Living in Peace: The Secret of a Happy Life
Feeling out of sorts with life’s challenges? Paramahansa Yogananda taught that living with inner peace is the secret to a happy life. Join Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi as they share Yogananda’s tools, stories, and right attitudes to help connect with your source of peace within.
Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi are dynamic emissaries of Paramhansa Yogananda, and Global Peace Ambassadors. Jyotish and Devi serve as Spiritual Directors of Ananda Sangha Worldwide, and in this capacity travel the world, sharing Yogananda’s teachings, and blessing people with the practical and heart-opening path of Kriya Yoga. Jyotish is the author of several books on meditation and related subjects, and the creator of Meditation Therapy(TM). Devi is the author of Faith is My Armor: The Life of Swami Kriyananda. They are co-authors to the book being discussed on this episode, A Touch of Light: Living the Teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda
SHOW NOTES: Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi’s website is www.ananda.org. Their books can be purchased at CrystalClarity.com
YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: Thank you for this conversation with these two dedicated devotees of Paramahansa Yogananda. I love their story about the sea birds and how they survive in terrible storms. Instead of fighting the wind, they go with it until they find the calm center. This is a metaphor for how we can deal with "the storms" in our own lives.
Have faith that God is with us and whatever storms come to us we can find the inner resources in the calm, peaceful center of our being. Embrace the challenges that come to us, remember that they are important for our spiritual evolution and learn from them.
The Nayaswamis reminded us of Yogananda’s poem God, God, God. In one of the verses he says:
When boisterous storms of trials shriek
And worries howl at me,
I drown their noises, loudly chanting: God! God! God!
FROM OUR HOST, DR. TRUJILLO: I enjoyed our conversation about finding inner peace during challenging times, and especially enjoyed all the tips we gave our listeners about how to do so: having a regular meditation practice; using superconscious meditation to access our unconditional inner peace and joy and then sharing it with others; being more conscious of what we take in from the world and focusing on bringing in the positive and avoiding “doom scrolling”; finding joy through doing something that we love (“I enjoy”); and practicing gratitude (“I care”).