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
World Brotherhood
The essence of world brotherhood and the essence of our spiritual path are the same: to seek unity (yoga) where others see only diversity. Yogananda urged us again and again to see God’s smiling face…
Fri 08 Dec 2023
What Problem?
How to detach from any problem and approach it with the understanding that only consciousness is real.
Fri 01 Dec 2023
Simple Steps to Happiness
Much of the benefit of this practice comes from the conscious decision to make a plan for the week, and then to carry out your daily act of “micro joy.” What better time to start this than the day af…
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Where Do We Find Love?
In the face of a world in turmoil, let’s remember that God’s love for us—in fact, simply God’s love—is the only important thing, the only reality. Whether it’s expressed through the love of another p…
Fri 17 Nov 2023
What Can We Give?
The heart of a devotee naturally overflows with the desire to help others. In fact, this yearning is one of the first signs of a refined consciousness. In a sense it is that impulse that brought this…
Fri 10 Nov 2023
How to Pray
What can we do to help bring light into the world and reestablish peace and harmony in human hearts?
Fri 03 Nov 2023
Mountains in the Mist
Do you want to help create a better world? It begins with you taking responsibility for changing yourself. Here, then, is a simple three-step process to get started.
Fri 27 Oct 2023
The Power of One
The world in which we live today is rife with tension, dishonesty, power-seeking, violence, and warfare. In the face of it all, feeling helpless and hopeless as so many do, it is far too easy to fall…
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Show Me Your Friends
An Indian friend of ours recently mentioned a phrase that really caught my attention. While guiding her son through a challenging period she told him, “Show me your friends, and I will show you your …
Fri 13 Oct 2023
The Minutes Are More Important Than the Years
Kriyanandaji often spoke of the importance of bringing “keen, alert attention” to everything that we do. The next step is deeply to focus our attention not only on what we’re doing outwardly, but inw…
Fri 06 Oct 2023
What Is Essential
Yoganandaji taught that it is what we do that makes us holy, not what we don’t do. His guru, Sri Yukteswar, said, “The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. . . . Everything in future …
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Afraid of Flying
What is it that makes us inwardly withdraw from deeper experiences in meditation?
One common cause is a feeling that we’re not yet ready or worthy to experience expanded states of awareness. This is …
Fri 22 Sep 2023
The Trunk and the Branches
It would be helpful to introspect and try to feel the core purpose of your own life, the trunk of your particular tree. What motivates and energizes you? Look for themes that have been there since ea…
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Walking The New Path
“I want to be your disciple.” Seventy-five years ago, on September 12, 1948, a young man knelt before Paramhansa Yogananda, and with intense yearning spoke these words. It was the beginning of a jour…
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Navigating Life’s Dramas
Life is a journey filled with highs and lows. Sometimes it feels like a roller coaster, bursting with exhilarating peaks and gloomy valleys. At other times, it feels like the repetitive routine of a …
Fri 01 Sep 2023
School’s in Session
Tests often come to devotees to raise to conscious awareness the hidden karmic patterns that cause us suffering. The tests reveal both small and big karmic blind spots, and depending on the degree of…
Fri 25 Aug 2023
Spiritual Power
How does one develop powers? We don’t so much acquire them as embody them. In a sense, Jesus gave us clear instructions for how to walk on water, or heal others, or feed the masses: “Love God with al…
Fri 18 Aug 2023
The Dual Nature of Divine Love
Divine love is impersonal, because it is universally rather than individually rooted. And it is also personal, because it touches each of us uniquely according to our own nature. This is what Swamiji…
Fri 11 Aug 2023
The Inner Light
When Swami Kriyananda gave me the spiritual name, Jyotish, he said that it means “Inner Light.” Seeing light in the forehead during meditation has always been a cornerstone of my practice, which is p…
Fri 04 Aug 2023
Follow the Breadcrumbs
Here are some basic techniques and principles for drawing inner guidance. First, start by calming your mind in meditation.
Fri 28 Jul 2023
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