| | | | from the Ananda Meditation Retreat #4: Offer divine love to everyone — to those whom you don’t know or perhaps to whom you’ve hardened your heart. Maybe it’s the grumpy neighbor down the street or the angry person at work, but find someone whom others have a difficult time accepting, and do something to make them feel that God loves them. |
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Guided Meditation Relaxation is of prime importance when we’re meditating.
If your breath is restless, allow it to be restless, don’t try to control it in any way —but as you focus and concentrate on your own breath, it will calm down.
See the Ananda Meditation app for more guided meditations. |
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from ananda.org "By daily meditation you will prepare the cradle of your consciousness to behold the infinite baby Christ, and every day will become a true Christmas of Christ communion." |
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Ananda's Karma Yoga Ashram Program Living with joy and purpose takes your practice off the mat, brings it into selfless service. Strengthen your spiritual practice while experiencing life in a yogic community in this powerful program. |
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“Christ is the joy felt in meditation. Christ is the perception realized in the deepest hours of silence. Clear away all the bars of material desire and let Christ into your heart. Open the portals of devotion and meditate until the Christ child is born within you.”— Paramhansa Yogananda |
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From Ananda in Pune, India I was in awe as I felt the vibrant life all around me, as if the land, which had been taking care of me during my busy days, had been waiting for me to come out and say hi and commune with it. I saw a leaf falling off a tree; it brought a rushing sense of thrill and joy within myself, as if I could experience its floating sensation. The whole countryside was bubbling with joy and love, and I was a part of it. |
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from ananda music “Let us then, during this Christmas Season, view the birth of Jesus not only as a particular event in history, but as a particularly sweet expression of a universal truth. Let the birth of Divine Love in that little form two thousand years ago inspire us to conceive and give birth to that Love within ourselves, through the virgin purity of our hearts’ devotion." — Swami Kriyananda |
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"Celebrate Christmas upon the altar of the vast inner silence, and upon the sanctuary of every desire, every living thing in the world, and the Cosmos. Then will you know Christ as the Divine King lying in the heart of all Infinite Creation."
–Paramhansa Yogananda |
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