Ananda Music

Enjoy this beautiful choirsong by Swami Kriyananda, performed at Ananda Village on April 21, 2024. Lyrics 1. Every morning when I greet the sun, When I move forth through crowded ways, In my heart, Lord, ever so silently, I will always think of Thee! 2. When I laugh, O, and when I cry with pain, When my best friends misunderstand. … Read More

Enjoy this beautiful instrumental piece by Swami Kriyananda, performed by Nayaswami Mukti at Ananda Village on April 21, 2024. From the album Mystic Harp. “The moon, rising on a calm lake, is a reminder of endless previous moonrises that have ever calmly posed the same challenge: ‘Children, recognize the bondage of time: Seek freedom in timelessness.’”

Enjoy this beautiful song by Swami Kriyananda, performed by the Ananda Worldbrotherhood Choir at Ananda Village on April 14, 2024. Lyrics Praise ye the Lord, all creatures: He who did make the mountains! He who did make the woods and fields, He who made the sky! Praise Him who gave us gladness! Praise Him who fills our hearts with song! … Read More

Enjoy this beautiful song by Swami Kriyananda, performed by the Ananda Joy Singers at Ananda Village on April 14, 2024. Lyrics Tara’s brave hill, so quiet the day I came there: Not a green leaf stirred on the air— Not a bird did proclaim Ancient grandeur and fame, Only ruins faint mem’ries declare. I marveled to think, How can greatness … Read More

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

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

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

Composed by Swami Kriyananda, performed by the Ananda Worldbrotherhood Choir at Ananda Village, March 24th 2024. Lyrics Sing out Hosanna to the son of David! Bless’d he that cometh in the name of God. Sing out Hosanna in the highest. Sing Hosanna to the Lord!

Composed by Swami Kriyananda, performed by the Ananda World brotherhood Choir at Ananda Village, March 24th 2024. Lyrics When we need You, You descend, Seeking grieving hearts to mend. By hate unaffected, You remain our Friend. On a cross rejected, Doomed to meet a shameful end, Still, with love perfected, You remain our Friend. Choir: Long we feared to face … Read More

Listen to this beautiful song by Swami Kriyananda inspired by a poem by Paramhansa Yogananda, in which he describes a vision he had after his mother eearly passing. In the vision, he saw those “lost two black eyes” in the form of the Divine Mother, and he realized that it’s the Cosmic Mother Herself who had been taking care of … Read More