Nayaswami Hriman McGilloway

The last several weeks’ Sunday Service topics have include “how devotees fall (spiritually)” and “how devotees rise!” Now we come to the central point: here AND now. There’s no “time” like the present, which makes it a great gift (indeed, a “present’). The very essence of the eternal dharma (teachings) is that outwardly all is flux but inwardly and in … Read More

We spend virtually all of our waking hours and lives engaged with the outer world. But did you know there is a larger, more interesting, more powerful INNER world? While not the same as science suggests, it is nonetheless telling that science describes its own version of an inner world of powerful micro-sized particles, energy packets, gravity, nuclear forces and … Read More

Easter Sunday celebrates the eternal promise that awaits our souls as children of God. Paramhansa Yogananda came to the West to give us a new dispensation showing that coin of our soul’s redemption has been exchanged for calm acceptance and joy, leaving behind us the previous emphasis on sorrow and suffering. While self-effort and self-offering constitute a necessary step to … Read More

Dear Friends, Our ability to think makes us human; through mighty feats of the intellect, science has given us the gift of a longer life, greater conveniences, and unmatched material comfort. We understand the Universe better than ever before. But this understanding is of little help in finding lasting happiness; or, in what is essentially the same thing, in finding God. … Read More

The topic this Sunday runs to the heart of the teachings of Sanatan Dharma (universal truth teaching): does the Spirit incarnate into human form? “The kingdom of heaven is within you” Jesus declared! Though this refers to our potential, is there no anyone who has achieved it? Of course there is! It must be so lest the teaching itself prove … Read More

“We opened in December ’07. Cupola wasn’t even there. We had our eight-hour meditation that day, first use of the temple, and it was storming and blowing. Nobody would sit under there because they didn’t know if the plastic covering would come down and they’d get soaked. But it reminds me, when he just read about memory, suddenly there came … Read More

Ananda Northwest visits Yogananda’s Southern California Shrines: Well, good morning, everyone. Twenty-six of us returned from Southern California on Friday after five days of a pilgrimage to the places where Yogananda lived & taught. To paraphrase a charming, tongue-in-cheek sentence from the autobiography, fresh from the plane (a euphemism, merely), we were tired, but happy. For those of you who … Read More