10/10/82

How to Inspire Spirituality in Others – consider what the person needs to hear and also consider what they would be open to hear.

You don’t want to impose your beliefs. You want to help them where they are.

Be a channel of Divine Joy. When we feel the divine blessings ourselves, we can transmit that to others.

Kriyananda tells a story of arriving at a college where he was going to speak to the students on the subject of yoga. He found about a campus wide protest.

He began by talking about the protest and later got to the subject of yoga. The students had rapt attention throughout, because he was speaking to where their consciousness was in that moment.

There was another talk given by Kriyananda in 1983 by the same title.

2/17/1985

How to Be a True Christian – become free of ego so the light of Christ can shine through

The central teaching of Christ is given in the Gospel of St. John: “As many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God.”

We need to draw the Christ consciousness to ourselves dynamically. We can’t do that by passively saying, “I believe.”

8/3/86

You can achieve spiritual and material success by concentration and right attitude.

Success is usually equated with wealth, fame and great achievements. True success should be measured by what we have become through the process.

Success means:

• being successful in the eyes of God and in your own conscience
• doing what you know is righ