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