Drawing Power From Pictures

Webinar with Baraquiel, based on Swami Kriyananda’s book “Conversations with Yogananda”. www.anandaindia.org

Gifts of the Magi

by Nayaswami Prakash

In a recent seclusion, this one in a little bungalow below the Ananda monastery, I felt especially close to Christ and our line of Masters. Occasionally footsteps could be heard approaching, then receding— outside the door I would find food, and an aura of kindness, self-offering and divine friendship so palpable that tears would come to my eyes. Into my … Read More

How to Support Others in Times of Loss

by Gita Matlock

Grief is not a linear experience.  It is not something that you leave behind. As a wise friend who lost her son in a tragic gun accident once said to me, “You do not move through grief, you move in it.” Grief does not recede like a tide, you never move past it. The goal of its recovery is not … Read More

Does Pure Love Exist?

by Paramhansa Yogananda

The sun and moon and earth and all things are held together by the love of God. If we want to know God, we must not isolate our love but join it to divine love. In spite of life’s sorrows, and the dance of life and death, we know that God is love. Love cannot be described; it can only … Read More