299. The Remarkable Man Who Brought Yoga to the West with Brother Satyananda

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Brother Satyananda has served as a monk in the monastic order of Paramahansa Yogananda’s Self-Realization Fellowship for more than 40 years. In this episode, Jeff and Satyanda discuss how Yogananda helped bring yoga to the West, what happens when you apply scientific principles to the mystical, and how connection to the divine manifests as bliss and joy. For many guided meditation programs with wonderful teachers like Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Michael Beckwith, you can sign up for 14-days of free all-access to Commune’s entire course library at onecommune.com/trial.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Commune. This is Jeff Krasno. Our mission is to spread the ideas and practices of the world's greatest teachers.
0:14.8	We do that through online courses, a weekly newsletter, and this podcast. On the show, I excavate perennial spiritual questions,
0:23.6	like what is consciousness, what is the nature of reality? How do we live with purpose?
0:29.6	Reality is infinite. We experience a narrow bandwidth of it unless we transcend our senses through meditation.
0:40.3	We delve into practices and modalities that can heal trauma and help us thrive.
0:45.3	Mastering the art and the science of forgiveness is necessary to move through life.
0:51.3	A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.
0:55.0	We explore the spiritual traditions that help us acknowledge that we are all connected
1:01.0	by a power greater than us.
1:03.0	We are all indeed individuals, yet we need to find collective and communal solutions.
1:09.0	We build a sturdy bridge between personal wellness and societal well-being.
1:14.4	It's only when you get people who are pursuing their dreams, living their truth, and feeling
1:17.9	good, that we can actually move the needle of society forward.
1:22.1	To learn about our courses, our community, and everything we do, visit us at onecommon.com.
1:33.6	Welcome to the Commian podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno.
1:46.4	Okay, today on the show, I welcome Brother Satyananda. Satyananda has served as a monk in the monastic order of Paramahansa Yogananda's
1:54.6	Self-Realization Fellowship for over 40 years. He resides at the Hermitage at Lake Shrine, Self-Realization Fellowship's
2:04.0	lush 10-acre spiritual retreat and meditation center in Los Angeles, where he serves as minister in
2:12.1	charge. He has inspired audiences throughout the world with his dynamic presentations on the ancient philosophy
2:20.5	of yoga and the time-honored science of meditation. In our conversation, Satyanaanda and I discuss
2:27.9	the genesis and the mission of self-realization fellowship. We unpack a number of its unique
2:33.9	aims and ideals as prescribed by
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