Kriyananda came into this life with an unusually high level of spiritual realization and a very clear sense of his duty to God and Guru.
News, Swami Kriyananda
Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi
Spiritual Directors of Ananda Sangha Worldwide
Meditation
Three Steps to Deepening Your Meditations
Without concentration, which helps interiorize the life-force, any time spent supposedly meditating is largely ineffective. In very deep meditation the prana becomes completely focused at the spiritual eye, and the body’s need for oxygen and breath ceases.
Health and Healing, Spiritualizing Daily Life
The Placebo Effect in Daily Life
The “placebo effect” illustrates the importance of the mind, of consciousness, for both wellness and disease. It is our consciousness, working through the subtle laws of magnetism, which creates our circumstances.
Happiness
Feast on Joy
The natural food for the mind is joy, and we’re always hungry until we find the ability to feast on that joy.
Paramhansa Yogananda, Spiritual Development, Spiritualizing Daily Life
Paramhansa Yogananda's Spiritual Pledge for Students
I shall strictly refuse to hear or read unkind discussions of others.
Happiness, Spiritualizing Daily Life, Success
How to Bring Joy into Work
As we move more fully into Dwapara Yuga, we can see the first glimmers of a global shift from competition to cooperation. How can we become agents of change, especially at work where competition is still highly rewarded?
Health and Healing, Meditation
The Five Aspects of Effective Prayer
Prayer helps us to open our consciousness to the flow of God’s grace. By praying, we make a conscious connection with God that otherwise wouldn’t be there, and thereby attune ourselves more fully to Him.
Spiritualizing Daily Life
Our Most Important Challenge Spiritually
Learning to direct the energy of the heart is probably our most important challenge spiritually. If we want to awaken to our true state of unity with the Divine, we must learn to control our feelings and to channel them in a positive direction.
Success
Five Things That Hold Us Back Spiritually
The ultimate culprit that holds us back spiritually is the non-use of Paramhansa Yogananda’s techniques. The failure to use the spiritual tools given by the Guru puts us out of attunement with him.
Spiritualizing Daily Life
Keys To Changing Your Karma
The more energy and will power you put into changing a particular karma, the sooner that karma will dissipate and the sooner the good karma you’re now creating will start to bear fruit.
Spiritual Development
Learning that Nothing is Ours
When we share, we are affirming our faith in God, and that we are a part of everyone. This is how we all need to live. Everything we do, we should do for Him. When we live that way, we find that whatever we give comes back to us a thousand-fold.
Happiness, Health and Healing, Spiritualizing Daily Life
When Worries Howl at You
The repetition of this mantra will begin to drive out all other thoughts and desires, until your consciousness begins to rotate around that single phrase, “God, God, God.”
Happiness, Health and Healing
Spiritual Checklist for the New Year
A tool for the New Year.
Spiritualizing Daily Life, Success
Breath: Secret to Control over Life Itself
To learn to interiorize one’s awareness completely can take many years, but even small progress in breath control can mean a great deal. The corresponding improvement in mental control could help you stay calm amid severe trials, to heal others with peace and kindness, and to concentrate successfully on your work.
Spiritualizing Daily Life
Tools for Dealing with Change
Most of the stress and pain associated with change is the result of wishing that things were other than they are. Learn to accept life and much of the anxiety associated with change will disappear.
Health and Healing, Spiritualizing Daily Life
How to Build Fulfilling Relationships
A great sense of relaxation comes as we realize that relationships are given to us primarily to help us learn and grow, especially in our ability to accept and to love. Relationships lived in this manner hold the promise of deep fulfillment.
Health and Healing, Recipes
Paramhansa Yogananda’s Nine-Day Cleansing and Revitalizing Diet
ParamahnsaYogananda called this Nine-Day Cleansing Diet “a method for rejuvenating the body cells and awakening the latent powers of the mind and the inner forces of the soul.”
Swami Kriyananda
A Renunciate Order for the New Age
Some may think, “I’ve already committed myself to the spiritual quest as deeply as I can. Is it necessary to take an outward formal step to make that statement of commitment?”
Spiritual Development
Living by Faith
Faith is much more practical than most people realize. There is an infinite reservoir of divine love and support, and if you open yourself to that flow it will sustain you.
Happiness, Spiritualizing Daily Life, Success
Three Key Attitudes for Difficult Times
Today many people are fearful for the future. How can we stay open and expansive in this time of uncertainty and turmoil? How do we remember that God is always supporting and guiding us?