"Trained in Divine Love" by Anandi Cornell — Book Launch
For fifty years, Nayaswami Anandi was a deeply devoted disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, and a student of his beloved disciple, Swami Kriyananda. To everyone she met, Anandi was a beautiful channel of divine love; her life’s quest was to reciprocate and express the pure love she received. In this book, there are sacred and precious experiences and stories never shared before by Anandi. Recorded November 4th, 2023 in the Temple of Light at Ananda Village.
In this book, Nayaswami Anandi shares sacred and precious experiences and stories, never told before, that she wrote in letters to Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda.
PART ONE contains stories of Swami Kriyananda, especially of how he guided and supported Anandi to perfect and deepen her divine love and attunement.
PART TWO features excerpts from her personal correspondence with Yogananda which capture the intimate dialogue that develops between a devoted disciple and guru.
PART THREE includes accounts of Anandi’s remarkable passage to higher realms, and how she continues to visit and bless devotees here on earth. Trained in Divine Love is Anandi’s gift to the Divine in all of us — that we immerse ourselves completely in God’s perfect love and bliss.
Nayaswami Anandi Cornell
For fifty years, Nayaswami Anandi was a deeply devoted disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, and of his beloved disciple, Swami Kriyananda. To everyone she met, Anandi was a beautiful channel of divine love; her life’s quest was to reciprocate and to express the pure love she received in such abundance from Sri Yogananda (1893–1952) and from Swamiji (1926–2013).
Anandi left her body on January 30, 2022. The physical cause was angiosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer. For the previous forty-one years she shared a joyful soul marriage and a life of service, often focused on lecturing and writing. At the time of her passing her husband found her unfinished manuscript describing her vibrant inner life with Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda.
