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Stories of Yogananda – Healing Light from Lahiri Mahasaya

Read the Stories of Yogananda introduction Mukunda’s parents were deeply devoted to Lahiri Mahasaya. They always kept a beautiful picture of Lahiri on a small altar in their home. Many times Mukunda could be found meditating in front of the altar with his mother. He learned to love Lahiri more and more as the years passed. Often, during his meditations … Read More

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Center Everywhere, Circumference Nowhere

It’s been months since I’ve written. Life is full to overflowing, and every day is a new challenge just to keep up. I’m sure that sounds familiar – I don’t know anyone who doesn’t feel busy and pressed for time. I have found blessings in busyness though. More than any other time in my life, I feel the horizons of … Read More

A Place Called Ananda, Music and the Arts, Spiritual Community

Winter Renewal Week

As you can tell from Ananda’s homepage, we had a wonderful Winter Renewal Week, with Divine Mother’s added gift of snow. It began snowing Monday morning, and I was amazed to see how many people braved the weather to come to the classes. On Wednesday evening, it snowed about 4 or 5 inches within an hour, and I was able … Read More

A Place Called Ananda, Spiritual Growth

Daily Inspiration

Have you ever clicked on “Daily Inspiration,” near the top of any page on www.ananda.org? If you have, you’ll have seen a saying taken from the book Do It Now!, probably with a related talk by Swami Kriyananda. The sayings are short, inspiring, and extremely practical.

I suppose there’s some cosmic law at work here, …

A Place Called Ananda, Divine Love, Parenting and Education

Stories of Yogananda – Lahiri’s Blessing

Read the Stories of Yogananda introduction In the ancient land of India, in the year 1893, Bhagabati Charan Gosh and Gyan Prabha Gosh had a son they named Mukunda. This divine child would grow up to be the great master Paramhansa Yogananda. Lahiri’s Blessing Mukunda’s mother was a very saintly woman. She knew he was a great soul even when … Read More

A Place Called Ananda, Parenting and Education

Ananda’s Distance Education Initiative

A group of us at Ananda Village are exploring technologies involved in giving the Ananda Sangha, Expanding Light Retreat and Crystal Clarity Publishers an ability to offer online courses for distance learning. As the economic downturn continues and people’s travel budgets are decreasing, we are looking into ways of bringing Yogananda’s teachings closer to people, so that truth-seeking students can … Read More

A Place Called Ananda, Divine Love, Music and the Arts, Parenting and Education, Spiritual Growth

Stories of Yogananda

Some of my earliest memories are hearing stories of his life when my mother and father would paraphrase stories from the Autobiography of a Yogi. My parents made a point to keep Paramhansa Yogananda part of my life. I remember informally acting out several scenes from his life when my mother did an Ananda preschool in our home. It was … Read More