Sunday Service at Ananda Village

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk withTyagi Dhyan, recorded at Ananda Village on April 14, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is Deeds vs. Intentions Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. Jesus … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on April 7, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is We Are Children of the Light Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on March 24th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is Who Is This Son of Man? (Palm Sunday) Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Sundara Traymar, recorded at Ananda Village on March 17th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is “Reason vs. Intuition”. Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Narayan, recorded at Ananda Village on March 10th, 2024. The only way to find God is through personal experience. Dogma only prevents us from realizing His living presence. That is why all the great saints tell us to use our God-given common sense and test what they say. Through meditation and Kriya … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on March 3rd, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is “By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?” Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on February 18th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is “The Law Is Perfected in Love”. Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on February 11th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is “The Importance of Soul-Receptivity”. Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on February 4th, 2024. Why does an avatar come back to earth? It is because of their great love and eternal commitment to stay with us until we attain freedom. Nayaswami Maria dives into the mystery of the avatar and their world mission, explaining how despite their human … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on January 21st 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is “Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?” Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinacco, recorded at Ananda Village on January 14th, 2024. Swami Kriyananda explained in his book “Awaken to Superconsciousness” that consciousness works through the brain and the body, but consciousness doesn’t require the brain or the body to exist. Erin shares how we can expand our awareness through meditation and Kriya Yoga practice … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on January 7th, 2024. You are not your shortcomings, you are not your failures, you are not your accomplishments. You are light, all blessed, all-pervading, all loving, all joyful, Nayaswami Ananta assures us. In this new year, he urges all truth seekers to try to nurture and … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Shyama, recorded at Ananda Village on December 31st, 2023. A key ingredient in this life journey is love: how do we love God, and how do we love others? When we open our hearts to the Divine, we let go and let God do it. Then, our fears and doubts transform into … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Jaya, recorded at Ananda Village on December 17th 2023. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book “Rays of the One Light” is “What Was the Star of Bethlehem?” Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on December 10th, 2023. At this moment, we are already living in the presence of God. We only need to become more and more aware of it. Nayaswami Parvati tells stories of how Brother Lawrence, in the year 1611, practiced the presence of God in the form … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Brahmachari Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on November 26th 2023. Is karma a blessing or not? Should we embrace it as grace or try to overcome it? Brahmachari Sagar puts these two approaches next to each other and concludes there is a difference between the law of karma and karma itself. Karma is … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Atman, recorded at Ananda Village on November 19th 2023. Join Tyagi Atman on an inner journey to the holy heights of the Himalayas. In this Sunday Service Atman shares profound experiences from his recent pilgrimage to India and the insights they gave him about reincarnation. The reading for this week from Swami … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on November 12th 2023. The parable of the prodigal son is a very comforting way of understanding who we are as devotees on the spiritual path. It brings solace and more open-heartedness. Nayaswami Pranaba tells this famous story from the Bible and explains its deeper meaning of … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on November 5th, 2023. Paramhansa Yogananda showed by his own example that prayer is a power, provided we believe deeply in that power. What we pray for has to be united with the divine plan, the divine will. Nayaswami Ananta shares the secrets of effective prayers and … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinnacco, recorded at Ananda Village on October 29th 2023. “God is right here, ready to help you. All you have to do is ask!” Erin shares how God is ever willing to support and help us, always ready by our side. By offering ourselves fully to God, we can find the joy … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on October 22th 2023. What is the most important thing in prayer? It is love. It is being able to pray to the Divine with infinite love and infinite trust. And we can only find that within ourselves. The path of Kriya Yoga is a very balanced … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on October 15th 2023. Many are familiar with the phrase from the Bible: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God (…), and all of these things shall be added unto you.” Swami Kriyananda said “Having deep faith is the most practical way to live.” But what does … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Sundara Traymar, recorded at Ananda Village on October 8th, 2023. Paramhansa Yogananda said that calmness gives the devotee the power to overcome all obstacles in life and that those who can remain calm under all circumstances are invincible. Sundara shares how to use the sword of discrimination, wisdom, and determination to courageously cut … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on October 1st 2023. When we surrender to God, we open ourselves to His grace and the gifts he wants to share with us. But we may feel resistance, thinking that God does not give us what we want and that we have to give up too … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on September 24th 2023. Truth is one and eternal. In our hearts, we can recognize this truth. When we look at the different religions and spiritual paths, we can see the underlying truth in them. But to realize the one truth for ourselves, we have to dive … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Dhyan, recorded at Ananda Village on September 17th, 2023. Through different stories about experiences with intuition (one of them from a survivor of the Titanic), Dhyan illustrates its unparalleled power. He shares what the true purpose of intuition is and how to develop the transforming power of intuition. The reading for this … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on September 10th 2023. The Beatitudes are an invitation to feel the magnificence of the Divine. Nayaswami Pranaba zooms in on a few of the Beatitudes, explaining their meaning and sharing how we can live them in our own lives. The reading for this week from Swami … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jaya, recorded at Ananda Village on September 3rd 2023. We live in a restless age in which we tend to put a lot of emphasis on the ego. The spiritual traditions that address the ego, often speak about it as our foe. But the real obstacle to overcome is egotism, the ego … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on August 27 2023. Paramhansa Yogananda used to say that the saints are the true custodians of religion because of their inner experience of God. And it is that inner experience that we should seek. Nayaswami Maria shares how our ego gets in the way and creates … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on August 20 2023. When difficulties in life arrive, they often hit us like a bomb, and we drop our energy. When in fact, we need high energy to face our challenges. Nayaswami Parvati explains that how we deal with our tests depends greatly on how we … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on August 13 2023. Paramhansa Yogananda said that when God created this manifestation of duality, he knew evil would also be born. But he knew as well that love would always conquer any evil. Jitendra shares how we can learn to trust more fully in God’s power … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinacco, recorded at Ananda Village on July 30 2023. Yogananda said: God is for everyone. But to be able to receive the spiritual teachings, the soul has to be ready and thirsty for God. Erin explains the different stages of consciousness every soul goes through and how they lead to our divine … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on July 23 2023. Everybody knows at the center of their being what is the right thing to do. But illusion gets in the way of people doing what they know is right. Maya (illusion) actively tries to cloud our judgment with worldly desires. Once we realize … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Brahmachari Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on July 16 2023. Brahmachari Sagar dives into the chapter “The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)” from Autobiography of a Yogi. After meditating for long hours at night, Swami Pranabanda received a second, divine pension from God. Sagar shares what this divine pension is that Swami … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on July 9 2023. Introspection is an essential practice for spiritual development. We need to gain clarity on where we stand, but focus on where we want to go, increasing our attunement. But what is attunement? In a universal sense, attunement can be understood as the way … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Sundara Traymar, recorded at Ananda Village on June 25 2023. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book “Rays of the One Light” is “The Redeeming Light” Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria recorded at Ananda Village on June 18th 2023. In the Eternal Now, there aren’t any barriers or borders; everything is connected and intermingled. Nayaswami Maria gives beautiful illustrations of what the Eternal Now is and how we can experience it ourselves. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book “Rays … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Jaya recorded at Ananda Village on June 4th 2023. Everybody has made and will make mistakes. The single most important thing is to get up again and again. Nayaswami Jaya shares the best way to respond to making a mistake and what not to do. He also explains why the Masters allow … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta recorded at Ananda Village on May 28th 2023. While living in this world of duality, we often concentrate too much on outward forms, on the veils, and forget about the light shining through them. What is real are the realities of the inner kingdom: love, joy, peace, calmness, power, light, and … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Parvati recorded at Ananda Village on May 14th 2023. Nayaswami Parvati points out that even though the topic of this reading is called “Activity vs. Inner Communion”, Swami Kriyananda emphasized the need to make those one. Then, inner communion becomes a stream that is constantly flowing behind everything you do. Nayswami Parvati … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk recorded at Ananda Village on May 7th 2023. During this talk, Erin expands on the importance of balancing work and inward communion. She tells the story of Miramata, a disciple who was struggling with balancing work and inward focus. Receiving seemingly conflicting advice from her guru Paramhansa Yogananda, she had to learn what he … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba recorded at Ananda Village on April 30th 2023. Being born in a world of dualities, dealing with the karmic baggage of past actions, we want to affirm and experience that we are children of God. Karma, the energy invested in directions that take us away from God, needs to be resolved. … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta recorded at Ananda Village on April 23th 2023. Why is it that when we have wealth, health, and success in life, we still feel we are missing something? What will bring us true fulfillment? Nayaswami Ananta explains what we should really aim for and aspire to in life, emphasizing the point … Read More

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Shyama Arati Davis, recorded at Ananda Village on April 16th 2023. Every individual has a unique path to follow. But some practices and attitudes are essential to all who want to grow spiritually and find true happiness. Shyama shares those practices and how we can apply them in our daily life. The reading … Read More