The great yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda offered this practice to help go beyond thinking, and experience one’s true essence: infinite blessedness. Join Nayaswami Diksha in a practice of a powerful visualization and affirmation by Paramhansa Yogananda. Visit Ananda School of Yoga and Meditation Online
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Why?
Enjoy this beautiful music by Swami Kriyananda, performed by the Ananda Choir at Ananda Village on April 7, 2024. Lyrics There lived a tender maid In a far-off country. The strangeness of this world made her sigh. Her friends asked their fathers For money and clothes, But all she could ask was— Why? She saw the solemn clouds Gathered watching … Read More
There’s Joy in the Heavens
Enjoy this beautiful music by Swami Kriyananda, performed by the Ananda Choir at Ananda Village on April 7, 2024. Lyrics There’s joy in the heavens, A smile on the mountains, And melody sings everywhere. The flowers are all laughing To welcome the morning; Your soul is as free as the air. Leave home in the sunshine: Dance through a meadow— … Read More
Is God Responsible for Suffering? Wisdom from “Autobiography of a Yogi”
Paramhansa Yogananda used the metaphor of the movie theatre experience to explain the necessity of contrast to create the appearance of life. This is Part 1 of Existential Questions.
We Are Children of the Light (with Nayaswami Maria)
Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on April 7, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda’s book Rays of the One Light is We Are Children of the Light Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings … Read More
Festival of Joyful Arts (With Swami Kriyananda)
Recorded June 10, 2006 at Ananda Village ABOUT SWAMI KRIYANANDA I n 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 America and developed the energization exercises and taught the meditation techniques of … Read More
Is it Too Late to Reform?
A person feels he has not lived a good life and wonders if it’s too late to reform. Looking around and seeing young people already on the spiritual path, he is discouraged about whether trying to become spiritual will have an impact on his past unspiritual actions. (By Nayaswami Hriman)
Christ Lives! — An Oratorio
Christ Lives is a contemporary Oratorio that vividly brings to life the deep meaning of Christ’s life. Composed after Swami Kriyananda visited the Holy Land in 1983, Christ Lives! brilliantly captures the profoundly inspiring and uplifting experience of Christ’s presence there. Swami Kriyananda: “I wrote this Oratorio after a visit to Israel, which we in the West call the Holy … Read More
Healing with Visualization (Healing Series)
With Tyagis Keshava and Daya from Ananda Sangha India Sharing the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. #ParamhansaYogananda #SwamiKriyananda #KriyaYoga #AnandaSangha
