Every incarnation seemingly ends with a Life Review — either just after you leave your body — as the NDE folks tell us — or in the days and weeks leading up to that final event. Your purpose is revealed and you get to see how you succeeded or failed in your Divine Assignment. Why wait till the end? Start … Read More
Once when Swamiji was traveling with Lawrence in Europe, they went out to dinner with a married couple who are friends of Swamij’s but not connected with Ananda. Afterward, Lawrence exclaimed, What a relief to get away from those two! The negativity between them was so thick you could cut it with a knife.” “It was?” Swamiji said. “I didn’t … Read More
Where are you now? Where are you going? And how are you going to get there? Sometimes the hardest thing to figure out is, “What should I do next?” Forward for one person may be backwards for someone else. Paramhansa Yogananda said you only have to practice 1% of what he taught to make great spiritual progress. But which 1%? … Read More
By the time I got to Swamij’s lecture it was standing room only and I had to sit on the floor of the middle aisle. It didn’t matter where I was in the room; when Swamiji began to speak, I felt as if he were inside my spine, speaking directly to my soul. I don’t know how else to explain … Read More
Asha delves into the age-old question: can humans truly comprehend the essence of God?
During the hours when Swamiji was having open-heart surgery, I led a prayer vigil in the temple of the Ananda Sacramento community where I lived. A few others joined me, but mostly I prayed alone. Swamiji was in a hospital nearby, and afterward, I wanted to go see him. Each time I tried, however, so many others were there before … Read More
Adjacent to the lobby of the hotel where Swamiji and a few of us were staying there was a small jewelry store. For hours every day, a woman sat alone behind the counter. “I never see any customers in there,” Swamiji said. There was nothing in the shop that Swamiji wanted to buy, but the next day we went in. … Read More
Introduction The first time I saw Swami Kriyananda was in a tent set up behind the Beta Chi fraternity house on the campus of Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California. It was late November 1969. He was in his early forties. I was twenty-two years old. Usually, the tent served as an expanded venue for the parties for which the … Read More
Sanaatan Dharma is the eternal and universal truth that underlies all religions. Truth is one and eternal, and in this talk Asha shares how each one of us can tune into our individual dharma through meditation, introspection and self-honesty. Asha explores how important it is to persevere on the spiritual path despite our internal resistances. #dharma #karma #sanatandharma Mini retreat … Read More
Asha’s last satsang in Europe on her tour this year, sharing with the meditation group in Rome about how to develop perfect love, how to have faith in God and walk this path of Self-realisation victoriously! Thank you Asha!
