In an age where complexity is growing exponentially, sensitive and aware souls cry out for simplicity. Not necessarily the simplicity of camping or farming (neither of which are really simple […]

Religion is all too often a source of conflict, division, and judgment between the adherents of different faiths. It doesn’t help that religion is inextricably linked with cultural and national […]

Habit can be a powerful ally if you have developed the right ones. Conversely, as you also know, they can sabotage your most earnest efforts. So it would seem like […]

Paramhansa Yogananda describes how, as a child, he was healed of Asiatic cholera (which is usually fatal) in a blinding flash of light after his mother instructed him to pray […]

Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the world renown classic, “Autobiography of a Yogi,” spoke and wrote frequently in respect to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Many of his students […]

What IS Ananda? Ananda is more than a teaching center for meditation or yoga. Ananda is different things to different people. Most of all, at Ananda we aspire to see […]

There is a folktale called “God Is Coming To Dinner?’ One day, a lady receives in the mail a letter that states,  “Please prepare a meal for me tonight. I […]

Creation is our Mother in the form of nature. God, through the power of intelligent vibration, has created and sustains the universe, and is seated at the still heart of all flux. […]

This topic is based on a reading from the book by Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the Same Light. (We use these readings at the Ananda Sunday Services around the world.) […]

From a Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Susan McGinnis, at Ananda Meditation Temple in Bothell. As spiritual seekers, we are engaged in affirming our Oneness with all life. Our daily […]