Friendship Is Acting in Freedom

Watch this beautiful instrumental music by Swami Kriyananda from the Temple of Light at Ananda Village, recorded June 27th 2023 with singers and musicians from different Ananda Communities during our annual Spiritual Renewal Week. Watch the full concert here. 

Determine Your Own Happiness (With Swami Kriyananda)

Swami Kriyananda reads and comments on his book Conversations with Yogananda. TV series A Way to Awakening recorded in India. 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. Yogananda moved to … Read More

Emerald Isle

Watch this beautiful song by Swami Kriyananda from the Temple of Light at Ananda Village, recorded June 27th 2023 with Ramesha Nani and Brahmachari Prashad during our annual Spiritual Renewal Week. Lyrics: Come hear, while I sing you of emerald hills, Of valleys and meadows so fair That all who have seen them have carried away Memories in their hearts, … Read More

The Philosopher and the Boatman

Watch this beautiful song by Swami Kriyananda from the Temple of Light at Ananda Village, recorded June 27th 2023 with singers and musicians from different Ananda Communities during our annual Spiritual Renewal Week. Lyrics: (The way to perfection is narrow and steep. The by-paths are many, the pitfalls are deep. By theory alone many think to arrive: Here’s one who … Read More

How to Live Your Highest Potential

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on January 28, 2024. How can we live our highest potential? By transcending the ego-consciousness. Swami Kriyananda gave a beautiful definition of the ego: a bundle of self-definitions. We may think of ourselves in outward forms and definitions, but that is not who we are in reality. … Read More

Paramhansa Yogananda: A Ray of Divine Love

With great joy, we present to you ‘Paramhansa Yogananda: A Ray of Divine Love’, a play performed by his disciples in his city of Joy, Kolkata on this holy occasion of 131st birth anniversary celebrations of our beloved Guru, Paramhansa Yogananda. A performance in Kolkata by mostly first time theatre artists, where many scenes took place in Autobiography of a … Read More

Paramhansa Yogananda Birthday 2024: Strolling Kirtan in Kolkata

On the blessed morning of 5th January, 2024, disciples across India and from outside India gathered in “Yogi Para”: the neighborhood of the residence of Paramhansa Yogananda: to walk (and sing!) in the footsteps of beloved Gurudev. Yogananda is known to have led “Prabhaat Pheri” (morning strolling kirtan) in this very neighborhood, about a century back. Here we are: singing … Read More