Please note! I-405 construction closure affects Bothell traffic this weekend, March 13-16. Check GPS for quickest route to Temple. Please allow extra time when coming in person.
Sunday Service
Schedule for Sunday Service in Bothell:
9:00a Fire Ceremony & Purification
9:15 am: Silent group meditation
10 am: Sunday Service
10:10am: Circle of Joy (Sunday School)
Sundays at Ananda Meditation Temple are the highlight of the week and are an excellent occasion for your first visit. Sunday Service is drawn from the ancient meditation tradition of the East and the mystical traditions of Christ, with scriptural readings from both the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita. Service includes music, chanting, a brief period of meditation, inspirational talk, and a beautiful ceremony called A Festival of Light.
Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi and guru-preceptor for the work of Ananda, encouraged respect for all religions and all forms of sincere worship, service, and meditation. His own line of guru-preceptors include Jesus Christ, Babaji (formerly Krishna), Lahiri Mahasaya, and Swami Sri Yukteswar. Therefore we show particular respect and reverence to Yogananda and these illumined souls who sent him to the West. But our devotion is essentially and always, as he taught us, to God alone, and to the manifest divinity in those whom God sends to earth in human form to teach and uplift others.
At Ananda, each person who comes and participates does so with his or her own, inner realization and recognition. No one form of reverence, belief, or personal relationship to God or the gurus is expected or assumed. All are welcome to the weekly services and meditations. The only suggestion we make is to come with an open heart and an open mind.
Families with children are welcome to come to regular Sunday Service at 10am. Shortly after the service starts, at around 10:10am, children will be invited to attend Circle of Joy (Sunday School) in the downstairs classroom. Circle of Joy is appropriate for children ages 4-10. One Sunday a month, parents are also invited to attend a parent support meeting. Read about Ananda’s full children’s offerings here.
Past Recordings
Reason vs Intuition with Murali Venkatrao | Sunday Service March 15, 2026
We are told since childhood that success belongs to those who think harder, analyze more carefully, and make better arguments. All of these are faculties of what we call as the “intellect”. But the truth is, the intellect, left to itself, tends to circle the problem. It can only elaborate the limitation and clarify the obstacle.
Commemoration celebrating the Mahasamadhis of Paramhansa Yogananda & Swami Sri Yukteswar
This sacred service is for the commemorations of Paramhansa Yogananda (March 7, 1952) and Sri Yukteswar’s (March 9, 1936) Mahasamadhis (similar to Easter for Jesus, Mahasamadhi means the conscious exit from the body by a Master).
By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding with Murali Venkatrao | Sunday March 1, 2026
Our ability to think makes us uniquely human; logical thinking, in the form of science, has made our lives highly comfortable, and increased our longevity. It has helped us understand the universe we live in. But does it make us happy?
Can Man See God? with Ethan Barker February 22, 2026
It is often said that “seeing is believing.” It is also said that “God is everywhere, and in everything.” If both of these statements are true, everyone would live in agreement of one truth, but that is not the case. So if God is everywhere, why can’t we see him? Join me in a discussion of faith versus skepticism, and how
The Law is Perfected in Love with Nayaswami Hriman | February 15, 2026
At the conclusion of the famous “Sermon on the Mount” Jesus commented that unless we do more than just obey minor rules (like the Pharisees did), we will not have risen very far spiritually. Good deeds are not enough to awaken the soul’s natural love and unbroken joy. “For God so loved the world that He sent his only begotten
