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Videos

—First Steps
  • Welcome to Yoga World
  • Nitty Gritty Yoga
  • Why Have We Made These Videos?
  • Humanity is Trying Yoga
  • Your Fine Face
  • What Are You Awake To?
  • Dealing with Anxiety in a Yogic Way
  • How to Make Progress
  • The Pursuit of Happiness
  • Rich and Dynamic Yoga
  • What Is a Yogi?
  • Yoga Harmony
  • A Clear Mind is the Key
  • Your Vibrations
  • The Five Afflictions
  • Your Unique Sane Self
  • Are Your Meditations Flat?
  • Qualities of Your Soul
  • 5 Mental States & 3 Divine Powers
  • Getting into Wholeness
  • Do You Love & Respect Your Yoga?
  • Are You Lonely?
  • The Secret of Happiness
  • Yoga Therapy: Awaken and Rise #1
  • Yoga Therapy: Awaken and Rise #2
  • Cultivating Your Heart & Senses
  • Your Essence is Goodness
—Stories
  • How Yoga Found Me
  • Sayings of Lahiri
  • The Bullet and the Kite
  • Inspiration from Thoreau
  • My Early Days
  • The Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna
  • With the Buddhists in Bodh Gaya
  • My Mother Irene
  • Favorite Sri Ramakrishna Quotes
  • A True Devotee
  • The Masterful Yogi
  • Jesus and Abundant Life
  • Jesus' Message From Luke
  • Mom and Dad and Love
  • Preacher, Rabbi & Psychologist
  • The Way of the Quakers
  • Help from Buddha
  • Zen Aids for Awakening
—Yoga Perspectives
  • The Mission of Yoga World
  • Is Your Life Full of Meaning?
  • Have You Found Zeal?
  • A Yogi's View on COVID 19
  • Living in Your True Nature
  • Criticism & Critical People
  • What is Yoga Metaphysics?
  • Your Tongue
  • Sincerity is the Key
  • Mortal and Divine Memory
  • Prayers and Praises
  • Finding and Living in Wholeness
  • Living Yoga in Business
  • Better Stewards of Life & Health
  • Universal Vision & Substitution
  • Buddha's Four Unlimited States
  • Universal Mind and Partnership
  • Instincts and the Five Drives
  • Uncovering Your Soul
  • Wholeness and Holiness
  • The Secret Power of Yoga
  • What is Life For?
  • On Self-Realization
  • High Realizations
  • Seven Stages of Realization
  • What Can You Receive?
  • The Nature of God
  • About Gurus
  • Yoga and Metaphysics
  • Higher Learning
  • The Way to Self-Realization
  • The Impulse of God in You
  • What is Yoga Realization?
  • The Signs of Enlightenment
  • Are You Happy?
  • Great Windows — Assimilation #1
  • Great Windows — Assimilation #2
  • Is Your Heart Like an Ocean?
  • Is Your Yoga Showing?
  • 20 Lessons for the World — Part 1
  • 20 Lessons for the World — Part 2
  • What Does Our Galaxy Weigh?
  • Higher Learning
  • Great Thoughts from Yoga
  • The Seven Laws of Spiritual Life
  • About Death
  • Your Inner Guru
  • Why Has God Put Us in the World?
  • Do You Get No Satisfaction?
  • Do You Know All Ten?
  • How Good Are Your Systems?
  • Are You Happy?
  • Great Windows — Assimilation #1
  • Great Windows — Assimilation #2
  • The Delusional World
  • Is Your Heart Like an Ocean?
  • Is Your Yoga Showing?

More Videos

—Essential Life Skills
  • The Dog Mind
  • Your Worries About the World
  • Are You Sleeping Well?
  • Yoga Destroys Misery
  • Meditation Hints from the Gita
  • Preparing for Lasting Happiness
  • How to Stop Being Unhappy
  • Energy and Kriya Movements
  • Law of Attraction
  • Doing Work that Fits You
  • Levels of Love
  • Meditation Levels
  • Overcoming the False Sense of Self
  • Ways to Transform the Ego
  • Gratitude
  • Ramakrishna on Prayer & Asking
  • What is this Thing Called Peng?
  • Yogic Ways to Relate to Other People
  • Living In Courage — from Tai Chi
  • Mental Magnetism
  • What Are You Broadcasting?
  • What Are You Reflecting?
  • Mortal Mind Healing
  • How Effective Are Your Prayers?
  • What Are Your Motives?
  • Essential Yoga — Your Habits Part 1
  • Essential Yoga — Your Habits Part 2
  • Essential Yoga — Your Habits Part 3
  • The Joys of Immersing Your Mind
  • Behaving Like a Yogi
  • Spiritual Sensitivity
  • Inner Strength
  • See the Light
  • Medulla Massage
  • Precious Cells and Divine Body
  • Don't Forget to Count Spirit
  • How to Learn
  • How Well Do You Use Yoga?
  • You Are a Star
  • Most Potent Spiritual Practice
  • Make Your Sundays Count
  • Invite Turning Points
  • Fight Using Spiritual Facts — Part 1
  • Fight Using Spiritual Facts — Part 2
  • Awareness Meditation
  • Yoga Empowers Transformation
  • Patience and Forbearance are Key
  • Why You Do What You Do
  • Do You Feel Good About Yourself?
  • Going Within / Pranayama & Pratyahara
  • Are You Stuck in the Herd?
  • Real Poise
  • The Great Problem Solvers
  • Your Soul is Already a Yogi
  • How to Read Scripture
  • Express Your True Personality #1
  • Express Your True Personality #2
  • Cultivating Your Heart & Personality
  • You Are Empowered to Create #1
  • You Are Empowered to Create #2
  • The Yoga Way of Leadership
  • Self-Mastery
—Spiritual Development
  • Yoga Repentance
  • About Awakening
  • How is Your Faith?
  • About Sri Ramakrishna
  • Flows and Filters
  • Strength and Life from Scriptures
  • Holy Company
  • The Higher Higher Yogas
  • The Secret to Happiness
  • Invoking Spirit to Express
  • Meditate with Ramakrishna Ananda
  • Divine Intervention
  • Vidya and Avidya
  • Sri Ramakrishna's Revelations
  • Who is the Doer?
  • The Marks of Enlightenment
  • Let Spirit & Nature Dance Together
  • Spiritualize Your Thoughts
  • Honor the Life Force
  • What is the Spiritual Part of Yoga?
  • The Triple Transformation
  • Main Yoga & Your Spiritual Feeling
  • Mortal & Universal Mind — Part 1
  • Mortal & Universal Mind — Part 2
  • The Expanded State
  • Spinal Breathing
  • Be Open to Spiritual Impulses
  • The Glorious Devotee has Shraddha
  • Love and Enlightenment
  • Watchfulness & Divine Memory #1
  • Watchfulness & Divine Memory #2
  • The Mystery of Tapas — Part 1
  • The Mystery of Tapas — Part 2
  • Signs of Progress In Yoga
  • Turning Points

More Videos

—More Spiritual Development
  • Let Your Soul Reveal Itself
  • Experience Peace
  • You Are a Shining Instrument
  • Your Soul Reveals Itself
  • This, This, This
  • The Celestial Vision
  • Awakening Your Heart Center
  • Enlightenment
  • Going Beyond Wholeness
  • Do You Know the Oneness?
  • The Sannyas Motive
  • Set the World Ablaze!
  • Awakenings from Christian Saints
  • Awakenings from Jewish Mystics
  • Your Personal Journey — Part 1
  • Your Personal Journey — Part 2
  • Divine Memory & Effective Prayer #1
  • Divine Memory & Effective Prayer #2
  • Your Part and God's Part
—Devotional Yoga
  • Yoga Chanting — Japa
  • The Yoga Rocket
  • Real Love is Ongoing
  • Tibetan Yoga's Soft Heart
  • A Birthday Checklist
  • The Key is Bhakti! — Part 1
  • The Key is Bhakti! — Part 2
  • Prema — Let Your Love Soar Part 1
  • Prema — Let Your Love Soar Part 2
  • Chant the Name
  • Bhakti is the Easiest Way
  • Live in Awe and Wonder
  • Praise God and Glories
  • Quotes from Sri Ramakishna
  • Sri Ramakrishna's Ecstatic Moods
  • Sharing the Noon Prayer
—Yoga in Daily Life
  • After Serenity
  • Sri Ramakrishna's View on the Heart
  • Are You a Celebrator?
  • Being a Happy and Wise Person
  • Yoga is Skill in Action
  • The Mystery of Action
  • Doing Your Part in the World
  • Know and Love Your Shadow
  • Yoga Becomes Great Happiness
  • Abide in the Inner Power
  • Why Do Yogis Say "Jai?"
  • Being in Agreement — Part 1
  • Being in Agreement — Part 2
  • Being in Agreement — Part 3
  • Ways of Prayer
  • Pray for our Planet
  • Ego Affliction and Transcendence
  • Three Yoga Vacations for You
  • Having Joy on the Path
  • The Divine Mother
  • Yoga's Way of Faith
  • Superconscious Living
  • Abode of Blessing
  • Face Life's Problems with Meditation
  • Advanced Karma Yoga
  • Shine as No One else Can
  • Provide an Excellent Channel
  • Becoming a Spiritual Channel
  • Are You a Yoga Demonstrator?
  • Do You Give & Receive Encouragement?
  • You Are God's Partner
  • The Golden Rule
  • Findings on Teamwork
  • Let Your Light Shine
  • How Yogis Work
  • The World is the Place of Tests
  • How Tapas & Sacrifice Transform Us
  • When Someone Hurts You
  • When People Look at You
  • Speak the Word of Truth
  • The Essence of Yoga Therapy
  • Interplaying with Spirit
  • What Are Yoga Dynamics?

Talks

—Higher Yogas Classes
  • Desires and Fulfillment
  • The Great Ideas of Yoga
  • Living in the Now
  • Yearning and Your Nature
  • The Eight-Fold Path of Patanjali
  • Four Great Ways to Meditate
  • Real Self vs Phony Self
  • Personal and World Peace
  • The Embryonic Breath
  • Steadiness with Kurma Nadi
  • About Kriya Yoga — Week 1
  • About Kriya Yoga — Week 2
  • Your Soul’s Spiritual Attributes
  • One’s Self as a Spiritual Being
  • Transcending the 5 Kinds of Ideas
  • Getting Seated in the True Self
  • What is Reality?

More Talks

—Yoga Basics
  • How to Relax and Cope with Stress
  • Guided Deep Relaxation
  • A Good Night's Sleep
  • Guided Sleep Practice
  • You Can Choose Your State of Mind
  • State 1 — The Distraught Mind
  • State 2 — The Stupified Mind
  • State 3 — The Restless Mind
  • State 4 — The One-Pointed Mind
  • State 5 — The Clear Mind
  • Superconscious Masters — Part 1
  • Superconscious Masters — Part 2
—Bhakti Yoga Talks
  • How to Find Faith
  • Vision of the Lord
  • Having a Vision of God
  • Being Open to the Lord Daily
  • Being a Bhakta
  • Developing Bhakti
  • Humility Is Vital
  • Asking the Lord to Come
  • Asking God for Help
  • An Essential Characteristic
—Sri Ramakrishna Talks
  • Stories from the Gospel
  • The Life of Sri Ramakrishna
  • The Exploits of Sri Ramakrishna
  • Sri Ramakrishna Came to Share
  • Sri Ramakrishna's Mahasamadhi
  • Living Spirit to Spirit
  • Response from God
  • Good News of Sri Ramakrishna
—Go Farther with Meditation
  • Meditation Experiences — Part 1
  • Meditation Experiences — Part 2
  • Meditation Experiences — Part 3
  • Meditation Experiences — Part 4
  • Guided Fountain Meditation
  • The Lake of Consciousness
  • Garden Visualization
  • Heart Chakra Expansion
  • The Essence of Christ
  • The Bay of Your Mind
  • Sahaj — Natural Connection
  • Opening to Awe and Wonder
  • Benefits of Chanting & Japa #1
  • Benefits of Chanting & Japa #2
  • Benefits of Chanting & Japa #3
  • Benefits of Chanting & Japa #4
—Theme of the Month
  • Jan — Your Strengths & Nature
  • Feb — Triumph Over Obstacles
  • March — Discovering Harmony
  • April — Zeal and Inner Power
  • May — Your Heart's True Feeling
  • June — Your Spiritual World
  • July — Expressing Your Nature
  • Aug — Spiritual Breakthroughs
  • Sept — Your Divine Soul
  • Oct — Relationship with the Lord
  • Nov — Transform Sense of Self
  • Dec — We Are Spirit Becoming
—Devotional Chants
  • Lake of My Mind
  • Om Namo Shivaya
  • Who Is in My Temple?
  • O When Will Dawn the Blessed Day?
  • Thou Hast Lifted All My Sorrows
  • You Are the Treasure of My Soul
  • With Beaming Face
  • I Will Be Thine Always
  • O Ramakrishna, Bewitcher of My Mind
  • Be Drunk O Mind
  • O Mother Kali, How Blissful Thou Art
  • Receive My On Thy Lap
  • Listen, Listen, Listen
  • I Am the Bubble
  • Beautiful Secret
  • I Depend on You
  • O Thou King of the Infinite
  • Sri Ram

Writings

—Yoga as a Spiritual Path
  • What is Yoga?
  • The Main Yogas — Part 1
  • The Main Yogas — Part 2
  • The Spiritual Path and Its Stages
—Discover the Miracle of Prayer
  • Welcome to the Miracle
  • Before You Pray
  • Mystical Forms of Prayer — Part 1
  • Mystical Forms of Prayer — Part 2
  • Higher Dimensions of Prayer
  • For All Prayers
  • Enjoy the Miracle
—Keys to Higher Consciousness
  • What People Crave
  • Aware of Higher Consciousness?
  • What is Your Greatest Treasure?
  • Do You Like Your Life Today?
  • Truly Conscious
  • The Choice
  • What Will Prevail?
  • Apply Your Thoughts and Feelings
  • With Them You Succeed
  • The Yearning
  • The Despair
  • The Delightful Search
  • Be a Humble Seeker
—Growing on the Path
  • Standing on the Branch Side?
  • First Technique — Self-Discipline
  • Second Technique — Introspection
  • Third Technique — Devotion
  • If You're Always Stopping
  • Turning Points
  • To Have a Friend, Be a Friend
  • Four Exercises for Fulfillment
  • The Big Test
  • A Thoughtful Person Opens the Door
  • Meditation — The Good Will Witness
  • The Portal of Higher Consciousness
  • The Universal Self
  • And Then There's Faith
  • Turn On the Power of Faith
—Relating with Spirit
  • Stages of Relationship
  • The Awe — Refined & Pure Emotions
  • The Servant Relationship
  • The Friends Relationship
  • Friends of God and the Incarnation
  • More Advanced Relationships
  • The Highest Moods
  • Agonies and Ecstasies
  • Psychic Experiences
  • Two Priceless Skills
  • The Threshold
  • Dark Night of the Soul
—Spiritual Living
  • Keep an Eye Out for the Master
  • The Importance of a Guru
  • Desirable Qualities
  • The Master/Initiate Relationship
  • How to Qualify
  • Initiation
  • Dawn Comes
  • Stages of Mental/Emotional Awakening
  • Transcendental Consciousness
  • The Planes of Higher Consciousness
  • The Mystical Wedding
  • Two Vital Concerns
  • Possibilities
  • Exciting Spiritual Dimensions
  • You Can Choose Your Future!
—Interviews
  • Different Paths
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • The Baptists
  • Roman Catholicism
  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Judaism
  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Religious Science
  • Vedanta

Courses

—Introducing Courses
  • Why the Commitment?
  • Introducing Online Seminars
  • Introducing Online Retreats
  • Introducing the Mysteries
  • On Service
—Online Seminars
  • Yoga and Fulfillment
  • 1. Visualize Fulfillment
  • 2. Tuning in to Spirit
  • 3. Oneness and Fulfillment
  • 4. Finding Fulfillment with Tapas
  • 5. The Power of Infinite Goodness
  • 6. Heart Chakra — Center of Fulfillment
  • 7. Fulfillment & Universal Consciousness
  • 8. Fulfillment & Your True Self
  • Shakti and Realization
  • 1. Shakti and Transformation
  • 2. Shakti and the Gunas
  • 3. Shakti and the Asuras
  • 4, Overcoming the Asuras
  • 5. Shakti and Your Being
  • 6. Guided Visualization for Shakti
  • Transformation through Yoga
  • 1. Opening to Transformation
  • 2. The Key to Success in Yoga
  • 3. Change Your Thoughts
  • 4. Transforming Old Habits
  • 5. Giving Transformation a Chance
  • 6. Transforming Insights from the Buddhi
  • 7. The Secret to Greater Transformations
  • 8. Transformation and Nitya Lila
  • Yoga in Action
  • 1. Cultivating Harmony
  • 2. Tuning in with Your Real Self
  • 3. Awakening to Higher Consciousness
  • 4. Solving Life’s Problems
  • 5. Overcoming the Five Kleshas
  • 6. The Big Me and the Little Me
  • 7. Living in Spirit
  • 8. Finding Your Nature
—Online Retreats
  • Your Spiritual World
  • Catching Up with Sri Ramakrishna
  • Triumph Over Obstacles
  • Inner Power and Inner Gifts
—Initial Mysteries
  • Getting Started
  • Your Journey Begins
  • Tools Along the Way
  • Discoveries of Awareness
  • 0. The Mystic Self
  • 1. Mystical Awakening
  • 2. The Mystic Gaze
  • 3. The Ascent
  • 4. The Mystic Breath
  • Discoveries of the Heart
  • 5. The Heart and Its Liberation
  • 6. Expansion Level One
  • 7. Expansion thru Attitude & Good Will
  • 8. Sameness of Feeling & Appreciation
  • 9. Natural Sympathy
  • 10. Mystical Sympathy
  • Discoveries of the Mind
  • 11. The Power of Thought
  • 12. Ascents of the Mind

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