Dear Friends, We send our heartfelt wishes that your Christmas season be filled with peace and joy. May you feel you are like the three wise men bearing gifts of divine love with each gift you give. Yogananda tells us that the three wise men who traveled from the East to visit the baby Jesus were our gurus — Babaji, … Read More
Ananda Christmas Album Preview
Dear all – I wanted to share with you some of the new recordings we’ve been working on these past few months, combined with others to make up a full Ananda Christmas music experience! We’ll be releasing the CD later in 2012, so please forgive imperfections in these, like the volume being too loud or soft. Happy listening! The Christ … Read More
Was Jesus Christ a “Firebrand Revolutionary?”
Seldom has a great master come into the world with such an outwardly commanding and heroic role as Jesus.
How to Achieve Glowing Health and Vitality: A 10-Point Guide
Man has the independence and free will to live in the house of life with its three windows open or closed. When man closes the windows of life, he shuts out the three divine rays and finds himself living in the darkness of physical disease, mental disquietude, or abysmal soul-ignorance.
Connecting Attitudes with Illness: The Science of the Pulse
In my practice I try to present the deeper aspects of Ayurveda in a way that helps people see the connection between their attitudes and the “imbalances” that lead to illness, and how their attitudes relate to their karmic lessons in this lifetime.
Our Most Important Challenge Spiritually
Learning to direct the energy of the heart is probably our most important challenge spiritually. If we want to awaken to our true state of unity with the Divine, we must learn to control our feelings and to channel them in a positive direction.
Escaping Persecution: The Journey from Russia to Ananda
I had been attending yoga classes for about two years when three men in dark suits appeared one day and arrested our teacher. Everyone knew that someone from the class had betrayed him by reporting him to the KGB. Later we learned that our teacher had been arrested for distributing the yoga literature he had translated.
Vaastu: The Science of Bringing Spirit into Form
Vaastu is the science of bringing Spirit into physical manifestation in the form of a building. A building designed and constructed according to Vaastu principles becomes “alive” with prana or life force. The building functions much like a radio that can only receive and transmit beneficial energies, and cosmic energy bathes the entire building.
How Well Do You Get Along with Others? – A Checklist
When we reach outward from our egos to a broader reality, our consciousness and self-identity expand.
Break the Hypnosis of Age
Looking back, I can see where the downhill slide started – in the mind! I had embraced the thought-form so prevalent during the years I was growing up: that the retirement phase of life is the beginning of the end, and that it was “all downhill” from there.