On February 1st, 2015, I paused in my years of service with Ananda Sangha Worldwide to begin a year-long sabbatical. In many ways, it was the best and happiest year of my life. I had the time to do many of the things I always wanted to do, but had never found the time to stop long enough to do … Read More
How to Awaken Your True Potential
Are you ready to take serious steps to discover the hidden resources of divine joy, love, and power within you? Paramhansa Yogananda, one of the best-loved spiritual teachers of modern times, offers step-by-step guidance to help you awaken your true potential.
I Am Spirit
Paramhansa Yogananda writes in his book, How to Have Courage, Calmness, and Confidence: As a devotee on the spiritual path, give little weight to the trials that beset you. Be even minded. Walk with courage. Go forward from day to day with calm, inner faith. Eventually, you will pass beyond every shadow of bad karma, beyond all tests and difficulties, … Read More
Screening of Awake Movie at UK Parliament in London
The House of Lords in the UK Parliament recently had an Indian spiritual event called “Awakening”, hosted by Lord and Lady Popat, and part of this event was a screening of “Awake” a biographical documentary about Paramhansa Yogananda. Read more about it in the articles below: Screening of ‘Awake: The life of Yogananda’ at the House of Lords Event celebrating … Read More
Successful Spiritual Fair in Pune
Ananda Pune recently held a spiritual fair and launched an “100 Years of Energization Exercises” campaign. Over 800 people were reached through the fair and over 100 attended an additional workshop.
Celebrating 100 Years of the Energization Exercises: A Story of a Heavenly Astral Party!
Did you know? This year Yogananda is celebrating 100 years of his divine energization exercises. He is extremely happy, and so he recently organized a heavenly party in the astral worlds, to dance and rejoice with all the angels. As they were making merry, suddenly an idea popped up into Yogananda’s mind: he decided to send some angels down to … Read More
Another Laurel for the Answer Movie
The Answer, a movie about Swami Kriyananda’s life with Paramhansa Yogananda, has earned its first laurel from Europe as Nominee Best Feature Film at the prestigious Independent Days International Film Festival in Karlsruhe, Germany. This is our 15th Laurel with 3 more already in the offing. See the laurels
New Ananda Healthcare Clinic in Pune, India
Recently we dedicated a new Ananda Integrated Healthcare Clinic in Pune, started by doctors Mansi and Amar Agarwal and Dr. Brahmachari Aditya. It’s only a few blocks from the Ananda Center. They’ll offer allopathic and non-traditional healing traditions, combined with Yogananda’s teachings.
The Christmas Mystery
Dear Friend, Even as small children we were gathered up, still asleep, and carried to the midnight Christmas Eve service at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. Somewhere between wakefulness and dreaming, standing with our heads about level with a forest of adult knees, we watched, awestruck, as the crèche scene came to life. Over our heads we heard the minster’s sonorous, … Read More
10 Reasons Community Is for Kids!
The final chapter of Paramhansa Yogananda’s spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi, finds him walking with his dear friend and first American disciple, Dr. Lewis through his Encinitas Hermitage grounds. Dr. Lewis asks about a construction project underway on the far side of the grounds and Yogananda begins to describe his vision for world brotherhood colonies: In these beautiful surroundings I … Read More
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