How to Overcome Smugness

The 8 Meannesses of the Heart: How to Overcome Them—Part 8, Smugness

by Darshan Lotichius, Ananda Europe

Yogananda encourages us to interiorize our spiritual enthusiasm so that we might apply it judiciously. Properly used and placed, it can lead to beneficial results, not unlike dynamite: to dig tunnels through many layers of ego, towards the center of our own being.

Every Day: Spiritual Renewal for Teens

by Monmohini Tiwari
Ananda Writers Group, Young People's Series

Daily spiritual renewal to me looks like waves in the ocean racing each other to the shore in their attempt to gain confidence. In the oscillations of each wave, there are notes of eternal freedom. They hint at the renewal of ideas, thoughts, and ultimately— oneself.

World Brotherhood Day 2021

Sunday, December 12, 4:00 pm PST

For 38 years, Ananda has celebrated the start of the holiday season with World Brotherhood Day: a sacred event filled with music, inspiration, and satsang and dedicated to the remembrance that we are one human family, united in Divine love.

Autobiography of a Yogi

Psalm of David

Christ Lives — An Illustrated Oratorio, by Swami Kriyananda

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,
From whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the Lord,
Who made the heavens and the earth...

Has Jesus Come Again?

from a 1982 talk by Swami Kriyananda

When Jesus said, “Who has seen Me, has seen the Father,” he prompted theologians down through the ages to try to understand what he meant. Anybody who sees God is bound to be deeply changed.