Concentration: Key to Communion With God| How-to-Live Talk With Meditation

Self-Realization Fellowship monk Brother Ishtananda shares insights from Paramahansa Yogananda on the importance of cultivating concentration — an essential skill for our active everyday lives as well as for meditation. Paramahansa Yogananda said, “When the attention is freed from distractions, it may be directed to focus with concentrated power on problems of business, family, or other matters; or upon God.” In this talk with a period of meditation, recorded on April 24, 2022 at the SRF San Diego Temple in San Diego, California, Brother Ishtananda explains how, by applying the scientific approach of yoga for learning how to concentrate, each of us can experience stillness in meditation and truly discover the Divine presence within. Brother Ishtananda also emphasizes the importance of cultivating love on the spiritual path — love for others and for an aspect of the Divine closest to our hearts — which we can practice in connection with concentration. Yogananda’s personal instruction in the comprehensive science of meditation and the art of balanced spiritual living can be found in his Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons, a home-study course. To learn more and enroll: https://srflessons.org In his talk, Brother Ishtananda refers to God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita, Paramahansa Yogananda’s translation and commentary on India’s sacred scripture of Yoga, available at https://bookstore.yogananda-srf.org/p... He also refers to the talk “How You Can Approach God” in The Divine Romance, a collection of Paramahansa Yogananda’s talks and essays, available at https://bookstore.yogananda-srf.org/p... and Whispers from Eternity, a collection of Paramahansa Yogananda’s inspired mystical prayers, available at https://bookstore.yogananda-srf.org/p... To view more talks from this series:    • Inspirational Services With Meditation   *** If you would like to support the spiritual and humanitarian work of SRF, please click on this link: https://donatesrf.org *** For the latest content from SRF: https://yogananda.org    / yoganandasrf     / selfrealizationfellowship     / srfyogananda     / selfrealizationfellowship   https://bookstore.yogananda-srf.org/ *** About Subtitles/closed captions: We are happy to provide quality subtitles in several languages. If no captioning is yet available in your language, please check back soon. Subtitulado común o para personas con discapacidad auditiva: Nos complace ofrecer subtítulos en español. Si aún no los encuentra disponibles en su idioma, por favor vuelva a verificar en unos días. Untertitel: Wir freuen uns sehr, Ihnen auch passende deutsche Untertitel bieten zu können. Sollten die Untertitel gerade noch nicht zur Verfügung stehen, bitten wir Sie, einige Tage später nochmals nachzusehen. Sottotitoli: siamo felici di mettere a vostra disposizione sottotitoli in italiano. Nel caso i sottotitoli non risultino ancora disponibili nella vostra lingua, vi invitiamo a ricontrollare tra qualche giorno. Legendas e legendas ocultas: Temos a satisfação de disponibilizar legendas fidedignas em português. Caso as legendas na sua língua não estejam disponíveis, por favor, verifique novamente dentro de alguns dias. #yogananda​ #Concentration #KriyaYoga #SRFLessons #ParamahansaYogananda #SelfRealizationFellowship #Meditation