Dr. Minott Lewis Lecture Notes

Welcome to the Dr. Minott Lewis Lecture Notes page.  These public lecture notes were a gift from a devoted YSS kriyaban and we are very grateful to make them available on our website.  It is our hope and prayer that these lectures enlighten and uplift you.

The talks are in PDF form for easy download and are listed in alphabetical order below.

For more information on Dr. Minott Lewis, his relationship to Paramahansa Yogananda’s mission in the West, and his key role as Self-Realization Fellowship’s first Vice-President, please visit the SRF Devotee webpage.

Please visit our Dr. Lewis Tribute page for more information on the life of Dr. Lewis.

The early years with Paramahansa Yogananda in Boston, MA, 1921

Acquire True Wealth

Act and Will to Victory

After Death

All for God

All Men Shall Rise Again

Alone With God

Are Miracles Possible Today

Art of Healing

Art of Living – HWD

Art of Living – SD

Art of Relaxation

Art of Winning Friends

Astral Body – 19 Elements

Astral Body-Ego

Astral Body – Feeling the Bliss of the Soul

Astral Body-Mind and Intellect

Astral Body – Seven Main Centers of Energy

Attaining Inner Peace 2

Attaining Inner Peace

Attaining Spiritual Wealth

Paramahansa Yogananda with Dr. Minott Lewis and Mrs. Lewis (affectionately known as “Mama”)

Attaining True Prosperity

Awaken Your Divine Will

Awaken Your Will Power

Balancing Your Life

Banish Bad Habits

Banish Fear and Worry

Banish Fear Forever

Banishing Fear Permanently

Be a Divine Magnet

Be a Fisher of Souls

Be a Smile Millionaire

Be a Spiritual Magnet

Be Master of Your Habits

Be of Good Cheer

Be Still and Know

Be Ye Therefore Perfect

Bible Interpretation Romans 12th Chapter

Blueprint of Creation

Bringing God into Daily Life

Building World Brotherhood

Paramahansa Yogananda and Dr. Minott Lewis at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933

Call of the Soul

Can Man Hasten His Evolution

Can Religion Be Scientific

Can the Saints Help Us

Can Thought Change Matter

Change Your Life as You Would Like

Changing Habits at Will

Christ Human or Divine

Christianizing Business

Church in Your Home

Claiming Your Divine Birthright

Cloud or Seat of Virtue – Part 1

Cloud or Seat of Virtue – Part 2

Cloud or Seat of Virtue – Part 3

Concentration – the Key to Success

Cosmic Destiny

Cosmic Dream – HWD

Cosmic Dream – SD

Cosmic Masquerade

Cosmic Motion Picture

Paramahansa Yogananda with Dr. and Mrs. Lewis – Encinitas, 1939

Courage through Faith

Death – The End or The Beginning

Death ‒ What Is It

Deciding a Better Destiny

Desire ‒ The Tyrant of the World

Development of Spiritual Consciousness

Discipleship Today

Discover Gods Reality

Discussing The Holy Science

Divine Love- True Friendship

Do Affirmations Have Power

Do We Have Free Will

Do We Reincarnate

Does Hell Really Exist

Dream Nature of the World

Easter Awakening

Eternal War – Good and Evil

Evil Its Cause and Cure

Expand Your Consciousness

Exploring Inner Space

Dr. Lewis celebrating Paramahansa Yogananda’s birthday

Face of God

Faith is the Way to Know God

Faith is the Window through Which God Shines

Family That Prays Together

Fathers Day Message

Feel the Christ Within

Finding God in Service

Finding the Greatest Love

Finding Your Soul Companion

Follow the Path of the Great Ones

Food Fasting and Fads

From Nervousness to Calmness

Garden of Eden Rediscovered

Genesis Explained

God ‒ Father or Mother

God ‒ Personal or Impersonal

God Is Joy

Gods Boatman

Gods Cosmic Plan

Gods Number One Enemy – Ego

Dr. Minott Lewis, SRF San Diego Temple

Great Saints and Their Mission

Greater Than Will Power

Guru – The Guide to the Infinite

Happiness in Balance

Happiness Through Simplicity

Happiness vs Eternal Joy

Harvest Is Waiting

Heaven Lies Within

Highway to God

Highway to the Infinite

Holy Ghost Symbol or Fact

How Can the World Be Saved

How God Made the Universe

How to Attract True Friends

How to Be In Tune with Christ

How to Calm the Storm of Restlessness

How to Concentrate

How to Conquer Death

How to Develop Initiative

How to Develop the Sense of Feeling – Love

How to Evolve Soul Qualities Or Involution

How to Find True Prosperity

How To Get Along With Others

How to Grasp Truth

How to Live Victoriously

How to Make Life Worth Living

How to Overcome Nervousness

How to Overcome Restlessness and Worry

How to Overcome Temptation

How to Pray Effectively

How to Pray Successfully

How to Recognize a True Master

How to Retain Youth and Vigor

How to Stay Young

How to Talk With God

How to Work Creatively

How Yoga Can Increase the Sensitivity

Humility The Herald of Freedom

Importance of Introspection

Increasing Your Mental Powers

Paramahansa Yogananda with Dr. Minott Lewis and Mrs. Lewis

India’s Priceless Heritage

Inner Harmony

Intellect vs Intuition

Introspection

Intuiting the Scriptures

Intuition vs Reason

Is Life Just

Is Life Predestined

Is Real Christianity Alive Today

Is Sainthood Possible Today

Is Salvation for All

Is There Justice in Life

Is This World Real

Is World Brotherhood Possible

Is Your Life Predestined

Jesus Christ – Human or Divine – SD

Joy Through Simple Living

Key to Concentration

Key to Getting Rid of Body Consciousness

Kingdom of God Is Within

Kriya Yoga and the Future of the World

Kriya Yoga – Bible Reading Ezekiel Verses

Kriya Yoga – Science of Yoga

Kriya Yoga – The Highway to Freedom

Last Day

Laws of Happy Marriage

Lesson of the Manger

Life Hereafter

Light That Guides

Live For God Alone

Living Spiritually in a Worldly Environment

Living With A Purpose

Living Without Fear

Lost Word – Comparison of Esoteric Masonry to SRF

Lost Word

Love God With All Thy Heart

Love the Heavenly Gift

Love Ye One Another

Love Your Enemies

Make Habit Serve You

Paramahansa Yogananda, Dr. Lewis, Rajarsi Janakananda, Yogacharya J. Oliver Black, Brother Bhaktananda, 1951 Convocation

Making Habits Help You

Making Marriage Holy

Mans Need for God

Man – The Image of God

Masters Last Days

Meaning of Easter

Metaphysical Cause of War

Metaphysical Significance of the SRF Lotus Symbol

Miracles Today

More Tempting Than Temptation

Must We Suffer For Salvation

Necessity of Yoga

Need of Suffering

Nervousness – Its Cause and Cure

Nervousness – The Cause and Cure

Non-Violence – To What Extent

Outwitting Satan

Overcoming Nervousness

Paramahansa Yogananda

Passkey to Peace

Path of Discipleship

Path of Love

Path of Wisdom

Peace in Troubled Times

Peace Through Divine Unity

Perfect Health Through Yoga

Personal Peace in a Troubled World

Personal Reflections

Physical Body – How Yoga Can Increase the Sensitivity of Our Sense of Hearing

Physical Body – The Senses – Organs and Regeneration – Sight

Power in Willingness

Power of Concentration – 1960

Power of Concentration – SD – 1957

Power of Enthusiasm

Power of Humility

Power of Right Attitude

Power of Thought

Power of Truth

Power That Heals

Practical Spiritual Methods

Prayer That God Answers – HWD

Prayer That God Answers – SD

Preparing for the Future Life

Prokhas and Probhas – Hari Hari Chant

Pure in Heart

Razor’s Edge

Real Joy of Living

Reality Behind Creation – Bible Interpretation

Realization vs Booklearning

Realize the Presence of Christ

Realizing the Presence of God

Reflections in Life

Regaining Paradise Lost

Reincarnation

Relaxation – Key to Happiness

Resurrect the Christ in You

Resurrection From Delusion – Easter

Resurrection – Easter

Resurrection

Reward of Sin

Dr. and Mrs. Lewis

Sacramental Marriage

Salvation Through Yoga

Science of Religion

Secrets of Balanced Living

Seek God Now

Sense Pleasures – Poisoned Honey

Sensitizing the Sight Within Us – Part 2

Sensorium – Spiritual Sounds

Serve God in All

Short Route to Heaven

Shortcuts to Salvation

Sitting in the Silence

Soul and Other States of Consciousness

Soul Reascension

Spiritual Blindness

Stillness Within

Success and Happiness

Survival of Civilization

Three Vehicles – Physical Astral and Causal

Tribute to Master

True Baptism

True Charity

True Mission of the Churches

True Prosperity

Truth About Reincarnation

Tuning Out Troubles

Twenty-third Psalm Interpretation

Universality of Religion

Using the Power of Thought That We May Change

Voice of God – Doctor’s Last Lecture

Voice of God

Waking From the Cosmic Sleep

Way to a Higher Life

Way to Immortality

Way to Inner Peace

Way to World Peace

What Is Death?

What Is God Like?

What is Heaven Like?

What is Heaven?

What is Man?

What Is Salvation?

What Is The Comforter?

What is the Holy Ghost?

What is the Trinity? – 1955

What is True Baptism?

What Makes Men Neighbors?

What Yoga Means?

What You Should Know About Karma

Where is Heaven?

Where is Paradise?

White Stone of Revelation

Who May Become a Disciple?

Why Are We Not Born Equals?

Why Death Steals Our Loved Ones

Why God Allows Evil

Why Say Ye Lord Lord

Why You Should Develop Magnetism

Will All Have Salvation?

With Love Possessed

Worlds a Stage

Worlds End When

Worship That Touches God

Yoga Can Help You

Yoga for Westerners

Yoga Makes the Heavenly Forces Visible

Yoga Will Secure Your Life in God

Yoga Its Meaning and Aim

Yoga – The Key to Getting Rid of Body Consciousness

You Can Change Your Personality

Your Hidden Talent

Your Place in Life

Your Power of Choice

Your Value to God

Your Wishing Tree – The Power of Mind