Yoga...

In his book Open Wider The Door, Isha Das writes, “An authentic teacher never represents him or herself, but rather a lineage of God-realized masters and their inspired teachings. When a devotee embraces Kriya Yoga, he or she stands on the shoulders of our...

In 1895, the average American lived on less than a dollar a day by today’s monetary standards. This meager amount of money means that the majority of people lived in abject poverty. Materially speaking, the vast majority of people in the West are significantly better...

Monday: We humans are innately dissatisfied creatures. We always seem to want better, best, and bigger than the best. We constantly try to leap beyond ourselves. Surprisingly, this dissatisfaction is not a flaw, but a blessing. Tuesday: A true guru...