A Touch of Light Podcast
A weekly podcast dedicated to spirituality in daily life, inspired by the revolutionary teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 427
- Years Active
- 2004 - 2025
Finding Your Own Spiritual Power in 2018
As you embark on the voyage of 2018, whatever obstacles may lie before you, remember to draw on the examples of the great spiritual warriors.
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Fri 05 Jan 2018
Resolutions
The tide of the old year is ebbing, and the new one is rolling in. It is time, once again, for New Year’s resolutions: the best opportunity to rid yourself of those habits you know to be self-destruc…
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Thu 28 Dec 2017
God, Gurus, Gurubhais, and Grit
Next week I will celebrate two important milestones. December 22 will be the fiftieth anniversary of my first Kriya Initiation. The next day will be another fiftieth anniversary: of my first eight-ho…
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Thu 14 Dec 2017
Is It Possible to Stop Worrying?
What can we do to stop worry? Is there something to break the toxic downward pull of mental anxiety and depression that is plaguing so many people?
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Thu 07 Dec 2017
Babaji's Advice
She asked Babaji a question that is in the minds of many of us: “Why don’t you do something to stop all the darkness we see in the world today?”
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Thu 30 Nov 2017
What We Saw
Jyotish and I just returned from a three-month visit to Ananda communities and centers in Assisi, throughout India, and finally in New York City. It was an incredible experience, and here are some of…
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Thu 23 Nov 2017
The Mouse Family
My wife, Devi, who periodically over the years has asked, begged, or cajoled me to tell the story of the mouse family, prevailed successfully upon me once again.
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Mon 13 Nov 2017
The Broken Shell
The boy’s father was a harsh man. Constantly criticizing and belittling others, he was feared by everyone who knew him — but not by his son, who had a wisdom beyond his years.
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Wed 08 Nov 2017
Seclusion
Seclusion is a very important part of the spiritual search. In his Praecepta Lessons, Paramhansa Yogananda wrote…
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Thu 02 Nov 2017
Your Brain on Meditation
As an Ananda member I had been invited to participate in an early attempt to study what meditation does to the brain. Ever since then I’ve had an interest in these kinds of scientific studies.
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Thu 26 Oct 2017
The Darkest Night of the Year
Diwali is a celebration of the light that shines through the darkness, of the victory of virtue over evil, and of the inner transformation of all of our darkness into divine consciousness
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Wed 18 Oct 2017
Who's In Charge Here?
Two distraught devotees knelt before the Indian saint, Anandamayi Ma, pleading for her divine intervention. “Ma,” they begged, “can’t you stop this? It will produce so much suffering.”
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Wed 11 Oct 2017
Feeding the Ants
The human heart has an infinite capacity for love, and when kindness flows, we are not only uplifted, but often healed of some old karma.
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Tue 03 Oct 2017
The Sparrow, Each Grain of Sand
She lay in the dust by the side of the road, alone and abandoned in her suffering. Her family had rejected her, and this poor widow had made her way to Brindaban, where an estimated ten thousand elde…
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Tue 26 Sep 2017
The Crucible
In life, some people make progress faster than others. This is true in school, business, athletics, and virtually any field of activity. While some people seem to be born with more ability or in bett…
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Thu 21 Sep 2017
The Secret of a Remarkable Life
Today is September 12, 2017 — the sixty-ninth anniversary of the day a young man knelt alone at the feet of his guru, Paramhansa Yogananda. His heart aching with divine longing, the twenty-two-year-o…
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Tue 12 Sep 2017
Becoming a Guardian Angel
This living example of unconditional love begins to permeate and slowly change their hearts and lives. One key in the transformation is the commitment of the Guardian Angel for an entire year, which …
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Thu 07 Sep 2017
How to Control Desires
Recently a young man asked us, “Why do we do things that we know will make us unhappy, even when we don’t really want to do them?”
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Wed 30 Aug 2017
The Eclipse
Today, as I write this, there is a full eclipse of the sun. This rare event happens when the moon passes directly between the earth and the sun.
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Mon 21 Aug 2017
Does Satan Exist?
Paramhansa Yogananda once said, “I used to think Satan was only a human invention, but now I know, and add my testimony to that of all those who have gone before me, that Satan is a reality.
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Tue 15 Aug 2017
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