God Alone Is Our Goal - Swami Kriyananda - Ananda Village - Jun 20, 2008

In this video Swami Kriyananda celebrates his 82nd birthday with the Ananda Community, sharing reflections on 60 years of discipleship with his guru, Paramhansa Yogananda. Kriyananda recounts many heartfelt experiences and insights that deepened his devotion and commitment to the spiritual path of Self-realization, including significant events that led him to his guru. Kriyananda emphasizes the importance of seeing and appreciating the divine presence in everyday life and in everyone around us.
Kriyananda urges the community to engage and pursue spiritual growth actively and spread and expand the spiritual teachings he has advocated, lived, and taught. Kriyananda stresses that the ultimate goal of our lives is to elevate our consciousness and awareness to progress toward the ultimate goal of unity with God. This journey requires continual effort but he attests, is a journey that will deeply fulfill and enrich our lives.

The first in a weekend of talks given as part of his birthday celebration (a month after his actual birthday).

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*.

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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