Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on March 24th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is Who Is This Son of Man? (Palm Sunday) Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on … Read More
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Embracing Unity — Living Our Highest Potential
Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on January 7th, 2024. You are not your shortcomings, you are not your failures, you are not your accomplishments. You are light, all blessed, all-pervading, all loving, all joyful, Nayaswami Ananta assures us. In this new year, he urges all truth seekers to try to nurture and … Read More
How Do You Meditate to Calm Your Mind?
Watch Nayaswami Ananta answer this important question and giving us a deeper understanding about meditation and how it can benefit your life. Learn how to calm the restless, rajasic mind through time-tested meditation techniques that involve focusing inward on the breath, relaxing the body, and receiving guidance from enlightened ones. Transcript Question: How do you meditate to calm your mind? … Read More
What Is a Good Mantra for Meditation?
Watch Nayaswami Ananta answer this important question and giving us a deeper understanding of meditation. Sanskrit mantras have vibrational power that connects us to higher consciousness when meditating. Learn how to choose effective mantras to go deeper in practice and the importance of using just one mantra consistently over time for the greatest depth of experience. Transcript Question: What is … Read More
How Do You Meditate to Open Your Heart?
Watch Nayaswami Ananta answer this important question and giving us a deeper understanding about meditation and how it can benefit your life. Nayaswami Ananta is a founding member of Ananda Village in California. He and his wife, Maria, directed our Ananda community in Sacramento for over 20 years. They returned to Ananda Village in 2009 and serve the community in … Read More
Secrets of Effective Prayer
Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on November 5th, 2023. Paramhansa Yogananda showed by his own example that prayer is a power, provided we believe deeply in that power. What we pray for has to be united with the divine plan, the divine will. Nayaswami Ananta shares the secrets of effective prayers and … Read More
The Wisdom of Ages: Finding Your Path to Truth
Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on September 24th 2023. Truth is one and eternal. In our hearts, we can recognize this truth. When we look at the different religions and spiritual paths, we can see the underlying truth in them. But to realize the one truth for ourselves, we have to dive … Read More
Swami Kriyananda’s 75th Discipleship Anniversary Celebration
Join us for an inspiring evening in honor of Swami Kriyananda’s 75th anniversary of discipleship to Paramhansa Yogananda. Swamiji’s lifelong dedication to God and guru still radiates a Divine magnetism – one we can actively draw into our own lives. Let us come together – drawing deeply on the blessings of discipleship to our search for God. Recorded September 12th … Read More
Do You Need a Guru? (Yogananda’s Teachings)
Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on July 23 2023. Everybody knows at the center of their being what is the right thing to do. But illusion gets in the way of people doing what they know is right. Maya (illusion) actively tries to cloud our judgment with worldly desires. Once we realize … Read More
The Mystery of the Inner Kingdom
Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta recorded at Ananda Village on May 28th 2023. While living in this world of duality, we often concentrate too much on outward forms, on the veils, and forget about the light shining through them. What is real are the realities of the inner kingdom: love, joy, peace, calmness, power, light, and … Read More
