6 Things We Can Learn from the Spiritual Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda [Episode #848]

This week’s topic is: 6 Things We Can Learn from the Spiritual Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda

I’m very excited to talk about this particular topic which fits into our Spiritual Growth Cornerstone because Yogananda was the yogi who brought teachings to the West that are applicable for everyone. This is independent of any sort of religious affiliation or specific belief system.

These spiritual teachings of Yogananda have a lot to do with inner connection and unity and ways to tap into our creative potential and our intuition and his teachings were very practical. They have made such a difference in my own life. And so I’m very passionate about sharing these teachings, which I feel are for everyone and truly believe they can have a huge benefit on your life.

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Lily – Washington

On a recent trip to Los Angeles, a friend of mine took me to Lake Shrine and felt such an instant connection. You mention Yogananda in many of your books and I’d love to hear your thoughts on his teachings and how I can incorporate them into my life.

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Kimberly: 00:02 Namaste loves and welcome back to our Thursday q and a show where our topic for today is 6 Things We Can Learn from the Spiritual Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. So I’m very excited to talk about this particular topic which fits into our spiritual growth cornerstone because Yogananda was the monk, the yogi, who brought teachings to the West that are applicable for everyone. This is independent of any sort of religious affiliation or specific belief system. This spiritual teachings of Yogananda have a lot to do with inner connection and unity and ways to tap into our creative potential and our intuition and his teachings were very practical. They have made such a difference in my own life. When I started to follow the teachings of Yogananda and learn about his meditations and more, it’s when I started to write books, it’s when I started to shift my life and my energy and my vitality.

01:14 And so I’m very passionate about sharing about these teachings, which again, I feel are for everyone. You can be an agnostic. You can be any particular religion, whether you’re Muslim or Christian or Jewish or Hindu or Buddhist or whatever, and also learn about these principles. Or you could be part of no religion. It has nothing to do with that, right? These are principles about energy and connecting into who we really are underneath the surface. And so you can learn the teachings and the meditations and apply them into being more effective in prayer or in your daily life or your particular practices as well, or just in my case, it’s really been about day to day, moment to moment living and awareness. And as we’ll get into our show today and you will see these principles, I truly believe can have a huge benefit on your life.

02:19 I shared in depth about Yogananda’s teachings for modern life in my latest book. You Are More Than You Think You Are, which is a great holiday read if you haven’t yet. Checked it out. The soft cover came out almost a year ago and the hard cover before that, we’ll link to it in the show notes. And Yogananda also wrote a spiritual classic called Autobiography of a Yogi. So you may have heard of it, you may have seen it in the yoga studio or at a friend’s house. It’s very popular, it’s very well read. It’s been translated I think into 40 languages or something. So it’s a

Kimberly: 02:58 Spiritual, which many of us on the spiritual path have read. So I very much recommend that you check it out as well. Before we dive deeper, remember that you can ask me questions about anything pretty much because everything fits into our most things. Many things fit into our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional wellbeing, and spiritual growth over on our website, my sauna.com. That’s S-O-L-L-U-N a.com. And you can check out other podcasts I think you would enjoy meditations, amazing, simple, delicious plant-based recipes, articles, our products. There’s so much over there, so please take advantage and check it out.

Question around the topic of: 6 Things We Can Learn from the Spiritual Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda: On a recent trip to Los Angeles, a friend of mine took me to Lake Shrine and felt such an instant connection. You mention Yogananda in many of your books and I’d love to hear your thoughts on his teachings and how I can incorporate them into my life.

Okay, our question today comes from Lily who lives in Washington. Lily, thank you so much for being part of our community. Thank you for your question today, which is on a recent trip to Los Angeles. A friend of mine took me to Lake Shrine and I felt such an instant connection. You mentioned Yogananda in many of your books, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on his teachings and how I can incorporate them into my life.

04:15 So I’ll give a little background by saying that Yogananda came to the United States in the 1920s, and for most everyone, this was the first time that people had heard about meditation. They had heard about yoga, and he was speaking and attracting such attention and had such a dynamic energy that he went all the way to Calvin Coolidge, who was the president of the United States at the time, to speak about his ideas and his teachings around universal oneness and love and connection and service and some of the things that we’re going to talk about on the show. So coming from India with just himself with a mission to really spread these principles, which he wholeheartedly felt needed to be brought to people, to truth-seeking souls that were ready to hear these messages. And with this dynamic force that he brought, he went all the way to the top.

05:23 In more recent times, the Beatles, especially George Harrison, have been practitioners of Yogananda’s teachings. If you go back and you look at the album cover of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart Band, I think I’m saying it right, Sergeant Pepper’s, you’ll see, and it’s a collage of different faces. You will see yoga’s face on the cover on this Beatles cover, as well as Schwa who was Yogananda’s guru, his teacher and Steve Jobs was a big fan of Autobiography of a Yogi. It was actually said to be the only book on his iPad when he passed. And at his funeral, his last message to the world was a copy of Autobiography of a Yogi written by Yogananda, which he placed in a wooden box, and it was given out to the 500 people that attended his funeral. And it could go on and on. I won’t get into all the people that have spoken of Yogananda and preached about him and expanded on his work, just spread his work.

06:37 But he’s had a major influence on so many humans, myself, very much included. So as I mentioned, truth-seeking souls. If you’re open for it, I think that there’s a lot that we can learn from this spiritual master. And it doesn’t matter, as I mentioned, if you happen to be in a religion or you’re not. This is about spirituality. This is about connecting to the true self, the deepest part of us, the individual uniqueness in our hearts, our souls, the higher self, whatever you want to call it. This is the place where we can access our intuitive wisdom, our creativity, our confidence, our unshakeable true confidence, peace and joy and vitality, and a lot of incredible energies that come from connecting on the inside.

#1. 6 Things We Can Learn from the Spiritual Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda: Kriya Yoga Meditation

07:37 There’s been a lot of research, actually, I was a bit surprised and excited to see when I started to look into this podcast. The type of meditation that yoga Nanda teaches is Crea yoga, which is not disassociative or leaving the body. It’s about getting inside the spine and moving our attention and our energy out of the peripheral nervous system back into the central nervous system. We hear this term about being centered. Being centered in ourselves means we are present. We are here very much in the moment. And so the central nervous system, the spine which the yogis have always taught is where the main energy centers are known as the chakras and also the brain. The communication between the heart and the brain and all these energy centers is where this type of meditation takes you, which is known as crea yoga. So I have been practicing crea yoga for over a decade, maybe even close to a decade and a half at this point.

08:40 When I went backpacking after college is when I discovered Yoga Nanda in India. And I found his books in India and started studying them quite intensely. And as I mentioned, I started to take lessons and learn Korea yoga. There’s these home study lessons you can get, and it’s when my life really shifted and changed. And I remember studying in my tiny little Murphy bed, in my little studio, in my little apartment in New York and feeling this energy inside of me for the first time. And that’s when I started to write books. The Beauty Detox Solution came about. It’s when I really started using my own dynamic will, which is something that Yoga Nanda teaches and everything shifted. And so I think that we can all benefit from learning how to tap into our own power. And most of us don’t really learn that or have access to that.

09:39 We need teachers, we need masters who can show us the way. And when we use this term guru, it’s not that sometimes people don’t really know what that means. It’s a Sanskrit word and it basically means someone that takes us from darkness to light, someone that shows us really powerful, insightful teachings about the truth of our nature, about how to move forward into more harmony with ourselves and into more of our own potential. So Crea Yoga was actually studied in some research out of Cambridge, Cambridge University in the uk. And they found that Crea yoga was shown to reduce stress, improve wellbeing, and even led to changes in brain function. So if you watch the documentary on Yogananda called Awake, you’ll see some neuroscientists showing different areas of the brain which are lit up by different aspects of meditation and particularly meditation that is embodied meditation, I would call it getting into your body, into your spine versus disassociative and imagining you’re somewhere else.

#2. 6 Things We Can Learn from the Spiritual Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda: Scientific Spirituality

10:52 There’s another amazing scientist featured in that documentary who practices Yogananda’s chorea yoga called Anita Goel, I think I’m saying her name correctly. She’s a physicist and medical doctor out of Harvard, and she talks about how crea yoga really is like a scientific system because we are doing specific things with the breath, the pranayama, we’re working with the life forces and the energies in the body. And when you follow a subscribe to system, you get results. So it’s not all over the place, it’s not guesswork, it’s not random, but it’s a very thorough and complete system that I can say personally I have benefited from tremendously.

11:44 Researchers out of the University of California Santa Barbara also explored the social and community of Yogananda’s teachings and found that there was much social harmony and positivity and service that came out of these teachings, which continue to this day. Yogananda’s meditation based organization is called the Self-Realization Fellowship, and they do much charitable work in India and across the world and bring people together in communities. And so there’s also a study in the frontiers of science that showed the relationship between spiritual practices such as those taught by Yogananda and mental health outcomes and found that meditation had a very positive impact on conditions like anxiety, depression, and overall psychological wellbeing. So the science is there, the teachings are there. And I was speaking to a friend, actually, she is also a medical doctor out of Stanford, and I introduced her to Yogananda and she was with me in Mexico on this retreat.

#3. 6 Things We Can Learn from the Spiritual Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda: Seeking God Within

13:03 And we spoke about it over breakfast. And she said, I came from a Christian tradition and nothing has resonated with me as much as Yogananda, who speaks about the unity of all spiritual traditions at the heart and the core. So he talks a lot about Jesus. He talks about Krishna, he talks about all these teachers from around the world, and she was interested in, why don’t we go straight to spirit? Why don’t we go to God? Why do we need a guru? Am I worshiping the guru? Is there this InBetween? Because she was so drawn to the teachings and I assured her that the teachings in the guru there to show us a clear path and to teach these techniques like meditation so we can effectively get there. It’s really about our personal relationship with spirit and the true self and the authentic gurus. And there aren’t many of them, but Yogananda have no self-interest.

14:06 They really just want us to progress spiritually. And that is really the truth of an intention of all of these teachings. And so when I shared that with this doctor, it really hit home with her, I think, and she relaxed and could trust that learning about these spiritual practices is really about deepening the truth of our relationship with the truth of who we are and expands everything. It can help our relationships improve. It can help us feel that deep self-love and energy and potential that’s inside of us and our sense of connection. So thank you again so much, Lily, for bringing this topic forward

Kimberly: 14:51 Because I think that we’re in an age right now, in a time when we’re looking for ways where many of us, especially those of us here in our community, are really looking for ways to be open and just find ways to help ourselves feel better and to benefit. And I’m very passionate about sharing about Yogananda because it doesn’t feel like a conflict at all for me personally, who grew up Catholic and loved Jesus and can also see the truth of these teachings, which also come from India. And I can see the truth of other teachers as well that are written in the Vedas. And there’s just a lot of truth that is universal, truth is truth, and it can come from different places and where it intersects as in unity and love, I think that’s the highest truth. And so back to our show, which is some core teachings that we can all gain from Yogananda.

#4. 6 Things We Can Learn from the Spiritual Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda: Universal Unity

15:54 I think the one that is needed very much today is about universal unity. So when Yogananda came here in the twenties, he could see prejudice within factions of the United States and between countries. He was here through the beginning of World War ii and there was a lot of divisiveness. And that divisiveness we see here today, very much still in the world, unfortunately, between different groups of people. And we see wars going on and violence and lots of things. And so one of the core messages that is so important, the more of us adhere to this within our own belief system, we can teach it to our children and our friends and just by simply living the principle of universal unity. Where Yogananda taught is that no matter what country we’re from, no matter what religious path we are from, there is this underlying unity in all truth in all systems.

16:58 There’s truth, there’s unity at the core, and there’s this analogy of walking up the mountain to God, to spirit, to higher truth and self-realization, whatever you want to call it, enlightenment. And there’s many paths up the mountain. But the point is that we’re getting to this place of deepening our understanding, this transcendence that’s possible for all of us. And so the more that we feel that truth of who we are, we can call it the light within us, the more we see that light in others, and the more we can see past the differences, the surface differences, ideology, this word says this, and this is different than that on the surface, but underneath it, there is this pulsing, pervasive unity within all of us. We are all connected. And so the more we tune into that, what is it that really unites us is so much stronger than what actually divides us.

18:04 So it’s really about going underneath the surface to the truth of unity and unifying principles and unconditional love for all of us, understanding that all of us are here united as family, brothers and sisters and family members. And the more we can see past the petty and the surface, the more we expand and the more the light expands and the more we come together in harmony, which was a major message, a core message of Yogananda. And he brought that with such force. And there is such a need in the world right now to really tap into that.

#5. 6 Things We Can Learn from the Spiritual Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda: Service to Others

So another core teaching is service, service to others. And there’s a quote he says, where he says, life should chiefly be about service. So in the book that I wrote about Yoga Nunez teachings called You are More Than You Think You are. There’s a chapter called You Are Warrior and to Be a Warrior in Life in our own lives, and this is based on some of the Vedic teachings that come from the Maha Barta, specifically the Bava Gita means that we grow, we grow within ourselves, we seek truth within, we seek to discover who we really are.

19:31 And then with our unique gifts and talents, we bring our own ways of helping others in the world, which could be simply being a presence of understanding and acceptance and love and compassion can be bringing that energy of unity into our workplace, into our family life, bringing kindness and love. So service doesn’t have to be so literal as I’m going and making meals for the homeless, although very much can include that, but it’s about the way that we show up. How are our lives contributing to the overall fabric of the collective? How are we contributing? And so service, if we think of it through the lens of service, how can I bring more love, unity, compassion piece into the world today? If we ask ourselves these questions becomes our north star, becomes our guiding principle. Our lives start to be shaped around that, and it will change our lives. It will infuse us with so much energy and vitality, and consequently, we will have a enormously positive impact on the lives of others around us.

#6. 6 Things We Can Learn from the Spiritual Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda: Life as a Divine Drama

20:51 So another principle that Yogananda taught that’s very important also for today is what we can say that life is a divine drama or it is like a movie. And what he means by that is that we’re part of something much bigger and this deeper intelligence, this universality that keeps going on and on, we know there’s, I believe that there’s more than this life and there’s more that came previously and there’ll be more afterwards. So if we can keep this perspective of keeping our sanctuary, our sense of security and safety on the inside, it means that we’re not so affected by the ups and downs of daily life, the things that simply don’t work out the way that we expect or wanted them to. It means that we can trust that there’s something far greater, that knows far more than we know that has a far greater plan beyond individual circumstances and occurrences, and so that we can keep this connection and this peaceful or this anchor on the inside of us.

22:17 And then we do feel more peaceful in life. We feel more secure in the real way, and it changes life because we all know if we get tuned onto the news or we’re trying to get safety and security in a job or in a relationship, things shift and change. And if that’s where we’re trying to pull security from, we will always feel a sense of stress. We will always feel a sense of fear. And our nervous system will always be in fight or flight because everything outside is fleeting and transient. And so we have to go to a deeper place to find and to access this stability, this groundedness, this equanimity, imperturbable based beyond life circumstances. And that is a gift that we can all benefit from so much our health will get a major upgrade. We all know that our emotional energy and our turbulence or emotional resilience affects our hormones.

23:17 It affects our immunity and our nervous system and so on. So we really want to tune into this deeper place and realize this drama of life is temporary and the ups and downs are temporary. And so we want to attach to something much, much deeper than that, and a place our security and our identity and sense of meaning into something much deeper. Which brings me to the next point where Yogananda taught about the true self. And this is a huge subject in the book that I share about yoga Nanda because this changed everything for me. The ways in which we usually identify ourselves are based on our looks, our money, our jobs, our achievements, our status, what we own, how many followers we have, lots of things. And ultimately all of these things are also surface and fleeting as well. When we can connect down to this true self, which sounds a bit esoteric, but it’s this formless part of us who you really are the part of you that’s watching your thoughts, this stable part of you, your soul, the higher self.

24:26 When we start to connect through meditation and stillness and tuning into the heart, we start to shift over from saying, oh, my identity is being a 37-year-old woman with two kids that lives in California or whatever it is, or a 50-year-old man that lives in Idaho, whatever. All these surface things into something that cannot be contained in words. It’s like the Dao says that, which the doubt is that which cannot be named. So you expand beyond these ideas of comparing yourself and feeling jealous or envious or not enough, or you haven’t been doing enough, you’re not in the right place here. You haven’t made enough money, you’re not good enough. There’s a deep confidence and peace that washes over us when we realize that we really are so much more than we thought we were. And so the techniques that Yogananda teaches is about piercing that veil of delusion and going down into this experiential reality that again, has to be felt and experienced.

25:47 It’s not something you can just read about in the book. You take the teachings and you practice them, you live them. Then you start to feel energy inside of you and you realize that you’ve been identifying with this lack and this limited part of you, which doesn’t have to be the way. So it shifts everything and it’s very, very powerful. Another teaching of Yogananda is that we can tap into this creative power and create something that no one else has done even in a world with billions of people. We all have that potential to do something in a different way, to use that creativity, which is unique to us and us alone. It’s sort of like snowflakes are all different and unique. Each of us has a unique blueprint, an energetic blueprint, a soul blueprint, however you want to think of it. And so we have a different perspective and a

Kimberly: 26:42 Different on whatever it is that we want to apply our energy towards. So I remember when I started using Yogananda’s teachings in practical ways and practicing Korea yoga, I felt that inspiration to talk about nutrition in a way that felt important to me and wellness that I wanted to share. And I was very aware that there were hundreds, maybe thousands of other wellness books out there, but that didn’t deter me. I had a real voice and a vision, and it came from me. It came from deep inside of me. And so I put it onto paper and created that first book and the many other books that have come about. And I can say the books that I have felt the best about and that have also done the best commercially are the ones that were the most pure, where it just came from this deepest place and without the worry, without the sense of lack or the thinking so much, but coming from this knowingness that the creative potential resides inside and we tap into it.

28:00 So there’s this forceful way of trying to create content or write or videos or come up with what to make for dinner in everyday life. Creativity is used in multitude of ways. There’s this forceful, linear ego-based way, which is this step-by-step forward fact-based con, let me look into this. Let me acquire more information from external sources. Let me do more research. And there’s a time and a place to prepare themselves in that way. But when we learn to tap into the inner voice, into the intuition, which comes from calming down the mind, first of all, using the breath, using techniques, using pranayama, and then actually getting to this point of stillness, we’re pulling energy and ideas and creativity from a much incomparable, much deeper, wider, expansive source that will never run out, that will give us our best ideas, the best writing, the best ways of going about things, the best solutions that the mind alone could never ever access.

29:15 And there’s signs to this now and there’s studies, and I’m actually going to be teaching a class for Entrepreneur Magazine on intuition and the science of intuition. And a lot of the teachings that come from Yogananda, there’s practical ways to use it in business. As I mentioned, Yogananda was, well-read and studied by Steve Jobs. And this professor from Columbia, Dr. Hendra Wra, who came on this podcast and his yoga Nadis teachings are very much in his book as well, which is called Outer Mastery, inner Mastery, outer Impact. We’ll link to that show in the show notes. I highly recommend that you listen to that one as well. He is an MBA professor at Columbia and talks about how these teachings have helped him so much in business. So this creative power inside of us can be activated. And one of the other, I mean I could go on and on about the teachings, but one of the other things that Yogananda teaches is about our dynamic will, this intention to do something, and then actually using our energy with force, dynamic force to follow through and do it.

30:27 So he teaches some physical exercises known as energization exercises, which are different than Asana, but how to pull vitality and energy into the body and charge your body, and then you can use that will and strengthen your will to follow through with your goals and to find a way to create your dreams. And that’s what I did when I was writing my first book. I found a way to do that proposal and get that agent and find a publisher and all of it through the dynamic will, the dynamic force inside of us, which Yogananda’s teachings share about as well. And so once we do that, we become an unstoppable force. He teaches a lot practically about mentality, how we charge from the inside. Our emotional intelligence and energy is very important. Moodiness, for instance, all these unbridled emotions like anger and resentfulness and fear, drain energy.

31:29 So he has a lot of practical lifestyle teachings about diet. He definitely advocated a vegetarian diet, a lot of greens, a lot of raw fruit. He talked about right environment being around the company that is uplifting and not depleted and watching who we’re around. So Yogananda’s teachings are profound and applied to all of us. And so please check out some of the other podcasts that I recommend here that are related to Yogananda’s work. I’ve also done some prior shows about manifesting what you want in your life, creating what you want with yogananda’s principles. And I definitely recommend reading Autobiography of a Yogi and also my latest book or listening to it. You are More Than You Think You Are, which can go much more specific with teachings and tools than the scope of this show. Because for each chapter, whether it’s about being more magnetic drawn to you, what you want, creating more peace, there are step-by-step tools at the end of each chapter, which are very specific, not just in meditation, but things that you can put into practice in your life.

32:45 And so my intention with that book and with this show is to pass it forward when there’s a great light, an amazing soul put forward on the earth that can share so much wisdom and so much, so many teachings that are helpful and practical and so useful. I think it’s our duty to share. I think we’re here to all support each other. And so one way I know I can really support you is to bring forward these teachings that have helped me so much. So please check out those resources. Please keep going in your spiritual growth cornerstone, nurturing yourself in all the ways that feel good to you, diving deeper into your own practices, your own rituals, your prayer, your meditation, however you practice spirituality or your own religion. And overall that it’s not in any way conflicting to learn about these principles of working with your own energy from Yogananda.

33:42 So I definitely encourage that, and I send you so much light and love. My deepest of intentions is to support you. Please reach out to me and share any ways in which I can continue to support you more. I’m always here, I’m always listening. I send you lots and lots of love, especially around now, this beautiful time of the solstice. The inner light will grow and rise as the outer light continues to dimm, and it’s an amazing opportunity to connect in more deeply. So sending you so much love. I’ll be back here Monday for our next interview show. Till then, take great care and happy holidays and namaste.