Love and Relationships - What's going on in culture today that is making connection so challenging? Is it our approach, the status of the world, not enough time? There are no accidents, but this clip is part of a spontaneous intimate conversation between Asha Nayaswami and I before her actual interview began.  It is pure gold in my view.  Quite enlightening as to why dating, coupling and coming together and staying together is such a challenge at this time in history.  Enjoy.    Asha's actual full interview will air soon.  Asha was a spiritual seeker since her early youth. While studying at Stanford University in 1969, she heard Swami Kriyananda speak for the first time. “I knew the moment he walked into the room that he possessed the consciousness I had long been seeking.”  She soon became a founding member of the new community Swami was starting near Nevada City, California, called Ananda Village, based on Yogananda’s dream of world brotherhood colonies for “simple living and high thinking.”  Swami Kriyananda placed Asha in the role of teaching and counseling soon after her arrival. She also served as Swami's correspondence secretary and personal assistant for many years.   She has served as one of the spiritual directors of Ananda Palo Alto since 1987, guiding the development of Ananda’s work in the San Francisco Bay Area, including helping to launch Living Wisdom Schools and Ananda Farm, and supporting a large staff and volunteer team involved in East West Bookshop, Ananda Community, Ananda centers and meditation groups in the Bay Area, Ananda music, and a vital, lively theater arts program.