Question from Geoff: Namaste, I am looking for a spiritual community to live in, and Ananda is at the top of my list of prospective communities. Are all residents at Ananda Village in Nevada City brahmacharis or sannyasis? i.e., have they taken vows of celibacy? Is this a requirement to live there, or do couples live there as well, cohabiting and raising children…
Question from Terri: My nutritionist suggested these energization exercises. I wanted to know if there was somewhere on the internet I could see these demonstrated? Please let me know what are the different ways I could get instruction for these exercises. Thank you
Question from Vinay: Hi, I read this conversation in Autobiography of a Yogi between Sri Yukteshwar and Yogananda where Yogananda accepts his discipline on the condition that his guru reveal God to him. After a long verbal tussle, he accepts it. I want to ask that when Sri Yukteshwar knew that Yogananda was a God realized soul, why did this conversation take place?…
Question from Ashwath: I was just reading ‘A Place Called Ananda’ and I must say that I am simply appalled and disgusted by the treatment given to Swami Kriyanada by the SRF Members! Moreover it feel depressed to my very core when I wonder how could god just stand by and let his devotee wriggle like this in a swamp of misery? Swamiji…
Question from S.Berry: HOW MANY OF THE INSTRUCTORS AND LEADERS OF ANANDA HAVE ACHIEVED SAMADHI?
Question from ellsj: I’m Jewish. I do believe in God, but as a people, we believe the Messiah has not yet come. Therefore, while I believe that Jesus was probably a great man and leader, I do not believe he was the Messiah. I have a deep apprecation for Paramhansa Yogananda, meditate and practice yoga, but want to deepen my spirituality. Can I…
Question from kat: How do you move on from a toxic relationship. I have excerted willpower, prayer, and so on. I cannot break away from this relationship. I am in my mid fifties and have ‘suffered’ with this ‘addiction’ to this man for 20 years. I have been the supporter. Now he has become his own breadwinner and so he treats me poorly…
Question from KP: I’m a kriyaban and have been on the spiritual path for a long time now. I have a some strong fears like fear of closed spaces, lizards, etc. Though I regularly meditate and practice kriya, the fears remain, a little helped maybe. I was wondering if Master said it was okay to get past-life regression done? I have debated a…
Question from ashwin: Ive been meditating for three years now and though I haven’t experienced very deep states of peace during my meditations, yet I am experiencing a strange phenomenon.Every time I listen to certain devotional songs or new age music I am overcome with emotion and I start to weep. Its a state of rapture, of such unfulfillable longing and at the…
Question from jon: Dear friends, How well known is Yogananda in the USA and India. Is he as well known as Ramakrishna? Do people have the same respect for Yogananda as they have for Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, just to take an example. Thank you.
