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.
Spiritual Development
Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi
Spiritual Directors of Ananda Sangha Worldwide
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?
Spiritual Development
Lord, I Am Thine
The life of a disciple can be summed up as ever deeper self-giving into the vibration of God and Guru. As we offer up our limitations, we open ourselves to their influence and they can enter our heart of hearts and change us.
Spiritual Development, Success
Persevering on the Spiritual Path
There’s nothing we can ever do that will cause God not to love us. For devotees, the main thing is to keep your lamps filled with the oil of devotion and to keep offering your love to God. After a while, if a day goes by when you don’t express your love for God, it’s like a day without food.
Swami Kriyananda
The Example of Swami Kriyananda
Divine friendship is one of the most important things that Swami Kriyananda has expressed in his life, and also modeled for us spiritually. He relates mainly to the Divinity within us. That’s why it’s called “divine friendship.”
Meditation
Is There Best Way To Worship?
In order to look for “the best,” you must make comparisons, judging one thing superior and all others inferior. People who say, “Only my religion is the best,” create dreadful divisions in the world.
Meditation, Success
Training the Mind to Concentrate
If you can concentrate more deeply, your meditations will be more fulfilling and their depth and length will automatically begin to increase.
Spiritualizing Daily Life
Getting Things Done: The Right Priorities
We don’t get upset when we keep our consciousness aligned with the Divine. The divine energy flows through us and automatically uplifts our consciousness and everything goes right.
Health and Healing
Increase the Love
Love is the light that drives out all darkness in relationships between people. If you have any problem with another person, it’s because the love between you has diminished.
Health and Healing, Success
Become an “Ego Detective!”
The first duty of every soul is to release the hold of ego consciousness, whether one is a renunciate, a householder, or living for God in some other way.
Paramhansa Yogananda, Spiritual Development
Catching the Gita Wave
There are certain times when a big wave comes along and if we catch it, it will carry us a long way spiritually.
Swami Kriyananda
Faith Is My Armor: The Life of Swami Kriyananda (Excerpts)
During their time together at Twenty-Nine Palms, Paramhansa Yogananda gave much personal instruction to his disciple, young Donald Walters, regarding Donald’s own future, and also the future directions of the work.
Swami Kriyananda
The Writing of Faith Is My Armor
In the spring of 2004, Swamiji called and said that with the work starting to grow in India, a short biography of his life was very much needed.
Health and Healing, Spiritualizing Daily Life
Are You Out of Balance?
Love is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. The power of attraction holds families together and keeps the planets in their orbits.
Spiritual Development, Success
Your Strength Is Not Your Own
Real spiritual growth begins when we start to look toward the source of our power.
Health and Healing, Spiritualizing Daily Life
Take Responsibility for Your Health
A diminished flow of life-force is the root cause of disease. If we wait until we’re sick and then address only the symptoms, we will be caught up in a pernicious cycle of disease.
Spiritual Development
Christ’s Resurrection: Its Meaning for Us
One of the most dramatic stories in the Bible is Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and his arrest, crucifixion, and subsequent resurrection. There are many lessons in it.
Spiritualizing Daily Life
Attuning to the Will of God
Each of us has countless opportunities to do God’s will, but it’s not always easy to know what it is or to follow it if it goes against our desires.
Spiritualizing Daily Life
The Way of Ananda Sanghis
Yogananda said that the most useless prayer is to pray for immortality. Why pray for something you already have?
Spiritualizing Daily Life
Dealing with Fear
Fear is a pernicious problem that shuts down our life-force, and starts a negative cycle that becomes self-reinforcing. Fortunately, there are ways to reverse this cycle.