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Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi Through the Years

Jyotish and Swami Kriyananda
in the early days of Ananda.
Devi in the early days of Ananda.
Devi in the early years of Ananda.
People building Jyotish and Devi’s home.
Jyotish and Devi in 1985.
Jyotish and Devi in 1986.
Jyotish and Devi in the early days of Ananda.
Jyotish and his son.
Jyotish, Devi, and their son around 1977.
Jyotish giving a talk in early Ananda.
Jyotish walking Maria Warner to the altar at her wedding.
Jyotish in the early years of Ananda.
Jyotish and Devi in early Ananda.
Jyotish building a dome house.
Devi with friends.
Jyotish and Devi meditating at Mt. Washington in Los Angeles.
Jyotish and Devi praying.
Devi and Swami Kriyananda blessing people at a Sunday service.
Devi talking with girls at the Ananda School.
Devi and Swami Kriyananda listening to music at Swamiji’s birthday weekend.
Jyotish and Devi with the Ananda Village Easter Bunny.
Jyotish, Devi, and Swami Kriyananda at an Ananda School graduation ceremony.
Devi at a workday in Ananda Seattle.
Devi giving a talk.
Jyotish and Devi wearing ministers robes.
Devi and Dhyana.
Jyotish and Devi at Crystal Hermitage
Jyotish and Devi on a bike ride.
Jyotish and Devi at a birthday party.
Devi with two friends.
Jyotish and Devi with Nayaswami scarfs.
Devi and Swami Kriyananda
Devi at The Expanding Light at Ananda Village.
Jyotish and Devi in the
summer of 2009.
Jyotish giving a Saturday
satsang in India.
Jyotish acting in a play.
Jyotish meditating by Lotus Lake at Joyful Arts Festival 2006.
Jyotish and Devi raising their hands for the song “Many
Hands Make a Miracle” by Swami Kriyananda.
Jyotish at a work day in 2005.
Jyotish and Devi giving a talk in India.
Devi giving a talk at Ananda Village in 2010.
Devi listening to Jyotish talking at Inner Renewal Week 2011.
Jyotish and Devi blessing
people at a Sunday service.

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