Paramhansa Yogananda's Teachings on the Yugas - The Cycles of Time (with Swami Kriyananda)

Swami Kriyananda reads and comments on his book "Conversations with Yogananda." TV series "A Way to Awakening" recorded in India.
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*.
In his book he recalls his experiences growing up in India and his life in America. He writes of meeting the great spiritual master Babaji, and how Babaji reintroduced the life changing meditation technique of Kriya Yoga. He tells of his life with his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, of his guru Lahiri Mahasaya, and his meeting with Anandamayi Ma.
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 more than 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.
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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 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 ananda.org/kriya-yoga/.

[@ursulasautner9533]

So beautiful and uplifting. Full of godly wisdom Thank you

[@SSharma-fj8vd]

Amen

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❤🙏

[@kadabikajen]

om sai ram 🤘🏻🙏

[@akhileshkumarpandey5355]

Pleased to meet in morning

[@petiprinz]

Sir thank you. Does anyone know when did the gradual shift out of Kali Yuga begin. Are we already in the Dwarpa Yuga? TQ

[@AnandaWorldwide]

Yes, according to Swami Sri Yukteswar we are already in full Dwapara Yuga (past the 200 year transition stage) since 1899. Look at all the major scientific and technical innovations and discoveries since then!

[@Rahul1975]

8:00 ॐ Sri Yukteshwar had incredible knowledge, but his model of the Yugas is incorrect. The Yuga cycles work as a breathing in and out of the universe. A standard breath is 40% inhale and 60% exhale. Golden Age = expansion, The other 3 = contraction. The Golden age is the in-breath and as we exhale, we go through the cycles of Treta, Dwarpa and Kali. In Kali yuga we are breathing out the last bits of bad air…But when we breathe in, the Golden Age exapansion cycle immediately begins. I think Sri Yukteshwar tried to use his mind to try to rationalize this and this is unfortunately where he messed up. So yes we do go suddenly from Kali Yuga into Satya Yuga in about 427,000 years when we shift from the exhale into the nexpw inhale. And yes, it is a very natural cycle. We must be aware that our universe works on cycles upon cycles - day, year, platonic year, maha yuga, kalpa etc. So you could be in the Golden age within the 24,000 year Platonic year, but still within Kali Yuga in the Maha Yuga cycle. Its like having a sunny day in the middle of a long dark winter. ॐ tat sat.