Sunday Service from Ananda Village

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Ananda?

Ananda is dedicated to the belief, born of experience, that you can live in joy. We teach effective techniques for expanding your sense of self, such as meditation, Kriya Yoga, spiritual Hatha Yoga, and divine friendship.

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Our Inspiration

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Paramhansa Yogananda has been called the father of yoga and meditation in the West. His Autobiography helped spark and inspire a spiritual revolution across the world. Among the over three-hundred (influential spiritual voices) I interviewed about their key spiritual influences, a high percentage named a book, and by far the book most often mentioned was Yogananda’s unique memoir.

— Phil Goldberg, American Veda
Paramhansa Yogananda (1893 – 1952), best known as the author of Autobiography of a Yogi, was the first guru from India to make his home permanently in the United States.Paramhansa Yogananda showed how everyone, by means of meditation, can realize God in their daily lives as a tangible, loving reality. He taught an ancient meditation technique known as Kriya Yoga, by which one can quickly attain Self-realization. More
Swami Kriyananda (1926–2013), is a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda and the founder of Ananda’s worldwide movement. At the request of Yogananda, Swami Kriyananda dedicated his life to lecturing and writing, and has also produced hundreds of pieces of music, to help others to find joy within. More
With the passing of Swami Kriyananda in 2013, Nayaswami Jyotish was named by Kriyananda as his spiritual successor. Jyotishji met Swami Kriyananda in 1966, working closely with him and his wife, Devi (who came to Ananda in 1969), to build Ananda’s work around the world. Both Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi were named kriyacharyas by Swami Kriyananda, and disseminate the liberating and ancient Kriya Yoga technique of Paramhansa Yogananda’s lineage. More

Meditation & Kriya Yoga

Learn to Meditate

Meditation is a technique for personal growth that has been practiced for thousands of years around the world with repeatable results. There is no aspect of your life that cannot be improved by meditation, whether it be in business, relationships, or health. The highest purpose of meditation, however, is to discover your Highest Self.
We offer a free, five-day email series for a basic overview of how to meditate, specifying posture options, where and when to meditate, and a simple, effective technique. Signup includes a subscription to our weekly newsletter of inspiration and events.

Be a Warrior for the Light

God’s light is within me and around me. With the sword of faith in my hand, with the love of God in my heart, I am a warrior of light. I join my brothers and sisters everywhere to overcome fear with faith, hatred with love, and disease with health. We all are warriors of light. We fill the world with God’s light.

Completed Broadcasts

The prayer event hosted by Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi from Ananda Village on August 26 concluded the worldwide Warriors of Light live broadcasts. Please continue to affirm and share light and harmony for the healing of our globe.

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Online Course: Ananda Course in Meditation

Whether or not you are new to meditation, this course will help you develop a deep and consistent practice. With ample feedback from meditators with decades of experience and your own persistence, you will awaken your true nature: a pure reflection of divine peace, joy, and love.

Ananda is known for its expertise in meditation, and for almost 50 years has trained teachers in techniques grounded in the highest yogic practices of India, as brought to the West by Paramhansa Yogananda.

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Kriya Yoga

Kriya Yoga is an ancient meditation technique of energy and breath control, or pranayama. It is also a comprehensive spiritual path of additional meditation practices and guidance for living.

The Kriya technique is given through personal initiation by one of our Kriya Yogacharyas. Initiation requires preparation through practice of other meditation techniques and study of Paramhansa Yogananda’s teachings.

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Community

Let us join together in this wave of social transformation, and through our practice of meditation create a spirit of global unity that can lead to lasting peace.

— Nayaswami Devi

Connect Online

Ananda is very active online: Live events, satsangs, group guided meditations, and personal support through email and chat. Learn More

Find a Local Center

Ananda has over 150 centers and meditation groups in over 45 countries which offer group meditations and classes. Learn More

Experience Community

Ananda has developed eight communities in the US, Europe, and India. Many offer internships where you can stay and experience community firsthand. Learn More

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Recent Posts and Videos

Will God Give Me a Relationship?

Dear Souhardo, God does not bargain with us. I think you are asking for a bargain “If I give you so much devotion and spiritual practice will you give me ______? (in this case a particular girlfriend).” God is deeply

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Be a Warrior for the Light

Healing Prayers for the World (With Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi)

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Ananda Music

Home Is a Green Hill (by Swami Kriyananda)

Meditation and Insomnia

Dear Friend, I am very sorry to hear of these troubles. These are not typical of those who begin a regular meditation practice. If these symptoms were occurring while meditating it would be easier to correlate the symptoms with the

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Meditation

Meditation: The Most Important Thing, Ever! (Podcast)

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Ananda Music, Music to Awaken Superconsciousness

The Need for Inner Experience – In The Spirit, Ep. 8

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Give God the Responsibility

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How to Transcend the Ego

How To Dissolve All Astral and Causal Karma

Dear Karen, Even after the highest nirbikalpa samadhi, all yogis need to work out their astral and causal karma. All of them. Some succeed here on the material plane to achieve such full liberation (freedom from all material, astral causal

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Ananda Music, Chanting at Ananda

6-Hour Chanting of the Sacred Mantra “AUM Guru”

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Be a Warrior for the Light

Healing Prayers for the World (with Shyama and Dhyan)

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A Touch More Light Podcast

Give God the Responsibility – Commentary

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Give God the Responsibility

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Righteous War

Dear Friend, Yes, we will certainly see righteous warfare, but perhaps we should ask what a righteous war might look like! Paramhansa Yogananda said that World War II was a righteous war. He saw it as part of the process

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Faith in God — The Deeper Meaning of the Story of Job

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Relax Upward

Spiritual Growth

The Magnificent Bird of Paradise

Wise Use of Money for the Devotee

Dear NS, Think of money as a resource, as is your time and your energy. All our resources ultimately come from God, and as devotees we want to use them to live more completely in attunement with God and the

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Have a Little Faith

Tinnitus and Inner Sound and Light

Dear Friend, I, too, have tinnitus. I understand that it takes many forms in terms of the sounds one hears and the way one describes those sounds. However, some of the terms you use to describe tinnitus sound suspiciously like

Dealing with Physical Pain During Meditation

Dear Marta, Is withdrawal possible? Yes, but the stronger the pain, the more difficult it becomes. It is also a personal thing: where we are at, meditatively speaking. Highly advanced meditators can withdraw their consciousness even during acute pain, during

Is Sadhana (Spiritual Practice) Enough?

Dear Friend, No spiritual effort is ever lost, so says Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. A yogi who dies without having attained liberation will be reborn into circumstances conducive to continuing those efforts, Krishna goes on to say. Krishna extols

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Three Unexpected Gifts

Guru-Disciple Relationship

The Tree of Life

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The Parable of the Frightened Boy

Healing

Spirit in Nature Essences: Yogananda’s Insights

Spiritual Growth

Living in the Present Moment

Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Renewal Every Day

Tuning Into Guidance About Marriage

Dear Rajul, This sense of ‘knowing’ that you ask for comes when we attune to higher consciousness and are able to hear the whispers that come from the divine to our soul. Meditation practice helps to quiet the restless mind

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You Can Get There from Here

Spiritual Growth

A Boy Trying to Fit in with the World

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Three Questions

Can I Get to a Point Where I No Longer “Lose It”?

Dear Pooja, Please be reassured that everyone has their moments of despair, fear, worry, or just plain “losing it!” Yes, as we grow spiritually and mature our ups and downs will even out and bring to us ever-increasing satisfaction. While

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Our Own Possibilities

Spiritual Growth

How to Develop Clarity in a Time of Confusion

Meditation

Ever Present Joy

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I Can Choose

Daily Meditator

Help Me to Make Spiritual Progress

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Is Freedom from Karma Possible?

Spiritual Growth

The Eight Meannesses of the Heart: How to Overcome Them – Part 6, Condemnation

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Guided Meditations

Weekly Guided Kriya Meditation

Sep 22 5:30 am PDT • Sep 22 12:30 GMT • Sep 22 18:00 IST

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Awake and Ready Yoga

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Living the Yoga Sutras: Practical Steps To Higher Awareness

In-Depth Online Course Starting October 6 with Self-Paced Version Also Available

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras are a stirring cry to us to transcend all religious differences. Their basic message is, “Here are methods that can be tested and proved. You can know what God is from personal experience.”

— Demystifying Patanjali, by Swami Kriyananda

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Supported Silent Retreat

New dates: 
August 26-29 2021
September 2-5, 2021, September 16-19, 2021,
October 7-10, October 28-November 1, 2021

Still your mind and rejuvenate your spirit in a COVID-safe group environment at the Ananda Meditation Retreat, just 6 miles from Ananda Village. Our meditation gardens and serene forest setting provide the perfect backdrop for you to go deep into silence and re-connect with your true Self.

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Thank You, God – Tithing as a Spiritual Practice

Tithing is a spiritual practice, a conscious expression of gratitude given without condition to the source of your inspiration– God. We invite you to try it. Hear the stories of others but test this teaching in your own life and see what transpires.
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