Excerpted from: Religion in the New Age: A Devotee’s Handbook, by Nayaswami Kriyananda  The purpose of this essay is, above all, to address the question implied in the title, which concerns my […]

Excerpted from: The Art and Science of Raja Yoga, by Nayaswami Kriyananda A student of one of my beginning classes in San Francisco, some time ago, drove with me to the Ananda […]

Excerpted from: The Art and Science of Raja Yoga, by Nayaswami Kriyananda Fatigue is one of the most widespread ills of our age. It is not due to overwork (modern man does […]

Excerpted from: The Art and Science of Raja Yoga, by Nayaswami Kriyananda Transcendence is the goal of life. Rest is the goal of action. Breathlessness is the final goal of all breathing […]

Excerpted from: Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda The science of Kriya Yoga, mentioned so often in these pages, became widely known in modern India through the instrumentality of Lahiri Mahasaya, […]

  Excerpted from: Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda The ancient Vedic scriptures declare that the physical world operates under one fundamental law of maya, the principle of relativity and duality. […]

Excerpted from: God Is For Everyone, by Paramhansa Yogananda as taught to and understood by his disciple Swami Kriyananda The ego cannot easily conceptualize the vast consciousness that brought it into existence. Christian […]

by Paramhansa Yogananda  (Excerpted from: Inner Culture Magazine, December 1939) Intuition is that directly perceiving faculty of the soul which at once knows the truth about anything. Unless you have the […]

For answers to questions about Ananda, see Ananda and Swami Kriyananada’s role in Yogananda’s mission.

The members, staff, students and friends of Ananda share in the sadness and righteous outrage of yet another racially motivated murder. How can we not, both as people and as […]