Asha reflects on the challenges of maintaining spiritual focus, drawing inspiration from personal experiences and the teachings of Swami Kriyananda. Through humorous anecdotes, Asha shares the importance of maintaining a lighthearted perspective, even in the face of life’s trials. Sunday Service filmed at Ananda Palo Alto Dec 3, 2023
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Piercing the Veil: Connecting to God Through Prayer
The power of prayer is relayed with stories where God healed people when they made even a small effort to attune to God’s wavelength of joy and love. Nayaswami Anandi concludes that God knows our needs even better than we do, and is always ready to answer our prayers if we open our hearts to receive. Recorded in Palo Alto … Read More
Relationships Need Tending
Lovingly tend every relationship, like a garden, until it yields the rich harvest of love.
Mathematical Certainty
Every fulfillment, sooner or later, is cancelled out by a disappointment; every success is replaced by a failure; every joy must yield, in time, to sorrow; every “up” is balanced by a “down.” Isn’t it ironic that, after countless incarnations, we never win a single game? The sum total of all our striving always ends in that final cipher: ZERO!
The Importance of Ananda In the Coming Years (With Swami Kriyananda)
Recorded May 3, 2003 in Palo Alto ABOUT SWAMI KRIYANANDA In 1948 at the age of twenty-two, Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) became a disciple of the Indian yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda. Yogananda is best known for his spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi. In his book he recalls his experiences growing up in India and his life in America. … Read More
Farther Away Than the Stars: Songs and Stories Dedicated to The Divine Mother
Brahmachari Prashad from Ananda Village visited Ananda Palo Alto to share a vocal and instrumental concert, along with storytelling, all woven together with the thread of devotion to Divine Mother.
How Important Are We?
Our lives, like puffs of wind on a handful of dust, soon become nothing. Don’t base your self-definition on what can never last. Base it on your eternal reality, in God.
The Illusion of Ego
The ego is like a sliver of glass in the sun: Any light it emits only reflects the sunlight of God’s presence behind it. The more one hides from that true light, the less one can know of happiness, and the more one must know of misery.
The Divine Play: Yogananda’s Insights on Truth & Spirituality
Sunday service at Ananda Palo Alto. Asha shares Yogananda’s profound insights on truth and the path to self-discovery. Realizing this is all God play and we are merely acting out our roles.