Secrets of Meditation and Inner Peace

By Swami Kriyananda

This concise book brilliantly encapsulates the essential keys to meditation with seed thoughts for each day of the month. Each affirmation is presented in a straightforward manner that allows the reader to repeat and remember it before meditating. This potent guide to meditation will help readers tap the well-spring of joy and inner peace with them.

This little book can change your life. Open it to any page to unlock the hidden power within you.

In this collection of pithy and profound sayings, readers will find wise guidance and key insights to the practice of meditation, and secrets for bringing the peace of meditation into the trials and clamor of their daily life.

Drawing on his bestselling Secrets book series, Swami Kriyananda offers sage advice for going within. This lovely edition offers speedy counsel and enlightenment, on the spot. A treasure trove of uplifting affirmations, it is a book to be dipped into and savored again and again.

The inspired secrets are contained in one small miracle of a book—perfect as a gift, or as a cherished addition to one's own bookshelf.

From the Publisher's Note:

The first two sections of this book—Secrets of Meditation, and Secrets of Inner Peace—consist of seed thoughts for meditation. They are listed as daily readings, and it may be useful to follow along with one reading from each section for each listed day of the month. Alternatively, you may prefer to pick a reading at random. Either approach can be effective.

We recommend absorbing a selection from Secrets of Meditation just before meditation—these seed thoughts are ideal for deepening meditation—and a selection from Secrets of Inner Peace at the end of your meditation—these affirmations are geared toward extending the peaceful aftereffects of meditation into your daily life.

In addition, the following pages offer guidelines for the optimum use of the readings for both of these sections.

The last section of this book, “Be Still and Know,” is an article by Swami Kriyananda on the importance of meditation and the best attitude for success in going within. It ends with brief meditation instructions.

We hope that this book will bring you ever-deeper insights and inspiration. And we wish you profound success in your meditations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crystal Clarity Publishers
• Release date: Jan 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781565895652

Swami Kriyananda

Swami Kriyananda “Swami Kriyananda is a man of wisdom and compassion in action, truly one of the leading lights in the spiritual world today.” —Lama Surya Das, Dzogchen Center, author of Awakening the Buddha Within A prolific author, accomplished composer, playwright, and artist, and a world-renowned spiritual teacher, Swami Kriyananda (1926–2013) referred to himself simply as close disciple of the great God-realized master, Paramhansa Yogananda. He met his guru at the age of twenty-two, and served him during the last four years of the Master’s life. He dedicated the rest of his life to sharing Yogananda’s teachings throughout the world. Kriyananda was born in Romania of American parents, and educated in Europe, England, and the United States. Philosophically and artistically inclined from youth, he soon came to question life’s meaning and society’s values. During a period of intense inward reflection, he discovered Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi, and immediately traveled three thousand miles from New York to California to meet the Master, who accepted him as a monastic disciple. Yogananda appointed him as the head of the monastery, authorized him to teach and give Kriya Initiation in his name, and entrusted him with the missions of writing, teaching, and creating what he called “world brotherhood colonies.” Kriyananda founded the first such community, Ananda Village, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California in 1968. Ananda is recognized as one of the most successful intentional communities in the world today. It has served as a model for other such communities that he founded subsequently in the United States, Europe, and India.

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SECRETS of

MEDITATION

and

INNER PEACE

SECRETS of

MEDITATION

and

INNER PEACE

SWAMI KRIYANANDA

Crystal Clarity Publishers

Nevada City, CA 95959-8599

Copyright © 2016 by Hansa Trust

All rights reserved. Published 2016

Printed in China

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Cover and book design by : Amala Cathleen Elliott

Library of Congress

Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kriyananda, Swami, author.

Secrets of Meditation and Inner Peace

Swami Kriyananda.

LCSH: Spiritual life--Self-Realization Fellowship.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-56589-308-5 (pbk.) --

ISBN 978-1-56589-565-2 (ebook)

LCC BP605.S4 K77 2016 (print)

LCC BP605.S4 (ebook)

DDC 204/.4--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016040219

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"Meditate more and more deeply,

until calmness and joy

become second nature to you."

—Paramhansa Yogananda

Suggestions for Using This Book

The contents of this book consist of three sections.

The first two sections—Secrets of Meditation, and Secrets of Inner Peace—are seed thoughts for meditation. They are listed as daily readings, and it may be useful to follow along with one reading from each section for each listed day of the month. Alternatively, you may prefer to pick a reading at random. Either approach can be effective.

We recommend absorbing a selection from Secrets of Meditation just before meditation—these seed thoughts are ideal for deepening meditation—and a selection from Secrets of Inner Peace at the end of your meditation—these affirmations are geared toward extending the peaceful aftereffects of meditation into your daily life.

In addition, the following pages offer guidelines for the optimum use of the readings for both of these sections.

The last section of this book, Be Still and Know, is an article by Swami Kriyananda on the importance of meditation and the