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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta recorded at Ananda Village on May 31st 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Inner Kingdom


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Most people imagine that the “inner kingdom,” as Jesus described it, lacks the fascination they attribute to sense life: the bright lights, the diverse attractions, the joys and the laughter. Little do they realize what a vast universe exists in their own selves!

There are many passages in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible that describe aspects of this inner kingdom. In the Book of Genesis we read: “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden…. And the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:8, 9). This garden was in no earthly place. It exists even now, in the very Self of every human being! The legend of Adam and Eve is allegorical. It describes how the first human beings dissipated their spiritual energy, centered in the spine. The spine is the channel through which flows the river of baptism and of spiritual life.

The Bhagavad Gita tells us, “The wise speak of an eternal ashvatta tree, with its roots above and its branches below” (15:1) The “tree of life,” spoken of also in Genesis, is the spine. Its roots are above, in the brain’s energy. Its branches are the outward spreading nervous system. When the “sap,” which is to say, the energy, flows downward the consciousness is drawn into delusion. On the other hand, when the energy is drawn upward in deep meditation, the consciousness is drawn toward its eternal source, God, and is at last united with Him.

Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita therefore urges his chief disciple Arjuna to embrace the yoga science, the path of meditation. “The yogi,” he says, “is greater than the ascetic, greater even than the followers of the paths of wisdom [Gyana Yoga] or of action [Karma Yoga]. Be thou, O Arjuna, a yogi!”

For those who would find the divine truth, Krishna gives this description of the yogi:

Steadfast a lamp burns, sheltered from the wind;

Steadfastly meditating, solitary,

Such is the likeness of the Yogi’s mind

Shut from sense-storms and burning bright to heaven.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Sundara Traymar recorded at Ananda Village on May 24th 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Best Way to Worship


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In Chapter 4 of the Gospel of St. John, the woman of Samaria asks Jesus, Where is the best place to worship? This question might be expanded to include: What is the best church? What is the best religion? Is it important to go on pilgrimage to holy shrines? What is the best ritual? What is the best mantra or prayer?

Jesus cut across all such questioning with his reply:

The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

It was not that outer considerations of place, church, ritual, etc., are irrelevant. Each person should find those practices and observances which are compatible with his own nature – one might say, with his own vibrations. Not everyone’s natural path is the same. God sent different religions into the world to satisfy different human needs.

The overarching concern, however, considering that the goal is to find God, is to include in one’s worship daily, inner communion with the Lord. God is Silence: He must be sought, therefore, in inner silence. God is Absolute Love: He must be sought, therefore, in the silence of love. God is Spirit, and thus immaterial: He must be sought, above all, in the expanding peace of deep meditation.

Thus, the Bhagavad Gita states in the sixth Chapter:

Sequestered should he sit,

Steadfastly meditating, solitary,

His thoughts controlled, his passions laid away,

From every craving for possession freed.

Wherever you are, whatever your outward beliefs and observances, seek God in the silence of your own soul.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>Finding Balance on the Spiritual Path</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi recorded at Ananda Village on May 17th 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Activity vs. Inner Communion


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we contemplated the well-known story of Martha and Mary. Traditionally, this story has been offered to show the two classic approaches to salvation: the first, through action, and the second, through prayer. The excuse of the Marthas of this world has always been, “The church needs its Marthas, too.” Treatises, moreover, have been written to justify the Martha approach to piety, praising her self-sacrifice as, perhaps, an even higher demonstration of devotion. (Thus do the unmeditative workers in religion try to justify themselves!) Yet the fact remains that Jesus rebuked Martha. Elsewhere, moreover, he spoke of the virtue of feeding the hungry, curing the sick, and housing those who were homeless. It wasn’t that he disapproved of serving people.

Wrong attitude was the object of his criticism. What he was criticizing was forgetfulness of the true goal of right, spiritual action. Good deeds, outwardly, without inner communion with God, will result in good karma but will not bring final freedom from all karma.

The Path to inner freedom was described by Paramhansa Yogananda in these words: “Be always calmly active, and actively calm.”

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the second Chapter:

He who is not shaken by anxiety during times of sorrow, nor elated during times of happiness; who is free from egoic desires and their attendant fear and anger: Such an one is of steady discrimination.

Do your duty in life – so counsels this great Scripture elsewhere – but never lose sight of Him to whom all action should be dedicated.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>Getting in Tune with Divine Flow</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Nayaswami Narayan recorded at Ananda Village on May 10th 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Secret of Right Action


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

One of the most famous stories in the Gospels is that of Martha and Mary. Jesus, visiting the home of Martha, was teaching while her sister Mary sat at his feet absorbing his divine love and wisdom. Martha, meanwhile, busied herself with serving her guests, and was upset with Mary for not helping her.

“‘Lord,’ she cried, ‘doesn’t it matter to you that my sister has left me to do all this serving alone? Please ask her to help me.’

“‘Martha, Martha,’ Jesus answered, ‘thou art careful and troubled about many things.

“‘But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.’”

This story is classic, for Martha’s complaint is very understandable, and not, on the surface of it, spiritually wrong. Jesus might well have told Mary to get up and help her. Nor do we really know that he didn’t, considerate as he always was of others’ needs. But the teaching here doesn’t concern the obvious dilemma of devotees: to work for God, or to spend all one’s time in prayer. It concerns, rather, the attitude of the mind.

Jesus didn’t tell Martha: “Martha, you are doing too much.” He told her, rather, “You are letting your work affect your inner peace.” That was the contrast: not work vs. contemplation, but restless preoccupation vs. peaceful absorption under all circumstances.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the second Chapter:

Actions performed under the influence of desire are greatly inferior to those which are guided by wisdom. Happiness eludes people when they act from self-interest. Seek shelter, therefore, in the equanimity of wisdom.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jaya recorded at Ananda Village on May 3rd 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Perfection is Self-Transcendence


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

We begin this week with a passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5:

Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you; and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; . . .

If ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same?

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even pagans so?

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

This teaching is a continuation of last week’s lesson. To love all equally is possible only by seeing God everywhere – in others as well as in oneself. See whatever comes to you unasked for as a manifestation of His will. Be grateful for the pains you experience, for they are healing strokes of His love. Sometimes, healing is effected only by strong measures, but His love for you is manifested in the very attempt to heal.

Strive always to be impersonal, as though whatever happens to you were happening to someone else.

Persecution gives us the supreme opportunity to deny the thought, “This is happening to me,” and to affirm our inner freedom from the thought of ego. Don’t allow the negative perceptions of others to become your own self-definition.

Seek God: This is the true goal of life – though how difficult to cling to in the midst of hatred, spite, and persecution! The Bhagavad Gita tells us in the seventh Chapter:

Out of thousands, one strives for spiritual attainment; and out of many blessed true seekers, who strive assiduously to reach Me, one, perhaps, perceives Me as I am.

O truth seeker, be one, among all those thousands, who seeks the supreme goal!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Parvati explores how high we should aspire spiritually, emphasizing that the ultimate goal is complete union with God. While this goal may seem distant, we should aim as high as possible and steadily grow through practice, devotion, and service. Spiritual progress is personal, requires persistence, and deepens over time through experience, not just understanding. By staying committed, trusting the path, and responding to life’s challenges with awareness, we can move toward inner freedom and realization.

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service recorded at Ananda Village on April 26th 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
How High Should We Aspire?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The passage this week is from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5:

I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

The easiest explanation for these words is that they were spoken in criticism of the scribes and Pharisees, particularly since Jesus was often verbally attacked by them, and stood up to them fearlessly. However, it wouldn’t have been much of a challenge to the disciples, who aspired to spiritual perfection, to tell them, “Don’t be like those who lack any such aspiration.”

Jesus in fact says only a few verses later, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

What Jesus was referring to here, then, was the self- righteousness of the priests. Don’t seek perfection, he was saying to his disciples, in the image you project toward others. Don’t be satisfied with a goodness born merely of ego-definitions. The highest virtue is to transcend the very thought of personal virtue in the realization of God alone as the Doer. Before this realization, even the thought, “I am kind,” or, “I am truthful,” is self-limiting.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the seventh Chapter:

Yet hard the wise Mahatma is to find,

That man who sayeth, “All is Vasudev!”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Gyandev emphasizes that the spiritual path doesn’t require perfection—only sincere effort and devotion. The Bhagavad Gita offers many ways to grow, meeting us where we are. Even our failures and small intentions can be offered to God. By letting go of mistakes, staying devoted, and keeping our focus on God, we gradually find inner freedom and joy.

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service recorded at Ananda Village on April 19th 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
To Each According to His Faith


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3, we read:

Everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

It is a common experience, shared by most people, that when a person errs he experiences a desire to hide that error from his conscience instead of holding it up for purification. Error clutches its misdeeds to itself, and resists correction, though it is only in the state of purity that we can achieve perfect freedom. It requires an act of will to offer that awareness up to the light, and to hold it there until one’s inner darkness is completely dissipated.

For every state of consciousness has its own attractive power. And the more we allow that attraction to act upon us, the more we attract to ourselves the objective circumstances and experiences natural to it. Our faith is the attractive power of our underlying state of consciousness. Goodness attracts goodness; it takes goodness even to see goodness. Evil attracts evil, and it takes evil even to see evil – that is, to take special note of its existence.

Whatever there is in you of darkness or light, offer it up to the heights. In the Supreme Light alone will we find salvation. Accept nothing less in yourself as your lasting reality. As the Bhagavad Gita says, in the twelfth Chapter:

Cling thou to me!

Clasp Me with heart and mind! So shalt thou dwell

Surely with Me on high. But if thy thought

Droops from such height; if thou be’st weak to set

Body and soul upon Me constantly,

Despair not! give Me lower service! seek

To reach Me, worshiping with steadfast will;

And, if thou canst not worship steadfastly,

Work for Me, toil in works pleasing to Me!

For he that laboureth right for love of Me

Shall finally attain! But, if in this

Thy faint heart fails, bring Me thy failure!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Easter Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on April 12th 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Deeds vs. Intentions


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ emphasized repeatedly the spirit, not the letter, of the law. In Chapter 5 of the Gospel of St. Matthew he speaks of the sin of killing, and of the legal punishment attendant on that sin, but says that more important than the act is the desire to kill, or to do harm. He shows that the sin of harmful desire goes beyond merely wanting to kill.

“My message to you,” he said, “is this: Whoever is angry with his brother without cause already stands condemned; whoever contemptuously calls his brother a fool shall answer for it to the Supreme Council; and whoever calls his brother an outcast of God shall be in danger of hellfire.”

“Brother,” here, means any other human being. For all of us in the highest sense are brothers and sisters – children of our one Father-Mother, God. The true self of one is the Self of all. To hurt another is, even if one doesn’t realize it, to hurt oneself.

Swami Kriyananda in The Path recalls an episode in which the Master, Paramhansa Yogananda, revealed his sense of identity even with the plants. “One day,” Kriyananda wrote, “we were moving a delicate but rather heavy tropical plant into position on the hillside. Our handling evidently was too rough, for Master cried out, ‘Be careful what you are doing. Can’t you feel? It’s alive!’”

To wish death to anyone – to wish even harm to another creature – is to deny in oneself the reality of that divine life of which all of us are manifestations. It is, in short, to deny the eternal truth, proclaimed by the Bhagavad Gita in the second Chapter:

This Self is never born, nor does it perish. Once existing, it cannot ever cease to be. It is birthless, eternal, changeless, ever itself. It is not slain when the body is slain.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Easter Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on April 5th 2026. It begins with the Easter story, beautifully narrated by Peter Kretzmann.

Nayaswami Jyotish explores the events of Holy Week as a roadmap for spiritual transformation, moving from the "darkness" of the crucifixion to the triumph of the resurrection. He explains that Jesus’ sacrifice was an intentional act of tapasya (spiritual labor), designed to transmute the karma of his disciples and cleanse the world for a higher message of divine love.

Beyond the historical narrative, the talk offers a metaphysical view of Christ consciousness. The Last Supper and the resurrection are presented as symbols of the soul’s eternal nature and the presence of God within all matter. Ultimately, listeners are encouraged to move beyond external worship to reclaim their true identity, attuning their own wills to the Divine to experience the "living light" within.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Resurrection for Every Soul (Easter)


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 20, we read the inspiring account of Jesus’ resurrection:

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord! . . .

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in their midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

The resurrection of Jesus, doubted by many but affirmed by those who were close to him, was a miraculous event, though one not unique in history. For many great saints of other religions have appeared to their disciples after death. Sometimes their appearances have been, as that of Jesus was, in flesh-and-blood form, and not only in vision.

Paramhansa Yogananda relates in Autobiography of a Yogi the account of his guru Sri Yukteswar’s resurrection after his earthly passing. Miracles of this type are revealed only rarely to the masses, but accounts of them, related by men and women of reputed truthfulness, have inspired many devotees with faith in the reality of subtler-than-material states of existence.

Resurrection, Yogananda explained, means transformation, ultimately, from any lower state of being to a higher one. Worldly consciousness cannot imagine such transformation except in terms of, perhaps, an improvement of the present mess of potage with the addition of a new flavoring. Divine consciousness, however, is capable of taking the base metal of worldliness and transforming it into the spiritual gold of divine wisdom and love.

In keeping with this truth, the Bhagavad Gita, in the ninth Chapter, tells us:

Ah! ye who into this ill world are come – fleeting and false – set your faith fast on Me! Fix heart and thought on Me! Adore Me! Bring Offerings to Me! Make Me prostrations! Make Me your supremest joy! and, undivided, unto My rest your spirits shall be guided.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Nayaswami Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on March 29 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Who Is This Son of Man? (Palm Sunday)


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

On Palm Sunday, the throng joyfully acclaimed Jesus Christ as he entered Jerusalem, casting palm fronds before him and singing, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! The Lord bless the king of Israel!” (John 12:13)

Jesus Christ had told the people, “The son of man must be lifted up.” His reference – so we are told – was to the mode of his impending crucifixion. Some persons on that occasion had asked, “Who is this son of man?”

Was Jesus a human being, merely? Those who, on Palm Sunday, called him king little realized the actual nature of his kingdom. He was far more than what they imagined. Yes, of course he ate, drank, walked, slept, and talked like others. His consciousness, however, was centered in infinity. Yes – again – he laughed like others: But his laughter expressed divine joy, not mere merriment. Again, he wept like them: But never with human grief. The tears he shed were for the sufferings of unenlightened human beings: Never were they shed in self-pity.

Jesus Christ was wakeful in God. Most people, by contrast, are asleep spiritually.

How strange to reflect that less than a week from that entry into Jerusalem – so joyfully acclaimed – he would be arrested, condemned, and crucified! Such is the bitter-sweetness of human existence: smiles of welcome one day – insults, even persecution the next. How few realize that Christ’s suffering would not be for himself, but for people’s ignorance – for those who had not yet understood the deeper reality that dwelt also in them!

Everyone is born “trailing clouds of glory,” as the poet Wordsworth put it. Even the meanest beggar has lived a story, or will eventually have lived it, more magnificent than the greatest epic ever written.

In the Bhagavad Gita, this dichotomy between the “son of man” and the inner “Son of God” is beautifully described. Sri Krishna, representing God in human form, reveals his true nature in infinity. In the eleventh chapter of that great scripture, his chief disciple Arjuna exclaims:

O Infinite Light!

Thy radiance, spreading o’er the universe,

Shines into the very darkest abyss!

Thy voice o’erwhelms the roar of cosmic cataclysms!

Lo! the myriad stars are Thy diadem;

Thy scepter radiates power everywhere!

O Immortal Brahman, Lord of all:

Again and again at Thy feet of Infinity

I lie in prostration before Thee!

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[In this Sunday service talk from Ananda Village, Nayaswami Amrita explores our true identity as "children of light" and shares practical ways to reclaim that divine memory in a distracted world. Drawing on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, she discusses the power of practicing the presence of God, meditating on the eight divine aspects, and cultivating a sincere yearning for the Infinite. Her message serves as a beautiful reminder that while the world may reinforce our limitations, our true homeland is eternity and our natural state is one of radiant joy.

Recorded at Ananda Village on March 22 2026.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
We Are Children of the Light


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

It is common for people to perceive themselves according to their present realities. A person in ill health says, “I am ill.” Few say, “I am well; it is my body that is suffering.” People in a low income bracket say, “I am poor.” Only the unusual person will say, “Though outwardly I live in poverty, inwardly I am wealthy.”

Thus, when it comes to moral and spiritual development, people commonly identify themselves with their weaknesses and their mistakes. They consider it almost a sign of humility to say, “I am a sinner,” though in effect what this means is that they identify themselves with their sinfulness, not with the soul’s power to transcend all limitations in God.

The great masters, including Jesus Christ, have always emphasized the divine potential of mankind. To encourage us, they address us as children of light, not of darkness.

The Bible, in the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3, makes the point that our true home is not the mud of this Earth, but the light of heaven. “No man hath ascended up to heaven,” it tells us, “but him that came down from heaven.” This passage continues: “[even so] the Son of man who is in heaven,” emphasizing that Jesus, though he lived on earth, is perceived by the eye of wisdom as conscious, even in human form, of his true reality in heavenly spheres.

The way to know God is to live in godly consciousness, and not to bewail our imperfection and our distance from God. Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” And the Bhagavad Gita states,

Seekers of union with the Lord find Him dwelling in their own hearts. But those who, lacking in wisdom, seek Him with impure motives, cannot perceive Him however much they struggle to do so.

“If you want to know God,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “live in the thought that you have Him already.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sundara reflects on a poem by Paramhansa Yogananda describing the soul’s search for God, showing how we often look outward for lasting joy but feel frustrated when it remains elusive. It explains that this “veil” of delusion lifts through moments of inner clarity, revealing that the divine has always been present. He emphasizes that true guidance comes from intuition—not restless emotion—and that this intuition can be developed through meditation, calm awareness, and conscious living. By cultivating inner stillness and attuning ourselves to the divine presence, we can make wiser decisions and experience deeper, lasting joy.

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Sundara Traymar, recorded at Ananda Village on March 15 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Reason vs. Intuition


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus, when addressing his critics, appealed to reason and common sense. In his training of the disciples, however, he, like all great masters, encouraged in them the development of a higher faculty: soul-intuition. For it is only by intuition that spiritual perceptions are achieved.

In Chapter 16 of the Gospel of St. Matthew we find Jesus drawing on the intuition of his disciples by asking them who they thought he was, in reality. They immediately understood that what he wanted from them was a subtle answer, not some obvious reply based on his nationality, sex, and the like. Peter it was, at last, who understood and answered the question on its intended level: the spiritual.

“Thou art the Christ,” he said, “the son of the living God.”

“And Jesus turned to him, saying, ‘Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonah: for not by human nature was this truth revealed to thee, but by my heavenly Father. And I tell thee this also: Thou art Peter, which is to say, a rock, and upon this rock will I build my church, and never will the powers of darkness overwhelm it.’”

Jesus was pleased with his disciple for relating to the question on its deepest level. Reason could not have given Peter that answer. The answer came through the faculty of soul intuition, and proved him thereby to be a spiritually advanced disciple. It was his intuitive perception – that insight which cannot be shaken by tempests of reasonable doubt – that Jesus praised in referring to him as a rock. The “church” he referred to, next, was the edifice of cosmic consciousness. Any outer church institution would have to depend, as in fact the Christian churches have always done, on the level of understanding of its individual leaders and members. Peter’s intuitive perceptions could never have been passed on to an outward succession of prelates.

Clarity comes by direct soul-perception. Confusion results from excessive dependence on reason as the guide to understanding. As the second Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states:

When your intellect, at present confused by the diversity of teaching in the Scriptures, becomes steadfast in the ecstasy of deep meditation, then you will achieve final union with God.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Devi shares the story behind a statue of Yogananda at Ananda and then focuses on the spiritual path from dogmatic belief to direct, intuitive experience of God.She explains that true understanding doesn’t come from blind belief or even reasoning alone, but from developing inner intuition through meditation and personal experience. By deepening this intuitive awareness, we can perceive God’s presence everywhere and gradually realize our unity with the divine.

Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi, recorded at Ananda Village on March 8 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Dogmatism vs. Common Sense


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 7, Jesus warns:

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Jesus here, as indeed many times during his teaching, counsels people to use their God-given common sense, and not to rely on high-flown but undemonstrable claims. Common sense goes beyond abstract reason, for it is rooted in actual experience.

Even common sense, however, is deficient when the judgment called for goes beyond sensory experience. Ultimately, what he emphasized always, therefore, was intuitive perception.

Thus, he expected more of his disciples than crude common sense, and often scolded them for being too literal-minded – as he did, elsewhere, when they thought his statement, “I have meat to eat that you know not of,” meant that he had steaks or sandwiches secreted about his person. His reference, of course, was to spiritual, not material, substance.

Words, even though appearing in the scriptures, are no substitute for direct perception of truth. Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the second Chapter:

The sage who knows God has as little need for the Scriptures as one might have for a pond when the whole land is covered in flood.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on March 1 2026.

Pranaba explains that the mind is a gift, not an obstacle, but negative thought patterns can shape the brain and reinforce destructive habits. Positive, expansive thinking and devotion help transform these patterns. True spiritual progress requires both clear understanding and the heart’s natural love, as emphasized by Swami Sri Yukteswar. Meditation—especially when combined with devotion—is described as a powerful, reliable path to spiritual growth, helping purify the mind and awaken the soul’s natural qualities such as kindness, compassion, and clarity.

He also highlights the progression from sympathy to empathy to compassion, with compassion being the willingness to actively serve and bless others. Ultimately, the message is that through meditation, devotion, compassionate action, and inner awareness, we can overcome ego, transcend emotional reactivity, and realize our unity with the Divine.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There are many places in the Gospels where we see Jesus in open conflict with the Pharisees – that is to say, with man-made as opposed to true, mystical tradition. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 15, we see a good example of how they and he “locked horns.”

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came and asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples break our ancient tradition and eat their food without washing their hands properly first?”

Jesus, after scolding them for their hypocrisy in observing lesser rules so carefully while ignoring the much more important ones, said,

“Listen, and understand this thoroughly! It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that makes him common or unclean. It is what comes out of a man’s mouth that makes him unclean.”

It wasn’t that Jesus counseled against such wholesome practices as washing one’s hands before eating. In an age, however, when lesser rules were given too much importance relative to the truly important observances – cleansing the heart of impure desires, for example – he emphasized the supreme importance of loving God and of communing with Him.

The Pharisees – the orthodox religionists of his day, in other words – had brought true religion down to a level of intellectual hair-splitting. They mistakenly considered the way to understanding to lie through a mine-field of definitions, which they tried to refine to ultimate exactitude. Jesus taught, however, that the intellect alone can never lead one to truth. Without love, indeed, there is no ultimate verity. Without fixity of purpose, born of the heart’s devotion, the intellect wanders endlessly. It cannot settle for long on anything. As the Bhagavad Gita says in the second Chapter:

The intellects of those who lack fixity of spiritual purpose are inconstant, their interests endlessly ramified.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on February 12 2026.

God cannot be seen with the physical eyes but can be perceived with the heart through love and devotion. Different seekers experience the Divine in different ways—through feeling, vision, sound, or inner guidance. Stories about Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, St. Francis, and Paramhansa Yogananda illustrate that spiritual perception depends on having an open heart, not merely intellectual understanding.

Ananta explains that through meditation, devotion, and spiritual practice, we learn to look beyond outward appearances and recognize the divine light within ourselves and others. Masters such as Jesus, Yogananda, and Swami Kriyananda saw the inner soul in everyone rather than focusing on faults or behavior. The central message is that God’s light and love exist in every being, and by focusing inwardly, practicing meditation, and cultivating love for others, we can gradually perceive that divine reality everywhere.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Can Man See God?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There is a saying in Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John that would seem to respond with a definite No to the question, Can man see God? The saying is:

No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Many great saints, however, claim to have seen God. If we ask, then, “Can God be seen?” rather than, “Can man see God?” the answer is, “Yes! Else those saints lied; and, else, the Scriptures themselves lie.”

The point is, it is not man – this human body, these human eyes – that sees God. God can be seen only with spiritual vision – with the eye of the soul.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the eleventh Chapter:

“Thou canst not see Me with mortal eyes. Therefore I now give thee sight divine. Behold My supreme power of Yoga!”

With these words Hari, the exalted Lord of Yoga, revealed himself to Arjuna in His infinite form.

Paramhansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, describes the supernal experience in words more readily comprehensible to modern minds than the poetic phraseology of the Bhagavad Gita. The chapter “An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness” is one of the most inspiringly beautiful in all mystical literature. Here is a brief excerpt:

An oceanic joy broke upon calm endless shores of my soul. The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.

[I saw] the divine dispersion of rays pour from an Eternal Source, blazing into galaxies, transfigured with ineffable auras. Again and again I saw the creative beams condense into constellations, then resolve into sheets of transparent flame. By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament.

I cognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart. Irradiating splendor issued from my nucleus to every part of the universal structure.…The creative voice of God I heard resounding as Aum, the vibration of the Cosmic Motor.”

This, so the great masters aver, is what God is. And this also, they insist, is what we are in our deepest reality.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service with Tyagi Shyama, recorded at Ananda Village on February 15, 2026.

Shyama begins with a powerful prayer by Paramhansa Yogananda, emphasizing that we should approach God not weakly, but with strong, loving determination. She reflects on why laws are necessary and how they can either feel restrictive or liberating depending on our understanding. Human-made laws help organize society but are limited. Divine laws—such as the Ten Commandments and the yamas and niyamas—are meant to guide us toward freedom and inner growth. When we focus rigidly on rules, results (“what”), or techniques (“how”), we can become dry, stressed, or ego-driven. Instead, we are encouraged to look deeper—especially at the “why” behind our actions.

If our motivation is to draw closer to God rather than feed the ego, everything falls into place naturally. Through stories and examples (art, personal experiences, saints and masters), Shyama illustrates that when love and God-centered intention guide us, life becomes alive and inspired rather than mechanical. Ultimately, divine laws exist to help us transcend the ego and realize our true nature as beings of love and light. The talk concludes that law and love are inseparable: laws guide us, but love fulfills and perfects them. In the end, everything—work, relationships, meditation, and life itself—is perfected in love because love is our connection to God.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Law Is Perfected in Love


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, we read:

The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Grace means the power to rise, spiritually. Truth means the experience of divine realities, not the application in the outer world of that inner experience.

Divine love is the soul’s experience of oneness with God. Kindness is the human manifestation of that love. Grace is deeper than mere kindness.

Wisdom is a divine experience. Justice to all is a human law, though divinely inspired. It follows as a consequence of the experience of wisdom. Truth goes deeper than mere justice.

While following the law, we should strive always to trace it back to its origins in the vision of God. Therefore Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita urges the devotee not to be satisfied with spiritual precepts alone, but to go beyond them to the direct, inner experience of truth. In the eighteenth Chapter of that great Scripture he says:

Nay! but once more

Take My last word, My utmost meaning have!

Precious thou art to Me; right well beloved!

Listen! I tell thee for thy comfort this.

Give Me thy heart! adore Me! serve Me! cling

In faith and love and reverence to Me!

So shalt thou come to Me! I promise true,

For thou art sweet to Me!

And let go those –

Rites and writ duties! Fly to me alone!

Make Me thy single refuge! I will free

Thy soul from all its sins! Be of good cheer!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[With Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on February 8, 2026.

He discusses the central importance of attunement to God and the guru as the heart of the spiritual path. Using a prayer for illumination from Yogananda's Whispers from Eternity, he explains that spiritual progress comes not through outer knowledge alone, but through aligning one’s will with God’s will. The guru is described not as a person, but as a divine consciousness assigned to guide each soul back to enlightenment.

While many teachings exist to guide life and meditation, the “skeleton key” to spiritual freedom is attunement—offering one’s love and self-will to God. The main obstacle is not lack of knowledge, but the ego’s resistance to surrendering its attachments and desires. God does not force anyone; through the law of love, He gently draws souls back when they are ready. True attunement is vibrational and intuitive, like tuning an instrument—not merely intellectual. By loving, serving, meditating, and inwardly offering oneself to the guru, one gradually aligns with divine guidance.

Nayaswami Jyotish concludes that everything on the path comes down to this: freely offering one’s love and will to God. Through that attunement, divine guidance becomes clear, and the soul is led toward lasting fulfillment and union with God.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light:
The Importance of Soul-Receptivity


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John states:

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.

This was a passage Paramhansa Yogananda often quoted to his disciples. “Be in tune,” he would tell them. “Delusion can’t touch you, if you will keep in tune.”

“A few of you will fall,” he said once. “But it needn’t be, if you would stay in tune.”

Of a disciple who became highly advanced, even though she didn’t meditate much, he said, “She got there by attunement.”

To one who found meditation difficult, he said, “I will meditate for you, as long as you stay in tune.”

Truth is a state of consciousness, not a well-worded definition. It is in that consciousness, above all, that our lives are transformed. Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the tenth Chapter:

To those who are ever attached to Me, and who worship Me with love, I impart discernment, by means of which they attain Me.

Out of my love for them, I, the Divine within them, set alight in them the radiant lamp of wisdom, thereby dispelling the darkness of their ignorance.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[With Asha Nayaswami, recorded at Ananda Village on February 1, 2026.

Asha reflects on a prayer from Whispers from Eternity that emphasizes our divine birthright as God’s children: we do not beg, but rightfully demand wisdom, joy, and guidance—while learning to use our free will in harmony with God’s will. She shares how Swami Kriyananda deeply edited Whispers, feeling inwardly guided by Yogananda to clarify its meaning. The book, she explains, shaped Swami’s spiritual life because it teaches the right inner attitudes—not philosophically, but devotionally—especially the balance between surrender to God and the proper use of individual will.

The talk expands into a broader reflection on divine guidance in history, especially the founding of America. The principles of equality, God-given rights, and freedom reflect spiritual truths aligned with self-realization. The masters work through historical movements and incarnations to create conditions for spiritual awakening, and souls connected to this work may have participated in these efforts across lifetimes. Ultimately, however, the outer achievements—temples, laws, communities, even revolutions—are secondary. What truly matters is love for God. Everything meaningful is built on that love. Life itself is temporary, like a passing shadow, and the only lasting achievement is to love God wholeheartedly.

Asha concludes with a simple, powerful message: however we serve, whatever role we play, the essence is to love God deeply and faithfully. In the end, the only question that matters is: How much did you love?

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Bhagavad Gita in the fourth Chapter states, as we saw last week:

O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue.

What is the mystery of this divine manifestation? Great avatars, such as Krishna and Jesus Christ, are born as babies even as we all are. They take human form, and go through normal human experiences as they grow from childhood to adulthood. They eat. They play. They may seem to suffer sickness and disappointment like the rest of us. In what way are they different from other human beings?

The important thing to understand is that, even as they are like us, so are we also like them. Their realization can be ours, too. They come on earth to show us our own divine potential.

The difference lies not in the manner of their manifestation on earth, but in the consciousness with which they are born. All things are condensations, so to speak, of the Cosmic Vibration – AUM, described by St. John’s Gospel as the Word. Most human beings, however, are unconscious of their divine origin. The avatars, on the other hand, come consciously as manifestations of that divine reality.

As the Gospel says in the first Chapter:

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[In this Sunday service talk, Nayaswami Parvati weaves together personal stories and spiritual teachings to explore the timeless battle between darkness and light. Beginning with a reading from Yogananda's Whispers from Eternity, she reflects on how divine light burns away ego, fear, and delusion from within. Drawing on experiences at Ananda, contemporary social tensions, and powerful historical examples—especially the story of Corrie ten Boom—the talk emphasizes practical spirituality: staying centered in the heart, consciously sending light instead of reacting with anger, and learning how to act with wisdom and love in dark or turbulent times.

The core message is that true light begins from within and must be applied with compassion, discernment, and common sense to genuinely help others. Recorded at Ananda Village on January 18th, 2026.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, makes a reference to the divine light that is obscure to the rational faculty, but that enlightens our higher nature: “The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” Reason recoils from this statement with innumerable questions. What is this darkness? Is it conscious, that it should comprehend anything? What sort of light would be capable of shining in darkness without transforming at least that part of the darkness in which it shines into light? Does this light shine only at night? And if so, why only then?

The solution is that, to divine sight, even daylight seems darkness. The sun itself, like the moon which shines only by reflected light from the sun, is but a kind of reflection of the cosmic light, which, being immaterial, is invisible to the eyes but which is the Great Source of all material reality.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda describes his youthful visit to Ram Gopal Muzumdar, the “sleepless saint,” who lived in the vision of that hidden light. “Around midnight,” Yogananda wrote,

Ram Gopal fell into silence, and I lay down on my blankets. Closing my eyes, I saw flashes of lightning; the vast space within me was a chamber of molten light. I opened my eyes and observed the same dazzling radiance. The room became a part of the infinite vault which I beheld with interior vision.

“Why don’t you go to sleep?”

“Sir, how can I sleep in the presence of lightning, blazing whether my eyes are shut or open?”

“You are blessed to have this experience; the spiritual radiations are not easily seen.” The saint added a few words of affection.

This is the “light that shineth in darkness.” It has been described variously in the great scriptures. In the Bhagavad Gita, the eleventh Chapter, the devotee, Arjuna, is given an experience of the infinite state and exclaims in awe:

If there should rise suddenly within the skies

Sunburst of a thousand suns

Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of,

Then might be that Holy One’s

Majesty and radiance dreamed of!

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[In this Sunday service talk, Nayaswami Maria explores the profound question: Did God create the universe, or did God become it? Drawing from the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, and Hindu cosmology, she explains that creation is not a fixed, solid reality but a vibratory dream of consciousness, sustained by divine energy (Om/AUM).

What we call miracles—such as materialization or instantaneous travel—are natural expressions of higher consciousness. Through meditation, especially attunement with Om and practices like Kriya Yoga, individuals can transcend time, karma, and limitation, gradually awakening to their true nature as expressions of the Divine. Ultimately, the universe responds to consciousness, and as we align with God, we help reshape the “dream” of reality with light, joy, and love.

Recorded at Ananda Village on January 11th, 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Did God Create the Universe – or Become It?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, contains a passage that explains the essential truth that creation is a process of becoming. The universe is not separate from God the Creator, but a part of Him even as our own dream-creations, during sleep, are figments of our consciousness. God’s is the life; God’s, the reality. Not a melody could be composed, not a poem written, were the melody and the poem not already there, simply waiting to be expressed.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Ego-directed desire is like static; it distorts the radioed messages of Infinity. But the pristine impulse from the divine, undistorted by limitation and delusion, is the life that gives rise to all that is. As the seventh Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states:

I am the fluidity of water. I am the silver light of the moon and the golden light of the sun. I am the AUM chanted in all the Vedas: the Cosmic Sound moving as if soundlessly through the ether. I am the manliness of men. I am the good sweet smell of the moist earth. I am the luminescence of fire; the sustaining life of all living creatures. I am self-offering in those who would expand their little lives into cosmic life. O Arjuna, know Me as the eternal seed of all creatures. In the perceptive, I am their perception. In the great, I am their greatness. In the glorious, it is I who am their glory.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Devi reminds us that our true identity is light, not our past mistakes, habits, or limitations. Drawing from Rays of the One Light, Songs of the Soul, the Bible, and Autobiography of a Yogi, she explains that true success and spiritual growth come not from striving alone, but from receptivity to divine light.

The New Year is a fresh beginning—an opportunity to release old worries and plant seeds of joy, right action, noble desires, and spiritual aspiration in each new day. Through personal stories and examples from the life of Swami Kriyananda, Nayaswami Devi shows how offering our whole self to service allows divine energy to flow effortlessly, dissolving ego and bringing humility and peace. A powerful story of spiritual awakening illustrates how the light is always present, even in moments of confusion or darkness.

She concludes with a call to live consciously as children of light, sharing kindness, compassion, and spiritual awareness with others. In a world experiencing growing tension between light and darkness, the New Year becomes an invitation not only to awaken ourselves, but to help awaken the light in everyone we meet.

This inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Devi was recorded at Ananda Village on January 4th, 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
At the Heart of Silence – the Eternal Word


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, these immortal lines appear:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Human vision beholds individuality and separation everywhere. Divine vision beholds the oneness of cosmic vibration, of which all things, no matter how diverse, are manifestations. Cosmic Sound – the “Word” of God – and Cosmic Light: These are eternal. The world, as revealed to us by our senses, is illusory.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda relates an early experience he received of the divine aspect of reality:

Sitting on my bed one morning, I fell into a deep reverie.

“What is behind the darkness of closed eyes?” This probing thought came powerfully into my mind. An immense flash of light at once manifested to my inward gaze. Divine shapes of saints, sitting in meditation posture in mountain caves, formed like miniature cinema pictures on the large screen of radiance within my forehead.

“Who are you?” I spoke aloud.

“We are the Himalayan yogis.” The celestial response is difficult to describe; my heart was thrilled.

“Ah, I long to go to the Himalayas and become like you!” The vision vanished, but the silvery beams expanded in ever-widening circles to infinity.

“What is this wondrous glow?”

“I am Iswara. I am Light.” The voice was as murmuring clouds.

“I want to be one with Thee!”

Out of the slow dwindling of my divine ecstasy, I salvaged a permanent legacy of inspiration to seek God.

Wise are we if we meditate on that experience of Yogananda’s, and salvage from it even a breath of his inspiration. For, quite simply, there is nothing else! As the Bhagavad Gita says in the seventh Chapter:

I make and unmake this universe. Apart from Me nothing exists, O Arjuna. All things, like the beads of a necklace, are strung together on the thread of My consciousness, and are sustained by Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[In this Sunday service talk, Nayaswami Jaya reflects on Christmas as both a social and spiritual experience, emphasizing that the heart must awaken before higher spiritual truths can be understood. Drawing on the Gospel of John, Christmas traditions, and stories like A Christmas Carol, he explains that Christ’s core teaching is not intellectual belief but active love and compassion for one another. By expressing kindness and service, our hearts expand, joy naturally arises, and we gradually come to experience Christ-Consciousness and God’s presence in all creation. Christmas, then, becomes a universal reminder that love in action is the true path to God and the foundation for spiritual growth in the new year.

Recorded at Ananda Village on December 28th, 2025.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Divine Ascension


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 14, we read:

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

What is this “I,” when spoken by a master who has conquered every vestige of ego-consciousness? Therein lies the mystery of true Scriptural teaching. That “I” that is no “I”: Does it even exist? In what way is it different from the consciousness that animates other human beings?

Jesus was not saying, “Look at me. Don’t look at other masters.” He was saying, rather, “Look at the divine Self that is the essence of who you are, your very Self. You are that ‘I.’ No man cometh unto the divine consciousness except by first recognizing his own intrinsic divinity, hidden behind his delusive ego.”

The Bhagavad Gita, in the fourth Chapter, states:

O Son of Pritha [Arjuna], in whatever way people accept Me, in that same way do I appear to them. For all men, in some way, pursue The Path to Me.

Meditate on the divine incarnations. Their lives, and the consciousness animating them, will be your stairway to the Infinite.

Thus, through Holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on December 21st, 2025. It begins with an inspiring Christmas children story by Janaka. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
What Was the Star of Bethlehem?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Divine vision is the opposite of worldly sight. Divine vision sees God’s presence behind all outward appearances. Worldly sight sees appearances, merely, coating even the blazing wisdom of a saint. A master, to the worldly man, is a human being with, perhaps, a slightly better attitude than the norm. The Scriptures therefore strive to demonstrate how the divine consciousness, when openly active among men in the lives of great masters, must never be viewed as an expression of ordinary human consciousness. To seek the presence of Divinity behind the life of a great master is to prepare oneself to recognize that same Divinity also in lower manifestations until at last one beholds God everywhere.

Thus it was that Paramhansa Yogananda, on observing his new disciple Swami Kriyananda struggling with the contrast between the guru’s human appearance and his inner, divine reality, looked at him deeply one day and said, “If you only knew my consciousness!”

The story of the birth of Jesus Christ contains an account in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 2, of the star of Bethlehem. The wise men who sought Jesus in his manger said,

“We have seen his star in the east.”…And, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.

This account was important, for it showed all mankind that Jesus was a divine incarnation, and no ordinary man – that he brought divine consciousness to earth,even though he would play a human role among human beings, and that others, too, by “receiving him” in their inner hearts, would acquire power, as the Bible puts it, to “become the sons of God.”

The Scriptures enjoin us to meditate on the lives of great souls, that we may discover our own latent spiritual greatness. As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the fourth Chapter:

Who knows the truth touching my births on earth

And my divine work, when he quits the flesh

Puts on its load no more, falls no more down

To earthly birth: to Me he comes, dear Prince!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Narayan, recorded at Ananda Village on December 14th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Living in the Presence of God


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 25, we read of a King – capitalized, for the reference is to God – who welcomes certain devotees to the divine consciousness, saying, “I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.”

The elect asked him when it was they had served Him in these ways, and the King answered, “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

To see God as residing in every human being, as indeed He does, is to open oneself to limitless opportunities for serving Him. Paramhansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, described a saint who lived in this consciousness as “the greatest man of humility I ever knew.” He described a seemingly chance encounter with this saint:

Another day found me walking alone near the Howrah railroad station. I stood for a moment by a temple, silently criticizing a small group of men with drum and cymbals who were violently reciting a chant.

“How undevotionally they use the Lord’s divine name in mechanical repetition,” I reflected. My gaze was astonished by the rapid approach of Master Mahasaya. “Sir, how come you here?”

The saint, ignoring my question, answered my thought. “Isn’t it true, little sir, that the Beloved’s name sounds sweet from all lips, ignorant and wise?” He passed his arm around me affectionately; I found myself carried on his magic carpet to the Merciful Presence.

If you would see God, watch for Him everywhere. If you would hear His voice, listen for it in all sounds and also in their supporting silences. If you would know God, seek His wisdom behind merely human knowledge.

The Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter, states:

One who beholds My presence everywhere,

And all things dwelling equally in Me,

He never loses loving sight of Me,

Nor I of him, through all eternity.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<dc:creator>Jitendra Guindon</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk withJitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on December 7th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The first passage is from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 25. Jesus tells the Parable of the Ten Virgins, five of them wise, and five, foolish. They await their Bridegroom, the Christ Consciousness. The wise virgins keep the oil in their lamps, symbolic of their devotion, lit through the night. The foolish virgins placed no oil in their lamps. These foolish ones are like the average devotee, going through the motions of outer ritual but keeping no fire of love burning in the heart.

When the Bridegroom’s coming is announced, the foolish virgins realize their mistake, and hasten out to purchase oil. During their absence, the Christ Consciousness comes and embraces those who have been awaiting him with devotion. The foolish ones, by their lackluster devotion, are not accepted by him. “‘Watch, therefore,’” Jesus told his listeners, “‘for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.’”

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda describes the “foolish virgin” consciousness he encountered in the Mahamandal hermitage he stayed in as a young man, in Benares. “I was pleased,” he wrote,

that my new home possessed an attic, where I managed to spend the dawn and morning hours. The ashram members, knowing little of meditation practices, thought I should employ my whole time in organizational duties. They gave me praise for my afternoon work in their office.

“Don’t try to catch God so soon!” This ridicule accompanied one of my early departures toward the attic.…[Later, during meditation] I felt lifted as though bodily to a sphere uncircumscribed.

“Thy Master cometh today!” A divine womanly voice came from everywhere and nowhere.

This supernal experience was pierced by a shout from a definite locale. A young priest nicknamed Habu was calling me from the downstairs kitchen.

“Mukunda, enough of meditation! You are needed for an errand.”

The Divine Mother’s words were not spoken for the benefit of that priest – the “foolish virgin,” but for Mukunda, the “wise virgin.” For this was the day his guru, Sri Yukteswar, came to him.

Grieve not, friends, if you feel that you have been foolish. No error is forever. Someday, if you keep your lamp lit now, your opportunity will come. In the Bhagavad Gita, the sixth Chapter, Krishna promises every devotee:

Arjuna, none who works for self-redemption

Will ever meet an evil destiny!

Spiritual failure, though a deep disappointment, is always temporary. “Eternal Hellfire” is but a projection of vindictiveness in the human mind.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>The Unerring Law of Karma</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on November 30th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Law of Karma – Bondage, or Soul-Release

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians contains this oft-quoted statement:

Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

In Autobiography of a Yogi Paramhansa tells a story from the life of the Benares saint Trailanga Swami:

A skeptic once determined to expose Trailanga as a charlatan. A large bucket of calcium-lime mixture, used in whitewashing walls, was placed before the swami.

“Master,” the materialist said, in mock reverence, “I have brought you some clabbered milk. Please drink it.”

Trailanga unhesitatingly drained, to the last drop, the containerful of burning lime. In a few minutes the evildoer fell to the ground in agony.

“Help, swami, help!” he cried. “I am on fire! Forgive my wicked test!”

The great yogi broke his habitual silence. “Scoffer,” he said, “you did not realize when you offered me poison that my life is one with your own. Except for my knowledge that God is present in my stomach, as in every atom of creation, the lime would have killed me. Now that you know the divine meaning of boomerang, never again play tricks on anyone.”

The well-purged sinner, healed by Trailanga’s words, slunk feebly away.

Yogananda goes on to say:

The reversal of pain was not due to any volition of the master, but came about through unerring application of the law of justice which upholds creation’s farthest swinging orb. Men of God-realization like Trailanga allow the divine law to operate instantaneously; they have banished forever all thwarting crosscurrents of ego.

Not by reason alone, but by Self-realization, are the ins and outs of destiny fully understood. Their web, though tied forever to the post of ego-motivation, is too intricate to be perceived as a single thread. Only great masters can see it with clarity. It is visible to them in all its workings – not from within the tangle, but from above, in superconsciousness.

As Sri Krishna said in the fourth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita: “He who beholds inaction in action, and action in inaction, is wise among men; he is one with the Spirit; he has attained the true goal of action (perfect freedom).”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Devi, recorded at Ananda Village on November 23rd, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Reincarnation – the Spiral Staircase


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Book of Revelation, Chapter 3, Jesus Christ tells us: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out.”

There is a difference between Church dogmas, which are based on reasoned deductions from Scriptural statements, and the pronouncements of wisdom, which are based on the inner realization of Scriptural truths. Reason, like a train, can only follow already-existing tracks of human experience. Human memory, being short, is seldom able to cross back over the threshold of a person’s present existence. Biblical references to previous lifetimes on earth are overlooked in the deductive process, and we find them therefore excluded from the body of official dogma. Nevertheless, such references exist. The Bible itself presents them – as does Jesus in this passage – not as abstract teaching, but as direct, personal perception of truth.

In the same way Krishna, in the Bhagavad Gita, silences Arjuna’s reasonable doubts on the subject not by reasoned argument, but by the frank statement contained in the fourth Chapter of that great Scripture:

Arjuna, you and I have passed through many births. I know all of them, though you, O chastiser of foes, recall them not.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on November 16th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Promise of the Scriptures


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 15, we read the famous Parable of the Prodigal Son. Jesus tells of the man who took the wealth bestowed on him by his father, and squandered it in foreign lands, where he fell into evil ways. At last, repentant, he returned to his father’s home. When his father saw him, he was (Jesus tells us)

moved with compassion, and ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.” But the father said to his servants, “Fetch quickly the best robe and put it on him, and give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet; and bring out the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; because this my son was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” And they began to make merry.

Small-hearted human beings, identified as they are with their little egos, give exaggerated importance to any slight they receive from others. Thus, they imagine God, like them, to be petty, unpardoning, and vindictive. In God’s eyes, however, when human beings go astray there is nothing to forgive. All of us are aspects, only, of His own Self. He who made us resides in us. He is not far away from us in some far-off heaven. His call to us, always, is to return to our own home, within.

The way of return is described in the Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter:

Supreme blessedness is that yogi’s who has completely calmed his mind, controlled his ego-active tendencies (rajas), and purged himself of desire, thereby attaining oneness with Brahma, the Infinite Spirit.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on November 9th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapters 7 and 21, we read:

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. . . .

Verily I say unto you, if you have faith, and doubt not…if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

Paramhansa Yogananda showed by his own example that prayer is a power, provided we believe deeply in that power. When our thoughts and feelings are strongly focused and then united in growing awareness to the Divine Presence within, they can bring even seemingly unrealistic wishes to fulfillment.

When Paramhansa Yogananda was in charge of his school in Ranchi, India, he took the boys on occasional outings to the surrounding countryside. “There was a waterfall not far away,” he told Swami Kriyananda, “where I took them sometimes. It was dangerous to cross there. But I would cry out to the boys, ‘Do you believe in God?’ ‘Yes!’ they would shout back enthusiastically. And so we always crossed in safety.

“Years later, after I’d gone to America, one of the teachers tried to do the same thing, but he lacked spiritual power. One of the boys slipped on a rock and was drowned.”

Thus, the Master explained, belief alone is not enough. It must be united to one-pointed awareness, which leads to Self-realization. The Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter, underscores the necessity for such one-pointed concentration:

Whenever the mind, fickle and restless, wanders off from its concentration, let the meditating yogi withdraw it resolutely, spurning every distraction (no matter how alluring!), and bring it back again and again under the control of the Self.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinacco, recorded at Ananda Village on November 2nd, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Why Tell God Anything When He Knows Everything? Why Offer God Anything, When He Has Everything?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ teaches as the ideal prayer one that addresses very human demands to God: “Give us this day our daily bread,” “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” and, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

Jesus himself says, just before suggesting this prayer, “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” Why, then, his recommendation that we pray for anything? The answer is that we should offer ourselves up in acceptance of His abundance. Don’t pester God, as though pulling constantly on His sleeve to get His attention. Approach Him with the confidence of a child in its parent. And in that spirit, then, ask Him lovingly, but with complete trust, as though demanding your birthright, and without the slightest doubt in your mind that He wants only your best. For you don’t have to persuade Him, the way a beggar or a stranger might. You are His own child.

God knows everything already. He knows what is in your heart. It is you who need to clarify your feelings, that you attune yourself to Him in turn more clearly. For only by such clarity will you be able to receive perfectly what He gives you.

For the same reason, we need to offer ourselves to Him not because He needs anything from us (except, as Yogananda said, our love, to complete His love for us), but because by self-giving we expand our awareness from its confinement in the little ego, outward to infinity.

“Those who partake of the nectar remaining after a sacrifice,” says the Bhagavad Gita in the fourth Chapter, “attain to the Infinite Spirit. That person, however, who makes no sacrifices never truly succeeds in enjoying even the blessings of this material world; how, then, could he attain happiness in subtler realms?”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on October 26th, 2025.

Maria reflects on the nature of God as Consciousness, exploring the spiritual journey from worshiping God in form to realizing the formless divine. She opens with a passage from Yogananda's Whispers from Eternity, then recounts how Swami Kriyananda’s realization that “God is Consciousness” became a turning point in his life. Through stories from Paramhansa Yogananda’s childhood, including his devotion to the image of Kali and his later vision of the Cosmic Mother,she movingly illustrates how the devotee evolves from form-based devotion to the formless Infinite.

Drawing from the Bhagavad Gita, Nayaswami Maria recounts Krishna’s revelation of his cosmic form to Arjuna, symbolizing the devotees awe and humility before divine vastness. The talk concludes with practical guidance for meditation: to feel oneself at the center of infinite space, transcending body identity, and entering divine stillness. Whether one worships God with or without form, both paths lead to dissolving the ego and merging with the infinite, formless bliss of Spirit.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
What Is the Best Way to Pray?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ and Sri Krishna, both, advised praying to God as personal. Yet both emphasized also that God is above form, and that He must be sought, ultimately, in Infinity. As Jesus put it, “God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

Yet he spoke of God constantly as our Heavenly Father. In what is known as the Lord’s Prayer, he proposed a very human prayer to the Heavenly Father, asking fulfillment for all our spiritual needs.

The Bhagavad Gita explains that man, living as he does in a human body, finds it difficult to worship Infinity as though the ego and body didn’t even exist. Far better for human beings, Krishna says, to work with reality as we know it than to affirm a reality of which the human mind is incapable of forming any clear notion. Encouraging the devotee in this direction, he says, “O Arjuna, be thou a yogi!” – that is to say, be one who works with, not in rejection of, the energies of the body and the natural tendencies of the mind.

In the twelfth Chapter of the Gita, Arjuna asks:

“Those who, ever steadfast, worship Thee as devotees [that is to say, in an “I” and “Thou” relationship], and those who contemplate Thee as the immortal, unmanifested Spirit – which group is the better versed in yoga?”

The blessed Lord replied: “Those who, fixing their minds on Me, adore Me, ever united to Me through supreme devotion, are in My eyes the perfect knowers of yoga. . . .

“Those whose strict aim is union with the Unmanifested choose a more difficult way; arduous for embodied beings is The Path of dedication to the Absolute” – the followers, that is to say, of The Path of Gyana Yoga.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Sundara Traymar, recorded at Ananda Village on October 19th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
First Things First


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

That expression, “First things first,” is a piece of counsel often given to students of business techniques. It is the advice of practicality to those who aspire to worldly success. But according to the Hermetic doctrine, “As above, so below,” that which works best in one level of life is often the best guide to what will work best on every other level. If a person is true to his highest priorities, he will generally find that his other needs are fulfilled naturally as well.

This is true, certainly, of the search for God. One of the greatest sayings of Jesus Christ was this simple sentence, in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 6:

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Paramhansa Yogananda gave his elder brother Ananta a wonderful lesson in this truth. It was Ananta who had captured him and brought him back from his flight to the Himalayas, described by Yogananda in Autobiography of a Yogi. In Yogananda’s book we read how Ananta later challenged him, in the city of Agra, to pit his divine faith against such “practical” worldly considerations as the need for earning a living. Fearless before that challenge, the young aspirant agreed to go by train, without any money, to the nearby town of Brindaban; not to miss a single meal in Brindaban; and to find his way back to Agra without begging and without in any other way asking for help. In one of the most thrilling chapters in the book, Yogananda fulfilled all the conditions of the test. Yogananda continued the account:

As the tale was unfolded, my brother turned sober, then solemn.

“The law of demand and supply reaches into subtler realms than I had supposed.” Ananta spoke with a spiritual enthusiasm never before noticeable. “I understand for the first time your indifference to the vaults and vulgar accumulations of the world.”

Late as it was, my brother insisted that he receive diksha (initiation) into Kriya Yoga.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the ninth Chapter:

Those who worship lesser gods go to their gods…but those who worship Me come to Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on October 12th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ said in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 10:

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

He that findeth [that is to say, that clingeth to] his life shall lose it: and he that loseth [in other words, that giveth up] his life for my sake shall find it.

God tests the firmness of our faith. The “sword” described here is the sword of discrimination. The struggle Jesus describes is not a war against unknown enemies, but the struggle with our own attachment to all that is nearest and dearest to us, humanly speaking. Ultimately, it is a war against the ego itself, and against anything with which we surround ourselves to bolster the ego’s fragile sense of security.

When Yogananda, as a boy, fled to the Himalayas to embrace a life of solitary meditation, he was apprehended by his older brother Ananta, and brought home again. At a certain point, before he would accept defeat, he whispered to his friend Amar, his companion on the flight, “Let us slip away when opportunity offers. We can go on foot to Rishikesh.”

But Amar, whose brother had accompanied Ananta, had turned pessimist, disclaiming any intention of continuing their adventure. Yogananda’s memorable comment on Amar’s refusal was, “He was enjoying the familial warmth.”

The spiritual warrior rejects that “familial warmth.” Rather, he claims the whole universe as his home.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the fourteenth Chapter:

Unaffected by outward joys and sorrows, or by praise and blame; secure in his divine nature; regarding with equal gaze a clod of mud, a stone, and a bar of gold; impartial toward all experiences, whether pleasant or unpleasant; firm-minded; untouched by either praise or blame; treating everyone alike whether friend or foe; free from the delusion that, in anything he does, he is the doer: Such an one has transcended Nature’s triune qualities.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>Surrendering to Soul Guidance</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Dhyan, recorded at Ananda Village on October 5th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
In Surrender Lies Victory!


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

A case might be made for surrender as a path to victory in worldly conflicts – the way of passive resistance, for example, in preference to armed resistance. But our point here concerns a higher kind of surrender: the surrender of our deluded, egoic will to the wise and almighty will of God.

Human will is, as Paramhansa Yogananda used to say, guided by whims and limited understanding. The divine will is in harmony with every level of reality. Though the divine will sometimes appears to us, at first, to be wrong, it proves always, eventually, to be for our highest good.

Human will is inconsistent; it leads us one day to success, another, to disaster. The divine will, when we surrender to it completely (though it is not always easy to do so!), always brings us deep inner peace and joy in the end.

Jesus Christ demonstrated this perfect surrender to God’s will in the Garden of Gethsemane, the night before he was captured and imprisoned, preparatory to his crucifixion. He went apart from the others to pray, and asked them to pray also. But when he returned to them he found them asleep.

Out of his love for them he excused them, saying, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” He then urged them again, saying, “Watch and pray.” Their weakness, in those circumstances, was particularly sad, and the disciples themselves must have regretted it bitterly, later on.

We all know the symptoms of human weakness, though we may excuse them in ourselves, saying, “Well, after all, I’m only human.” But what are the signs of true strength? We find in all cases that these are the fruit of a life wholly surrendered to God. The Bhagavad Gita lists these signs in the thirteenth Chapter:

Humbleness, truthfulness, and harmlessness,

Patience and honor, reverence for the wise,

Purity, constancy, control of self,

Contempt for sense-delights, self-sacrifice,

Perception of the certainty of ill

In birth, old age, and frail mortality,

Disease, the ego’s suffering, and sin;

Detachment, lightly holding thoughts of home,

Children, and wife – those ties which bind most men;

An ever-tranquil heart, heedless of good

Or adverse fortune, with the will upraised

To worship Me alone, unceasingly;

Loving deep solitude, and shunning noise

Of foolish crowds; calm focus on the Self

Perceived within and in Infinity:

These qualities reveal true Wisdom, Prince.

All that is otherwise is ignorance!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Haridas, recorded at Ananda Village on September 28, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Many Are the Pathways to Truth


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

On the dedication page of Swami Kriyananda’s book The Path appears the following account:

A group of Paramhansa Yogananda’s disciples had gone with him to see a movie about the life of Gyandev, a great saint of medieval India. Afterwards they gathered and listened to the Master explain certain, subtler, aspects of that inspiring story. A young man in the group mentioned another film he had seen years earlier, in India, about the life of Mirabai, a famous woman saint.

“If you’d seen that movie,” he exclaimed, “you wouldn’t even have liked this one!”

The Guru rebuked him. “Why make such comparisons? The lives of great saints manifest in various ways the same, one God.”

The Bible contains a similar account in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 9:

And John…said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.

And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

The more central a truth, the greater the number of contexts in which it can be applied. Truth is like a pure white light, containing within itself the full spectrum of the rainbow.

Let no one tell you what your path to God ought to be. Many are The Paths. Select your own according to the dictates of your own nature, no matter how out of step that puts you with other people.

Sri Krishna in the third Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, states:

Trying even unsuccessfully to fulfill one’s own spiritual duty (dharma) is better than pursuing successfully the duties of others. Better death itself in the pursuance of one’s own duties. The pursuance of another’s duties is fraught with (spiritual) danger.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>The Magic Wand of Intuition</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on September 21, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Mark, Chapter 10, we read a passage that Yogananda often quoted:

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

It has often been noted that a critical attitude tends to paralyze creativity. Good critics, for example, seldom produce works of creative genius, though their creations may be intellectually clever. The intellect separates; it analyzes, then puts things together again piece by piece. Intellect lacks intuition’s flow, which descends smoothly, like a river, from the superconscious.

Paramhansa Yogananda described intuition as “the soul’s power of knowing God.” To receive the kingdom of God, Jesus was saying, one must do so with the openness and trust of a little child. Intellectuals may object to this statement, saying, “But there must also be discrimination. You wouldn’t want a person to be so open-minded that his brain falls out!” The truth is, however, that the intellect can be fooled, even when it does its best to discriminate wisely. Only intuition is capable of penetrating to the heart of a matter and knowing truth from falsehood. It was the clear understanding of a child, not the elaborately persuaded intellects of his elders, that enabled the child in Hans Christian Andersen’s story to cry out in surprise, “Why isn’t the Emperor wearing any clothes?”

Therefore it was that Sri Krishna said, in the ninth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

To you, who are free from the carping spirit, I shall now reveal wisdom sublime. Grasping it with your mind, and perceiving it by intuitive realization, you shall escape the evils of delusion.

Thus, through Holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on September 14th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Truth Invites; It Never Commands


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Free will is a basic principle of life. God never coerces: He invites us to live in such a way that we find fulfillment in ourselves. If we refuse to live rightly, Paramhansa Yogananda taught, God simply says, “I will wait.” We have eternity to live. In that eternity we live as we choose: in self-created darkness – a darkness as intense, and as long lasting, as we choose – or in the infinite light, the true Self, which is God.

Jesus Christ in the Beatitudes offered a beautiful example of God’s way of inviting mankind to seek perfection – not by commanding, but by offering His human children the incentive they need to choose the right of their own volition.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit,” Jesus said, “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.…Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.…Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”

In each of the Beatitudes Jesus explains the blessing attendant upon observing it. The divine way, similarly, for each of us is not to do violence to our own natures. Spirituality must be attained naturally. It can never be attained by force.

The Bhagavad Gita says, in the third Chapter:

Even the wise behave in accordance with Nature as it is manifested in them. Of what avail, then, is suppression?

The Scripture then goes on, however, to explain that this doesn’t mean we should surrender to the dictates of our lower nature. Rather, it emphasizes our need to aspire to the heights, but each of us in accordance with his own nature and not in imitation of anyone else’s, offering ourselves up for purification by divine grace. Desire, whatever form it takes – so the Bhagavad Gita explains – should be resisted, even if only mentally. “Attachment and repulsion to sense objects, both of these are universally rooted. No one should accept their influence. For, verily, they are man’s enemies.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jaya, recorded at Ananda Village on September 7th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Ego – Friend or Foe?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ begins his Beatitudes with the words:

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

To be “poor in spirit” in such a way as to merit the kingdom of heaven doesn’t mean to be poor-spirited. Rather, it means to see oneself as owning nothing, since all belongs to God. For all is a manifestation of His consciousness.

St. John of the Cross wrote, “If you would own everything, seek to own nothing.” That which the ego relinquishes, offering it up to soul-consciousness, is reclaimed forever in cosmic consciousness. Nothing is ever lost. Paramhansa Yogananda tells the story in Autobiography of a Yogi of the levitating saint, Bhaduri Mahasaya.

“Master,” said a disciple of this saint once, ardently. “You are wonderful! You have renounced riches and comforts to seek God and teach us wisdom!” It was well-known that Bhaduri Mahasaya had forsaken great family wealth in his early childhood, when single-mindedly he entered the yogic path.

“You are reversing the case! The saint’s face held mild rebuke. “I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciates! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!”

The Bhagavad Gita in the third Chapter states:

All things are everywhere by Nature wrought

In interaction of the qualities.

The fool, cheated by self, thinks, ‘This I did’

And ‘That I wrought’; but – ah, thou strong-armed prince! –

A better-lessoned mind, knowing the play

Of visible things within the world of sense,

And how the qualities must qualify,

Standeth aloof even from his acts.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Sundara Traymor, recorded at Ananda Village on August 31st 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Who Are True Christians?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ said, in Chapter 10 of the Gospel of St. John: “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.”

Many Christians, not surprisingly, quote this saying in condemnation of other spiritual teachers – not only the old Testament prophets, but also Buddha, Krishna, and others who lived before Jesus, as well as (by inference) any who came after him. Yet Jesus himself said, in St. Matthew Chapter 5, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”

Nowhere do we find Jesus condemning, or even gently criticizing, other spiritual masters. His criticisms were reserved for worldly attitudes, and for those hypocritical Pharisees who had allowed religion to become, for them, a pretense.

Paramhansa Yogananda explained that the expression “All that ever came before me” referred to those spiritual teachers who place their egos and their self-importance ahead of the Christ Consciousness, in the sense of drawing people’s devotion to themselves and not offering it where alone it truly belongs, to God.

Yogananda himself was very firm in this regard. For example, he never spoke of anyone as his disciple. Instead, he always insisted, “They are God’s disciples. God is the Guru, not I.”

Ego is a way-station on the soul’s journey toward enlightenment. The soul is first trapped in lower bodily forms. Slowly it evolves to the human level, at which point self-consciousness appears. Only in human form can self-consciousness transcend material form altogether, including the lower identity of ego-consciousness, and discover the true, divine Self within. Self-consciousness manifested as ego is an incentive to deliberate self-development. Later in this process of development, however, the ego becomes an obstruction. Inevitably, new spiritual aspirants do not emerge effortlessly from the vortex of ego-consciousness. Desire must be offered up resolutely and ever-more wholeheartedly on the altar of Infinity. It is a gradual process, and few even among those who seek to help others are free of ego. If, however, their motive in teaching is not to serve, but to be served, they deserve a severe reprimand, as Jesus gave them. For their direction of development is no longer upward, but downward. In the name of giving up desires they are creating new ones. As it says in the Bhagavad Gita in the third Chapter:

Desire obscures even the wisdom of the wise. Their relentless foe it is, a flame never quenched.

Intellect, mind, and senses: These combined are referred to as the seat of desire. Desire, through them, deludes and eclipses the discrimination of the embodied soul.

O Arjuna, discipline your senses! And, having done so, work to destroy desire, annihilator of wisdom and of Self-realization.

Give God the credit for everything you do. See Him as the true Doer.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on August 24th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
How Should We Meet Our Tests?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we considered Satan’s temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, after his baptism by John. We discussed the question, Does Satan exist?

All of us experience temptation of one kind or another in our lives – some of us, frequently; others, only occasionally. Whether temptation comes to us from our own subconscious, or from outside ourselves, is secondary to the fact that it does come, and that we must deal with it. More important, then, is the question, How to deal with it – in fact, how to deal with tests of any kind?

Martin Luther flung an ink pot at the devil, who had appeared to test him. A dark stain on the wall of Luther’s cell is pointed out to tourists in support of this story. Unfortunately, our trials are not often so summarily dismissed. As a fellow monk once said to Swami Kriyananda, speaking of Satan, “If only I could get my hands on him!”

Jesus during his temptations in the wilderness overcame them, and thereby set an example for all time, by clinging the more determinedly to God. As Paramhansa Yogananda used to say, “Darkness cannot be driven out of a room with a stick. Once you turn on the light, however, the darkness will vanish as though it had never been.” Jesus manifested this principle. The Bible tells us therefore that at last, “The devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.”

In the Bhagavad Gita the point is clarified further by the added explanation that there are three qualities in human nature: sattvic, or spiritually elevating; rajasic, or ego-activating; and tamasic, or spiritually darkening. It is this triune aspect of human nature that the third Chapter refers to with the words:

As fire is hidden by smoke, as a mirror is dulled by rust, and as an embryo is enclosed in the womb, so is the indwelling Self enveloped by desire.

Yogananda explained that each of these examples describes one of the qualities, or gunas. Sattva guna, that which elevates our consciousness, can be freed of any identity with ego by a little puff of meditation and right affirmation. Rajo guna, which embroils the ego in restless activity, can be worked off with a little more, and a little longer, effort. Tamo guna, embracing as it does such mental states as laziness and stupidity, can only be outgrown in time, since it inhibits even the desire for self-improvement.

The example Jesus gave us was intended more for those in whom sattva guna is predominant. But if you yourself find elements in your consciousness that resist even the effort to cling to God in prayer and meditation, don’t despair. Patience, as it has been well said, is the fastest path to God. As long as your efforts take you steadfastly in the right direction, you will come out right in time. Remember Yogananda’s words: “A saint is a sinner who never gave up.”

If, however, your nature impels you, even against your will, to move in the wrong direction – toward egoic desires, and away from God – strive at least to detach yourself mentally from your wrong actions, which are induced by habit. The time will come when their own stored-up energy will tire and diminish. At that time, if you have not contributed to that energy by your consenting will, you will find it possible at last to redirect your energies more constructively.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on August 17th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Does Satan Exist?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Bible tells us in Chapter 4 of the Gospel of St. Matthew:

Then [after baptism] was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

To most modern minds, this passage seems quaintly obsolete. Psychologists would say – have said, in fact – that the temptation of Jesus, if it occurred at all, was purely psychological. They call it a projection of desires lurking in his own subconscious mind.

The subconscious plays a strong part, certainly, even if not a unique one, in any testing the spiritual seeker must undergo.

The Bhagavad Gita, in dealing with this undeniable reality, quotes Arjuna in the third Chapter, and then Sri Krishna’s reply:

“Yet tell me, Teacher! [said Arjuna] by what force doth man

Go to his ill, unwilling; as if one

Pushed him in that path?”

[Krishna replied:]

“Desire it is!

Passion it is! born of the Darknesses,

Which pusheth him. Mighty of appetite,

Sinful, and strong is this! – man’s enemy!”

Yet even Krishna describes passion as “born of the Darknesses.” The fact is, as Paramhansa Yogananda wrote in Autobiography of a Yogi, “All thoughts vibrate eternally in the cosmos.…Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived.” Psychology, yes, but psychology attuned to currents of consciousness that pervade the entire universe, attracted by each of us according to our own personal inclinations.

Yogananda, quoted in The Path, said, “I used to think Satan was only a human invention, but now I know, and add my testimony to that of others who lived before me, that Satan is a reality. He is a universal, conscious force whose sole aim is to keep all beings bound to the wheel of delusion.”

We should take pains, then, to attract uplifting currents of universal consciousness, and to avoid attracting the negative, which – disease that it is! – can infect our thoughts even while it leads us to believe that our thoughts are purely our own.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Narayan, recorded at Ananda Village on August 10th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Does God Hide the Truth?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In last week’s reading we saw that the great masters themselves counsel discretion in the dissemination of truth. The counter-argument is sometimes made, “But the Lord doesn’t hide! He reveals His beauty in the sunsets, His tender sympathy in the rain, His wrath in the thunder, His restless energy in the brooks, His power in the sunlight.”

There are exoteric truths, and there are also esoteric truths. There is that which is revealed impersonally and left up to us to interpret – such as the thunder and our perception of it as divine wrath; the rain and our perception of it as God’s sympathy. But behind even God’s most open expressions there lies impenetrable mystery.

“The wind blows where it wills,” said Jesus in Chapter 3 of the Gospel of St. John. “You hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from, or where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

And Sri Krishna says in the ninth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

By Me the whole vast Universe of things

Is spread abroad; – by Me, the Unmanifest!

In Me are all existences contained;

Not I in them!

God’s hidden reality cannot be understood by the reasoning faculty. India’s Shankya philosophy states frankly, “Ishwar ashiddha: God is not provable.”

A willingness to seek the underlying reality behind appearances is essential for those who would know God.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<dc:creator>Shyama Garcia-Davis</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Shyama recorded at Ananda Village on August 3rd 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
How Democratic Is Truth?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

We live in an age when people assume that knowledge should be available equally to all. In matters susceptible of judgment by normal common sense, however, everyone knows there are exceptions. Access to a control room for intercontinental missiles is limited, by universal consent, to a very few. Access to the controls of a passenger airliner is limited to those with the necessary knowledge for operating them, and also to those with the proper authorization. If people don’t see the disadvantages of making more subtle knowledge universally available, it is only because they are ignorant of the risks involved.

In the case of subtle knowledge, the main disadvantage in making it universally available is the harm it might do to the person himself. True, by mocking truth he might undermine the faith of a few truth seekers. But then, such tests can also be beneficial, as a means of strengthening faith. Again true, the clever doubter’s misrepresentation of those truths may dissuade a few seekers from following the spiritual path. But if a seeker really is sincere, he will recognize the truth eventually because it resonates with his own being.

No, the greatest problem accrues to the shallow doubter himself. To give him an opportunity to affirm his ignorance might only estrange him even more from the truth, delaying the time when he will turn – as all people must, eventually – to the light.

Thus, the Scriptures advise, not secrecy, but discretion in the sharing of truth. Jesus Christ says in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 7:

Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

And Sri Krishna says in the eighteenth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

Never speak of these truths to one who is without self-control or devotion, who renders no service, who does not care to hear, or who speaks ill of Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jyotish recorded at Ananda Village on July 27th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Do You Need a Guru?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Many people scoff at the idea of having a guru. True to human nature generally, they make a virtue of their scoffing. “I am responsible for what I do,” they announce, “responsible for my mistakes as well as for my victories. What would I ever learn if I handed over my development to someone else? To depend on another for guidance would be an act of spiritual cowardice.”

It would be understandable for someone gifted with some trivial ability, for instance with words, to insist on doing his crossword puzzle himself without letting anyone else help him. But supposing, even in such trivial matters, he had no such gift? What virtue would there be in refusing to learn? For that matter, where would the gift itself come from? That which is a gift is not a native ability. Still, crossword puzzles are hardly an important challenge. What if a person wanted to do something daring: to climb a cliff, for instance, but refused to study the art of mountain climbing? He would climb at the risk of his life.

And how much more is risked than physical life in the great adventure of the divine search, where the risk is to salvation itself! Where is the sacrifice in seeking guidance? Even a mountain guide wouldn’t presume to do one’s climbing for one; his purpose would be only to help the neophyte to climb safely. To have a wise guru is not a sign of weakness, but of plain common sense.

All the saints, aware as they are of the hazards of the adventure, agree on the importance of having a guide, or guru. And these are the heroes speaking, not cowards or spiritual weaklings.

Jesus emphasized the importance of having a teacher by asking John to baptize him. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 3, we read of his coming to John. “Thus,” Jesus said to John, “it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.”

In the Bhagavad Gita, the fourth Chapter, Sri Krishna says:

Open thyself to those who have attained wisdom. They will be thy teachers. Ask questions of them [both verbally and mentally]. Serve them faithfully, and with devotion.

How is the devotee to recognize one who has attained wisdom? The Bhagavad Gita gives us this inspiring description of the sage:

By this sign is he known,

Being of equal grace to comrades, friends,

Chance-comers, strangers, lovers, enemies,

Aliens and kinsmen; loving all alike,

Evil or good.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on July 20th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

These past weeks we discussed the need for balancing self-effort with receptivity to divine grace. Both are important in the spiritual life. Passive dependence on grace hasn’t the magnetism to attract grace. Boastful self-confidence, however, which closes itself off from the higher, divine power is shallow, brittle, and – given life’s many uncertainties – susceptible to ultimate failure.

There is a story in the Bible that illustrates the need to put forth personal effort so as to draw magnetically on the divine power. The story occurs in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 8:

But as he went, the crowds nearly suffocated him. Among them was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years and who had derived no benefit from anybody’s treatment. She came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak. As a result, her hemorrhage stopped immediately.

“Who was it who touched me?” Jesus asked.

When everybody denied it, Peter remonstrated,

“Master, the crowds are all round, pressing you on every side!”

But Jesus said, “Somebody touched me. I felt power going out from me.”

When the woman realized that she had not escaped notice, she came forward trembling and fell at his feet, and admitted before everyone why she had touched him, adding that she had been instantaneously cured.

“Daughter,” Jesus said, “It is by your faith that you have been healed. Go in peace.”

Self-confidence and self-effort are necessary, as the ignition of a car is necessary to the motor. Of what use the ignition, however, if the motor itself will not work? Wise is he who recognizes the real power in the universe, and guides his life by that supreme power. As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the ninth Chapter:

To those who meditate on Me as their Very Own, ever united to Me by incessant worship, I make good their deficiencies, and render permanent their gains.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on July 13th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we considered the need for attunement – with God, with the gurus, with the wisdom of others – until we make that wisdom our own. There is a strong, and in fact valid, belief nowadays in the need for standing on one’s own feet rather than depending weakly on others to carry us by their strength.

Swami Kriyananda was once asked, “What is the best yoga posture?” “That one,” he replied, “which sets you squarely on your own two feet.”

Our strength must come from within. If that strength comes from the ego, however, instead of from soul-consciousness, it is like a guitar string without its sounding board: the notes it emits will be thin and feeble. Our strength must come from within, but must be coupled with recognition of our inner link with broader and higher realities.

The Bhagavad Gita says in the tenth Chapter:

Everyone in this world whose life is glorious, or prosperous, or powerful – know that his achievement is but a little spark from the great sun of My effulgence.

Jesus in talking to his disciples emphasized also the power of attunement with his own consciousness as a ray of the Divine. For this ray had descended already, through him, in response to their devotion; it was a sign that God was already “listening” to them with receptive attention, and did not require to be wooed in that way any longer. In the passage preceding the one that we read last week, Jesus said:

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

This was the meaning of Paramhansa Yogananda’s counsel also, when speaking more intimately to the disciples of the need for attunement with him.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinacco, recorded at Ananda Village on July 6th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Abiding in God


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Yogananda often emphasized – more often to his disciples than to the general public, but also to everyone generally, for it was a universal teaching – the importance of attunement. For divine understanding cannot be created: It must be perceived. To the disciples, Yogananda spoke of the importance of attunement with the guru. To others, he urged the importance at least of attuning oneself to higher consciousness. Can an eagle rise without support from the sustaining air?

Jesus Christ said in the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 15:

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

How can we “abide in him”? Jesus says, “If my words abide in you.” By words he meant not only his spoken words, but his vibrations, his consciousness, of which the words are only an expression. We must abide by the teachings, but we must also absorb those teachings into ourselves, that they become our own experience. For disciples of this path, the more, in their hearts, they live consciously in the presence of the masters, the more they will find the divine presence living within them.

And for all truth seekers, whether disciples or not, the more they live sustained inwardly by the awareness of God’s presence, the higher they will find themselves soaring in wisdom and joy.

For the Bhagavad Gita says, in the tenth Chapter:

I am the Source of everything; from Me all creation emerges. Blessed with this realization, the wise, awe-stricken, adore Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>Cities of Light — A Vision for the Future</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Devi, recorded at Ananda Village on June 29th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Redeeming Light


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Book of Isaiah in the Bible, Chapter 9, tells us:

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

What is this light of which so many Scriptures speak? In Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda, we read of an early experience the Master had with that light:

I was blessed about the age of eight with a wonderful healing through the photograph of Lahiri Mahasaya. This experience gave intensification to my [divine] love. While at our family estate in Ichapur, Bengal, I was stricken with Asiatic cholera. My life was despaired of; the doctors could do nothing. At my bedside, Mother frantically motioned me to look at Lahiri Mahasaya’s picture on the wall above my head.

“Bow to him mentally!” She knew I was too feeble even to lift my hands in salutation. “If you really show your devotion and inwardly kneel before him, your life will be spared!”

I gazed at his photograph and saw there a blinding light, enveloping my body and the entire room. My nausea and other uncontrollable symptoms disappeared; I was well. At once I felt strong enough to bend over and touch Mother’s feet in appreciation of her immeasurable faith in her guru. Mother pressed her head repeatedly against the little picture.

“O Omnipresent Master, I thank thee that thy light hath healed my son!”

I realized that she too had witnessed the luminous blaze through which I had instantly recovered from a usually fatal disease.

“Where My light is,” God once told a saint whom the divine light had healed, “no darkness can dwell.” The divine light – pure, calm, liberating – is the only final cure for every kind of delusion: ill health, emotional grief, and spiritual ignorance. Seek it daily in the silence, in deep meditation.

As the Bhagavad Gita says in the fifth Chapter:

For whom

That darkness of the soul is chased by light,

Splendid and clear shines manifest the Truth

As if a Sun of Wisdom sprang to shed

Its beams of light.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jaya, recorded at Ananda Village on June 22nd 2025. He begins with a reading from Whispers from Eternity entitled "Teach Me to Dream Peace" and then connects the reading to the tumultuous times we live in, both outwardly in the world and inwardly within ourselves. The core message revolves around maintaining inner peace not just for personal well-being, but to become instruments of peace and serve others.

Nayaswami Jaya shares a personal anecdote from 1968, a time of great social and political upheaval, and a lesson learned from Swami Kriyananda. He emphasizes the importance of transmuting negative emotions like anger and bitterness into positive action and solutions. He highlights the danger of dwelling on negativity, as it becomes easier to repeat. The key takeaway is to consciously choose what flows through us and strive to be a channel of peace, acting as disciples to bring light to the world, even during difficult times.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Eternal Now


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

“When will I find God?” Many devotees have asked this question. Because worldly goals require time, usually, for their fulfillment, we imagine time to be a factor on the spiritual path. And so it is, but only because we think it is! God is as much with us now as He will ever be. It is not He who needs to come to us: We need to come to Him! And that process of coming is a matter of transforming our self-perception.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 4, Jesus Christ says:

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

There is a practical teaching in these words, apart from their statement that we have God already, and have only to realize that truth. Jesus is saying, “Lift up your eyes and look. . . .” To hold the eyes uplifted is the best position for meditation. For the seat of superconsciousness lies at a point midway between the eyebrows – in the frontal lobe of the brain just behind that point. This point is known also as the Christ center. By lifting up your eyes and concentrating there, you will find it easier to enter the state of ecstasy. That is why saints in every religion have often been observed, during states of deep inner communion, with their eyes uplifted, focused on the inner light – ”white,” as Jesus said, “already to harvest.”

The Bhagavad Gita goes further into this meditative teaching. In the sixth Chapter it states:

Holding the spine firm, the neck and head erect and motionless, let the yogi focus his eyes at the starting place of the nose [the point between the eyebrows]. Let not his gaze roam elsewhere.

In meditation, tell yourself: “I have Him already! I am alive forever in the Divine Light.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on June 15th 2025.

Nayaswami Pranaba talks about the balance between inner and outer activity on the path to divine realization. He emphasizes that while outward service is important, meditation and inward focus are heightened activities that align us with the Divine. He cautions against extremes, such as renouncing action entirely or becoming overly attached to outward achievements.

Instead, Pranaba encourages living in the present moment, being open to divine guidance, and maintaining a willingness to say "yes" in our hearts, even when outward circumstances prevent immediate action. The ultimate goal is to merge our hearts with the divine and see life's challenges as opportunities for spiritual growth.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is:
How Devotees Rise


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we asked the question, Why do devotees fall? and we considered the downfall of Judas in this context. Jesus, in answer to Judas’s criticism for allowing Mary to rub his feet with spikenard, a very costly ointment, said, “The poor always ye have with you: but me ye have not always.”

Jesus is saying here that there is one supreme “injustice” that needs eradication: poverty, yes, but not of a material kind: poverty in a spiritual sense.

Divine blessings are not common in this world. They are extraordinary. When they come, we should give them priority above every other consideration.

Never allow a moment of inner joy, for instance, to be set aside for lesser “duties.” Divine attunement is our highest priority. As Lahiri Mahasaya, the guru of Yogananda’s guru, said, “To listen to the heart’s inner sound (AUM, which issues from the very center of our being) is man’s highest duty.”

Mary was not, at that moment, communing with the Master inwardly. She was serving him outwardly – but in a spirit very different from the restless fussing for which Jesus had reprimanded her sister, Martha. Those who see a radical difference between the paths of action and meditation should understand this distinction. To serve in the right spirit is necessary, for only thereby can we overcome our karmic tendencies toward restless activity. The important thing is that that spirit be always inwardly focused: that in everything we do we act in loving service to the Lord.

Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says in the third Chapter:
The state of freedom from action [that is, of eternal rest in the Spirit] cannot be achieved without action. No one, by mere renunciation and outward non-involvement, can attain perfection.
Whenever the spirit of God descends upon you, however, remember the words of Jesus, “Me ye have not always with you.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Haridas, recorded at Ananda Village on June 8th 2025.

Haridas emphasizes the importance of spiritual introspection, overcoming delusion, and striving for divine joy amidst life's challenges. He also highlights the need to recognize and resist the deceptive nature of the senses, urging listeners to seek lasting happiness in the soul rather than fleeting pleasures. A story about Yogananda's interaction with a young couple serves as a cautionary tale about how easily worldly concerns can overshadow spiritual aspirations.

The core message revolves around the idea that falling on the spiritual path is inevitable, but the key is to quickly get back up, correct oneself, and maintain a vibrant connection with the spiritual community. Nayaswami Haridas encourages listeners to embrace the challenges as part of the journey towards enlightenment, emphasizing the importance of attunement, compassion for one's karmas, and the ultimate joy that awaits those who persevere. The talk concludes with a song about inner freedom and seeking divine guidance.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Why Do Devotees Fall?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

An endlessly fascinating question is, Why did Judas fall after receiving the extraordinary blessing of being accepted into the inner circle of Jesus Christ’s disciples? For Judas was one of the twelve apostles. Yet he be-trayed Jesus, and earned for himself the opprobrium of Christendom for all futurity for his sin.

We find Judas reprimanding Jesus just days before that betrayal. Jesus, aware that his disciples would soon be facing, with his death, the supreme tragedy of their lives, allowed Mary to express her devotion by anointing his feet with costly ointment. This act of “wanton waste,” as Judas saw it, awakened indignation in that disciple.

“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?”

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and kept the purse, and bare what was put therein.

Then said Jesus, “Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you: but me ye have not always.”

Doubt not the power of delusion. Respect it – indeed, fear it, though not in the sense of cowering before it. For, as Yogananda said, “One is not safe until he attains nirbikalpa samadhi – the state of final union with God.”

Judas, through attachment to money, opened his consciousness to subtle influences, which may be called satanic, that drew his thoughts toward other related attitudes: the importance of worldly power, for instance, and of worldly influence.

The Bhagavad Gita gives a graphic explanation of how easily the mind can be drawn downward, once it begins to feed on wrong attitudes. In the second Chapter, Sri Krishna states:

If one ponders on sense objects, there springs up attraction to them. From attraction grows desire. Desire, impatient for fulfillment, flames to anger. From anger there arises infatuation (the delusion that one object alone is worth clinging to, to the exclusion of all others). From infatuation ensues forgetfulness of the higher Self. From forgetfulness of the Self follows degeneration of the discriminative faculty. And when discrimination is lost, there follows the annihilation of one’s spiritual life.

“At the first thought of delusion,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “that is the time to stop it.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on June 1st 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Inner Kingdom


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Most people imagine that the “inner kingdom,” as Jesus described it, lacks the fascination they attribute to sense life: the bright lights, the diverse attractions, the joys and the laughter. Little do they realize what a vast universe exists in their own selves!

There are many passages in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible that describe aspects of this inner kingdom. In the Book of Genesis we read: “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden…. And the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:8, 9). This garden was in no earthly place. It exists even now, in the very Self of every human being! The legend of Adam and Eve is allegorical. It describes how the first human beings dissipated their spiritual energy, centered in the spine. The spine is the channel through which flows the river of baptism and of spiritual life.

The Bhagavad Gita tells us, “The wise speak of an eternal ashvatta tree, with its roots above and its branches below.” (15:1) The “tree of life,” spoken of also in Genesis, is the spine. Its roots are above, in the brain’s energy. Its branches are the outward spreading nervous system. When the “sap,” which is to say, the energy, flows downward the consciousness is drawn into delusion. On the other hand, when the energy is drawn upward in deep meditation, the consciousness is drawn toward its eternal source, God, and is at last united with Him.

Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita therefore urges his chief disciple Arjuna to embrace the yoga science, the path of meditation. “The yogi,” he says, “is greater than the ascetic, greater even than the followers of the paths of wisdom [Gyana Yoga] or of action [Karma Yoga]. Be thou, O Arjuna, a yogi!”

For those who would find the divine truth, Krishna gives this description of the yogi:
Steadfast a lamp burns, sheltered from the wind;
Steadfastly meditating, solitary,
Such is the likeness of the Yogi’s mind
Shut from sense-storms and burning bright to heaven.
Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on May 25th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Best Way to Worship


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In Chapter 4 of the Gospel of St. John, the woman of Samaria asks Jesus, Where is the best place to worship? This question might be expanded to include: What is the best church? What is the best religion? Is it important to go on pilgrimage to holy shrines? What is the best ritual? What is the best mantra or prayer?

Jesus cut across all such questioning with his reply:
The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
It was not that outer considerations of place, church, ritual, etc., are irrelevant. Each person should find those practices and observances which are compatible with his own nature – one might say, with his own vibrations. Not everyone’s natural path is the same. God sent different religions into the world to satisfy different human needs.

The overarching concern, however, considering that the goal is to find God, is to include in one’s worship daily, inner communion with the Lord. God is Silence: He must be sought, therefore, in inner silence. God is Absolute Love: He must be sought, therefore, in the silence of love. God is Spirit, and thus immaterial: He must be sought, above all, in the expanding peace of deep meditation.

Thus, the Bhagavad Gita states in the sixth Chapter:
Sequestered should he sit,
Steadfastly meditating, solitary,
His thoughts controlled, his passions laid away,
From every craving for possession freed.
Wherever you are, whatever your outward beliefs and observances, seek God in the silence of your own soul.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on May 18th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Activity vs. Inner Communion


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we contemplated the well-known story of Martha and Mary. Traditionally, this story has been offered to show the two classic approaches to salvation: the first, through action, and the second, through prayer. The excuse of the Marthas of this world has always been, “The church needs its Marthas, too.” Treatises, moreover, have been written to justify the Martha approach to piety, praising her self-sacrifice as, perhaps, an even higher demonstration of devotion. (Thus do the unmeditative workers in religion try to justify themselves!) Yet the fact remains that Jesus rebuked Martha. Elsewhere, moreover, he spoke of the virtue of feeding the hungry, curing the sick, and housing those who were homeless. It wasn’t that he disapproved of serving people.

Wrong attitude was the object of his criticism. What he was criticizing was forgetfulness of the true goal of right, spiritual action. Good deeds, outwardly, without inner communion with God, will result in good karma but will not bring final freedom from all karma.

The Path to inner freedom was described by Paramhansa Yogananda in these words: “Be always calmly active, and actively calm.”

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the second Chapter:
He who is not shaken by anxiety during times of sorrow, nor elated during times of happiness; who is free from egoic desires and their attendant fear and anger: Such an one is of steady discrimination.
Do your duty in life – so counsels this great Scripture elsewhere – but never lose sight of Him to whom all action should be dedicated.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Narayan, recorded at Ananda Village on May 11th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Secret of Right Action


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

One of the most famous stories in the Gospels is that of Martha and Mary. Jesus, visiting the home of Martha, was teaching while her sister Mary sat at his feet absorbing his divine love and wisdom. Martha, meanwhile, busied herself with serving her guests, and was upset with Mary for not helping her.

“‘Lord,’ she cried, ‘doesn’t it matter to you that my sister has left me to do all this serving alone? Please ask her to help me.’

“‘Martha, Martha,’ Jesus answered, ‘thou art careful and troubled about many things.

“‘But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.’”

This story is classic, for Martha’s complaint is very understandable, and not, on the surface of it, spiritually wrong. Jesus might well have told Mary to get up and help her. Nor do we really know that he didn’t, considerate as he always was of others’ needs. But the teaching here doesn’t concern the obvious dilemma of devotees: to work for God, or to spend all one’s time in prayer. It concerns, rather, the attitude of the mind.

Jesus didn’t tell Martha: “Martha, you are doing too much.” He told her, rather, “You are letting your work affect your inner peace.” That was the contrast: not work vs. contemplation, but restless preoccupation vs. peaceful absorption under all circumstances.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the second Chapter:

Actions performed under the influence of desire are greatly inferior to those which are guided by wisdom. Happiness eludes people when they act from self-interest. Seek shelter, therefore, in the equanimity of wisdom.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<dc:creator>Tyagi Dhyan</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Dhyan, recorded at Ananda Village on May 4th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Perfection is Self-Transcendence


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

We begin this week with a passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5:

Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you; and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; . . .

If ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same?

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even pagans so?

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

This teaching is a continuation of last week’s lesson. To love all equally is possible only by seeing God everywhere – in others as well as in oneself. See whatever comes to you unasked for as a manifestation of His will. Be grateful for the pains you experience, for they are healing strokes of His love. Sometimes, healing is effected only by strong measures, but His love for you is manifested in the very attempt to heal.

Strive always to be impersonal, as though whatever happens to you were happening to someone else.

Persecution gives us the supreme opportunity to deny the thought, “This is happening to me,” and to affirm our inner freedom from the thought of ego. Don’t allow the negative perceptions of others to become your own self-definition.

Seek God: This is the true goal of life – though how difficult to cling to in the midst of hatred, spite, and persecution! The Bhagavad Gita tells us in the seventh Chapter:

Out of thousands, one strives for spiritual attainment; and out of many blessed true seekers, who strive assiduously to reach Me, one, perhaps, perceives Me as I am.

O truth seeker, be one, among all those thousands, who seeks the supreme goal!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta , recorded at Ananda Village on April 27th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
How High Should We Aspire?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The passage this week is from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5:

I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

The easiest explanation for these words is that they were spoken in criticism of the scribes and Pharisees, particularly since Jesus was often verbally attacked by them, and stood up to them fearlessly. However, it wouldn’t have been much of a challenge to the disciples, who aspired to spiritual perfection, to tell them, “Don’t be like those who lack any such aspiration.”

Jesus in fact says only a few verses later, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

What Jesus was referring to here, then, was the self- righteousness of the priests. Don’t seek perfection, he was saying to his disciples, in the image you project toward others. Don’t be satisfied with a goodness born merely of ego-definitions. The highest virtue is to transcend the very thought of personal virtue in the realization of God alone as the Doer. Before this realization, even the thought, “I am kind,” or, “I am truthful,” is self-limiting.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the seventh Chapter:

Yet hard the wise Mahatma is to find,

That man who sayeth, “All is Vasudev!”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Easter Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on April 20th 2025. The Service begins with Peter Kretzmann narrating the story of Easter, and the reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Resurrection for Every Soul (Easter)


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 20, we read the inspiring account of Jesus’ resurrection:

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord! . . .

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in their midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

The resurrection of Jesus, doubted by many but affirmed by those who were close to him, was a miraculous event, though one not unique in history. For many great saints of other religions have appeared to their disciples after death. Sometimes their appearances have been, as that of Jesus was, in flesh-and-blood form, and not only in vision.

Paramhansa Yogananda relates in Autobiography of a Yogi the account of his guru Sri Yukteswar’s resurrection after his earthly passing. Miracles of this type are revealed only rarely to the masses, but accounts of them, related by men and women of reputed truthfulness, have inspired many devotees with faith in the reality of subtler-than-material states of existence.

Resurrection, Yogananda explained, means transformation, ultimately, from any lower state of being to a higher one. Worldly consciousness cannot imagine such transformation except in terms of, perhaps, an improvement of the present mess of potage with the addition of a new flavoring. Divine consciousness, however, is capable of taking the base metal of worldliness and transforming it into the spiritual gold of divine wisdom and love.

In keeping with this truth, the Bhagavad Gita, in the ninth Chapter, tells us:

Ah! ye who into this ill world are come – fleeting and false – set your faith fast on Me! Fix heart and thought on Me! Adore Me! Bring Offerings to Me! Make Me prostrations! Make Me your supremest joy! and, undivided, unto My rest your spirits shall be guided.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinacco, recorded at Ananda Village on April 13th 2025. The reading for this week (Palm Sunday) from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Who Is This Son of Man?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

On Palm Sunday, the throng joyfully acclaimed Jesus Christ as he entered Jerusalem, casting palm fronds before him and singing, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! The Lord bless the king of Israel!” (John 12:13)

Jesus Christ had told the people, “The son of man must be lifted up.” His reference – so we are told – was to the mode of his impending crucifixion. Some persons on that occasion had asked, “Who is this son of man?”

Was Jesus a human being, merely? Those who, on Palm Sunday, called him king little realized the actual nature of his kingdom. He was far more than what they imagined. Yes, of course he ate, drank, walked, slept, and talked like others. His consciousness, however, was centered in infinity. Yes – again – he laughed like others: But his laughter expressed divine joy, not mere merriment. Again, he wept like them: But never with human grief. The tears he shed were for the sufferings of unenlightened human beings: Never were they shed in self-pity.

Jesus Christ was wakeful in God. Most people, by contrast, are asleep spiritually.

How strange to reflect that less than a week from that entry into Jerusalem – so joyfully acclaimed – he would be arrested, condemned, and crucified! Such is the bitter-sweetness of human existence: smiles of welcome one day – insults, even persecution the next. How few realize that Christ’s suffering would not be for himself, but for people’s ignorance – for those who had not yet understood the deeper reality that dwelt also in them!

Everyone is born “trailing clouds of glory,” as the poet Wordsworth put it. Even the meanest beggar has lived a story, or will eventually have lived it, more magnificent than the greatest epic ever written.

In the Bhagavad Gita, this dichotomy between the “son of man” and the inner “Son of God” is beautifully described. Sri Krishna, representing God in human form, reveals his true nature in infinity. In the eleventh chapter of that great scripture, his chief disciple Arjuna exclaims:

O Infinite Light!

Thy radiance, spreading o’er the universe,

Shines into the very darkest abyss!

Thy voice o’erwhelms the roar of cosmic cataclysms!

Lo! the myriad stars are Thy diadem;

Thy scepter radiates power everywhere!

O Immortal Brahman, Lord of all:

Again and again at Thy feet of Infinity

I lie in prostration before Thee!

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvatii, recorded at Ananda Village on April 6th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
To Each According to His Faith


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3, we read:

Everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

It is a common experience, shared by most people, that when a person errs he experiences a desire to hide that error from his conscience instead of holding it up for purification. Error clutches its misdeeds to itself, and resists correction, though it is only in the state of purity that we can achieve perfect freedom. It requires an act of will to offer that awareness up to the light, and to hold it there until one’s inner darkness is completely dissipated.

For every state of consciousness has its own attractive power. And the more we allow that attraction to act upon us, the more we attract to ourselves the objective circumstances and experiences natural to it. Our faith is the attractive power of our underlying state of consciousness. Goodness attracts goodness; it takes goodness even to see goodness. Evil attracts evil, and it takes evil even to see evil – that is, to take special note of its existence.

Whatever there is in you of darkness or light, offer it up to the heights. In the Supreme Light alone will we find salvation. Accept nothing less in yourself as your lasting reality. As the Bhagavad Gita says, in the twelfth Chapter:

Cling thou to me!

Clasp Me with heart and mind! So shalt thou dwell

Surely with Me on high. But if thy thought

Droops from such height; if thou be’st weak to set

Body and soul upon Me constantly,

Despair not! give Me lower service! seek

To reach Me, worshiping with steadfast will;

And, if thou canst not worship steadfastly,

Work for Me, toil in works pleasing to Me!

For he that laboureth right for love of Me

Shall finally attain! But, if in this

Thy faint heart fails, bring Me thy failure!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on March 23rd 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
We Are Children of the Light


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

It is common for people to perceive themselves according to their present realities. A person in ill health says, “I am ill.” Few say, “I am well; it is my body that is suffering.” People in a low income bracket say, “I am poor.” Only the unusual person will say, “Though outwardly I live in poverty, inwardly I am wealthy.”

Thus, when it comes to moral and spiritual development, people commonly identify themselves with their weaknesses and their mistakes. They consider it almost a sign of humility to say, “I am a sinner,” though in effect what this means is that they identify themselves with their sinfulness, not with the soul’s power to transcend all limitations in God.

The great masters, including Jesus Christ, have always emphasized the divine potential of mankind. To encourage us, they address us as children of light, not of darkness.

The Bible, in the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3, makes the point that our true home is not the mud of this Earth, but the light of heaven. “No man hath ascended up to heaven,” it tells us, “but him that came down from heaven.” This passage continues: “[even so] the Son of man who is in heaven,” emphasizing that Jesus, though he lived on earth, is perceived by the eye of wisdom as conscious, even in human form, of his true reality in heavenly spheres.

The way to know God is to live in godly consciousness, and not to bewail our imperfection and our distance from God. Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” And the Bhagavad Gita states,

Seekers of union with the Lord find Him dwelling in their own hearts. But those who, lacking in wisdom, seek Him with impure motives, cannot perceive Him however much they struggle to do so.

“If you want to know God,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “live in the thought that you have Him already.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jaya, recorded at Ananda Village on March 16th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Reason vs. Intuition


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus, when addressing his critics, appealed to reason and common sense. In his training of the disciples, however, he, like all great masters, encouraged in them the development of a higher faculty: soul-intuition. For it is only by intuition that spiritual perceptions are achieved.

In Chapter 16 of the Gospel of St. Matthew we find Jesus drawing on the intuition of his disciples by asking them who they thought he was, in reality. They immediately understood that what he wanted from them was a subtle answer, not some obvious reply based on his nationality, sex, and the like. Peter it was, at last, who understood and answered the question on its intended level: the spiritual.

“Thou art the Christ,” he said, “the son of the living God.”

“And Jesus turned to him, saying, ‘Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonah: for not by human nature was this truth revealed to thee, but by my heavenly Father. And I tell thee this also: Thou art Peter, which is to say, a rock, and upon this rock will I build my church, and never will the powers of darkness overwhelm it.’”

Jesus was pleased with his disciple for relating to the question on its deepest level. Reason could not have given Peter that answer. The answer came through the faculty of soul intuition, and proved him thereby to be a spiritually advanced disciple. It was his intuitive perception – that insight which cannot be shaken by tempests of reasonable doubt – that Jesus praised in referring to him as a rock. The “church” he referred to, next, was the edifice of cosmic consciousness. Any outer church institution would have to depend, as in fact the Christian churches have always done, on the level of understanding of its individual leaders and members. Peter’s intuitive perceptions could never have been passed on to an outward succession of prelates.

Clarity comes by direct soul-perception. Confusion results from excessive dependence on reason as the guide to understanding. As the second Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states:

When your intellect, at present confused by the diversity of teaching in the Scriptures, becomes steadfast in the ecstasy of deep meditation, then you will achieve final union with God.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this uplifting Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on March 9th 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Dogmatism vs. Common Sense


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 7, Jesus warns:

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Jesus here, as indeed many times during his teaching, counsels people to use their God-given common sense, and not to rely on high-flown but undemonstrable claims. Common sense goes beyond abstract reason, for it is rooted in actual experience.

Even common sense, however, is deficient when the judgment called for goes beyond sensory experience. Ultimately, what he emphasized always, therefore, was intuitive perception.

Thus, he expected more of his disciples than crude common sense, and often scolded them for being too literal-minded – as he did, elsewhere, when they thought his statement, “I have meat to eat that you know not of,” meant that he had steaks or sandwiches secreted about his person. His reference, of course, was to spiritual, not material, substance.

Words, even though appearing in the scriptures, are no substitute for direct perception of truth. Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the second Chapter:

The sage who knows God has as little need for the Scriptures as one might have for a pond when the whole land is covered in flood.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this uplifting Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on March 2nd 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There are many places in the Gospels where we see Jesus in open conflict with the Pharisees – that is to say, with man-made as opposed to true, mystical tradition. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 15, we see a good example of how they and he “locked horns.”

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came and asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples break our ancient tradition and eat their food without washing their hands properly first?”

Jesus, after scolding them for their hypocrisy in observing lesser rules so carefully while ignoring the much more important ones, said,

“Listen, and understand this thoroughly! It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that makes him common or unclean. It is what comes out of a man’s mouth that makes him unclean.”

It wasn’t that Jesus counseled against such wholesome practices as washing one’s hands before eating. In an age, however, when lesser rules were given too much importance relative to the truly important observances – cleansing the heart of impure desires, for example – he emphasized the supreme importance of loving God and of communing with Him.

The Pharisees – the orthodox religionists of his day, in other words – had brought true religion down to a level of intellectual hair-splitting. They mistakenly considered the way to understanding to lie through a mine-field of definitions, which they tried to refine to ultimate exactitude. Jesus taught, however, that the intellect alone can never lead one to truth. Without love, indeed, there is no ultimate verity. Without fixity of purpose, born of the heart’s devotion, the intellect wanders endlessly. It cannot settle for long on anything. As the Bhagavad Gita says in the second Chapter:

The intellects of those who lack fixity of spiritual purpose are inconstant, their interests endlessly ramified.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on February 23rd, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Can Man See God?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There is a saying in Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John that would seem to respond with a definite No to the question, Can man see God? The saying is:

No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Many great saints, however, claim to have seen God. If we ask, then, “Can God be seen?” rather than, “Can man see God?” the answer is, “Yes! Else those saints lied; and, else, the Scriptures themselves lie.”

The point is, it is not man – this human body, these human eyes – that sees God. God can be seen only with spiritual vision – with the eye of the soul.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the eleventh Chapter:

“Thou canst not see Me with mortal eyes. Therefore I now give thee sight divine. Behold My supreme power of Yoga!”

With these words Hari, the exalted Lord of Yoga, revealed himself to Arjuna in His infinite form.

Paramhansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, describes the supernal experience in words more readily comprehensible to modern minds than the poetic phraseology of the Bhagavad Gita. The chapter “An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness” is one of the most inspiringly beautiful in all mystical literature. Here is a brief excerpt:

An oceanic joy broke upon calm endless shores of my soul. The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.

[I saw] the divine dispersion of rays pour from an Eternal Source, blazing into galaxies, transfigured with ineffable auras. Again and again I saw the creative beams condense into constellations, then resolve into sheets of transparent flame. By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament.

I cognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart. Irradiating splendor issued from my nucleus to every part of the universal structure.…The creative voice of God I heard resounding as Aum, the vibration of the Cosmic Motor.”

This, so the great masters aver, is what God is. And this also, they insist, is what we are in our deepest reality.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on February 16th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Law Is Perfected in Love


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, we read:

The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Grace means the power to rise, spiritually. Truth means the experience of divine realities, not the application in the outer world of that inner experience.

Divine love is the soul’s experience of oneness with God. Kindness is the human manifestation of that love. Grace is deeper than mere kindness.

Wisdom is a divine experience. Justice to all is a human law, though divinely inspired. It follows as a consequence of the experience of wisdom. Truth goes deeper than mere justice.

While following the law, we should strive always to trace it back to its origins in the vision of God. Therefore Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita urges the devotee not to be satisfied with spiritual precepts alone, but to go beyond them to the direct, inner experience of truth. In the eighteenth Chapter of that great Scripture he says:

Nay! but once more

Take My last word, My utmost meaning have!

Precious thou art to Me; right well beloved!

Listen! I tell thee for thy comfort this.

Give Me thy heart! adore Me! serve Me! cling

In faith and love and reverence to Me!

So shalt thou come to Me! I promise true,

For thou art sweet to Me!

And let go those –

Rites and writ duties! Fly to me alone!

Make Me thy single refuge! I will free

Thy soul from all its sins! Be of good cheer!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on February 9th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Importance of Soul-Receptivity


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John states:

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.

This was a passage Paramhansa Yogananda often quoted to his disciples. “Be in tune,” he would tell them. “Delusion can’t touch you, if you will keep in tune.”

“A few of you will fall,” he said once. “But it needn’t be, if you would stay in tune.”

Of a disciple who became highly advanced, even though she didn’t meditate much, he said, “She got there by attunement.”

To one who found meditation difficult, he said, “I will meditate for you, as long as you stay in tune.”

Truth is a state of consciousness, not a well-worded definition. It is in that consciousness, above all, that our lives are transformed. Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the tenth Chapter:

To those who are ever attached to Me, and who worship Me with love, I impart discernment, by means of which they attain Me.

Out of my love for them, I, the Divine within them, set alight in them the radiant lamp of wisdom, thereby dispelling the darkness of their ignorance.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Devi, recorded at Ananda Village on January 26th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Infinite Christ


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John contains some of the most profound spiritual teachings in the Bible. In the first Chapter many subtle truths are suggested concerning higher stages of Self-realization.

Here, John the Baptist is described as one reaching up toward that high state. “He was not that light,” the Gospel tells us, “but was sent to bear witness of that light.” Jesus Christ, by contrast, is described as the light itself. “That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”

One essential truth stands out in this teaching: that Jesus came not to dogmatize people with a new teaching, but to bring them timeless, universal truths. Disciples saw the master clothed in human form, and therefore judged him in terms of his greatness relative to the greatness of other teachers. Wisdom, however, sees the master’s very greatness in terms of a cosmic unity.

There is a passage in The Path, by Swami Kriyananda, in which this point is emphasized. The Master, Paramhansa Yogananda, explained,

“The saint who attains that exalted consciousness never says, ‘I am God,’ for he sees it was the vast Ocean that became his little wave of ego. The wave, in other words, would not claim, when referring to the little self, to be the Ocean.”

At this juncture Debi, who was present, cried excitedly, “But Sir, if you are one with that Ocean, that means you are God!”

“Why I?” Master asked. “Say ‘He.’ He is God.”

“But still, Sir, you are one with Him, and He is the only reality. That means you, too, are God.”

“But this body isn’t God!”

“You aren’t identified with your body, Sir, so one may still say that you are God.”

“Well, in that case why do you say, ‘You’? You, too, are that! In a discussion of this sort, it is less confusing if we say, ‘He.’”

“But what’s the difference?”

“The Scriptures say . . .” Master began.

“It’s only your humility, Sir,” Debi broke in, “that makes you distinguish between yourself and Him.”

“How can there be humility, when there is no consciousness of ego?”

Triumphantly Debi cried, “But if you have no ego left, that means you are God!”

Master laughingly continued the earlier statement, which Debi had interrupted: “The Scriptures say, ‘He who knows Brahma becomes Brahma.’”

“There!” cried Debi. “You said it yourself!”

Master rejoined, still laughingly, “I didn’t say it. It’s the Scriptures that say so.” Master, in other words, would not identify those words with the human body speaking them. It was in his overarching spirit that he saw himself one with the Infinite. But Debi was unable to make this mental leap from a pure expression of Infinity to Infinity Itself.

“You quoted those Scriptures, Sir,” he reminded Master relentlessly. “That means you agree with them!”

Recognizing that the distinction was, perhaps, too subtle for many to grasp, Master concluded, “Well, he who says he is God, isn’t God. And,” he added with a smile, “he who says he isn’t, isn’t!”

And there the subject rested, amid general laughter.

The greater a spiritual teaching, the more greatly we betray it by particularizing it with dogmas. Truth itself, not the Christian truth or the Hindu truth, incarnates on earth with the birth of a fully liberated master. As the Bhagavad Gita teaches in the fourth Chapter:

Unborn, changeless, Lord of Creation and controller of My cosmic nature though I am, yet entering Nature I am dressed in the cosmic garment of My own maya (delusion).

O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinacco, recorded at Ananda Village on January 19th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, makes a reference to the divine light that is obscure to the rational faculty, but that enlightens our higher nature: “The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” Reason recoils from this statement with innumerable questions. What is this darkness? Is it conscious, that it should comprehend anything? What sort of light would be capable of shining in darkness without transforming at least that part of the darkness in which it shines into light? Does this light shine only at night? And if so, why only then?

The solution is that, to divine sight, even daylight seems darkness. The sun itself, like the moon which shines only by reflected light from the sun, is but a kind of reflection of the cosmic light, which, being immaterial, is invisible to the eyes but which is the Great Source of all material reality.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda describes his youthful visit to Ram Gopal Muzumdar, the “sleepless saint,” who lived in the vision of that hidden light. “Around midnight,” Yogananda wrote,

Ram Gopal fell into silence, and I lay down on my blankets. Closing my eyes, I saw flashes of lightning; the vast space within me was a chamber of molten light. I opened my eyes and observed the same dazzling radiance. The room became a part of the infinite vault which I beheld with interior vision.

“Why don’t you go to sleep?”

“Sir, how can I sleep in the presence of lightning, blazing whether my eyes are shut or open?”

“You are blessed to have this experience; the spiritual radiations are not easily seen.” The saint added a few words of affection.

This is the “light that shineth in darkness.” It has been described variously in the great scriptures. In the Bhagavad Gita, the eleventh Chapter, the devotee, Arjuna, is given an experience of the infinite state and exclaims in awe:

If there should rise suddenly within the skies

Sunburst of a thousand suns

Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of,

Then might be that Holy One’s

Majesty and radiance dreamed of!

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Narayan, recorded at Ananda Village on January 12th, 2025. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Did God Create the Universe – or Become It?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, contains a passage that explains the essential truth that creation is a process of becoming. The universe is not separate from God the Creator, but a part of Him even as our own dream-creations, during sleep, are figments of our consciousness. God’s is the life; God’s, the reality. Not a melody could be composed, not a poem written, were the melody and the poem not already there, simply waiting to be expressed.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Ego-directed desire is like static; it distorts the radioed messages of Infinity. But the pristine impulse from the divine, undistorted by limitation and delusion, is the life that gives rise to all that is. As the seventh Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states:

I am the fluidity of water. I am the silver light of the moon and the golden light of the sun. I am the AUM chanted in all the Vedas: the Cosmic Sound moving as if soundlessly through the ether. I am the manliness of men. I am the good sweet smell of the moist earth. I am the luminescence of fire; the sustaining life of all living creatures. I am self-offering in those who would expand their little lives into cosmic life. O Arjuna, know Me as the eternal seed of all creatures. In the perceptive, I am their perception. In the great, I am their greatness. In the glorious, it is I who am their glory.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on January 5th, 2025.

Nayaswami Maria celebrates Paramhansa Yogananda's birthday by reflecting on his teachings and the importance of meditation. She reads from his book Whispers from Eternity, emphasizing the desire to hear the divine voice in silence. Maria discusses the significance of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the journey of spiritual growth. She encourages meditation practice, sharing a story of an online student who found regularity in meditation after understanding its goal. Maria recounts Yogananda's experiences with the sound of OM and his teachings on silence. She concludes by urging everyone to seek inner silence and align their lives with divine consciousness.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
At the Heart of Silence – the Eternal Word


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, these immortal lines appear:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Human vision beholds individuality and separation everywhere. Divine vision beholds the oneness of cosmic vibration, of which all things, no matter how diverse, are manifestations. Cosmic Sound – the “Word” of God – and Cosmic Light: These are eternal. The world, as revealed to us by our senses, is illusory.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda relates an early experience he received of the divine aspect of reality:

Sitting on my bed one morning, I fell into a deep reverie.

“What is behind the darkness of closed eyes?” This probing thought came powerfully into my mind. An immense flash of light at once manifested to my inward gaze. Divine shapes of saints, sitting in meditation posture in mountain caves, formed like miniature cinema pictures on the large screen of radiance within my forehead.

“Who are you?” I spoke aloud.

“We are the Himalayan yogis.” The celestial response is difficult to describe; my heart was thrilled.

“Ah, I long to go to the Himalayas and become like you!” The vision vanished, but the silvery beams expanded in ever-widening circles to infinity.

“What is this wondrous glow?”

“I am Iswara. I am Light.” The voice was as murmuring clouds.

“I want to be one with Thee!”

Out of the slow dwindling of my divine ecstasy, I salvaged a permanent legacy of inspiration to seek God.

Wise are we if we meditate on that experience of Yogananda’s, and salvage from it even a breath of his inspiration. For, quite simply, there is nothing else! As the Bhagavad Gita says in the seventh Chapter:

I make and unmake this universe. Apart from Me nothing exists, O Arjuna. All things, like the beads of a necklace, are strung together on the thread of My consciousness, and are sustained by Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on December 29, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Divine Ascension
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 14, we read:

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

What is this “I,” when spoken by a master who has conquered every vestige of ego-consciousness? Therein lies the mystery of true Scriptural teaching. That “I” that is no “I”: Does it even exist? In what way is it different from the consciousness that animates other human beings?

Jesus was not saying, “Look at me. Don’t look at other masters.” He was saying, rather, “Look at the divine Self that is the essence of who you are, your very Self. You are that ‘I.’ No man cometh unto the divine consciousness except by first recognizing his own intrinsic divinity, hidden behind his delusive ego.”

The Bhagavad Gita, in the fourth Chapter, states:

O Son of Pritha [Arjuna], in whatever way people accept Me, in that same way do I appear to them. For all men, in some way, pursue The Path to Me.

Meditate on the divine incarnations. Their lives, and the consciousness animating them, will be your stairway to the Infinite.

Thus, through Holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on December 22, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
What Was the Star of Bethlehem?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Divine vision is the opposite of worldly sight. Divine vision sees God’s presence behind all outward appearances. Worldly sight sees appearances, merely, coating even the blazing wisdom of a saint. A master, to the worldly man, is a human being with, perhaps, a slightly better attitude than the norm. The Scriptures therefore strive to demonstrate how the divine consciousness, when openly active among men in the lives of great masters, must never be viewed as an expression of ordinary human consciousness. To seek the presence of Divinity behind the life of a great master is to prepare oneself to recognize that same Divinity also in lower manifestations until at last one beholds God everywhere.

Thus it was that Paramhansa Yogananda, on observing his new disciple Swami Kriyananda struggling with the contrast between the guru’s human appearance and his inner, divine reality, looked at him deeply one day and said, “If you only knew my consciousness!”

The story of the birth of Jesus Christ contains an account in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 2, of the star of Bethlehem. The wise men who sought Jesus in his manger said,

“We have seen his star in the east.”…And, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.

This account was important, for it showed all mankind that Jesus was a divine incarnation, and no ordinary man – that he brought divine consciousness to earth,even though he would play a human role among human beings, and that others, too, by “receiving him” in their inner hearts, would acquire power, as the Bible puts it, to “become the sons of God.”

The Scriptures enjoin us to meditate on the lives of great souls, that we may discover our own latent spiritual greatness. As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the fourth Chapter:

Who knows the truth touching my births on earth

And my divine work, when he quits the flesh

Puts on its load no more, falls no more down

To earthly birth: to Me he comes, dear Prince!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on December 15, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Living in the Presence of God


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 25, we read of a King – capitalized, for the reference is to God – who welcomes certain devotees to the divine consciousness, saying, “I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.”

The elect asked him when it was they had served Him in these ways, and the King answered, “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

To see God as residing in every human being, as indeed He does, is to open oneself to limitless opportunities for serving Him. Paramhansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, described a saint who lived in this consciousness as “the greatest man of humility I ever knew.” He described a seemingly chance encounter with this saint:

Another day found me walking alone near the Howrah railroad station. I stood for a moment by a temple, silently criticizing a small group of men with drum and cymbals who were violently reciting a chant.

“How undevotionally they use the Lord’s divine name in mechanical repetition,” I reflected. My gaze was astonished by the rapid approach of Master Mahasaya. “Sir, how come you here?”

The saint, ignoring my question, answered my thought. “Isn’t it true, little sir, that the Beloved’s name sounds sweet from all lips, ignorant and wise?” He passed his arm around me affectionately; I found myself carried on his magic carpet to the Merciful Presence.

If you would see God, watch for Him everywhere. If you would hear His voice, listen for it in all sounds and also in their supporting silences. If you would know God, seek His wisdom behind merely human knowledge.

The Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter, states:

One who beholds My presence everywhere,

And all things dwelling equally in Me,

He never loses loving sight of Me,

Nor I of him, through all eternity.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on December 8, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is
What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The first passage is from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 25. Jesus tells the Parable of the Ten Virgins, five of them wise, and five, foolish. They await their Bridegroom, the Christ Consciousness. The wise virgins keep the oil in their lamps, symbolic of their devotion, lit through the night. The foolish virgins placed no oil in their lamps. These foolish ones are like the average devotee, going through the motions of outer ritual but keeping no fire of love burning in the heart.

When the Bridegroom’s coming is announced, the foolish virgins realize their mistake, and hasten out to purchase oil. During their absence, the Christ Consciousness comes and embraces those who have been awaiting him with devotion. The foolish ones, by their lackluster devotion, are not accepted by him. “‘Watch, therefore,’” Jesus told his listeners, “‘for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.’”

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda describes the “foolish virgin” consciousness he encountered in the Mahamandal hermitage he stayed in as a young man, in Benares. “I was pleased,” he wrote,

that my new home possessed an attic, where I managed to spend the dawn and morning hours. The ashram members, knowing little of meditation practices, thought I should employ my whole time in organizational duties. They gave me praise for my afternoon work in their office.

“Don’t try to catch God so soon!” This ridicule accompanied one of my early departures toward the attic.…[Later, during meditation] I felt lifted as though bodily to a sphere uncircumscribed.

“Thy Master cometh today!” A divine womanly voice came from everywhere and nowhere.

This supernal experience was pierced by a shout from a definite locale. A young priest nicknamed Habu was calling me from the downstairs kitchen.

“Mukunda, enough of meditation! You are needed for an errand.”

The Divine Mother’s words were not spoken for the benefit of that priest – the “foolish virgin,” but for Mukunda, the “wise virgin.” For this was the day his guru, Sri Yukteswar, came to him.

Grieve not, friends, if you feel that you have been foolish. No error is forever. Someday, if you keep your lamp lit now, your opportunity will come. In the Bhagavad Gita, the sixth Chapter, Krishna promises every devotee:

Arjuna, none who works for self-redemption

Will ever meet an evil destiny!

Spiritual failure, though a deep disappointment, is always temporary. “Eternal Hellfire” is but a projection of vindictiveness in the human mind.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Gyandev, recorded at Ananda Village on December 1, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Law of Karma – Bondage, or Soul-Release


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians contains this oft-quoted statement:

Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

In Autobiography of a Yogi Paramhansa tells a story from the life of the Benares saint Trailanga Swami:

A skeptic once determined to expose Trailanga as a charlatan. A large bucket of calcium-lime mixture, used in whitewashing walls, was placed before the swami.

“Master,” the materialist said, in mock reverence, “I have brought you some clabbered milk. Please drink it.”

Trailanga unhesitatingly drained, to the last drop, the containerful of burning lime. In a few minutes the evildoer fell to the ground in agony.

“Help, swami, help!” he cried. “I am on fire! Forgive my wicked test!”

The great yogi broke his habitual silence. “Scoffer,” he said, “you did not realize when you offered me poison that my life is one with your own. Except for my knowledge that God is present in my stomach, as in every atom of creation, the lime would have killed me. Now that you know the divine meaning of boomerang, never again play tricks on anyone.”

The well-purged sinner, healed by Trailanga’s words, slunk feebly away.

Yogananda goes on to say:

The reversal of pain was not due to any volition of the master, but came about through unerring application of the law of justice which upholds creation’s farthest swinging orb. Men of God-realization like Trailanga allow the divine law to operate instantaneously; they have banished forever all thwarting crosscurrents of ego.

Not by reason alone, but by Self-realization, are the ins and outs of destiny fully understood. Their web, though tied forever to the post of ego-motivation, is too intricate to be perceived as a single thread. Only great masters can see it with clarity. It is visible to them in all its workings – not from within the tangle, but from above, in superconsciousness.

As Sri Krishna said in the fourth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita: “He who beholds inaction in action, and action in inaction, is wise among men; he is one with the Spirit; he has attained the true goal of action (perfect freedom).”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this beautiful Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Devi, recorded at Ananda Village on November 24th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Reincarnation – the Spiral Staircase


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Book of Revelation, Chapter 3, Jesus Christ tells us: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out.”

There is a difference between Church dogmas, which are based on reasoned deductions from Scriptural statements, and the pronouncements of wisdom, which are based on the inner realization of Scriptural truths. Reason, like a train, can only follow already-existing tracks of human experience. Human memory, being short, is seldom able to cross back over the threshold of a person’s present existence. Biblical references to previous lifetimes on earth are overlooked in the deductive process, and we find them therefore excluded from the body of official dogma. Nevertheless, such references exist. The Bible itself presents them – as does Jesus in this passage – not as abstract teaching, but as direct, personal perception of truth.

In the same way Krishna, in the Bhagavad Gita, silences Arjuna’s reasonable doubts on the subject not by reasoned argument, but by the frank statement contained in the fourth Chapter of that great Scripture:

Arjuna, you and I have passed through many births. I know all of them, though you, O chastiser of foes, recall them not.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this beautiful Sunday Service talk withNayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on November 17th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Promise of the Scriptures


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 15, we read the famous Parable of the Prodigal Son. Jesus tells of the man who took the wealth bestowed on him by his father, and squandered it in foreign lands, where he fell into evil ways. At last, repentant, he returned to his father’s home. When his father saw him, he was (Jesus tells us)

moved with compassion, and ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.” But the father said to his servants, “Fetch quickly the best robe and put it on him, and give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet; and bring out the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; because this my son was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” And they began to make merry.

Small-hearted human beings, identified as they are with their little egos, give exaggerated importance to any slight they receive from others. Thus, they imagine God, like them, to be petty, unpardoning, and vindictive. In God’s eyes, however, when human beings go astray there is nothing to forgive. All of us are aspects, only, of His own Self. He who made us resides in us. He is not far away from us in some far-off heaven. His call to us, always, is to return to our own home, within.

The way of return is described in the Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter:

Supreme blessedness is that yogi’s who has completely calmed his mind, controlled his ego-active tendencies (rajas), and purged himself of desire, thereby attaining oneness with Brahma, the Infinite Spirit.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this uplifting Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Dhyan, recorded at Ananda Village on November 10th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Promise of the Scriptures


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 15, we read the famous Parable of the Prodigal Son. Jesus tells of the man who took the wealth bestowed on him by his father, and squandered it in foreign lands, where he fell into evil ways. At last, repentant, he returned to his father’s home. When his father saw him, he was (Jesus tells us)

moved with compassion, and ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.” But the father said to his servants, “Fetch quickly the best robe and put it on him, and give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet; and bring out the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; because this my son was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” And they began to make merry.

Small-hearted human beings, identified as they are with their little egos, give exaggerated importance to any slight they receive from others. Thus, they imagine God, like them, to be petty, unpardoning, and vindictive. In God’s eyes, however, when human beings go astray there is nothing to forgive. All of us are aspects, only, of His own Self. He who made us resides in us. He is not far away from us in some far-off heaven. His call to us, always, is to return to our own home, within.

The way of return is described in the Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter:

Supreme blessedness is that yogi’s who has completely calmed his mind, controlled his ego-active tendencies (rajas), and purged himself of desire, thereby attaining oneness with Brahma, the Infinite Spirit.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Watch this uplifting Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on November 3rd, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Why Tell God Anything When He Knows Everything? Why Offer God Anything, When He Has Everything?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ teaches as the ideal prayer one that addresses very human demands to God: “Give us this day our daily bread,” “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” and, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

Jesus himself says, just before suggesting this prayer, “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” Why, then, his recommendation that we pray for anything? The answer is that we should offer ourselves up in acceptance of His abundance. Don’t pester God, as though pulling constantly on His sleeve to get His attention. Approach Him with the confidence of a child in its parent. And in that spirit, then, ask Him lovingly, but with complete trust, as though demanding your birthright, and without the slightest doubt in your mind that He wants only your best. For you don’t have to persuade Him, the way a beggar or a stranger might. You are His own child.

God knows everything already. He knows what is in your heart. It is you who need to clarify your feelings, that you attune yourself to Him in turn more clearly. For only by such clarity will you be able to receive perfectly what He gives you.

For the same reason, we need to offer ourselves to Him not because He needs anything from us (except, as Yogananda said, our love, to complete His love for us), but because by self-giving we expand our awareness from its confinement in the little ego, outward to infinity.

“Those who partake of the nectar remaining after a sacrifice,” says the Bhagavad Gita in the fourth Chapter, “attain to the Infinite Spirit. That person, however, who makes no sacrifices never truly succeeds in enjoying even the blessings of this material world; how, then, could he attain happiness in subtler realms?”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>Learning to Whisper with God</title>
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	<dc:creator>Sundara Traymar</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Sundara Traymar, recorded at Ananda Village on October 27th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is:
What Is the Best Way to Pray?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ and Sri Krishna, both, advised praying to God as personal. Yet both emphasized also that God is above form, and that He must be sought, ultimately, in Infinity. As Jesus put it, “God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

Yet he spoke of God constantly as our Heavenly Father. In what is known as the Lord’s Prayer, he proposed a very human prayer to the Heavenly Father, asking fulfillment for all our spiritual needs.

The Bhagavad Gita explains that man, living as he does in a human body, finds it difficult to worship Infinity as though the ego and body didn’t even exist. Far better for human beings, Krishna says, to work with reality as we know it than to affirm a reality of which the human mind is incapable of forming any clear notion. Encouraging the devotee in this direction, he says, “O Arjuna, be thou a yogi!” – that is to say, be one who works with, not in rejection of, the energies of the body and the natural tendencies of the mind.

In the twelfth Chapter of the Gita, Arjuna asks:

“Those who, ever steadfast, worship Thee as devotees [that is to say, in an “I” and “Thou” relationship], and those who contemplate Thee as the immortal, unmanifested Spirit – which group is the better versed in yoga?”

The blessed Lord replied: “Those who, fixing their minds on Me, adore Me, ever united to Me through supreme devotion, are in My eyes the perfect knowers of yoga. . . .

“Those whose strict aim is union with the Unmanifested choose a more difficult way; arduous for embodied beings is The Path of dedication to the Absolute” – the followers, that is to say, of The Path of Gyana Yoga.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>Staying Inspired on the Spiritual Path</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on October 20th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
First Things First


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

That expression, “First things first,” is a piece of counsel often given to students of business techniques. It is the advice of practicality to those who aspire to worldly success. But according to the Hermetic doctrine, “As above, so below,” that which works best in one level of life is often the best guide to what will work best on every other level. If a person is true to his highest priorities, he will generally find that his other needs are fulfilled naturally as well.

This is true, certainly, of the search for God. One of the greatest sayings of Jesus Christ was this simple sentence, in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 6:

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Paramhansa Yogananda gave his elder brother Ananta a wonderful lesson in this truth. It was Ananta who had captured him and brought him back from his flight to the Himalayas, described by Yogananda in Autobiography of a Yogi. In Yogananda’s book we read how Ananta later challenged him, in the city of Agra, to pit his divine faith against such “practical” worldly considerations as the need for earning a living. Fearless before that challenge, the young aspirant agreed to go by train, without any money, to the nearby town of Brindaban; not to miss a single meal in Brindaban; and to find his way back to Agra without begging and without in any other way asking for help. In one of the most thrilling chapters in the book, Yogananda fulfilled all the conditions of the test. Yogananda continued the account:

As the tale was unfolded, my brother turned sober, then solemn.

“The law of demand and supply reaches into subtler realms than I had supposed.” Ananta spoke with a spiritual enthusiasm never before noticeable. “I understand for the first time your indifference to the vaults and vulgar accumulations of the world.”

Late as it was, my brother insisted that he receive diksha (initiation) into Kriya Yoga.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the ninth Chapter:

Those who worship lesser gods go to their gods…but those who worship Me come to Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>Cultivating Spiritual Courage</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on October 13th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ said in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 10:

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

He that findeth [that is to say, that clingeth to] his life shall lose it: and he that loseth [in other words, that giveth up] his life for my sake shall find it.

God tests the firmness of our faith. The “sword” described here is the sword of discrimination. The struggle Jesus describes is not a war against unknown enemies, but the struggle with our own attachment to all that is nearest and dearest to us, humanly speaking. Ultimately, it is a war against the ego itself, and against anything with which we surround ourselves to bolster the ego’s fragile sense of security.

When Yogananda, as a boy, fled to the Himalayas to embrace a life of solitary meditation, he was apprehended by his older brother Ananta, and brought home again. At a certain point, before he would accept defeat, he whispered to his friend Amar, his companion on the flight, “Let us slip away when opportunity offers. We can go on foot to Rishikesh.”

But Amar, whose brother had accompanied Ananta, had turned pessimist, disclaiming any intention of continuing their adventure. Yogananda’s memorable comment on Amar’s refusal was, “He was enjoying the familial warmth.”

The spiritual warrior rejects that “familial warmth.” Rather, he claims the whole universe as his home.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the fourteenth Chapter:

Unaffected by outward joys and sorrows, or by praise and blame; secure in his divine nature; regarding with equal gaze a clod of mud, a stone, and a bar of gold; impartial toward all experiences, whether pleasant or unpleasant; firm-minded; untouched by either praise or blame; treating everyone alike whether friend or foe; free from the delusion that, in anything he does, he is the doer: Such an one has transcended Nature’s triune qualities.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Relaxing Into Dynamic Consciousness</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on October 6th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
In Surrender Lies Victory!
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

A case might be made for surrender as a path to victory in worldly conflicts – the way of passive resistance, for example, in preference to armed resistance. But our point here concerns a higher kind of surrender: the surrender of our deluded, egoic will to the wise and almighty will of God.

Human will is, as Paramhansa Yogananda used to say, guided by whims and limited understanding. The divine will is in harmony with every level of reality. Though the divine will sometimes appears to us, at first, to be wrong, it proves always, eventually, to be for our highest good.

Human will is inconsistent; it leads us one day to success, another, to disaster. The divine will, when we surrender to it completely (though it is not always easy to do so!), always brings us deep inner peace and joy in the end.

Jesus Christ demonstrated this perfect surrender to God’s will in the Garden of Gethsemane, the night before he was captured and imprisoned, preparatory to his crucifixion. He went apart from the others to pray, and asked them to pray also. But when he returned to them he found them asleep.

Out of his love for them he excused them, saying, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” He then urged them again, saying, “Watch and pray.” Their weakness, in those circumstances, was particularly sad, and the disciples themselves must have regretted it bitterly, later on.

We all know the symptoms of human weakness, though we may excuse them in ourselves, saying, “Well, after all, I’m only human.” But what are the signs of true strength? We find in all cases that these are the fruit of a life wholly surrendered to God. The Bhagavad Gita lists these signs in the thirteenth Chapter:

Humbleness, truthfulness, and harmlessness,

Patience and honor, reverence for the wise,

Purity, constancy, control of self,

Contempt for sense-delights, self-sacrifice,

Perception of the certainty of ill

In birth, old age, and frail mortality,

Disease, the ego’s suffering, and sin;

Detachment, lightly holding thoughts of home,

Children, and wife – those ties which bind most men;

An ever-tranquil heart, heedless of good

Or adverse fortune, with the will upraised

To worship Me alone, unceasingly;

Loving deep solitude, and shunning noise

Of foolish crowds; calm focus on the Self

Perceived within and in Infinity:

These qualities reveal true Wisdom, Prince.

All that is otherwise is ignorance!

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinacco, recorded at Ananda Village on September 29th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Many Are the Pathways to Truth


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

On the dedication page of Swami Kriyananda’s book The Path appears the following account:

A group of Paramhansa Yogananda’s disciples had gone with him to see a movie about the life of Gyandev, a great saint of medieval India. Afterwards they gathered and listened to the Master explain certain, subtler, aspects of that inspiring story. A young man in the group mentioned another film he had seen years earlier, in India, about the life of Mirabai, a famous woman saint.

“If you’d seen that movie,” he exclaimed, “you wouldn’t even have liked this one!”

The Guru rebuked him. “Why make such comparisons? The lives of great saints manifest in various ways the same, one God.”

The Bible contains a similar account in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 9:

And John…said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.

And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

The more central a truth, the greater the number of contexts in which it can be applied. Truth is like a pure white light, containing within itself the full spectrum of the rainbow.

Let no one tell you what your path to God ought to be. Many are The Paths. Select your own according to the dictates of your own nature, no matter how out of step that puts you with other people.

Sri Krishna in the third Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, states:

Trying even unsuccessfully to fulfill one’s own spiritual duty (dharma) is better than pursuing successfully the duties of others. Better death itself in the pursuance of one’s own duties. The pursuance of another’s duties is fraught with (spiritual) danger.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.


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	<title>Using the Intellect Properly on the Spiritual Path</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Atman, recorded at Ananda Village on September 22nd, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Mark, Chapter 10, we read a passage that Yogananda often quoted:

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

It has often been noted that a critical attitude tends to paralyze creativity. Good critics, for example, seldom produce works of creative genius, though their creations may be intellectually clever. The intellect separates; it analyzes, then puts things together again piece by piece. Intellect lacks intuition’s flow, which descends smoothly, like a river, from the superconscious.

Paramhansa Yogananda described intuition as “the soul’s power of knowing God.” To receive the kingdom of God, Jesus was saying, one must do so with the openness and trust of a little child. Intellectuals may object to this statement, saying, “But there must also be discrimination. You wouldn’t want a person to be so open-minded that his brain falls out!” The truth is, however, that the intellect can be fooled, even when it does its best to discriminate wisely. Only intuition is capable of penetrating to the heart of a matter and knowing truth from falsehood. It was the clear understanding of a child, not the elaborately persuaded intellects of his elders, that enabled the child in Hans Christian Andersen’s story to cry out in surprise, “Why isn’t the Emperor wearing any clothes?”

Therefore it was that Sri Krishna said, in the ninth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

To you, who are free from the carping spirit, I shall now reveal wisdom sublime. Grasping it with your mind, and perceiving it by intuitive realization, you shall escape the evils of delusion.

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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on September 15th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Mark, Chapter 10, we read a passage that Yogananda often quoted:

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. 

But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 

Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. 

It has often been noted that a critical attitude tends to paralyze creativity. Good critics, for example, seldom produce works of creative genius, though their creations may be intellectually clever. The intellect separates; it analyzes, then puts things together again piece by piece. Intellect lacks intuition’s flow, which descends smoothly, like a river, from the superconscious.

Paramhansa Yogananda described intuition as “the soul’s power of knowing God.” To receive the kingdom of God, Jesus was saying, one must do so with the openness and trust of a little child. Intellectuals may object to this statement, saying, “But there must also be discrimination. You wouldn’t want a person to be so open-minded that his brain falls out!” The truth is, however, that the intellect can be fooled, even when it does its best to discriminate wisely. Only intuition is capable of penetrating to the heart of a matter and knowing truth from falsehood. It was the clear understanding of a child, not the elaborately persuaded intellects of his elders, that enabled the child in Hans Christian Andersen’s story to cry out in surprise, “Why isn’t the Emperor wearing any clothes?”

Therefore it was that Sri Krishna said, in the ninth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

To you, who are free from the carping spirit, I shall now reveal wisdom sublime. Grasping it with your mind, and perceiving it by intuitive realization, you shall escape the evils of delusion.

Thus, through Holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Working with the Ego on the Spiritual Path</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on September 8th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Ego – Friend or Foe?
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ begins his Beatitudes with the words:

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

To be “poor in spirit” in such a way as to merit the kingdom of heaven doesn’t mean to be poor-spirited. Rather, it means to see oneself as owning nothing, since all belongs to God. For all is a manifestation of His consciousness.

St. John of the Cross wrote, “If you would own everything, seek to own nothing.” That which the ego relinquishes, offering it up to soul-consciousness, is reclaimed forever in cosmic consciousness. Nothing is ever lost. Paramhansa Yogananda tells the story in Autobiography of a Yogi of the levitating saint, Bhaduri Mahasaya.

“Master,” said a disciple of this saint once, ardently. “You are wonderful! You have renounced riches and comforts to seek God and teach us wisdom!” It was well-known that Bhaduri Mahasaya had forsaken great family wealth in his early childhood, when single-mindedly he entered the yogic path.

“You are reversing the case! The saint’s face held mild rebuke. “I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciates! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!”

The Bhagavad Gita in the third Chapter states:

"All things are everywhere by Nature wrought 

In interaction of the qualities. 

The fool, cheated by self, thinks, ‘This I did’ 

And ‘That I wrought’; but – ah, thou strong-armed prince! – 

A better-lessoned mind, knowing the play 

Of visible things within the world of sense, 

And how the qualities must qualify, 

Standeth aloof even from his acts." 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Who Are the True Christians? (with Nayaswami Jaya)</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jaya, recorded at Ananda Village on September 1st, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Who Are True Christians?
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ said, in Chapter 10 of the Gospel of St. John: “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.” 

Many Christians, not surprisingly, quote this saying in condemnation of other spiritual teachers – not only the old Testament prophets, but also Buddha, Krishna, and others who lived before Jesus, as well as (by inference) any who came after him. Yet Jesus himself said, in St. Matthew Chapter 5, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”

Nowhere do we find Jesus condemning, or even gently criticizing, other spiritual masters. His criticisms were reserved for worldly attitudes, and for those hypocritical Pharisees who had allowed religion to become, for them, a pretense.

Paramhansa Yogananda explained that the expression “All that ever came before me” referred to those spiritual teachers who place their egos and their self-importance ahead of the Christ Consciousness, in the sense of drawing people’s devotion to themselves and not offering it where alone it truly belongs, to God.

Yogananda himself was very firm in this regard. For example, he never spoke of anyone as his disciple. Instead, he always insisted, “They are God’s disciples. God is the Guru, not I.”

Ego is a way-station on the soul’s journey toward enlightenment. The soul is first trapped in lower bodily forms. Slowly it evolves to the human level, at which point self-consciousness appears. Only in human form can self-consciousness transcend material form altogether, including the lower identity of ego-consciousness, and discover the true, divine Self within. Self-consciousness manifested as ego is an incentive to deliberate self-development. Later in this process of development, however, the ego becomes an obstruction. Inevitably, new spiritual aspirants do not emerge effortlessly from the vortex of ego-consciousness. Desire must be offered up resolutely and ever-more wholeheartedly on the altar of Infinity. It is a gradual process, and few even among those who seek to help others are free of ego. If, however, their motive in teaching is not to serve, but to be served, they deserve a severe reprimand, as Jesus gave them. For their direction of development is no longer upward, but downward. In the name of giving up desires they are creating new ones. As it says in the Bhagavad Gita in the third Chapter:

Desire obscures even the wisdom of the wise. Their relentless foe it is, a flame never quenched.

 Intellect, mind, and senses: These combined are referred to as the seat of desire. Desire, through them, deludes and eclipses the discrimination of the embodied soul. 

O Arjuna, discipline your senses! And, having done so, work to destroy desire, annihilator of wisdom and of Self-realization. 

Give God the credit for everything you do. See Him as the true Doer.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Facing Tests on the Spiritual Path</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Narayan, recorded at Ananda Village on August 25th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
How Should We Meet Our Tests?
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we considered Satan’s temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, after his baptism by John. We discussed the question, Does Satan exist?

All of us experience temptation of one kind or another in our lives – some of us, frequently; others, only occasionally. Whether temptation comes to us from our own subconscious, or from outside ourselves, is secondary to the fact that it does come, and that we must deal with it. More important, then, is the question, How to deal with it – in fact, how to deal with tests of any kind?

Martin Luther flung an ink pot at the devil, who had appeared to test him. A dark stain on the wall of Luther’s cell is pointed out to tourists in support of this story. Unfortunately, our trials are not often so summarily dismissed. As a fellow monk once said to Swami Kriyananda, speaking of Satan, “If only I could get my hands on him!”

Jesus during his temptations in the wilderness overcame them, and thereby set an example for all time, by clinging the more determinedly to God. As Paramhansa Yogananda used to say, “Darkness cannot be driven out of a room with a stick. Once you turn on the light, however, the darkness will vanish as though it had never been.” Jesus manifested this principle. The Bible tells us therefore that at last, “The devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.” 

In the Bhagavad Gita the point is clarified further by the added explanation that there are three qualities in human nature: sattvic, or spiritually elevating; rajasic, or ego-activating; and tamasic, or spiritually darkening. It is this triune aspect of human nature that the third Chapter refers to with the words:

As fire is hidden by smoke, as a mirror is dulled by rust, and as an embryo is enclosed in the womb, so is the indwelling Self enveloped by desire. 

Yogananda explained that each of these examples describes one of the qualities, or gunas. Sattva guna, that which elevates our consciousness, can be freed of any identity with ego by a little puff of meditation and right affirmation. Rajo guna, which embroils the ego in restless activity, can be worked off with a little more, and a little longer, effort. Tamo guna, embracing as it does such mental states as laziness and stupidity, can only be outgrown in time, since it inhibits even the desire for self-improvement.

The example Jesus gave us was intended more for those in whom sattva guna is predominant. But if you yourself find elements in your consciousness that resist even the effort to cling to God in prayer and meditation, don’t despair. Patience, as it has been well said, is the fastest path to God. As long as your efforts take you steadfastly in the right direction, you will come out right in time. Remember Yogananda’s words: “A saint is a sinner who never gave up.”

If, however, your nature impels you, even against your will, to move in the wrong direction – toward egoic desires, and away from God – strive at least to detach yourself mentally from your wrong actions, which are induced by habit. The time will come when their own stored-up energy will tire and diminish. At that time, if you have not contributed to that energy by your consenting will, you will find it possible at last to redirect your energies more constructively.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>What We Need Is Light!</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on August 18th, 2024.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Does Satan Exist?
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Bible tells us in Chapter 4 of the Gospel of St. Matthew:

Then [after baptism] was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 

To most modern minds, this passage seems quaintly obsolete. Psychologists would say – have said, in fact – that the temptation of Jesus, if it occurred at all, was purely psychological. They call it a projection of desires lurking in his own subconscious mind.

The subconscious plays a strong part, certainly, even if not a unique one, in any testing the spiritual seeker must undergo.

The Bhagavad Gita, in dealing with this undeniable reality, quotes Arjuna in the third Chapter, and then Sri Krishna’s reply:

“Yet tell me, Teacher! [said Arjuna] by what force doth man 

Go to his ill, unwilling; as if one 

Pushed him in that path?” 

[Krishna replied:] 

“Desire it is! 

Passion it is! born of the Darknesses, 

Which pusheth him. 

Mighty of appetite, 

Sinful, and strong is this! – man’s enemy!” 

Yet even Krishna describes passion as “born of the Darknesses.”

The fact is, as Paramhansa Yogananda wrote in Autobiography of a Yogi, “All thoughts vibrate eternally in the cosmos.…Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived.” Psychology, yes, but psychology attuned to currents of consciousness that pervade the entire universe, attracted by each of us according to our own personal inclinations.

Yogananda, quoted in The Path, said, “I used to think Satan was only a human invention, but now I know, and add my testimony to that of others who lived before me, that Satan is a reality. He is a universal, conscious force whose sole aim is to keep all beings bound to the wheel of delusion.”

We should take pains, then, to attract uplifting currents of universal consciousness, and to avoid attracting the negative, which – disease that it is! – can infect our thoughts even while it leads us to believe that our thoughts are purely our own.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Attuning to God's Love</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on August 11th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Does God Hide the Truth?
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. In last week’s reading we saw that the great masters themselves counsel discretion in the dissemination of truth. The counter-argument is sometimes made, “But the Lord doesn’t hide! He reveals His beauty in the sunsets, His tender sympathy in the rain, His wrath in the thunder, His restless energy in the brooks, His power in the sunlight.” There are exoteric truths, and there are also esoteric truths. There is that which is revealed impersonally and left up to us to interpret – such as the thunder and our perception of it as divine wrath; the rain and our perception of it as God’s sympathy. But behind even God’s most open expressions there lies impenetrable mystery.

“The wind blows where it wills,” said Jesus in Chapter 3 of the Gospel of St. John. “You hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from, or where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” 

And Sri Krishna says in the ninth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

By Me the whole vast Universe of things 

Is spread abroad; – by Me, the Unmanifest! 

In Me are all existences contained; 

Not I in them! 

God’s hidden reality cannot be understood by the reasoning faculty. India’s Shankya philosophy states frankly, “Ishwar ashiddha: God is not provable.” A willingness to seek the underlying reality behind appearances is essential for those who would know God.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Realize Truth Within</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Shyama, recorded at Ananda Village on August 4th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
How Democratic Is Truth?
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

We live in an age when people assume that knowledge should be available equally to all. In matters susceptible of judgment by normal common sense, however, everyone knows there are exceptions. Access to a control room for intercontinental missiles is limited, by universal consent, to a very few. Access to the controls of a passenger airliner is limited to those with the necessary knowledge for operating them, and also to those with the proper authorization. If people don’t see the disadvantages of making more subtle knowledge universally available, it is only because they are ignorant of the risks involved.

In the case of subtle knowledge, the main disadvantage in making it universally available is the harm it might do to the person himself.

True, by mocking truth he might undermine the faith of a few truth seekers. But then, such tests can also be beneficial, as a means of strengthening faith. Again true, the clever doubter’s misrepresentation of those truths may dissuade a few seekers from following the spiritual path. But if a seeker really is sincere, he will recognize the truth eventually because it resonates with his own being.

No, the greatest problem accrues to the shallow doubter himself. To give him an opportunity to affirm his ignorance might only estrange him even more from the truth, delaying the time when he will turn – as all people must, eventually – to the light.

Thus, the Scriptures advise, not secrecy, but discretion in the sharing of truth. Jesus Christ says in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 7:

Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. 

And Sri Krishna says in the eighteenth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

Never speak of these truths to one who is without self-control or devotion, who renders no service, who does not care to hear, or who speaks ill of Me. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Drawing on Divine Grace</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on July 7th, 2024.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Abiding in God
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Yogananda often emphasized—more often to his disciples than to the general public, but also to everyone generally, for it was a universal teaching the importance of attunement. For divine understanding cannot be created: It must be perceived. To the disciples, Yogananda spoke of the importance of attunement with the guru. To others, he urged the importance at least of attuning oneself to higher consciousness. Can an eagle rise without support from the sustaining air?

Jesus Christ said in the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 15:

"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."

How can we "abide in him"? Jesus says, "If my words abide in you." By words he meant not only his spoken words, but his vibrations, his consciousness, of which the words are only an expression. We must abide by the teachings, but we must also absorb those teachings into ourselves, that they become our own experience.

For disciples of this path, the more, in their hearts, they live consciously in the presence of the masters, the more they will find the divine presence living within them. And for all truth seekers, whether disciples or not, the more they live sustained inwardly by the awareness of God's presence, the higher they will find themselves soaring in wisdom and joy.

For the Bhagavad Gita says, in the tenth Chapter:

"I am the Source of everything; from Me all creation emerges. Blessed with this realization, the wise, awe-stricken, adore Me."

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>The Light of God</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Devi, recorded at Ananda Village on June 30th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Redeeming Light
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Book of Isaiah in the Bible, Chapter 9, tells us:

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 

What is this light of which so many Scriptures speak? In Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda, we read of an early experience the Master had with that light:

I was blessed about the age of eight with a wonderful healing through the photograph of Lahiri Mahasaya. This experience gave intensification to my [divine] love. While at our family estate in Ichapur, Bengal, I was stricken with Asiatic cholera. My life was despaired of; the doctors could do nothing. At my bedside, Mother frantically motioned me to look at Lahiri Mahasaya’s picture on the wall above my head.

“Bow to him mentally!” She knew I was too feeble even to lift my hands in salutation. “If you really show your devotion and inwardly kneel before him, your life will be spared!”

I gazed at his photograph and saw there a blinding light, enveloping my body and the entire room. My nausea and other uncontrollable symptoms disappeared; I was well. At once I felt strong enough to bend over and touch Mother’s feet in appreciation of her immeasurable faith in her guru. Mother pressed her head repeatedly against the little picture.

“O Omnipresent Master, I thank thee that thy light hath healed my son!”

I realized that she too had witnessed the luminous blaze through which I had instantly recovered from a usually fatal disease.

“Where My light is,” God once told a saint whom the divine light had healed, “no darkness can dwell.” The divine light – pure, calm, liberating – is the only final cure for every kind of delusion: ill health, emotional grief, and spiritual ignorance. Seek it daily in the silence, in deep meditation.

As the Bhagavad Gita says in the fifth Chapter:

For whom 

That darkness of the soul is chased by light, 

Splendid and clear shines manifest the Truth 

As if a Sun of Wisdom sprang to shed 

Its beams of light. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Living in the Eternal Now</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on June 23rd, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Eternal Now
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

“When will I find God?” Many devotees have asked this question. Because worldly goals require time, usually, for their fulfillment, we imagine time to be a factor on the spiritual path. And so it is, but only because we think it is! God is as much with us now as He will ever be. It is not He who needs to come to us: We need to come to Him! And that process of coming is a matter of transforming our self-perception.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 4, Jesus Christ says:

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 

There is a practical teaching in these words, apart from their statement that we have God already, and have only to realize that truth. Jesus is saying, “Lift up your eyes and look. . . .” To hold the eyes uplifted is the best position for meditation. For the seat of superconsciousness lies at a point midway between the eyebrows – in the frontal lobe of the brain just behind that point. This point is known also as the Christ center. By lifting up your eyes and concentrating there, you will find it easier to enter the state of ecstasy. That is why saints in every religion have often been observed, during states of deep inner communion, with their eyes uplifted, focused on the inner light – ”white,” as Jesus said, “already to harvest.”

The Bhagavad Gita goes further into this meditative teaching. In the sixth Chapter it states:

Holding the spine firm, the neck and head erect and motionless, let the yogi focus his eyes at the starting place of the nose [the point between the eyebrows]. Let not his gaze roam elsewhere. 

In meditation, tell yourself: “I have Him already! I am alive forever in the Divine Light.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Living a Life for God</title>
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	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-6-16_.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on June 16th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
How Devotees Rise
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we asked the question, Why do devotees fall? and we considered the downfall of Judas in this context. Jesus, in answer to Judas’s criticism for allowing Mary to rub his feet with spikenard, a very costly ointment, said, “The poor always ye have with you: but me ye have not always.” 

Jesus is saying here that there is one supreme “injustice” that needs eradication: poverty, yes, but not of a material kind: poverty in a spiritual sense.

Divine blessings are not common in this world. They are extraordinary. When they come, we should give them priority above every other consideration.

Never allow a moment of inner joy, for instance, to be set aside for lesser “duties.” Divine attunement is our highest priority. As Lahiri Mahasaya, the guru of Yogananda’s guru, said, “To listen to the heart’s inner sound (AUM, which issues from the very center of our being) is man’s highest duty.”

Mary was not, at that moment, communing with the Master inwardly. She was serving him outwardly – but in a spirit very different from the restless fussing for which Jesus had reprimanded her sister, Martha. Those who see a radical difference between the paths of action and meditation should understand this distinction. To serve in the right spirit is necessary, for only thereby can we overcome our karmic tendencies toward restless activity. The important thing is that that spirit be always inwardly focused: that in everything we do we act in loving service to the Lord.

Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says in the third Chapter:

The state of freedom from action [that is, of eternal rest in the Spirit] cannot be achieved without action. No one, by mere renunciation and outward non-involvement, can attain perfection. 

Whenever the spirit of God descends upon you, however, remember the words of Jesus, “Me ye have not always with you.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>How to Succeed on the Spiritual Path, Overcoming All Obstacles</title>
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	<dc:creator>Jitendra Guindon</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on June 9th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Why Do Devotees Fall?
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

An endlessly fascinating question is, Why did Judas fall after receiving the extraordinary blessing of being accepted into the inner circle of Jesus Christ’s disciples? For Judas was one of the twelve apostles. Yet he be-trayed Jesus, and earned for himself the opprobrium of Christendom for all futurity for his sin.

We find Judas reprimanding Jesus just days before that betrayal. Jesus, aware that his disciples would soon be facing, with his death, the supreme tragedy of their lives, allowed Mary to express her devotion by anointing his feet with costly ointment. This act of “wanton waste,” as Judas saw it, awakened indignation in that disciple.

“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?” 

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and kept the purse, and bare what was put therein. 

Then said Jesus, “Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you: but me ye have not always.” 

Doubt not the power of delusion. Respect it – indeed, fear it, though not in the sense of cowering before it. For, as Yogananda said, “One is not safe until he attains nirbikalpa samadhi – the state of final union with God.”

Judas, through attachment to money, opened his consciousness to subtle influences, which may be called satanic, that drew his thoughts toward other related attitudes: the importance of worldly power, for instance, and of worldly influence.

The Bhagavad Gita gives a graphic explanation of how easily the mind can be drawn downward, once it begins to feed on wrong attitudes. In the second Chapter, Sri Krishna states:

If one ponders on sense objects, there springs up attraction to them. From attraction grows desire. Desire, impatient for fulfillment, flames to anger. From anger there arises infatuation (the delusion that one object alone is worth clinging to, to the exclusion of all others). From infatuation ensues forgetfulness of the higher Self. From forgetfulness of the Self follows degeneration of the discriminative faculty. And when discrimination is lost, there follows the annihilation of one’s spiritual life. 

“At the first thought of delusion,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “that is the time to stop it.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Hope on the Spiritual Path</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jaya</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jaya, recorded at Ananda Village on June 2nd, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Inner Kingdom
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Most people imagine that the “inner kingdom,” as Jesus described it, lacks the fascination they attribute to sense life: the bright lights, the diverse attractions, the joys and the laughter. Little do they realize what a vast universe exists in their own selves!

There are many passages in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible that describe aspects of this inner kingdom. In the Book of Genesis we read: “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden…. And the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:8, 9). This garden was in no earthly place. It exists even now, in the very Self of every human being! The legend of Adam and Eve is allegorical. It describes how the first human beings dissipated their spiritual energy, centered in the spine. The spine is the channel through which flows the river of baptism and of spiritual life.

The Bhagavad Gita tells us, “The wise speak of an eternal ashvatta tree, with its roots above and its branches below” (15:1) The “tree of life,” spoken of also in Genesis, is the spine. Its roots are above, in the brain’s energy. Its branches are the outward spreading nervous system. When the “sap,” which is to say, the energy, flows downward the consciousness is drawn into delusion. On the other hand, when the energy is drawn upward in deep meditation, the consciousness is drawn toward its eternal source, God, and is at last united with Him.

Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita therefore urges his chief disciple Arjuna to embrace the yoga science, the path of meditation. “The yogi,” he says, “is greater than the ascetic, greater even than the followers of the paths of wisdom [Gyana Yoga] or of action [Karma Yoga]. Be thou, O Arjuna, a yogi!”

For those who would find the divine truth, Krishna gives this description of the yogi:

Steadfast a lamp burns, sheltered from the wind; 

Steadfastly meditating, solitary, 

Such is the likeness of the Yogi’s mind 

Shut from sense-storms and burning bright to heaven. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Best Way to Worship (with Nayaswami Ananta)</title>
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	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-5-26-Ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on May 25th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Best Way to Worship
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In Chapter 4 of the Gospel of St. John, the woman of Samaria asks Jesus,

Where is the best place to worship? This question might be expanded to include: What is the best church? What is the best religion? Is it important to go on pilgrimage to holy shrines? What is the best ritual? What is the best mantra or prayer?

Jesus cut across all such questioning with his reply:

The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. 

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 

It was not that outer considerations of place, church, ritual, etc., are irrelevant. Each person should find those practices and observances which are compatible with his own nature – one might say, with his own vibrations. Not everyone’s natural path is the same. God sent different religions into the world to satisfy different human needs.

The overarching concern, however, considering that the goal is to find God, is to include in one’s worship daily, inner communion with the Lord. God is Silence: He must be sought, therefore, in inner silence. God is Absolute Love: He must be sought, therefore, in the silence of love. God is Spirit, and thus immaterial: He must be sought, above all, in the expanding peace of deep meditation.

Thus, the Bhagavad Gita states in the sixth Chapter:

Sequestered should he sit, 

Steadfastly meditating, solitary, 

His thoughts controlled, his passions laid away, 

From every craving for possession freed. 

Wherever you are, whatever your outward beliefs and observances, seek God in the silence of your own soul.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Activity vs. Inner Communion (with Nayaswami Narayan)</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Narayan</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Narayan, recorded at Ananda Village on May 19th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Activity vs. Inner Communion
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we contemplated the well-known story of Martha and Mary. Traditionally, this story has been offered to show the two classic approaches to salvation: the first, through action, and the second, through prayer. The excuse of the Marthas of this world has always been, “The church needs its Marthas, too.” Treatises, moreover, have been written to justify the Martha approach to piety, praising her self-sacrifice as, perhaps, an even higher demonstration of devotion. (Thus do the unmeditative workers in religion try to justify themselves!) Yet the fact remains that Jesus rebuked Martha. Elsewhere, moreover, he spoke of the virtue of feeding the hungry, curing the sick, and housing those who were homeless. It wasn’t that he disapproved of serving people.

Wrong attitude was the object of his criticism. What he was criticizing was forgetfulness of the true goal of right, spiritual action. Good deeds, outwardly, without inner communion with God, will result in good karma but will not bring final freedom from all karma.

The Path to inner freedom was described by Paramhansa Yogananda in these words: “Be always calmly active, and actively calm.”

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the second Chapter:

He who is not shaken by anxiety during times of sorrow, nor elated during times of happiness; who is free from egoic desires and their attendant fear and anger: Such an one is of steady discrimination. 

Do your duty in life – so counsels this great Scripture elsewhere – but never lose sight of Him to whom all action should be dedicated.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on May 12th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Secret of Right Action
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

One of the most famous stories in the Gospels is that of Martha and Mary. Jesus, visiting the home of Martha, was teaching while her sister Mary sat at his feet absorbing his divine love and wisdom. Martha, meanwhile, busied herself with serving her guests, and was upset with Mary for not helping her.

“‘Lord,’ she cried, ‘doesn’t it matter to you that my sister has left me to do all this serving alone? Please ask her to help me.’ 

“‘Martha, Martha,’ Jesus answered, ‘thou art careful and troubled about many things. “‘But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.’” 

This story is classic, for Martha’s complaint is very understandable, and not, on the surface of it, spiritually wrong. Jesus might well have told Mary to get up and help her. Nor do we really know that he didn’t, considerate as he always was of others’ needs. But the teaching here doesn’t concern the obvious dilemma of devotees: to work for God, or to spend all one’s time in prayer. It concerns, rather, the attitude of the mind.

Jesus didn’t tell Martha: “Martha, you are doing too much.” He told her, rather, “You are letting your work affect your inner peace.” That was the contrast: not work vs. contemplation, but restless preoccupation vs. peaceful absorption under all circumstances.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the second Chapter:

Actions performed under the influence of desire are greatly inferior to those which are guided by wisdom. Happiness eludes people when they act from self-interest. Seek shelter, therefore, in the equanimity of wisdom. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Power of Love</title>
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	<dc:creator>Erin Vinacco</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinacco, recorded at Ananda Village on May 5th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Perfection Is Self-Transcendence
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

We begin this week with a passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5:

Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you; and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; . . . 

If ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same? 

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even pagans so? 

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. 

This teaching is a continuation of last week’s lesson. To love all equally is possible only by seeing God everywhere – in others as well as in oneself. See whatever comes to you unasked for as a manifestation of His will. Be grateful for the pains you experience, for they are healing strokes of His love. Sometimes, healing is effected only by strong measures, but His love for you is manifested in the very attempt to heal.

Strive always to be impersonal, as though whatever happens to you were happening to someone else. Persecution gives us the supreme opportunity to deny the thought, “This is happening to me,” and to affirm our inner freedom from the thought of ego. Don’t allow the negative perceptions of others to become your own self-definition. Seek God: This is the true goal of life – though how difficult to cling to in the midst of hatred, spite, and persecution!

The Bhagavad Gita tells us in the seventh Chapter:

Out of thousands, one strives for spiritual attainment; and out of many blessed true seekers, who strive assiduously to reach Me, one, perhaps, perceives Me as I am. 

O truth seeker, be one, among all those thousands, who seeks the supreme goal!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>How High Should We Aspire? (with Nayaswami Pranaba)</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on April 28, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
How High Should We Aspire?
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The passage this week is from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5:
I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. 
The easiest explanation for these words is that they were spoken in criticism of the scribes and Pharisees, particularly since Jesus was often verbally attacked by them, and stood up to them fearlessly. However, it wouldn’t have been much of a challenge to the disciples, who aspired to spiritual perfection, to tell them, “Don’t be like those who lack any such aspiration.”

Jesus in fact says only a few verses later, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

What Jesus was referring to here, then, was the self- righteousness of the priests. Don’t seek perfection, he was saying to his disciples, in the image you project toward others. Don’t be satisfied with a goodness born merely of ego-definitions. The highest virtue is to transcend the very thought of personal virtue in the realization of God alone as the Doer. Before this realization, even the thought, “I am kind,” or, “I am truthful,” is self-limiting.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the seventh Chapter:
Yet hard the wise Mahatma is to find,
That man who sayeth, “All is Vasudev!” 
Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Swami Kriyananda's Beautiful Example of Discipleship</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Devi, recorded at Ananda Village on April 21, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
To Each According to His Faith
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3, we read:

Everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. 

It is a common experience, shared by most people, that when a person errs he experiences a desire to hide that error from his conscience instead of holding it up for purification. Error clutches its misdeeds to itself, and resists correction, though it is only in the state of purity that we can achieve perfect freedom. It requires an act of will to offer that awareness up to the light, and to hold it there until one’s inner darkness is completely dissipated.

For every state of consciousness has its own attractive power. And the more we allow that attraction to act upon us, the more we attract to ourselves the objective circumstances and experiences natural to it. Our faith is the attractive power of our underlying state of consciousness. Goodness attracts goodness; it takes goodness even to see goodness. Evil attracts evil, and it takes evil even to see evil – that is, to take special note of its existence.

Whatever there is in you of darkness or light, offer it up to the heights. In the Supreme Light alone will we find salvation. Accept nothing less in yourself as your lasting reality. As the Bhagavad Gita says, in the twelfth Chapter:

Cling thou to me! 

Clasp Me with heart and mind! So shalt thou dwell 

Surely with Me on high. But if thy thought 

Droops from such height; if thou be’st weak to set 

Body and soul upon Me constantly, 

Despair not! give Me lower service! seek 

To reach Me, worshiping with steadfast will; 

And, if thou canst not worship steadfastly, 

Work for Me, toil in works pleasing to Me! 

For he that laboureth right for love of Me 

Shall finally attain! But, if in this 

Thy faint heart fails, bring Me thy failure! ]]>
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	<title>How to Transform Intentions Into Actions</title>
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	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-4-14-Dhyan.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Tyagi Dhyan</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk withTyagi Dhyan, recorded at Ananda Village on April 14, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Deeds vs. Intentions
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ emphasized repeatedly the spirit, not the letter, of the law. In Chapter 5 of the Gospel of St. Matthew he speaks of the sin of killing, and of the legal punishment attendant on that sin, but says that more important than the act is the desire to kill, or to do harm. He shows that the sin of harmful desire goes beyond merely wanting to kill.

“My message to you,” he said, “is this: Whoever is angry with his brother without cause already stands condemned; whoever contemptuously calls his brother a fool shall answer for it to the Supreme Council; and whoever calls his brother an outcast of God shall be in danger of hellfire.”

“Brother,” here, means any other human being. For all of us in the highest sense are brothers and sisters – children of our one Father-Mother, God. The true self of one is the Self of all. To hurt another is, even if one doesn’t realize it, to hurt oneself.

Swami Kriyananda in The Path recalls an episode in which the Master, Paramhansa Yogananda, revealed his sense of identity even with the plants. “One day,” Kriyananda wrote, “we were moving a delicate but rather heavy tropical plant into position on the hillside. Our handling evidently was too rough, for Master cried out, ‘Be careful what you are doing. Can’t you feel? It’s alive!’”

To wish death to anyone – to wish even harm to another creature – is to deny in oneself the reality of that divine life of which all of us are manifestations. It is, in short, to deny the eternal truth, proclaimed by the Bhagavad Gita in the second Chapter:

This Self is never born, nor does it perish. Once existing, it cannot ever cease to be. It is birthless, eternal, changeless, ever itself. It is not slain when the body is slain. ]]>
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	<title>We Are Children of the Light (with Nayaswami Maria)</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on April 7, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
We Are Children of the Light
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

It is common for people to perceive themselves according to their present realities. A person in ill health says, “I am ill.” Few say, “I am well; it is my body that is suffering.” People in a low income bracket say, “I am poor.” Only the unusual person will say, “Though outwardly I live in poverty, inwardly I am wealthy.”

Thus, when it comes to moral and spiritual development, people commonly identify themselves with their weaknesses and their mistakes. They consider it almost a sign of humility to say, “I am a sinner,” though in effect what this means is that they identify themselves with their sinfulness, not with the soul’s power to transcend all limitations in God.

The great masters, including Jesus Christ, have always emphasized the divine potential of mankind. To encourage us, they address us as children of light, not of darkness.

The Bible, in the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3, makes the point that our true home is not the mud of this Earth, but the light of heaven. "No man hath ascended up to heaven,” it tells us, “but him that came down from heaven. This passage continues: “[even so] the Son of man who is in heaven,” emphasizing that Jesus, though he lived on earth, is perceived by the eye of wisdom as conscious, even in human form, of his true reality in heavenly spheres.

The way to know God is to live in godly consciousness, and not to bewail our imperfection and our distance from God. Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” 

And the Bhagavad Gita states:
Seekers of union with the Lord find Him dwelling in their own hearts. But those who, lacking in wisdom, seek Him with impure motives, cannot perceive Him however much they struggle to do so.
 “If you want to know God,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “live in the thought that you have Him already.” 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Mission of the Avatars: Lessons From Easter</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on Easter Sunday March 31, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Resurrection for Every Soul
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 20, we read the inspiring account of Jesus’ resurrection:
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 

Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord! . . . 

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in their midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 
The resurrection of Jesus, doubted by many but affirmed by those who were close to him, was a miraculous event, though one not unique in history. For many great saints of other religions have appeared to their disciples after death. Sometimes their appearances have been, as that of Jesus was, in flesh-and-blood form, and not only in vision.

Paramhansa Yogananda relates in Autobiography of a Yogi the account of his guru Sri Yukteswar’s resurrection after his earthly passing. Miracles of this type are revealed only rarely to the masses, but accounts of them, related by men and women of reputed truthfulness, have inspired many devotees with faith in the reality of subtler-than-material states of existence.

Resurrection, Yogananda explained, means transformation, ultimately, from any lower state of being to a higher one. Worldly consciousness cannot imagine such transformation except in terms of, perhaps, an improvement of the present mess of potage with the addition of a new flavoring.

Divine consciousness, however, is capable of taking the base metal of worldliness and transforming it into the spiritual gold of divine wisdom and love.

In keeping with this truth, the Bhagavad Gita, in the ninth Chapter, tells us:
Ah! ye who into this ill world are come – fleeting and false – set your faith fast on Me! Fix heart and thought on Me! Adore Me! Bring Offerings to Me! Make Me prostrations! Make Me your supremest joy! and, undivided, unto My rest your spirits shall be guided. 
Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Deeper Meaning of Palm Sunday</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on March 24th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
Who Is This Son of Man? (Palm Sunday)
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

On Palm Sunday, the throng joyfully acclaimed Jesus Christ as he entered Jerusalem, casting palm fronds before him and singing, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! The Lord bless the king of Israel!” (John 12:13)

Jesus Christ had told the people, “The son of man must be lifted up.” His reference – so we are told – was to the mode of his impending crucifixion. Some persons on that occasion had asked, “Who is this son of man?” 

Was Jesus a human being, merely? Those who, on Palm Sunday, called him king little realized the actual nature of his kingdom. He was far more than what they imagined. Yes, of course he ate, drank, walked, slept, and talked like others. His consciousness, however, was centered in infinity. Yes – again – he laughed like others: But his laughter expressed divine joy, not mere merriment. Again, he wept like them: But never with human grief. The tears he shed were for the sufferings of unenlightened human beings: Never were they shed in self-pity.

Jesus Christ was wakeful in God. Most people, by contrast, are asleep spiritually.

How strange to reflect that less than a week from that entry into Jerusalem – so joyfully acclaimed – he would be arrested, condemned, and crucified! Such is the bitter-sweetness of human existence: smiles of welcome one day – insults, even persecution the next. How few realize that Christ’s suffering would not be for himself, but for people’s ignorance – for those who had not yet understood the deeper reality that dwelt also in them!

Everyone is born “trailing clouds of glory,” as the poet Wordsworth put it. Even the meanest beggar has lived a story, or will eventually have lived it, more magnificent than the greatest epic ever written.

In the Bhagavad Gita, this dichotomy between the “son of man” and the inner “Son of God” is beautifully described. Sri Krishna, representing God in human form, reveals his true nature in infinity. In the eleventh chapter of that great scripture, his chief disciple Arjuna exclaims:

O Infinite Light! Thy radiance, spreading o’er the universe, 

Shines into the very darkest abyss! 

Thy voice o’erwhelms the roar of cosmic cataclysms! 

Lo! the myriad stars are Thy diadem; 

Thy scepter radiates power everywhere! 

O Immortal Brahman, Lord of all: 

Again and again at Thy feet of Infinity 

I lie in prostration before Thee! 

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<title>Paramhansa Yogananda's Tips for Developing Your Soul Intuition</title>
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	<dc:creator>Sundara Traymar</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Sundara Traymar, recorded at Ananda Village on March 17th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is "Reason vs. Intuition". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus, when addressing his critics, appealed to reason and common sense. In his training of the disciples, however, he, like all great masters, encouraged in them the development of a higher faculty: soul-intuition. For it is only by intuition that spiritual perceptions are achieved.

In Chapter 16 of the Gospel of St. Matthew we find Jesus drawing on the intuition of his disciples by asking them who they thought he was, in reality. They immediately understood that what he wanted from them was a subtle answer, not some obvious reply based on his nationality, sex, and the like. Peter it was, at last, who understood and answered the question on its intended level: the spiritual.

 “Thou art the Christ,” he said, “the son of the living God.”

“And Jesus turned to him, saying, ‘Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonah: for not by human nature was this truth revealed to thee, but by my heavenly Father. And I tell thee this also: Thou art Peter, which is to say, a rock, and upon this rock will I build my church, and never will the powers of darkness overwhelm it.’” 

Jesus was pleased with his disciple for relating to the question on its deepest level. Reason could not have given Peter that answer. The answer came through the faculty of soul intuition, and proved him thereby to be a spiritually advanced disciple. It was his intuitive perception – that insight which cannot be shaken by tempests of reasonable doubt – that Jesus praised in referring to him as a rock. The “church” he referred to, next, was the edifice of cosmic consciousness. Any outer church institution would have to depend, as in fact the Christian churches have always done, on the level of understanding of its individual leaders and members. Peter’s intuitive perceptions could never have been passed on to an outward succession of prelates.

Clarity comes by direct soul-perception. Confusion results from excessive dependence on reason as the guide to understanding.

As the second Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states:

When your intellect, at present confused by the diversity of teaching in the Scriptures, becomes steadfast in the ecstasy of deep meditation, then you will achieve final union with God. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Saints Are the True Custodians of Religion</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Narayan, recorded at Ananda Village on March 10th, 2024. 

The only way to find God is through personal experience. Dogma only prevents us from realizing His living presence. That is why all the great saints tell us to use our God-given common sense and test what they say. Through meditation and Kriya Yoga, we get to experience God for ourselves. That direct perception of God is what the saints have and what makes them the true custodians of God. Nayaswami Narayan shares how we can tune into the Spirit of the saints and how all of us can become saints.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is "Dogmatism vs. Common Sense".

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 7, Jesus warns:
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 
Jesus here, as indeed many times during his teaching, counsels people to use their God-given common sense, and not to rely on high-flown but undemonstrable claims. Common sense goes beyond abstract reason, for it is rooted in actual experience.

Even common sense, however, is deficient when the judgment called for goes beyond sensory experience. Ultimately, what he emphasized always, therefore, was intuitive perception. Thus, he expected more of his disciples than crude common sense, and often scolded them for being too literal-minded – as he did, elsewhere, when they thought his statement, “I have meat to eat that you know not of,” meant that he had steaks or sandwiches secreted about his person. His reference, of course, was to spiritual, not material, substance.

Words, even though appearing in the scriptures, are no substitute for direct perception of truth.

Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the second Chapter:
The sage who knows God has as little need for the Scriptures as one might have for a pond when the whole land is covered in flood. 
Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on March 3rd, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There are many places in the Gospels where we see Jesus in open conflict with the Pharisees – that is to say, with man-made as opposed to true, mystical tradition. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 15, we see a good example of how they and he “locked horns.” Then some of the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came and asked Jesus,

“Why do your disciples break our ancient tradition and eat their food without washing their hands properly first?” 

Jesus, after scolding them for their hypocrisy in observing lesser rules so carefully while ignoring the much more important ones, said,

“Listen, and understand this thoroughly! It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that makes him common or unclean. It is what comes out of a man’s mouth that makes him unclean.”

It wasn’t that Jesus counseled against such wholesome practices as washing one’s hands before eating. In an age, however, when lesser rules were given too much importance relative to the truly important observances – cleansing the heart of impure desires, for example – he emphasized the supreme importance of loving God and of communing with Him.

The Pharisees – the orthodox religionists of his day, in other words – had brought true religion down to a level of intellectual hair-splitting. They mistakenly considered the way to understanding to lie through a mine-field of definitions, which they tried to refine to ultimate exactitude. Jesus taught, however, that the intellect alone can never lead one to truth. Without love, indeed, there is no ultimate verity. Without fixity of purpose, born of the heart’s devotion, the intellect wanders endlessly. It cannot settle for long on anything. As the Bhagavad Gita says in the second Chapter:

The intellects of those who lack fixity of spiritual purpose are inconstant, their interests endlessly ramified. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Finding God's Presence in Your Life</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Devi, recorded at Ananda Village on February 25th, 2024. 

Is it possible to see God? People often ask this question, wondering if they can see God in a physical form, envisioning a sudden appearance of a great saint or sage. While this happens to a few, all of us can find Him at any time, wherever we are. God is hiding in plain sight. If we look with a sense of wonder, we start to see that He is everywhere. Nayaswami Devi shares touching stories that illustrate how God is always with us. All we have to do is open ourselves to His presence.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
"Can Man See God?"
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There is a saying in Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John that would seem to respond with a definite No to the question, Can man see God? The saying is:
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. 
Many great saints, however, claim to have seen God. If we ask, then, “Can God be seen?” rather than, “Can man see God?” the answer is, “Yes! Else those saints lied; and, else, the Scriptures themselves lie.” The point is, it is not man – this human body, these human eyes – that sees God. God can be seen only with spiritual vision – with the eye of the soul.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the eleventh Chapter:
"Thou canst not see Me with mortal eyes. Therefore I now give thee sight divine. Behold My supreme power of Yoga!" 

With these words Hari, the exalted Lord of Yoga, revealed himself to Arjuna in His infinite form.
Paramhansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, describes the supernal experience in words more readily comprehensible to modern minds than the poetic phraseology of the Bhagavad Gita. The chapter “An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness” is one of the most inspiringly beautiful in all mystical literature. Here is a brief excerpt:
An oceanic joy broke upon calm endless shores of my soul. The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light. 

[I saw] the divine dispersion of rays pour from an Eternal Source, blazing into galaxies, transfigured with ineffable auras. Again and again I saw the creative beams condense into constellations, then resolve into sheets of transparent flame. By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament. 

I cognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart. Irradiating splendor issued from my nucleus to every part of the universal structure.…The creative voice of God I heard resounding as Aum, the vibration of the Cosmic Motor.” 
This, so the great masters aver, is what God is. And this also, they insist, is what we are in our deepest reality.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Law Is Perfected in Love (with Nayaswami Parvati)</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on February 18th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"The Law Is Perfected in Love". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, we read: The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Grace means the power to rise, spiritually. Truth means the experience of divine realities, not the application in the outer world of that inner experience. Divine love is the soul’s experience of oneness with God. Kindness is the human manifestation of that love. Grace is deeper than mere kindness. Wisdom is a divine experience. Justice to all is a human law, though divinely inspired. It follows as a consequence of the experience of wisdom. Truth goes deeper than mere justice. While following the law, we should strive always to trace it back to its origins in the vision of God.

Therefore Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita urges the devotee not to be satisfied with spiritual precepts alone, but to go beyond them to the direct, inner experience of truth. In the eighteenth Chapter of that great Scripture he says:

Nay! but once more Take My last word, 

My utmost meaning have! 

Precious thou art to Me; right well beloved! 

Listen! I tell thee for thy comfort this. 

Give Me thy heart! adore Me! serve Me! cling 

In faith and love and reverence to Me! 

So shalt thou come to Me! 

I promise true, For thou art sweet to Me! 

And let go those – 

Rites and writ duties! 

Fly to me alone! Make Me thy single refuge! 

I will free Thy soul from all its sins! 

Be of good cheer! 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Living in God's Grace — Invoking the Presence of the Guru</title>
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	<dc:creator>Jitendra Guindon</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on February 11th, 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is:

"The Importance of Soul-Receptivity"

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John states: But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. 

This was a passage Paramhansa Yogananda often quoted to his disciples. “Be in tune,” he would tell them. “Delusion can’t touch you, if you will keep in tune.” 

“A few of you will fall,” he said once. “But it needn’t be, if you would stay in tune.” 

Of a disciple who became highly advanced, even though she didn’t meditate much, he said, “She got there by attunement.” To one who found meditation difficult, he said, “I will meditate for you, as long as you stay in tune.” 

Truth is a state of consciousness, not a well-worded definition. It is in that consciousness, above all, that our lives are transformed.

Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the tenth Chapter:
To those who are ever attached to Me, and who worship Me with love, I impart discernment, by means of which they attain Me. Out of my love for them, I, the Divine within them, set alight in them the radiant lamp of wisdom, thereby dispelling the darkness of their ignorance. 
Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Mystery of the Avatar</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on February 4th, 2024.

Why does an avatar come back to earth? It is because of their great love and eternal commitment to stay with us until we attain freedom. Nayaswami Maria dives into the mystery of the avatar and their world mission, explaining how despite their human form, avatars constantly reside in a state of God-realized consciousness.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Bhagavad Gita in the fourth Chapter states, as we saw last week:

O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue. 

What is the mystery of this divine manifestation? Great avatars, such as Krishna and Jesus Christ, are born as babies even as we all are. They take human form, and go through normal human experiences as they grow from childhood to adulthood. They eat. They play. They may seem to suffer sickness and disappointment like the rest of us. In what way are they different from other human beings?

The important thing to understand is that, even as they are like us, so are we also like them. Their realization can be ours, too. They come on earth to show us our own divine potential.

The difference lies not in the manner of their manifestation on earth, but in the consciousness with which they are born. All things are condensations, so to speak, of the Cosmic Vibration – AUM, described by St. John’s Gospel as the Word. Most human beings, however, are unconscious of their divine origin. The avatars, on the other hand, come consciously as manifestations of that divine reality.

As the Gospel says in the first Chapter:

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>How to Live Your Highest Potential</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jyotish, recorded at Ananda Village on January 28, 2024.

How can we live our highest potential? By transcending the ego-consciousness. Swami Kriyananda gave a beautiful definition of the ego: a bundle of self-definitions. We may think of ourselves in outward forms and definitions, but that is not who we are in reality. Our essence is God, who has taken visible form in us. The veil of Maya, or the senses, prevents us from realizing this. Nayaswami Jyotish shares how conscious living and meditation can help us experience our true selves.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"The Infinite Christ". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John contains some of the most profound spiritual teachings in the Bible. In the first Chapter many subtle truths are suggested concerning higher stages of Self-realization. Here, John the Baptist is described as one reaching up toward that high state. “He was not that light,” the Gospel tells us, “but was sent to bear witness of that light.”

Jesus Christ, by contrast, is described as the light itself. “That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” One essential truth stands out in this teaching: that Jesus came not to dogmatize people with a new teaching, but to bring them timeless, universal truths. Disciples saw the master clothed in human form, and therefore judged him in terms of his greatness relative to the greatness of other teachers. Wisdom, however, sees the master’s very greatness in terms of a cosmic unity.

There is a passage in The Path, by Swami Kriyananda, in which this point is emphasized. The Master, Paramhansa Yogananda, explained, “The saint who attains that exalted consciousness never says, ‘I am God,’ for he sees it was the vast Ocean that became his little wave of ego. The wave, in other words, would not claim, when referring to the little self, to be the Ocean.”

At this juncture Debi, who was present, cried excitedly, “But Sir, if you are one with that Ocean, that means you are God!”

“Why I?” Master asked. “Say ‘He.’ He is God.”

“But still, Sir, you are one with Him, and He is the only reality. That means you, too, are God.”

“But this body isn’t God!”

“You aren’t identified with your body, Sir, so one may still say that you are God.”

“Well, in that case why do you say, ‘You’? You, too, are that! In a discussion of this sort, it is less confusing if we say, ‘He.’”

“But what’s the difference?”

“The Scriptures say . . .” Master began.

“It’s only your humility, Sir,” Debi broke in, “that makes you distinguish between yourself and Him.” “How can there be humility, when there is no consciousness of ego?”

Triumphantly Debi cried, “But if you have no ego left, that means you are God!”

Master laughingly continued the earlier statement, which Debi had interrupted: “The Scriptures say, ‘He who knows Brahma becomes Brahma.’”

“There!” cried Debi. “You said it yourself!”

Master rejoined, still laughingly, “I didn’t say it. It’s the Scriptures that say so.”

Master, in other words, would not identify those words with the human body speaking them. It was in his overarching spirit that he saw himself one with the Infinite. But Debi was unable to make this mental leap from a pure expression of Infinity to Infinity Itself.

“You quoted those Scriptures, Sir,” he reminded Master relentlessly. “That means you agree with them!”

Recognizing that the distinction was, perhaps, too subtle for many to grasp, Master concluded, “Well, he who says he is God, isn’t God. And,” he added with a smile, “he who says he isn’t, isn’t!”

And there the subject rested, amid general laughter.

The greater a spiritual teaching, the more greatly we betray it by particularizing it with dogmas. Truth itself, not the Christian truth or the Hindu truth, incarnates on earth with the birth of a fully liberated master.

As the Bhagavad Gita teaches in the fourth Chapter:

Unborn, changeless, Lord of Creation and controller of My cosmic nature though I am, yet entering Nature I am dressed in the cosmic garment of My own maya (delusion). 

O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on January 21st 2024. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, makes a reference to the divine light that is obscure to the rational faculty, but that enlightens our higher nature: “The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” 

Reason recoils from this statement with innumerable questions. What is this darkness? Is it conscious, that it should comprehend anything? What sort of light would be capable of shining in darkness without transforming at least that part of the darkness in which it shines into light? Does this light shine only at night? And if so, why only then? The solution is that, to divine sight, even daylight seems darkness. The sun itself, like the moon which shines only by reflected light from the sun, is but a kind of reflection of the cosmic light, which, being immaterial, is invisible to the eyes but which is the Great Source of all material reality.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda describes his youthful visit to Ram Gopal Muzumdar, the “sleepless saint,” who lived in the vision of that hidden light. “Around midnight,” Yogananda wrote, Ram Gopal fell into silence, and I lay down on my blankets.

Closing my eyes, I saw flashes of lightning; the vast space within me was a chamber of molten light. I opened my eyes and observed the same dazzling radiance. The room became a part of the infinite vault which I beheld with interior vision.

“Why don’t you go to sleep?”

“Sir, how can I sleep in the presence of lightning, blazing whether my eyes are shut or open?” “You are blessed to have this experience; the spiritual radiations are not easily seen.” The saint added a few words of affection.

This is the “light that shineth in darkness.” It has been described variously in the great scriptures. In the Bhagavad Gita, the eleventh Chapter, the devotee, Arjuna, is given an experience of the infinite state and exclaims in awe:

If there should rise suddenly within the skies 

Sunburst of a thousand suns 

Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of, 

Then might be that Holy One’s 

Majesty and radiance dreamed of! 

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<dc:creator>Erin Vinacco</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinacco, recorded at Ananda Village on January 14th, 2024. 

Swami Kriyananda explained in his book "Awaken to Superconsciousness" that consciousness works through the brain and the body, but consciousness doesn't require the brain or the body to exist.

Erin shares how we can expand our awareness through meditation and Kriya Yoga practice and experience this Divine Consciousness behind everything. She also gives spiritual tools to remind ourselves of our Divine nature throughout the day.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is "Did God Create the Universe – or Become It?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, contains a passage that explains the essential truth that creation is a process of becoming. The universe is not separate from God the Creator, but a part of Him even as our own dream-creations, during sleep, are figments of our consciousness. God’s is the life; God’s, the reality. Not a melody could be composed, not a poem written, were the melody and the poem not already there, simply waiting to be expressed.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 

Ego-directed desire is like static; it distorts the radioed messages of Infinity. But the pristine impulse from the divine, undistorted by limitation and delusion, is the life that gives rise to all that is.

As the seventh Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states:

I am the fluidity of water. I am the silver light of the moon and the golden light of the sun. I am the AUM chanted in all the Vedas: the Cosmic Sound moving as if soundlessly through the ether. I am the manliness of men. I am the good sweet smell of the moist earth. I am the luminescence of fire; the sustaining life of all living creatures. I am self-offering in those who would expand their little lives into cosmic life. O Arjuna, know Me as the eternal seed of all creatures. In the perceptive, I am their perception. In the great, I am their greatness. In the glorious, it is I who am their glory. ]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on January 7th, 2024.

You are not your shortcomings, you are not your failures, you are not your accomplishments. You are light, all blessed, all-pervading, all loving, all joyful, Nayaswami Ananta assures us. In this new year, he urges all truth seekers to try to nurture and practice that: to remember our unity with all as spiritual beings, to practice meditation and devotion, and to strive for a deeper connection with God.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"At the Heart of Silence – the Eternal Word"

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, these immortal lines appear:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 

Human vision beholds individuality and separation everywhere. Divine vision beholds the oneness of cosmic vibration, of which all things, no matter how diverse, are manifestations. Cosmic Sound – the “Word” of God – and Cosmic Light: These are eternal. The world, as revealed to us by our senses, is illusory.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda relates an early experience he received of the divine aspect of reality: Sitting on my bed one morning, I fell into a deep reverie.

“What is behind the darkness of closed eyes?” This probing thought came powerfully into my mind. An immense flash of light at once manifested to my inward gaze. Divine shapes of saints, sitting in meditation posture in mountain caves, formed like miniature cinema pictures on the large screen of radiance within my forehead.

“Who are you?” I spoke aloud.

“We are the Himalayan yogis.” The celestial response is difficult to describe; my heart was thrilled. “Ah, I long to go to the Himalayas and become like you!” The vision vanished, but the silvery beams expanded in ever-widening circles to infinity. “What is this wondrous glow?” “I am Iswara. I am Light.” The voice was as murmuring clouds. “I want to be one with Thee!”

Out of the slow dwindling of my divine ecstasy, I salvaged a permanent legacy of inspiration to seek God. Wise are we if we meditate on that experience of Yogananda’s, and salvage from it even a breath of his inspiration. For, quite simply, there is nothing else!

As the Bhagavad Gita says in the seventh Chapter:

I make and unmake this universe. Apart from Me nothing exists, O Arjuna. All things, like the beads of a necklace, are strung together on the thread of My consciousness, and are sustained by Me. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Shyama, recorded at Ananda Village on December 31st, 2023. 

A key ingredient in this life journey is love: how do we love God, and how do we love others? When we open our hearts to the Divine, we let go and let God do it. Then, our fears and doubts transform into trust and the knowing that God takes care of us. Tyagi Shyama shares touching and relatable stories about the power of love.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"The Last Commandment". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ, near the end of the Gospel according to St. John, gave as his last commandment that we love one another. In John 13:34,35 he said, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples.” 

Again in John 15:12 he said, “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.” 

How did he love us? Personally, yes, in the sense that he loved and forever loves each one of us for who we are, and not abstractly. But impersonally also, in the sense that the Christ, the divine consciousness, is not conscious of itself as separate from us; He loves us not only for, but as, our very Self. His love is a manifestation of Infinity loving us as expressions of infinity. He does not see us as we see ourselves. He forever sees in us our divine potential.

Paramhansa Yogananda made a very similar statement to the monks very shortly before his own departure from his body: “Respect one another, as I respect you.” His use of the word, “respect,” instead of love, was deliberate. He wanted to emphasize for them the importance of impersonal love and friendship: from God, for God.

Worldly people do not understand that in impersonal love there is much deeper love than exists in personal love. Impersonal love is expansive, not contractive.

One day the Master was going for an outing, and the monks were helping him into his car. Yogananda had been having difficulty with his knees. He remarked, “You all are so kind to me with your many attentions.” “Oh, Sir,” they replied, “it is your kindness to which we respond.” The Master smiled sweetly. “God is helping God,” he said. “That’s His drama.”

The second commandment Jesus quoted from the ancient scriptures, “Love thy neighbor as thy Self,” explains what he meant by his “new,” and last, commandment. We should, he said, love all as reflections of our very Self.

Thus, Paramhansa Yogananda said also, “When I am gone, only love can take my place.”

The Bhagavad Gita describes a dialogue between Krishna and his disciple Arjuna. Thus, the other disciples are not part of the scene; the dialogue is internal, and symbolizes the dialogue between the soul and God. Yet in it Sri Krishna describes the way to supreme wisdom, and supreme love: “The serene Self, being one with Brahman, neither grieves nor yearns. The same to all, he attains supreme devotion to Me.” (18:54) That sameness toward all is the manifestation of pure love, impersonal in the sense of selfless. By that love, one attains supreme love for God alone.

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Attune Yourself to the Spiritual Power of Christ</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Devi, recorded at Ananda Village on December 24th, 2023. 

Jesus Christ was beyond the limitations of his earthly form. Unbound by race, gender, or nationality, he embodied infinite consciousness and universal awareness. Our destiny is to recognize that this is who we are in truth as well. Nayaswami Devi guides us to tune into this spiritual power of Christ within ourselves.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"The Divine Ascension". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 14, we read:
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 
What is this “I,” when spoken by a master who has conquered every vestige of ego-consciousness? Therein lies the mystery of true Scriptural teaching. That “I” that is no “I”: Does it even exist? In what way is it different from the consciousness that animates other human beings?

Jesus was not saying, “Look at me. Don’t look at other masters.” He was saying, rather, “Look at the divine Self that is the essence of who you are, your very Self. You are that ‘I.’ No man cometh unto the divine consciousness except by first recognizing his own intrinsic divinity, hidden behind his delusive ego.”

The Bhagavad Gita, in the fourth Chapter, states:
O Son of Pritha [Arjuna],
in whatever way people accept Me,
in that same way do I appear to them.
For all men, in some way, pursue the path to Me. 
Meditate on the divine incarnations. Their lives, and the consciousness animating them, will be your stairway to the Infinite.

Thus, through Holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Experiencing the Spiritual Eye</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jaya</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Jaya, recorded at Ananda Village on December 17th 2023. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"What Was the Star of Bethlehem?"

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Divine vision is the opposite of worldly sight. Divine vision sees God’s presence behind all outward appearances. Worldly sight sees appearances, merely, coating even the blazing wisdom of a saint. A master, to the worldly man, is a human being with, perhaps, a slightly better attitude than the norm. The Scriptures therefore strive to demonstrate how the divine consciousness, when openly active among men in the lives of great masters, must never be viewed as an expression of ordinary human consciousness. To seek the presence of Divinity behind the life of a great master is to prepare oneself to recognize that same Divinity also in lower manifestations until at last one beholds God everywhere.

Thus it was that Paramhansa Yogananda, on observing his new disciple Swami Kriyananda struggling with the contrast between the guru’s human appearance and his inner, divine reality, looked at him deeply one day and said, “If you only knew my consciousness!”

The story of the birth of Jesus Christ contains an account in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 2, of the star of Bethlehem. The wise men who sought Jesus in his manger said,

“We have seen his star in the east.”…And, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. 

This account was important, for it showed all mankind that Jesus was a divine incarnation, and no ordinary man – that he brought divine consciousness to earth, even though he would play a human role among human beings, and that others, too, by “receiving him” in their inner hearts, would acquire power, as the Bible puts it, to “become the sons of God.”

The Scriptures enjoin us to meditate on the lives of great souls, that we may discover our own latent spiritual greatness.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the fourth Chapter: 

Who knows the truth touching my births on earth 

And my divine work, when he quits the flesh 

Puts on its load no more, falls no more down 

To earthly birth: to Me he comes, dear Prince! 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Practicing the Presence of God</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on December 10th, 2023. 

At this moment, we are already living in the presence of God. We only need to become more and more aware of it. Nayaswami Parvati tells stories of how Brother Lawrence, born in the year 1611, developed the practice of the presence of God in the form of love. Parvati shares what we, as devotees, can practice to stay in tune with God day by day.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"Living in the Presence of God". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 25, we read of a King – capitalized, for the reference is to God – who welcomes certain devotees to the divine consciousness, saying, “I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.”

The elect asked him when it was they had served Him in these ways, and the King answered, “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

To see God as residing in every human being, as indeed He does, is to open oneself to limitless opportunities for serving Him. Paramhansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, described a saint who lived in this consciousness as “the greatest man of humility I ever knew.” He described a seemingly chance encounter with this saint:

Another day found me walking alone near the Howrah railroad station. I stood for a moment by a temple, silently criticizing a small group of men with drum and cymbals who were violently reciting a chant. “How undevotionally they use the Lord’s divine name in mechanical repetition,” I reflected. My gaze was astonished by the rapid approach of Master Mahasaya. “Sir, how come you here?” The saint, ignoring my question, answered my thought. “Isn’t it true, little sir, that the Beloved’s name sounds sweet from all lips, ignorant and wise?” He passed his arm around me affectionately; I found myself carried on his magic carpet to the Merciful Presence.

If you would see God, watch for Him everywhere. If you would hear His voice, listen for it in all sounds and also in their supporting silences. If you would know God, seek His wisdom behind merely human knowledge.

The Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter, states:

One who beholds My presence everywhere,
And all things dwelling equally in Me,
He never loses loving sight of Me,
Nor I of him, through all eternity. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Breaking Free from Karma: The Power of Kriya Yoga</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Brahmachari Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on November 26th 2023.

Is karma a blessing or not? Should we embrace it as grace or try to overcome it? Brahmachari Sagar puts these two approaches next to each other and concludes there is a difference between the law of karma and karma itself. Karma is so complex it can lead us astray without us realizing it. Sagar shares how we can find release from karma through meditation and Kriya Yoga and finish our karma after reaching the state of Jivan Mukta.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"The Law of Karma – Bondage, or Soul-Release".

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians contains this oft-quoted statement: Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

In Autobiography of a Yogi Paramhansa tells a story from the life of the Benares saint Trailanga Swami: A skeptic once determined to expose Trailanga as a charlatan. A large bucket of calcium-lime mixture, used in whitewashing walls, was placed before the swami. “Master,” the materialist said, in mock reverence, “I have brought you some clabbered milk. Please drink it.” Trailanga unhesitatingly drained, to the last drop, the containerful of burning lime. In a few minutes the evildoer fell to the ground in agony. “Help, swami, help!” he cried. “I am on fire! Forgive my wicked test!”

The great yogi broke his habitual silence. “Scoffer,” he said, “you did not realize when you offered me poison that my life is one with your own. Except for my knowledge that God is present in my stomach, as in every atom of creation, the lime would have killed me. Now that you know the divine meaning of boomerang, never again play tricks on anyone.” The well-purged sinner, healed by Trailanga’s words, slunk feebly away.

Yogananda goes on to say: The reversal of pain was not due to any volition of the master, but came about through unerring application of the law of justice which upholds creation’s farthest swinging orb. Men of God-realization like Trailanga allow the divine law to operate instantaneously; they have banished forever all thwarting crosscurrents of ego.

Not by reason alone, but by Self-realization, are the ins and outs of destiny fully understood. Their web, though tied forever to the post of ego-motivation, is too intricate to be perceived as a single thread. Only great masters can see it with clarity. It is visible to them in all its workings – not from within the tangle, but from above, in superconsciousness.

As Sri Krishna said in the fourth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita: “He who beholds inaction in action, and action in inaction, is wise among men; he is one with the Spirit; he has attained the true goal of action (perfect freedom).” 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Himalayan Pilgrimage and Reincarnation</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Atman, recorded at Ananda Village on November 19th 2023. 

Join Tyagi Atman on an inner journey to the holy heights of the Himalayas. In this Sunday Service Atman shares profound experiences from his recent pilgrimage to India and the insights they gave him about reincarnation.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"Reincarnation – the Spiral Staircase". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Book of Revelation, Chapter 3, Jesus Christ tells us: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out.” There is a difference between Church dogmas, which are based on reasoned deductions from Scriptural statements, and the pronouncements of wisdom, which are based on the inner realization of Scriptural truths. Reason, like a train, can only follow already-existing tracks of human experience. Human memory, being short, is seldom able to cross back over the threshold of a person’s present existence. Biblical references to previous lifetimes on earth are overlooked in the deductive process, and we find them therefore excluded from the body of official dogma. Nevertheless, such references exist. The Bible itself presents them – as does Jesus in this passage – not as abstract teaching, but as direct, personal perception of truth.

In the same way Krishna, in the Bhagavad Gita, silences Arjuna’s reasonable doubts on the subject not by reasoned argument, but by the frank statement contained in the fourth Chapter of that great Scripture:
Arjuna, you and I have passed through many births. I know all of them, though you, O chastiser of foes, recall them not. ]]>
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	<title>The Deeper Meaning of the Parable of the Prodigal Son</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on November 12th, 2023. 

The parable of the prodigal son is a very comforting way of understanding who we are as devotees on the spiritual path. It brings solace and more open-heartedness. Nayaswami Pranaba tells this famous story from the Bible and explains its deeper meaning of God's unconditional and eternal love.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
The Promise of the Scriptures
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 15, we read the famous Parable of the Prodigal Son. Jesus tells of the man who took the wealth bestowed on him by his father, and squandered it in foreign lands, where he fell into evil ways. At last, repentant, he returned to his father’s home. When his father saw him, he was (Jesus tells us) moved with compassion, and ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.”

But the father said to his servants, “Fetch quickly the best robe and put it on him, and give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet; and bring out the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; because this my son was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” And they began to make merry.

Small-hearted human beings, identified as they are with their little egos, give exaggerated importance to any slight they receive from others. Thus, they imagine God, like them, to be petty, unpardoning, and vindictive. In God’s eyes, however, when human beings go astray there is nothing to forgive. All of us are aspects, only, of His own Self. He who made us resides in us. He is not far away from us in some far-off heaven. His call to us, always, is to return to our own home, within.

The way of return is described in the Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter:
Supreme blessedness is that yogi’s who has completely calmed his mind, controlled his ego-active tendencies (rajas), and purged himself of desire, thereby attaining oneness with Brahma, the Infinite Spirit. 
Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on November 5th, 2023.

Paramhansa Yogananda showed by his own example that prayer is a power, provided we believe deeply in that power. What we pray for has to be united with the divine plan, the divine will. Nayaswami Ananta shares the secrets of effective prayers and how we can attain anything and everything when we have the power of Divine Mother behind us.
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Nayaswami Ananta:

I am extremely glad to be here today. Welcome. Thank you for coming. Thank you for watching on the internet.

I would like to read a prayer demand from Whispers from Eternity. And the title is, "The Prayer Demand, Asking God to be President of the United States of the World." This is not a political statement. I do not indulge in political statements. Ananda does not indulge in political statements. And when I read this, you will understand.

"Our Father, President of the United States of planets, galaxies, stellar systems, and universes, Thy democratic rule of free choice and individual evolution is bringing Thy citizen children nearer and nearer to Thy high ideals. Born in thy states of democratic free will, we inherited our celestial birthright of eternal, everlasting freedom. But alas, we squandered that inheritance, though receiving it would have meant attaining omnipresence, and imprisoned ourselves in debt consciousness, behind bars of sense enjoyment, evil deeds, selfishness, and small-minded narrow patriotism.

"Teach us, Father, to melt the fancy frozen boundaries of family, society, and national identity with the warmth of our love and understanding. Bless us, O all-wise Father, that we may live in a United States of the world with Thee as our President, elected for eternity by the free choice of all good citizen qualities of our hearts, ruling ourselves through our own self-clarifying discrimination. Teach us to enrich our souls, our abundance, and our understanding by broadening the circle of our patriotism to include all Earth's inhabitants of every caste, creed, position in society, and color.

"Oh Cosmic President, bless us that we obey Thy laws of life and respect Thy kindly hearts of freedom of all thy children, fellow citizens with us, not only the good but the error intoxicated, even the animals, birds and fishes, the frail flowers, the mute grasses and the jungle weeds, low crushed by the tread of cruel unheeding feet."

We hear this reading from the Bible, and it says that we can "cast mountains into the sea if we have faith." I won't go into the permits required for such a movement of earth, but in California it would be very difficult. But not impossible with the grace of God.

There's one phrase in here that I'd like to reread. Maria read it, but it's the core of this faith is a call to prayer. Paramhansa Yogananda showed by his own example that prayer is a power, provided we believe deeply in that power, we've got that when our thoughts and feelings are strongly focused, and then united in growing awareness to the divine presence within, they can bring even seemingly unrealistic wishes to fulfillment.

When united in growing awareness to the divine presence within, that is the key that I'd like to impress upon us today, because we can't pray for whatever we want and expect God to give it to us. It has to be united with the divine plan. We can't pray for whatever we want and expect God to give it to us. It has to be united with the divine plan. It has to be united with the divine will. Then it can occur. So, what is the divine plan?

The divine plan, in case you've forgotten, is that all beings realize the Self, and that we move into the realm of Spirit, and we leave behind the maya. The maya is all the divisions, all the duality, all the illusion of the senses. The divine plan is that we leave all of that behind and we merge in the Divine. And in that direction, in that state of consciousness, we can attain anything and everything because then we have the power of the Masters, the power of God, the power of the Divine Mother behind us, in favor of this direction.

If we just pray for what the ego wants, you can imagine the dilemma that God would have, the Giants and the Dodgers. I mean, what's he going to do? It's the reality that we are one and in that we do have the faith that we can achieve anything.

When Swami Kriyananda set out to bring Ananda into manifestation, he never questioned the divine will. He never questioned Master. He knew from the start that this was what God wanted to happen and we were going to put our full energy into it and we never doubted. We never doubted that Swamiji was leading us in that direction that Master wanted, and that Master was expressing what Babaji wanted, and that we would bring Ananda into manifestation.

Now, we are here in the Temple of Light. We have manifested, or God has manifested through us this temple, we are on Ananda.org, we are broadcasting these teachings to the world. Now, many, many, many years ago, 50-something years ago, we, a little group of us with Swamiji, would hear from Swamiji at the meditation retreat, at the meditation retreat temple, that Ananda would spread throughout the world. It was one of the most important things happening in the world. And we all had faith in Swamiji because he vibrated truth. He vibrated the consciousness that this was what Master wanted and we believed in Master. We knew that Master was guiding us.

And only once in a while we kind of look around and go, "there's only 25 people here, you know, are we really going to reach out to the whole world?" I'd never been anywhere in the world, so I... But I had faith. I had faith in Swamiji, always, and I had faith in Master. And I had faith that Swamiji's faith in us was well-placed, that Swamiji believed in Jyotish and Devi and Vidura and Durga and Parvati and Seva and Jaya and Sadhana Devi. I had faith in them and I knew that Swamiji had Master's faith in them. And so we can pray and manifest that.

It's the 20th anniversary of Ananda India. Here we are. Can you believe it? I don't know if all of you know that Ananda India was a very exciting adventure. Swamiji was guided by a discussion with a couple who were in India, who came to Italy, and he said, Master's not known in India. And Swamiji inside felt, now is the time for us to go to India, let's go. And so they bought plane tickets and they flew to India, and they rented a house. a house. No funding, no corporate sponsorship.

We did have friends in India, true, because Swamiji has had friends in India from the '50s, '59 to '63, I believe, he lived in India. So yeah, he had friends in India. But you go to India and you just start a worldwide work with no money, and Maria spent one day on the sidewalks of Delhi selling books. She doesn't speak Hindi. She had books. Guru, Guru, Guru. Big sales. Crystal Clarity is going to pick up some of these techniques. Why? Because we have faith. And then our prayers can and will be answered.

So what can we pray for and expect it to come true? Truth. God's will. So a lot of times our prayers are not demands for how the movie script should be written. They are requests for us to participate in the divine will. That's our prayers. Those prayers are valid. Our prayer at Ananda was, "Master, if you want this to happen, we'll do everything we can. We'll try as hard as we can. We'll give our whole lives to this. Because it's your will, we'll do it. We'll do everything we have. You have to guide us. We don't know what to do".

Well, Swami knew what to do, but we didn't know, but Swami would tell us. And so our prayer was answered in Swamiji guiding us and helping us, each one of us to develop the parts that we could do, however humble, to make this huge movement of Ananda occur. And it does occur. And it occurs all the time. It occurs all the time. There's people in this room that should have been on another planet, and God said, "No, no, give her more time. You know, there's more we can do here," and they're here. And others have left, because it's the divine will.

So when we pray for healing, part of the request is, "If it's your will, Father, help Seva to go when she needs to go." So she came up from the Shrine of the Masters, went to her house, and left, because it was time to go. Swamiji went to his computer, answered the emails, and then left, because it was time to go.

Was our prayer, "Oh no, stay. Patch him up"? We did that for quite a while. We kept patching him up and patching him up with God's power. Yeah, those were miracles too. You can ask the medical miracles, you can talk to Dr. Peter about the medical miracles, but the faith is in the will of God. And so our prayer is, "Help us, Father, help us, Mother. Help this situation, this event, to help humanity move towards its goal."

Ananda India exists because it is helping people learn Sanatana Dharma, realize the Self. Ananda Village exists, Ananda.org exists, Ananda Portland, Seattle, Dallas, all the countries of the world. What are we, 108 countries now that are reached by Ananda.org? If it's God's will, yes. If it's not, no. We really don't want it. We really don't want our own egoic movie to play out. It won't work. If our goal is to be, you know, some movie star and it's not our Dharma, it'll only hurt us. It will only lock us in delusion. God can't give the power to that. God's got to give the power to the movement toward Self-realization. That's what we can pray for.

And so we're always praying. We're praying for Crystal Clarity, Master's Market, Ananda. We're praying for world brotherhood. Did all the wars stop when Jesus died on Easter Sunday? No. No, because of this reading, that's why I chose it. Free will. We have free will. We can choose to ignore God, to push God to the back. We can ignore spirit. We can indulge the senses. We can indulge the whole duality if we choose to. And God gives us the choice. But if we pray, "Please guide me," the next step is, "Please give me the strength to do it, to change." And we can do it.

And we've been given teachings. We have Kriya Yoga. We have chanting. We have things that we can do to get in tune with the divine will, to change our lives, to perform miracles. We are performing miracles as a sangha every single day. We have a high school in Palo Alto, California. That is a miracle. We have an online high school that is in, I think it's nine countries, I stand corrected if it's more. That is a miracle. This temple is a miracle. Every day is a miracle.

We are teaching people Kriya Yoga, just like Master said we would when he came to the West. Kriya Yoga will eventually spread to all lands. It's spreading to all lands. And those 20-year-old kids, Jyotish and Devi and that gang, it worked. Worked because they're brilliant? They are brilliant, but that's not why it worked. It worked because God helped us. Babaji helped us. Krishna helped us. Christ helped us. Is helping us. Is helping you.

So whatever the dilemma that you're facing, whatever the addiction or the phobia or the just fear or the poverty or the illness or whatever, if you give it to God in prayer, it will be answered to you. That's what Christ is saying. Not that you will get your script revision, I want to be a millionaire, I want the winning lottery ticket, I want to be the next Taylor Swift. No, Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift. You're you and you're a child of God and if you can realize that and hopefully Taylor Swift will realize that she is the daughter of the Divine Mother through fame and fortune. I hope so. I don't pray for that, to be honest with you, but I'm much more concerned with you guys than I am with Taylor Swift.

But the point is that God is there, and God is trying to help you. This is November. This is Thanksgiving month. How are we going to have more faith? How are we going to use our prayers to have more faith? How are we going to use our faith to have our prayers be answered, be effective? Well, you could start by thanking God. Would that be okay?

"If you want to fly like the birdies fly, look to the world, say, 'Thank you.'" Colors, beautiful colors on the trees, sky, rain, people trying to make the world better. People trying to bring peace to the Middle East. You can say, "Well, that's hopeless. They don't want peace." Okay, but people still need to try. People need to do what your part is. Look to the world, say thank you.

Thank you that you know about Paramhansa Yogananda. Thank you that you know about Paramhansa Yogananda. Thank you that you found Ananda.org on the internet. Thank that you know about Crystal Clarity, that there's tapes and books and you can hear what Swami Kriyananda had to say. You can read Anandi's writings. Thank God that Bharat found them, you know?

It's all part of a request that we all have to realize that we are all children of God. So pray believing, and it will happen. You will realize what every saint in every religion said. You are a part of all that is. realize what every saint in every religion said, you are a part of all that is. You're not separate, you're not small, you're not the ego, this is not your body, you're not a man or a woman, you're not the limitations, you're not your resume, all that stuff that the world glorifies and impresses is not true. What's true? God who is infinite is life. It's all around us.

So immerse yourself in the teachings of the great masters. Read books by Yogananda, by Kriyananda, by the great saints. Listen to music that's uplifting. Chant. When you don't have anything to do, chant. You're driving to work, chant. Chant the names of God.

Think about God. Realize and recognize in all beauty, and all efficiency, and all power, and all wisdom, God, God, God. That's where it's coming from. If we practice it, now you can go into December still doing this, you know, but at least in November, you know, be grateful, and then we'll get to Christmas, and we can think about Christ, and we can think about Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 8th. We can think about God.

Keep your consciousness in that realm that affirms reality and let the secondary arguments and discussions fall at least to the background, theoretically, or off the table entirely if you can. That's why we have Ananda, that we can just not worry about all this maya. Think about God, pray to God, do business with God, as Rajarshi said. Serve God and see whatever your service is, as service to God. Pray for that. That's a good prayer. God will answer that prayer. Knock and it'll be answered.

Every prayer that moves you towards Self-realization can be answered. Not every prayer that you make. So you're mountain moving and stuff? No, not happening. But I would like to read a prayer to close. I'm using two Whispers from Eternity [today] because the topic is prayer.

Okay, so this is the Prayer Demand for Illumination. This will work too. "Oh Spirit, beloved Father, Oversoul of the universe, Spirit of spirits, Friend of friends, teach me the mystery of my existence. Teach me to worship Thee in breathlessness and in deathlessness. In the fire of devotion, burn away my ignorance. In the stillness of my soul, come, Spirit, come. Possess me and teach me to feel Thy immortal presence in and around me. Come, Spirit, come. Come, come, Spirit come."

God bless you all, have a wonderful week.
This Week's Reading
"Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith," from Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light  

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapters 7 and 21, we read:

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. . . . Verily I say unto you, if you have faith, and doubt not…if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. 

Paramhansa Yogananda showed by his own example that prayer is a power, provided we believe deeply in that power. When our thoughts and feelings are strongly focused and then united in growing awareness to the Divine Presence within, they can bring even seemingly unrealistic wishes to fulfillment. When Paramhansa Yogananda was in charge of his school in Ranchi, India, he took the boys on occasional outings to the surrounding countryside.

“There was a waterfall not far away,” he told Swami Kriyananda, “where I took them sometimes. It was dangerous to cross there. But I would cry out to the boys, ‘Do you believe in God?’ ‘Yes!’ they would shout back enthusiastically. And so we always crossed in safety.

“Years later, after I’d gone to America, one of the teachers tried to do the same thing, but he lacked spiritual power. One of the boys slipped on a rock and was drowned.”

Thus, the Master explained, belief alone is not enough. It must be united to one-pointed awareness, which leads to Self-realization. The Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter, underscores the necessity for such one-pointed concentration:

Whenever the mind, fickle and restless, wanders off from its concentration, let the meditating yogi withdraw it resolutely, spurning every distraction (no matter how alluring!), and bring it back again and again under the control of the Self. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinnacco, recorded at Ananda Village on October 29th 2023.

"God is right here, ready to help you. All you have to do is ask!" Erin shares how God is ever willing to support and help us, always ready by our side. By offering ourselves fully to God, we can find the joy we seek. She explains why, in a world where often "keeping what is mine for myself" seems the way to go, giving and thinking of others will lead to greater happiness. "Giving and receiving is just one flow."

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"Why Tell God Anything When He Knows Everything? Why Offer God Anything, When He Has Everything?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ teaches as the ideal prayer one that addresses very human demands to God: “Give us this day our daily bread,” “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” and, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” 

Jesus himself says, just before suggesting this prayer, “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” Why, then, his recommendation that we pray for anything? The answer is that we should offer ourselves up in acceptance of His abundance. Don’t pester God, as though pulling constantly on His sleeve to get His attention. Approach Him with the confidence of a child in its parent. And in that spirit, then, ask Him lovingly, but with complete trust, as though demanding your birthright, and without the slightest doubt in your mind that He wants only your best. For you don’t have to persuade Him, the way a beggar or a stranger might. You are His own child.

God knows everything already. He knows what is in your heart. It is you who need to clarify your feelings, that you attune yourself to Him in turn more clearly. For only by such clarity will you be able to receive perfectly what He gives you.

For the same reason, we need to offer ourselves to Him not because He needs anything from us (except, as Yogananda said, our love, to complete His love for us), but because by self-giving we expand our awareness from its confinement in the little ego, outward to infinity.

 “Those who partake of the nectar remaining after a sacrifice,” says the Bhagavad Gita in the fourth Chapter, “attain to the Infinite Spirit. That person, however, who makes no sacrifices never truly succeeds in enjoying even the blessings of this material world; how, then, could he attain happiness in subtler realms?” 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on October 22th 2023.

What is the most important thing in prayer? It is love. It is being able to pray to the Divine with infinite love and infinite trust. And we can only find that within ourselves. The path of Kriya Yoga is a very balanced path that gives scientific steps to lead us to Self-Realization. Nayaswami Parvati shares about the importance of time alone for developing a personal relationship with God, seeking a balance between practicing devotion and techniques, and choosing the Divine as our priority.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"What Is the Best Way to Pray?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ and Sri Krishna, both, advised praying to God as personal. Yet both emphasized also that God is above form, and that He must be sought, ultimately, in Infinity. As Jesus put it, “God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

Yet he spoke of God constantly as our Heavenly Father. In what is known as the Lord’s Prayer, he proposed a very human prayer to the Heavenly Father, asking fulfillment for all our spiritual needs. The Bhagavad Gita explains that man, living as he does in a human body, finds it difficult to worship Infinity as though the ego and body didn’t even exist. Far better for human beings, Krishna says, to work with reality as we know it than to affirm a reality of which the human mind is incapable of forming any clear notion.

Encouraging the devotee in this direction, he says, “O Arjuna, be thou a yogi!” – that is to say, be one who works with, not in rejection of, the energies of the body and the natural tendencies of the mind.

In the twelfth Chapter of the Gita, Arjuna asks:

“Those who, ever steadfast, worship Thee as devotees [that is to say, in an “I” and “Thou” relationship], and those who contemplate Thee as the immortal, unmanifested Spirit – which group is the better versed in yoga?” 

The blessed Lord replied: “Those who, fixing their minds on Me, adore Me, ever united to Me through supreme devotion, are in My eyes the perfect knowers of yoga. . . . 

“Those whose strict aim is union with the Unmanifested choose a more difficult way; arduous for embodied beings is The Path of dedication to the Absolute” – the followers, that is to say, of The Path of Gyana Yoga. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on October 15th 2023.

Many are familiar with the phrase from the Bible: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God (...), and all of these things shall be added unto you." Swami Kriyananda said "Having deep faith is the most practical way to live." But what does that really mean? Nayaswami Maria shares touching stories of God's interference that demonstrate how God provides for his devotees when they offer themselves to His Light.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"First Things First". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. That expression, “First things first,” is a piece of counsel often given to students of business techniques. It is the advice of practicality to those who aspire to worldly success. But according to the Hermetic doctrine, “As above, so below,” that which works best in one level of life is often the best guide to what will work best on every other level. If a person is true to his highest priorities, he will generally find that his other needs are fulfilled naturally as well.

This is true, certainly, of the search for God. One of the greatest sayings of Jesus Christ was this simple sentence, in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 6:

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 

Paramhansa Yogananda gave his elder brother Ananta a wonderful lesson in this truth. It was Ananta who had captured him and brought him back from his flight to the Himalayas, described by Yogananda in Autobiography of a Yogi. In Yogananda’s book we read how Ananta later challenged him, in the city of Agra, to pit his divine faith against such “practical” worldly considerations as the need for earning a living. Fearless before that challenge, the young aspirant agreed to go by train, without any money, to the nearby town of Brindaban; not to miss a single meal in Brindaban; and to find his way back to Agra without begging and without in any other way asking for help. In one of the most thrilling chapters in the book, Yogananda fulfilled all the conditions of the test. Yogananda continued the account:

As the tale was unfolded, my brother turned sober, then solemn.

“The law of demand and supply reaches into subtler realms than I had supposed.” Ananta spoke with a spiritual enthusiasm never before noticeable. “I understand for the first time your indifference to the vaults and vulgar accumulations of the world.” Late as it was, my brother insisted that he receive diksha (initiation) into Kriya Yoga.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the ninth Chapter:

Those who worship lesser gods go to their gods…but those who worship Me come to Me. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Sundara Traymar, recorded at Ananda Village on October 8th, 2023.

Paramhansa Yogananda said that calmness gives the devotee the power to overcome all obstacles in life and that those who can remain calm under all circumstances are invincible. Sundara shares how to use the sword of discrimination, wisdom, and determination to courageously cut all attachments that hold us back from our desire for freedom.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ said in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 10:

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

He that findeth [that is to say, that clingeth to] his life shall lose it: and he that loseth [in other words, that giveth up] his life for my sake shall find it.

God tests the firmness of our faith. The “sword” described here is the sword of discrimination. The struggle Jesus describes is not a war against unknown enemies, but the struggle with our own attachment to all that is nearest and dearest to us, humanly speaking. Ultimately, it is a war against the ego itself, and against anything with which we surround ourselves to bolster the ego’s fragile sense of security.

When Yogananda, as a boy, fled to the Himalayas to embrace a life of solitary meditation, he was apprehended by his older brother Ananta, and brought home again. At a certain point, before he would accept defeat, he whispered to his friend Amar, his companion on the flight, “Let us slip away when opportunity offers. We can go on foot to Rishikesh.”

But Amar, whose brother had accompanied Ananta, had turned pessimist, disclaiming any intention of continuing their adventure. Yogananda’s memorable comment on Amar’s refusal was, “He was enjoying the familial warmth.”

The spiritual warrior rejects that “familial warmth.” Rather, he claims the whole universe as his home.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the fourteenth Chapter:

Unaffected by outward joys and sorrows, or by praise and blame; secure in his divine nature; regarding with equal gaze a clod of mud, a stone, and a bar of gold; impartial toward all experiences, whether pleasant or unpleasant; firm-minded; untouched by either praise or blame; treating everyone alike whether friend or foe; free from the delusion that, in anything he does, he is the doer: Such an one has transcended Nature’s triune qualities.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on October 1st 2023. 

When we surrender to God, we open ourselves to His grace and the gifts he wants to share with us. But we may feel resistance, thinking that God does not give us what we want and that we have to give up too many of our desires. Jitendra shares how we can find joy and fulfillment in the practice of surrendering to God, in our daily life, and through meditation, and the blessings that come when we surrender to God's grace.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"In Surrender Lies Victory!" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

A case might be made for surrender as a path to victory in worldly conflicts – the way of passive resistance, for example, in preference to armed resistance. But our point here concerns a higher kind of surrender: the surrender of our deluded, egoic will to the wise and almighty will of God. Human will is, as Paramhansa Yogananda used to say, guided by whims and limited understanding. The divine will is in harmony with every level of reality. Though the divine will sometimes appears to us, at first, to be wrong, it proves always, eventually, to be for our highest good. Human will is inconsistent; it leads us one day to success, another, to disaster. The divine will, when we surrender to it completely (though it is not always easy to do so!), always brings us deep inner peace and joy in the end.

Jesus Christ demonstrated this perfect surrender to God’s will in the Garden of Gethsemane, the night before he was captured and imprisoned, preparatory to his crucifixion. He went apart from the others to pray, and asked them to pray also. But when he returned to them he found them asleep. Out of his love for them he excused them, saying, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” He then urged them again, saying, “Watch and pray.” Their weakness, in those circumstances, was particularly sad, and the disciples themselves must have regretted it bitterly, later on. We all know the symptoms of human weakness, though we may excuse them in ourselves, saying, “Well, after all, I’m only human.” But what are the signs of true strength? We find in all cases that these are the fruit of a life wholly surrendered to God.

The Bhagavad Gita lists these signs in the thirteenth Chapter:

Humbleness, truthfulness, and harmlessness, 

Patience and honor, reverence for the wise, 

Purity, constancy, control of self, 

Contempt for sense-delights, self-sacrifice, 

Perception of the certainty of ill 

In birth, old age, and frail mortality, 

Disease, the ego’s suffering, and sin; 

Detachment, lightly holding thoughts of home, 

Children, and wife – those ties which bind most men; 

An ever-tranquil heart, heedless of good 

Or adverse fortune, with the will upraised 

To worship Me alone, unceasingly; 

Loving deep solitude, and shunning noise 

Of foolish crowds; calm focus on the Self 

Perceived within and in Infinity: These qualities reveal true Wisdom, Prince. 

All that is otherwise is ignorance! 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Wisdom of Ages: Finding Your Path to Truth</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on September 24th 2023. 

Truth is one and eternal. In our hearts, we can recognize this truth. When we look at the different religions and spiritual paths, we can see the underlying truth in them. But to realize the one truth for ourselves, we have to dive deep into one path, our own path to truth. Nayaswami Ananta shares how to dive deep into the teachings and how to keep doing this throughout our entire lives.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"Many Are the Pathways to Truth". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

On the dedication page of Swami Kriyananda’s book The Path appears the following account: A group of Paramhansa Yogananda’s disciples had gone with him to see a movie about the life of Gyandev, a great saint of medieval India. Afterwards they gathered and listened to the Master explain certain, subtler, aspects of that inspiring story. A young man in the group mentioned another film he had seen years earlier, in India, about the life of Mirabai, a famous woman saint. “If you’d seen that movie,” he exclaimed, “you wouldn’t even have liked this one!” The Guru rebuked him. “Why make such comparisons? The lives of great saints manifest in various ways the same, one God.”

The Bible contains a similar account in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 9:

And John…said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us. And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us. The more central a truth, the greater the number of contexts in which it can be applied. Truth is like a pure white light, containing within itself the full spectrum of the rainbow. Let no one tell you what your path to God ought to be. 

Many are The Paths. Select your own according to the dictates of your own nature, no matter how out of step that puts you with other people. Sri Krishna in the third Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, states:

Trying even unsuccessfully to fulfill one’s own spiritual duty (dharma) is better than pursuing successfully the duties of others. Better death itself in the pursuance of one’s own duties. The pursuance of another’s duties is fraught with (spiritual) danger. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>How to Develop the Transforming Power of Intuition</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Tyagi Dhyan, recorded at Ananda Village on September 17th, 2023.

Through different stories about experiences with intuition (one of them from a survivor of the Titanic), Dhyan illustrates its unparalleled power. He shares what the true purpose of intuition is and how to develop the transforming power of intuition.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Mark, Chapter 10, we read a passage that Yogananda often quoted: And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

It has often been noted that a critical attitude tends to paralyze creativity. Good critics, for example, seldom produce works of creative genius, though their creations may be intellectually clever. The intellect separates; it analyzes, then puts things together again piece by piece. Intellect lacks intuition’s flow, which descends smoothly, like a river, from the superconscious.

Paramhansa Yogananda described intuition as “the soul’s power of knowing God.” To receive the kingdom of God, Jesus was saying, one must do so with the openness and trust of a little child. Intellectuals may object to this statement, saying, “But there must also be discrimination. You wouldn’t want a person to be so open-minded that his brain falls out!” The truth is, however, that the intellect can be fooled, even when it does its best to discriminate wisely. Only intuition is capable of penetrating to the heart of a matter and knowing truth from falsehood. It was the clear understanding of a child, not the elaborately persuaded intellects of his elders, that enabled the child in Hans Christian Andersen’s story to cry out in surprise, “Why isn’t the Emperor wearing any clothes?”

Therefore it was that Sri Krishna said, in the ninth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

To you, who are free from the carping spirit, I shall now reveal wisdom sublime. Grasping it with your mind, and perceiving it by intuitive realization, you shall escape the evils of delusion. 

Thus, through Holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Secrets of the Beatitudes</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on September 10th 2023. 

The Beatitudes are an invitation to feel the magnificence of the Divine. Nayaswami Pranaba zooms in on a few of the Beatitudes, explaining their meaning and sharing how we can live them in our own lives.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"Truth Invites; It Never Commands" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Free will is a basic principle of life. God never coerces: He invites us to live in such a way that we find fulfillment in ourselves. If we refuse to live rightly, Paramhansa Yogananda taught, God simply says, “I will wait.” We have eternity to live. In that eternity we live as we choose: in self-created darkness – a darkness as intense, and as long lasting, as we choose – or in the infinite light, the true Self, which is God.

Jesus Christ in the Beatitudes offered a beautiful example of God’s way of inviting mankind to seek perfection – not by commanding, but by offering His human children the incentive they need to choose the right of their own volition. “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” Jesus said, “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.…Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.…Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”

In each of the Beatitudes Jesus explains the blessing attendant upon observing it. The divine way, similarly, for each of us is not to do violence to our own natures. Spirituality must be attained naturally. It can never be attained by force.

The Bhagavad Gita says, in the third Chapter: Even the wise behave in accordance with Nature as it is manifested in them. Of what avail, then, is suppression? 

The Scripture then goes on, however, to explain that this doesn’t mean we should surrender to the dictates of our lower nature. Rather, it emphasizes our need to aspire to the heights, but each of us in accordance with his own nature and not in imitation of anyone else’s, offering ourselves up for purification by divine grace. Desire, whatever form it takes – so the Bhagavad Gita explains – should be resisted, even if only mentally. “Attachment and repulsion to sense objects, both of these are universally rooted. No one should accept their influence. For, verily, they are man’s enemies.” 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Jaya, recorded at Ananda Village on September 3rd 2023. 

We live in a restless age in which we tend to put a lot of emphasis on the ego. The spiritual traditions that address the ego, often speak about it as our foe. But the real obstacle to overcome is egotism, the ego tendencies that pull us down. Nayaswami Jaya shares how to work with the ego so that we can transcend it.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"Ego – Friend or Foe?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ begins his Beatitudes with the words: Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. To be “poor in spirit” in such a way as to merit the kingdom of heaven doesn’t mean to be poor-spirited. Rather, it means to see oneself as owning nothing, since all belongs to God. For all is a manifestation of His consciousness.

St. John of the Cross wrote, “If you would own everything, seek to own nothing.” That which the ego relinquishes, offering it up to soul-consciousness, is reclaimed forever in cosmic consciousness. Nothing is ever lost.

Paramhansa Yogananda tells the story in Autobiography of a Yogi of the levitating saint, Bhaduri Mahasaya. “Master,” said a disciple of this saint once, ardently. “You are wonderful! You have renounced riches and comforts to seek God and teach us wisdom!” It was well-known that Bhaduri Mahasaya had forsaken great family wealth in his early childhood, when single-mindedly he entered the yogic path. “You are reversing the case!" The saint’s face held mild rebuke. “I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciates! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!”

The Bhagavad Gita in the third Chapter states:

All things are everywhere by Nature wrought 

In interaction of the qualities. 

The fool, cheated by self, thinks, ‘This I did’ 

And ‘That I wrought’; but – ah, thou strong-armed prince! – 

A better-lessoned mind, knowing the play 

Of visible things within the world of sense, 

And how the qualities must qualify, 

Standeth aloof even from his acts. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on August 27 2023.

Paramhansa Yogananda used to say that the saints are the true custodians of religion because of their inner experience of God. And it is that inner experience that we should seek. Nayaswami Maria shares how our ego gets in the way and creates obstacles. She explains how everything will fall in line if we put God first.

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The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"Who Are True Christians?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ said, in Chapter 10 of the Gospel of St. John: “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.” Many Christians, not surprisingly, quote this saying in condemnation of other spiritual teachers – not only the old Testament prophets, but also Buddha, Krishna, and others who lived before Jesus, as well as (by inference) any who came after him. Yet Jesus himself said, in St. Matthew Chapter 5, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.” Nowhere do we find Jesus condemning, or even gently criticizing, other spiritual masters. His criticisms were reserved for worldly attitudes, and for those hypocritical Pharisees who had allowed religion to become, for them, a pretense.

Paramhansa Yogananda explained that the expression “All that ever came before me” referred to those spiritual teachers who place their egos and their self-importance ahead of the Christ Consciousness, in the sense of drawing people’s devotion to themselves and not offering it where alone it truly belongs, to God. Yogananda himself was very firm in this regard. For example, he never spoke of anyone as his disciple. Instead, he always insisted, “They are God’s disciples. God is the Guru, not I.”

Ego is a way-station on the soul’s journey toward enlightenment. The soul is first trapped in lower bodily forms. Slowly it evolves to the human level, at which point self-consciousness appears. Only in human form can self-consciousness transcend material form altogether, including the lower identity of ego-consciousness, and discover the true, divine Self within. Self-consciousness manifested as ego is an incentive to deliberate self-development. Later in this process of development, however, the ego becomes an obstruction. Inevitably, new spiritual aspirants do not emerge effortlessly from the vortex of ego-consciousness. Desire must be offered up resolutely and ever-more wholeheartedly on the altar of Infinity. It is a gradual process, and few even among those who seek to help others are free of ego. If, however, their motive in teaching is not to serve, but to be served, they deserve a severe reprimand, as Jesus gave them. For their direction of development is no longer upward, but downward. In the name of giving up desires they are creating new ones.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita in the third Chapter:

Desire obscures even the wisdom of the wise. Their relentless foe it is, a flame never quenched. 

Intellect, mind, and senses: These combined are referred to as the seat of desire. Desire, through them, deludes and eclipses the discrimination of the embodied soul. 

O Arjuna, discipline your senses! And, having done so, work to destroy desire, annihilator of wisdom and of Self-realization. Give God the credit for everything you do. See Him as the true Doer. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>How to Win Your Tests</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village on August 20 2023. 

When difficulties in life arrive, they often hit us like a bomb, and we drop our energy. When in fact, we need high energy to face our challenges. Nayaswami Parvati explains that how we deal with our tests depends greatly on how we live our lives from moment to moment. In this service, she shares how we can prepare for our tests through the big and little decisions we make on a daily basis.

In The Promise of Immortality, Swami Kriyananda writes about the two essential conditions for knowing God: 

“willingness to face for His sake any test that comes; and faith to accept it with love and courage, firm in the knowledge that all things pass, whereas God’s love is ours forever.”

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"How Should We Meet Our Tests?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we considered Satan’s temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, after his baptism by John. We discussed the question, Does Satan exist? All of us experience temptation of one kind or another in our lives – some of us, frequently; others, only occasionally. Whether temptation comes to us from our own subconscious, or from outside ourselves, is secondary to the fact that it does come, and that we must deal with it. More important, then, is the question, How to deal with it – in fact, how to deal with tests of any kind?

Martin Luther flung an ink pot at the devil, who had appeared to test him. A dark stain on the wall of Luther’s cell is pointed out to tourists in support of this story. Unfortunately, our trials are not often so summarily dismissed. As a fellow monk once said to Swami Kriyananda, speaking of Satan, “If only I could get my hands on him!” 

Jesus during his temptations in the wilderness overcame them, and thereby set an example for all time, by clinging the more determinedly to God. As Paramhansa Yogananda used to say, “Darkness cannot be driven out of a room with a stick. Once you turn on the light, however, the darkness will vanish as though it had never been.” 

Jesus manifested this principle. The Bible tells us therefore that at last, “The devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.”

In the Bhagavad Gita the point is clarified further by the added explanation that there are three qualities in human nature: sattvic, or spiritually elevating; rajasic, or ego-activating; and tamasic, or spiritually darkening. It is this triune aspect of human nature that the third Chapter refers to with the words: As fire is hidden by smoke, as a mirror is dulled by rust, and as an embryo is enclosed in the womb, so is the indwelling Self enveloped by desire.

Yogananda explained that each of these examples describes one of the qualities, or gunas. Sattva guna, that which elevates our consciousness, can be freed of any identity with ego by a little puff of meditation and right affirmation. Rajo guna, which embroils the ego in restless activity, can be worked off with a little more, and a little longer, effort. Tamo guna, embracing as it does such mental states as laziness and stupidity, can only be outgrown in time, since it inhibits even the desire for self-improvement.

The example Jesus gave us was intended more for those in whom sattva guna is predominant. But if you yourself find elements in your consciousness that resist even the effort to cling to God in prayer and meditation, don’t despair. Patience, as it has been well said, is the fastest path to God. As long as your efforts take you steadfastly in the right direction, you will come out right in time. Remember Yogananda’s words: “A saint is a sinner who never gave up.”

If, however, your nature impels you, even against your will, to move in the wrong direction – toward egoic desires, and away from God – strive at least to detach yourself mentally from your wrong actions, which are induced by habit. The time will come when their own stored-up energy will tire and diminish. At that time, if you have not contributed to that energy by your consenting will, you will find it possible at last to redirect your energies more constructively.]]>
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	<dc:creator>Jitendra Guindon</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Jitendra Guindon, recorded at Ananda Village on August 13 2023. 

Paramhansa Yogananda said that when God created this manifestation of duality, he knew evil would also be born. But he knew as well that love would always conquer any evil. Jitendra shares how we can learn to trust more fully in God's power of love and light within us and how we can lift ourselves up out of delusion.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"Does Satan Exist?"

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Bible tells us in Chapter 4 of the Gospel of St. Matthew: Then [after baptism] was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

To most modern minds, this passage seems quaintly obsolete. Psychologists would say – have said, in fact – that the temptation of Jesus, if it occurred at all, was purely psychological. They call it a projection of desires lurking in his own subconscious mind. The subconscious plays a strong part, certainly, even if not a unique one, in any testing the spiritual seeker must undergo.

The Bhagavad Gita, in dealing with this undeniable reality, quotes Arjuna in the third Chapter, and then Sri Krishna’s reply:

“Yet tell me, Teacher! [said Arjuna] by what force doth man 

Go to his ill, unwilling; as if one 

Pushed him in that path?” 

[Krishna replied:] 

“Desire it is! Passion it is! born of the Darknesses, 

Which pusheth him. Mighty of appetite, 

Sinful, and strong is this! – man’s enemy!”

Yet even Krishna describes passion as “born of the Darknesses.” 

The fact is, as Paramhansa Yogananda wrote in Autobiography of a Yogi,

“All thoughts vibrate eternally in the cosmos.…Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived.”

Psychology, yes, but psychology attuned to currents of consciousness that pervade the entire universe, attracted by each of us according to our own personal inclinations.

Yogananda, quoted in The New Path, said, “I used to think Satan was only a human invention, but now I know, and add my testimony to that of others who lived before me, that Satan is a reality. He is a universal, conscious force whose sole aim is to keep all beings bound to the wheel of delusion.” We should take pains, then, to attract uplifting currents of universal consciousness, and to avoid attracting the negative, which – disease that it is! – can infect our thoughts even while it leads us to believe that our thoughts are purely our own.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>How Democratic Is Truth? (with Erin Vinacco)</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Erin Vinacco, recorded at Ananda Village on July 30 2023. 

Yogananda said: God is for everyone. But to be able to receive the spiritual teachings, the soul has to be ready and thirsty for God. Erin explains the different stages of consciousness every soul goes through and how they lead to our divine potential.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"How Democratic Is Truth?"

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

We live in an age when people assume that knowledge should be available equally to all. In matters susceptible of judgment by normal common sense, however, everyone knows there are exceptions. Access to a control room for intercontinental missiles is limited, by universal consent, to a very few. Access to the controls of a passenger airliner is limited to those with the necessary knowledge for operating them, and also to those with the proper authorization. If people don’t see the disadvantages of making more subtle knowledge universally available, it is only because they are ignorant of the risks involved.

In the case of subtle knowledge, the main disadvantage in making it universally available is the harm it might do to the person himself. True, by mocking truth he might undermine the faith of a few truth seekers. But then, such tests can also be beneficial, as a means of strengthening faith. Again true, the clever doubter’s misrepresentation of those truths may dissuade a few seekers from following the spiritual path. But if a seeker really is sincere, he will recognize the truth eventually because it resonates with his own being. No, the greatest problem accrues to the shallow doubter himself. To give him an opportunity to affirm his ignorance might only estrange him even more from the truth, delaying the time when he will turn – as all people must, eventually – to the light.

Thus, the Scriptures advise, not secrecy, but discretion in the sharing of truth. Jesus Christ says in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 7: Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. And Sri Krishna says in the eighteenth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita: Never speak of these truths to one who is without self-control or devotion, who renders no service, who does not care to hear, or who speaks ill of Me. ]]>
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	<title>Do You Need a Guru? (Yogananda's Teachings)</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta, recorded at Ananda Village on July 23 2023.

Everybody knows at the center of their being what is the right thing to do. But illusion gets in the way of people doing what they know is right. Maya (illusion) actively tries to cloud our judgment with worldly desires. Once we realize that we need help, we are ready to embrace the guidance of a guru. Nayaswami Ananta shares about the blessing of having a guru and the guru-disciple relationship.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"Do You Need a Guru?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Many people scoff at the idea of having a guru. True to human nature generally, they make a virtue of their scoffing. “I am responsible for what I do,” they announce, “responsible for my mistakes as well as for my victories. What would I ever learn if I handed over my development to someone else? To depend on another for guidance would be an act of spiritual cowardice.” It would be understandable for someone gifted with some trivial ability, for instance with words, to insist on doing his crossword puzzle himself without letting anyone else help him.

But supposing, even in such trivial matters, he had no such gift? What virtue would there be in refusing to learn? For that matter, where would the gift itself come from? That which is a gift is not a native ability. Still, crossword puzzles are hardly an important challenge. What if a person wanted to do something daring: to climb a cliff, for instance, but refused to study the art of mountain climbing? He would climb at the risk of his life. And how much more is risked than physical life in the great adventure of the divine search, where the risk is to salvation itself! Where is the sacrifice in seeking guidance? Even a mountain guide wouldn’t presume to do one’s climbing for one; his purpose would be only to help the neophyte to climb safely.

To have a wise guru is not a sign of weakness, but of plain common sense. All the saints, aware as they are of the hazards of the adventure, agree on the importance of having a guide, or guru. And these are the heroes speaking, not cowards or spiritual weaklings.

Jesus emphasized the importance of having a teacher by asking John to baptize him. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 3, we read of his coming to John. “Thus,” Jesus said to John, “it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.” 

In the Bhagavad Gita, the fourth Chapter, Sri Krishna says:

Open thyself to those who have attained wisdom. They will be thy teachers. Ask questions of them [both verbally and mentally]. Serve them faithfully, and with devotion. 

How is the devotee to recognize one who has attained wisdom? The Bhagavad Gita gives us this inspiring description of the sage:

By this sign is he known, 

Being of equal grace to comrades, friends, 

Chance-comers, strangers, lovers, enemies, 

Aliens and kinsmen; loving all alike, 

Evil or good. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Sagar</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Brahmachari Sagar, recorded at Ananda Village on July 16 2023. 

Brahmachari Sagar dives into the chapter "The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)" from Autobiography of a Yogi. After meditating for long hours at night, Swami Pranabanda received a second, divine pension from God. Sagar shares what this divine pension is that Swami Pranabananda talked about and how to achieve it. Which efforts do we need to make to retire from ego-consciousness?

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

These past weeks we discussed the need for balancing self-effort with receptivity to divine grace. Both are important in the spiritual life. Passive dependence on grace hasn’t the magnetism to attract grace. Boastful self-confidence, however, which closes itself off from the higher, divine power is shallow, brittle, and – given life’s many uncertainties – susceptible to ultimate failure.

There is a story in the Bible that illustrates the need to put forth personal effort so as to draw magnetically on the divine power. The story occurs in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 8: But as he went, the crowds nearly suffocated him. Among them was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years and who had derived no benefit from anybody’s treatment. She came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak. As a result, her hemorrhage stopped immediately. “Who was it who touched me?” Jesus asked. When everybody denied it, Peter remonstrated, “Master, the crowds are all round, pressing you on every side!” But Jesus said, “Somebody touched me. I felt power going out from me.” When the woman realized that she had not escaped notice, she came forward trembling and fell at his feet, and admitted before everyone why she had touched him, adding that she had been instantaneously cured. “Daughter,” Jesus said, “It is by your faith that you have been healed. Go in peace.”

Self-confidence and self-effort are necessary, as the ignition of a car is necessary to the motor. Of what use the ignition, however, if the motor itself will not work? Wise is he who recognizes the real power in the universe, and guides his life by that supreme power. As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the ninth Chapter: To those who meditate on Me as their Very Own, ever united to Me by incessant worship, I make good their deficiencies, and render permanent their gains.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Importance of Attunement on the Spiritual Path</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba, recorded at Ananda Village on July 9 2023.

Introspection is an essential practice for spiritual development. We need to gain clarity on where we stand, but focus on where we want to go, increasing our attunement.

But what is attunement? In a universal sense, attunement can be understood as the way in which we expand ourselves towards fulfilment. Nayaswami Pranaba sheds light on the practice and importance of attunement on the spiritual path.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we considered the need for attunement – with God, with the gurus, with the wisdom of others – until we make that wisdom our own. There is a strong, and in fact valid, belief nowadays in the need for standing on one’s own feet rather than depending weakly on others to carry us by their strength.

Swami Kriyananda was once asked, “What is the best yoga posture?” “That one,” he replied, “which sets you squarely on your own two feet.” Our strength must come from within. If that strength comes from the ego, however, instead of from soul-consciousness, it is like a guitar string without its sounding board: the notes it emits will be thin and feeble. Our strength must come from within, but must be coupled with recognition of our inner link with broader and higher realities. The Bhagavad Gita says in the tenth Chapter: Everyone in this world whose life is glorious, or prosperous, or powerful – know that his achievement is but a little spark from the great sun of My effulgence.

Jesus in talking to his disciples emphasized also the power of attunement with his own consciousness as a ray of the Divine. For this ray had descended already, through him, in response to their devotion; it was a sign that God was already “listening” to them with receptive attention, and did not require to be wooed in that way any longer. In the passage preceding the one that we read last week, Jesus said: I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. This was the meaning of Paramhansa Yogananda’s counsel also, when speaking more intimately to the disciples of the need for attunement with him.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Sundara Traymar, recorded at Ananda Village on June 25 2023. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"The Redeeming Light"

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Book of Isaiah in the Bible, Chapter 9, tells us: The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 

What is this light of which so many Scriptures speak? In Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda, we read of an early experience the Master had with that light:

I was blessed about the age of eight with a wonderful healing through the photograph of Lahiri Mahasaya. This experience gave intensification to my [divine] love. While at our family estate in Ichapur, Bengal, I was stricken with Asiatic cholera. My life was despaired of; the doctors could do nothing. At my bedside, Mother frantically motioned me to look at Lahiri Mahasaya’s picture on the wall above my head. “Bow to him mentally!” She knew I was too feeble even to lift my hands in salutation. “If you really show your devotion and inwardly kneel before him, your life will be spared!” I gazed at his photograph and saw there a blinding light, enveloping my body and the entire room. My nausea and other uncontrollable symptoms disappeared; I was well. At once I felt strong enough to bend over and touch Mother’s feet in appreciation of her immeasurable faith in her guru. Mother pressed her head repeatedly against the little picture. “O Omnipresent Master, I thank thee that thy light hath healed my son!” I realized that she too had witnessed the luminous blaze through which I had instantly recovered from a usually fatal disease. 

“Where My light is,” God once told a saint whom the divine light had healed, “no darkness can dwell.” The divine light – pure, calm, liberating – is the only final cure for every kind of delusion: ill health, emotional grief, and spiritual ignorance. Seek it daily in the silence, in deep meditation.

As the Bhagavad Gita says in the fifth Chapter:

For whom That darkness of the soul is chased by light, 

Splendid and clear shines manifest the Truth

 As if a Sun of Wisdom sprang to shed 

Its beams of light. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Living in the Eternal Now</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria recorded at Ananda Village on June 18th 2023.

In the Eternal Now, there aren't any barriers or borders; everything is connected and intermingled. Nayaswami Maria gives beautiful illustrations of what the Eternal Now is and how we can experience it ourselves.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"The Eternal Now" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

“When will I find God?” Many devotees have asked this question. Because worldly goals require time, usually, for their fulfillment, we imagine time to be a factor on the spiritual path. And so it is, but only because we think it is! God is as much with us now as He will ever be. It is not He who needs to come to us: We need to come to Him! And that process of coming is a matter of transforming our self-perception.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 4, Jesus Christ says: Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. There is a practical teaching in these words, apart from their statement that we have God already, and have only to realize that truth. Jesus is saying, “Lift up your eyes and look. . . .”

To hold the eyes uplifted is the best position for meditation. For the seat of superconsciousness lies at a point midway between the eyebrows – in the frontal lobe of the brain just behind that point. This point is known also as the Christ center. By lifting up your eyes and concentrating there, you will find it easier to enter the state of ecstasy. That is why saints in every religion have often been observed, during states of deep inner communion, with their eyes uplifted, focused on the inner light – ”white,” as Jesus said, “already to harvest.”

The Bhagavad Gita goes further into this meditative teaching. In the sixth Chapter it states: Holding the spine firm, the neck and head erect and motionless, let the yogi focus his eyes at the starting place of the nose [the point between the eyebrows]. Let not his gaze roam elsewhere. In meditation, tell yourself: “I have Him already! I am alive forever in the Divine Light.”]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Devi recorded at Ananda Village on June 11th 2023. 

How do devotees rise? Nayaswami Devi says: "We rise by seeming paradoxes": Will and effort beside surrender, incremental growth and deep life-changing flashes of inspiration, active service next to contemplation. Nayaswami Devi explains how these paradoxes are united in love and gives encouragement and inspiration to all those committed to following the spiritual path.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"How Devotees Rise" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we asked the question, Why do devotees fall? and we considered the downfall of Judas in this context. Jesus, in answer to Judas’s criticism for allowing Mary to rub his feet with spikenard, a very costly ointment, said, “The poor always ye have with you: but me ye have not always.” Jesus is saying here that there is one supreme “injustice” that needs eradication: poverty, yes, but not of a material kind: poverty in a spiritual sense.

Divine blessings are not common in this world. They are extraordinary. When they come, we should give them priority above every other consideration. Never allow a moment of inner joy, for instance, to be set aside for lesser “duties.” Divine attunement is our highest priority.

As Lahiri Mahasaya, the guru of Yogananda’s guru, said, “To listen to the heart’s inner sound (AUM, which issues from the very center of our being) is man’s highest duty.” Mary was not, at that moment, communing with the Master inwardly. She was serving him outwardly – but in a spirit very different from the restless fussing for which Jesus had reprimanded her sister, Martha. Those who see a radical difference between the paths of action and meditation should understand this distinction. To serve in the right spirit is necessary, for only thereby can we overcome our karmic tendencies toward restless activity. The important thing is that that spirit be always inwardly focused: that in everything we do we act in loving service to the Lord.

Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says in the third Chapter: The state of freedom from action [that is, of eternal rest in the Spirit] cannot be achieved without action. No one, by mere renunciation and outward non-involvement, can attain perfection. Whenever the spirit of God descends upon you, however, remember the words of Jesus, “Me ye have not always with you.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Jaya recorded at Ananda Village on June 4th 2023.

Everybody has made and will make mistakes. The single most important thing is to get up again and again. Nayaswami Jaya shares the best way to respond to making a mistake and what not to do. He also explains why the Masters allow their devotees at times to make mistakes and suffer, if it’s needed for them for growing spiritually.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"Why Do Devotees Fall?"

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

An endlessly fascinating question is, Why did Judas fall after receiving the extraordinary blessing of being accepted into the inner circle of Jesus Christ’s disciples? For Judas was one of the twelve apostles. Yet he be-trayed Jesus, and earned for himself the opprobrium of Christendom for all futurity for his sin. We find Judas reprimanding Jesus just days before that betrayal. Jesus, aware that his disciples would soon be facing, with his death, the supreme tragedy of their lives, allowed Mary to express her devotion by anointing his feet with costly ointment. This act of “wanton waste,” as Judas saw it, awakened indignation in that disciple. “Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?” This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and kept the purse, and bare what was put therein.

Then said Jesus, “Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you: but me ye have not always.”

Doubt not the power of delusion. Respect it – indeed, fear it, though not in the sense of cowering before it. For, as Yogananda said, “One is not safe until he attains nirbikalpa samadhi – the state of final union with God.” Judas, through attachment to money, opened his consciousness to subtle influences, which may be called satanic, that drew his thoughts toward other related attitudes: the importance of worldly power, for instance, and of worldly influence.

The Bhagavad Gita gives a graphic explanation of how easily the mind can be drawn downward, once it begins to feed on wrong attitudes. In the second Chapter, Sri Krishna states:

If one ponders on sense objects, there springs up attraction to them.

From attraction grows desire.

Desire, impatient for fulfillment, flames to anger.

From anger there arises infatuation (the delusion that one object alone is worth clinging to, to the exclusion of all others).

From infatuation ensues forgetfulness of the higher Self.

From forgetfulness of the Self follows degeneration of the discriminative faculty.

And when discrimination is lost, there follows the annihilation of one’s spiritual life.

“At the first thought of delusion,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “that is the time to stop it.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Mystery of the Inner Kingdom</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta recorded at Ananda Village on May 28th 2023. 

While living in this world of duality, we often concentrate too much on outward forms, on the veils, and forget about the light shining through them. What is real are the realities of the inner kingdom: love, joy, peace, calmness, power, light, and sound. Nayaswami Ananta explains why and how to live more in the inner kingdom.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"The Inner Kingdom". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Most people imagine that the “inner kingdom,” as Jesus described it, lacks the fascination they attribute to sense life: the bright lights, the diverse attractions, the joys and the laughter. Little do they realize what a vast universe exists in their own selves! There are many passages in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible that describe aspects of this inner kingdom.

In the Book of Genesis we read: “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden…. And the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:8, 9). This garden was in no earthly place. It exists even now, in the very Self of every human being! The legend of Adam and Eve is allegorical. It describes how the first human beings dissipated their spiritual energy, centered in the spine. The spine is the channel through which flows the river of baptism and of spiritual life.

The Bhagavad Gita tells us, “The wise speak of an eternal ashvatta tree, with its roots above and its branches below” (15:1) The “tree of life,” spoken of also in Genesis, is the spine. Its roots are above, in the brain’s energy. Its branches are the outward spreading nervous system. When the “sap,” which is to say, the energy, flows downward the consciousness is drawn into delusion. On the other hand, when the energy is drawn upward in deep meditation, the consciousness is drawn toward its eternal source, God, and is at last united with Him.

Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita therefore urges his chief disciple Arjuna to embrace the yoga science, the path of meditation. “The yogi,” he says, “is greater than the ascetic, greater even than the followers of the paths of wisdom [Gyana Yoga] or of action [Karma Yoga]. Be thou, O Arjuna, a yogi!” For those who would find the divine truth, Krishna gives this description of the yogi:

Steadfast a lamp burns, sheltered from the wind; 

Steadfastly meditating, solitary, 

Such is the likeness of the Yogi’s mind 

Shut from sense-storms and burning bright to heaven. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Is Inner Communion the Best Way to Worship?</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Jyotish recorded at Ananda Village on May 21st 2023.

How do we worship properly in spirit and in truth? First, we silence the mind sufficiently through meditation so that we are able to do it. But what does it mean to worship in spirit, to worship in truth? Nayaswami Jyotish explains the meaning and the practice.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"The Best Way to Worship".

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In Chapter 4 of the Gospel of St. John, the woman of Samaria asks Jesus, Where is the best place to worship? This question might be expanded to include: What is the best church? What is the best religion? Is it important to go on pilgrimage to holy shrines? What is the best ritual? What is the best mantra or prayer? Jesus cut across all such questioning with his reply:

The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. It was not that outer considerations of place, church, ritual, etc., are irrelevant. Each person should find those practices and observances which are compatible with his own nature – one might say, with his own vibrations. Not everyone’s natural path is the same. God sent different religions into the world to satisfy different human needs. The overarching concern, however, considering that the goal is to find God, is to include in one’s worship daily, inner communion with the Lord.

God is Silence: He must be sought, therefore, in inner silence. God is Absolute Love: He must be sought, therefore, in the silence of love. God is Spirit, and thus immaterial: He must be sought, above all, in the expanding peace of deep meditation. Thus, the Bhagavad Gita states in the sixth Chapter: Sequestered should he sit, Steadfastly meditating, solitary, His thoughts controlled, his passions laid away, From every craving for possession freed. Wherever you are, whatever your outward beliefs and observances, seek God in the silence of your own soul.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Parvati recorded at Ananda Village on May 14th 2023.

Nayaswami Parvati points out that even though the topic of this reading is called "Activity vs. Inner Communion", Swami Kriyananda emphasized the need to make those one. Then, inner communion becomes a stream that is constantly flowing behind everything you do. Nayswami Parvati shares how you can practice remembering God in daily in life to achieve this state.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"Activity vs. Inner Communion".

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we contemplated the well-known story of Martha and Mary. Traditionally, this story has been offered to show the two classic approaches to salvation: the first, through action, and the second, through prayer. The excuse of the Marthas of this world has always been, “The church needs its Marthas, too.” Treatises, moreover, have been written to justify the Martha approach to piety, praising her self-sacrifice as, perhaps, an even higher demonstration of devotion. (Thus do the unmeditative workers in religion try to justify themselves!) Yet the fact remains that Jesus rebuked Martha. Elsewhere, moreover, he spoke of the virtue of feeding the hungry, curing the sick, and housing those who were homeless. It wasn’t that he disapproved of serving people. Wrong attitude was the object of his criticism. What he was criticizing was forgetfulness of the true goal of right, spiritual action. Good deeds, outwardly, without inner communion with God, will result in good karma but will not bring final freedom from all karma.

The Path to inner freedom was described by Paramhansa Yogananda in these words: “Be always calmly active, and actively calm.” As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the second Chapter: He who is not shaken by anxiety during times of sorrow, nor elated during times of happiness; who is free from egoic desires and their attendant fear and anger: Such an one is of steady discrimination. Do your duty in life – so counsels this great Scripture elsewhere – but never lose sight of Him to whom all action should be dedicated.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Mary or Martha: Discovering Your Unique Path in Today's Busy World</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk recorded at Ananda Village on May 7th 2023.

During this talk, Erin expands on the importance of balancing work and inward communion. She tells the story of Miramata, a disciple who was struggling with balancing work and inward focus. Receiving seemingly conflicting advice from her guru Paramhansa Yogananda, she had to learn what he really meant. Eventually, he told her the secret to never feeling tired.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is:
The Secret of Right Action
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

One of the most famous stories in the Gospels is that of Martha and Mary. Jesus, visiting the home of Martha, was teaching while her sister Mary sat at his feet absorbing his divine love and wisdom. Martha, meanwhile, busied herself with serving her guests, and was upset with Mary for not helping her.

“‘Lord,’ she cried, ‘doesn’t it matter to you that my sister has left me to do all this serving alone? Please ask her to help me.’ “‘Martha, Martha,’ Jesus answered, ‘thou art careful and troubled about many things. “‘But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.’”

This story is classic, for Martha’s complaint is very understandable, and not, on the surface of it, spiritually wrong. Jesus might well have told Mary to get up and help her. Nor do we really know that he didn’t, considerate as he always was of others’ needs. But the teaching here doesn’t concern the obvious dilemma of devotees: to work for God, or to spend all one’s time in prayer. It concerns, rather, the attitude of the mind.

Jesus didn’t tell Martha: “Martha, you are doing too much.” He told her, rather, “You are letting your work affect your inner peace.” That was the contrast: not work vs. contemplation, but restless preoccupation vs. peaceful absorption under all circumstances.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the second Chapter:

Actions performed under the influence of desire are greatly inferior to those which are guided by wisdom. Happiness eludes people when they act from self-interest. Seek shelter, therefore, in the equanimity of wisdom. 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Pranaba recorded at Ananda Village on April 30th 2023.

Being born in a world of dualities, dealing with the karmic baggage of past actions, we want to affirm and experience that we are children of God. Karma, the energy invested in directions that take us away from God, needs to be resolved. Nayaswami Pranaba explains how to lift ourselves out of that karma.
He also touches on the gunas, the outward manifestations of deeper reality, and the importance of moving towards upliftment as opposed to just goodness.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is "Perfection is Self-Transcendence"

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

We begin this week with a passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5: Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you; and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; . . . If ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even pagans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

This teaching is a continuation of last week’s lesson. To love all equally is possible only by seeing God everywhere – in others as well as in oneself. See whatever comes to you unasked for as a manifestation of His will. Be grateful for the pains you experience, for they are healing strokes of His love. Sometimes, healing is effected only by strong measures, but His love for you is manifested in the very attempt to heal. Strive always to be impersonal, as though whatever happens to you were happening to someone else.

Persecution gives us the supreme opportunity to deny the thought, “This is happening to me,” and to affirm our inner freedom from the thought of ego. Don’t allow the negative perceptions of others to become your own self-definition. Seek God: This is the true goal of life – though how difficult to cling to in the midst of hatred, spite, and persecution!

The Bhagavad Gita tells us in the seventh Chapter: Out of thousands, one strives for spiritual attainment; and out of many blessed true seekers, who strive assiduously to reach Me, one, perhaps, perceives Me as I am. O truth seeker, be one, among all those thousands, who seeks the supreme goal!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Ananta recorded at Ananda Village on April 23th 2023.

Why is it that when we have wealth, health, and success in life, we still feel we are missing something? What will bring us true fulfillment? Nayaswami Ananta explains what we should really aim for and aspire to in life, emphasizing the point of bringing God into our daily lives.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"How High Should We Aspire?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The passage this week is from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5: I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. 

The easiest explanation for these words is that they were spoken in criticism of the scribes and Pharisees, particularly since Jesus was often verbally attacked by them, and stood up to them fearlessly. However, it wouldn’t have been much of a challenge to the disciples, who aspired to spiritual perfection, to tell them, “Don’t be like those who lack any such aspiration.” Jesus in fact says only a few verses later, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

What Jesus was referring to here, then, was the self- righteousness of the priests. Don’t seek perfection, he was saying to his disciples, in the image you project toward others. Don’t be satisfied with a goodness born merely of ego-definitions. The highest virtue is to transcend the very thought of personal virtue in the realization of God alone as the Doer. Before this realization, even the thought, “I am kind,” or, “I am truthful,” is self-limiting.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the seventh Chapter:

Yet hard the wise Mahatma is to find, 

That man who sayeth, “All is Vasudev!”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Practicing the Presence of God</title>
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	<dc:creator>Shyama Garcia-Davis</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Shyama Arati Davis, recorded at Ananda Village on April 16th 2023.

Every individual has a unique path to follow. But some practices and attitudes are essential to all who want to grow spiritually and find true happiness. Shyama shares those practices and how we can apply them in our daily life.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"To Each According to His Faith".

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3, we read: Everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. 

It is a common experience, shared by most people, that when a person errs he experiences a desire to hide that error from his conscience instead of holding it up for purification. Error clutches its misdeeds to itself, and resists correction, though it is only in the state of purity that we can achieve perfect freedom. It requires an act of will to offer that awareness up to the light, and to hold it there until one’s inner darkness is completely dissipated. For every state of consciousness has its own attractive power. And the more we allow that attraction to act upon us, the more we attract to ourselves the objective circumstances and experiences natural to it. Our faith is the attractive power of our underlying state of consciousness.

Goodness attracts goodness; it takes goodness even to see goodness. Evil attracts evil, and it takes evil even to see evil – that is, to take special note of its existence. Whatever there is in you of darkness or light, offer it up to the heights. In the Supreme Light alone will we find salvation. Accept nothing less in yourself as your lasting reality.

As the Bhagavad Gita says, in the twelfth Chapter:

Cling thou to me! 

Clasp Me with heart and mind! 

So shalt thou dwell Surely with Me on high. 

But if thy thought 

Droops from such height; if thou be’st weak to set 

Body and soul upon Me constantly, 

Despair not! give Me lower service! 

seek To reach Me, worshiping with steadfast will; 

And, if thou canst not worship steadfastly, 

Work for Me, toil in works pleasing to Me! 

For he that laboureth right for love of Me Shall finally attain! 

But, if in this Thy faint heart fails, bring Me thy failure! 

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>The Message of Easter: God Is the Only Reality</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Devi recorded at Ananda Village on Easter Sunday April 9th 2023.

Why are those that bring the most light and integrity often persecuted? Why does God allow us to suffer? Nayaswami Devi beautifully explains the ways of God in this Easter message and invites us to look beyond His dream and see: God is the only reality.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is "Resurrection for Every Soul".

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 20, we read the inspiring account of Jesus’ resurrection: The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord! . . . Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in their midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

The resurrection of Jesus, doubted by many but affirmed by those who were close to him, was a miraculous event, though one not unique in history. For many great saints of other religions have appeared to their disciples after death. Sometimes their appearances have been, as that of Jesus was, in flesh-and-blood form, and not only in vision. Paramhansa Yogananda relates in Autobiography of a Yogi the account of his guru Sri Yukteswar’s resurrection after his earthly passing. Miracles of this type are revealed only rarely to the masses, but accounts of them, related by men and women of reputed truthfulness, have inspired many devotees with faith in the reality of subtler-than-material states of existence.

Resurrection, Yogananda explained, means transformation, ultimately, from any lower state of being to a higher one. Worldly consciousness cannot imagine such transformation except in terms of, perhaps, an improvement of the present mess of potage with the addition of a new flavoring. Divine consciousness, however, is capable of taking the base metal of worldliness and transforming it into the spiritual gold of divine wisdom and love.

In keeping with this truth, the Bhagavad Gita, in the ninth Chapter, tells us:

Ah! ye who into this ill world are come – fleeting and false – set your faith fast on Me!

Fix heart and thought on Me! Adore Me! Bring Offerings to Me!

Make Me prostrations! Make Me your supremest joy! and, undivided, unto My rest your spirits shall be guided.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Practicing the Teachings of Christ</title>
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	<dc:creator>Jitendra Guindon</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Recorded at Ananda Village on April 2nd, 2023 with Jitendra Guindon.

Paramhansa Yogananda encouraged his disciples to understand that to attain Christ-Consciousness, the first step is communion with AUM, also known as the Holy Ghost. We practice the teaching of Christ when we actively try to attune ourselves to the vibrations of AUM. Jitendra shares inspiration on how we can do that.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light:

"Who Is This Son of Man?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. On Palm Sunday, the throng joyfully acclaimed Jesus Christ as he entered Jerusalem, casting palm fronds before him and singing, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! The Lord bless the king of Israel!” (John 12:13) Jesus Christ had told the people, “The son of man must be lifted up.” His reference – so we are told – was to the mode of his impending crucifixion. Some persons on that occasion had asked, “Who is this son of man?” Was Jesus a human being, merely?

Those who, on Palm Sunday, called him king little realized the actual nature of his kingdom. He was far more than what they imagined. Yes, of course he ate, drank, walked, slept, and talked like others. His consciousness, however, was centered in infinity. Yes – again – he laughed like others: But his laughter expressed divine joy, not mere merriment. Again, he wept like them: But never with human grief. The tears he shed were for the sufferings of unenlightened human beings: Never were they shed in self-pity. Jesus Christ was wakeful in God. Most people, by contrast, are asleep spiritually. How strange to reflect that less than a week from that entry into Jerusalem – so joyfully acclaimed – he would be arrested, condemned, and crucified! Such is the bitter-sweetness of human existence: smiles of welcome one day – insults, even persecution the next. How few realize that Christ’s suffering would not be for himself, but for people’s ignorance – for those who had not yet understood the deeper reality that dwelt also in them! Everyone is born “trailing clouds of glory,” as the poet Wordsworth put it. Even the meanest beggar has lived a story, or will eventually have lived it, more magnificent than the greatest epic ever written.

In the Bhagavad Gita, this dichotomy between the “son of man” and the inner “Son of God” is beautifully described. Sri Krishna, representing God in human form, reveals his true nature in infinity. In the eleventh chapter of that great scripture, his chief disciple Arjuna exclaims:

O Infinite Light!

Thy radiance, spreading o’er the universe,

Shines into the very darkest abyss!

Thy voice o’erwhelms the roar of cosmic cataclysms!

Lo! the myriad stars are Thy diadem;

Thy scepter radiates power everywhere!

O Immortal Brahman, Lord of all:

Again and again at Thy feet of Infinity I lie in prostration before Thee!

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Growing in Divine Qualities</title>
	<itunes:title>Growing in Divine Qualities</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[With Nayaswami Maria during a Sunday Service recorded at Ananda Village March 26th 2023.

How can we grow in understanding and compassion? By finding another's spark, Nayaswami Maria says. In this Sunday Service, she shares how our divine qualities grow when we learn to relate to the soul qualities of other beings.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There are many places in the Gospels where we see Jesus in open conflict with the Pharisees – that is to say, with man-made as opposed to true, mystical tradition. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 15, we see a good example of how they and he “locked horns.” Then some of the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came and asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples break our ancient tradition and eat their food without washing their hands properly first?”

Jesus, after scolding them for their hypocrisy in observing lesser rules so carefully while ignoring the much more important ones, said, “Listen, and understand this thoroughly! It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that makes him common or unclean. It is what comes out of a man’s mouth that makes him unclean.” It wasn’t that Jesus counseled against such wholesome practices as washing one’s hands before eating. In an age, however, when lesser rules were given too much importance relative to the truly important observances – cleansing the heart of impure desires, for example – he emphasized the supreme importance of loving God and of communing with Him.

The Pharisees – the orthodox religionists of his day, in other words – had brought true religion down to a level of intellectual hair-splitting. They mistakenly considered the way to understanding to lie through a mine-field of definitions, which they tried to refine to ultimate exactitude. Jesus taught, however, that the intellect alone can never lead one to truth. Without love, indeed, there is no ultimate verity. Without fixity of purpose, born of the heart’s devotion, the intellect wanders endlessly. It cannot settle for long on anything. As the Bhagavad Gita says in the second Chapter: The intellects of those who lack fixity of spiritual purpose are inconstant, their interests endlessly ramified.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Breathlessness Is Deathlessness</title>
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<![CDATA[With Brahmachari Sagar during a Sunday Service recorded at Ananda Village March 19th 2023.

How to overcome the fear of death? Paramhansa Yogananda encouraged people to practice death during their lifetime. Brahmachari Sagar explains how we can learn to control the breath and the heart with the sincere practice of Kriya Yoga. Humorously he shares how to approach the impermanence of our bodies.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"We Are Children of the Light". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

It is common for people to perceive themselves according to their present realities. A person in ill health says, “I am ill.” Few say, “I am well; it is my body that is suffering.” People in a low income bracket say, “I am poor.” Only the unusual person will say, “Though outwardly I live in poverty, inwardly I am wealthy.” Thus, when it comes to moral and spiritual development, people commonly identify themselves with their weaknesses and their mistakes. They consider it almost a sign of humility to say, “I am a sinner,” though in effect what this means is that they identify themselves with their sinfulness, not with the soul’s power to transcend all limitations in God.

The great masters, including Jesus Christ, have always emphasized the divine potential of mankind. To encourage us, they address us as children of light, not of darkness. The Bible, in the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3, makes the point that our true home is not the mud of this Earth, but the light of heaven. “No man hath ascended up to heaven,” it tells us, “but him that came down from heaven.” This passage continues: “[even so] the Son of man who is in heaven,” emphasizing that Jesus, though he lived on earth, is perceived by the eye of wisdom as conscious, even in human form, of his true reality in heavenly spheres.

The way to know God is to live in godly consciousness, and not to bewail our imperfection and our distance from God. Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” And the Bhagavad Gita states, Seekers of union with the Lord find Him dwelling in their own hearts. But those who, lacking in wisdom, seek Him with impure motives, cannot perceive Him however much they struggle to do so.

“If you want to know God,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “live in the thought that you have Him already.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<title>Yogananda's Teachings on True Intuition</title>
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<![CDATA[How to develop true inner guidance and follow your intuition? Yogananda offered very useful techniques and insights on how to tune into the wisdom of the soul. With Nayaswami Jaya during a Sunday Service recorded at Ananda Village March 12th 2023.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"Reason vs. Intuition".

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus, when addressing his critics, appealed to reason and common sense. In his training of the disciples, however, he, like all great masters, encouraged in them the development of a higher faculty: soul-intuition. For it is only by intuition that spiritual perceptions are achieved. In Chapter 16 of the Gospel of St. Matthew we find Jesus drawing on the intuition of his disciples by asking them who they thought he was, in reality. They immediately understood that what he wanted from them was a subtle answer, not some obvious reply based on his nationality, sex, and the like. Peter it was, at last, who understood and answered the question on its intended level: the spiritual. “Thou art the Christ,” he said, “the son of the living God.” “And Jesus turned to him, saying, ‘Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonah: for not by human nature was this truth revealed to thee, but by my heavenly Father. And I tell thee this also: Thou art Peter, which is to say, a rock, and upon this rock will I build my church, and never will the powers of darkness overwhelm it.’”

Jesus was pleased with his disciple for relating to the question on its deepest level. Reason could not have given Peter that answer. The answer came through the faculty of soul intuition, and proved him thereby to be a spiritually advanced disciple. It was his intuitive perception – that insight which cannot be shaken by tempests of reasonable doubt – that Jesus praised in referring to him as a rock. The “church” he referred to, next, was the edifice of cosmic consciousness. Any outer church institution would have to depend, as in fact the Christian churches have always done, on the level of understanding of its individual leaders and members. Peter’s intuitive perceptions could never have been passed on to an outward succession of prelates.

Clarity comes by direct soul-perception. Confusion results from excessive dependence on reason as the guide to understanding. As the second Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states: When your intellect, at present confused by the diversity of teaching in the Scriptures, becomes steadfast in the ecstasy of deep meditation, then you will achieve final union with God.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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	<itunes:title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense (with Nayaswami Parvati)</itunes:title>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati, recorded at Ananda Village March 5th 2023.

As we live in a period in which dogma seems to be increasing, it is vital to keep an expanded awareness of more subtle realities. Nayaswami Parvati shares how to see the bigger picture of each situation and points out how the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda can help us live each circumstance better and better.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is "Dogmatism vs. Common Sense".

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 7, Jesus warns: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Jesus here, as indeed many times during his teaching, counsels people to use their God-given common sense, and not to rely on high-flown but undemonstrable claims. Common sense goes beyond abstract reason, for it is rooted in actual experience. Even common sense, however, is deficient when the judgment called for goes beyond sensory experience. Ultimately, what he emphasized always, therefore, was intuitive perception. Thus, he expected more of his disciples than crude common sense, and often scolded them for being too literal-minded – as he did, elsewhere, when they thought his statement, “I have meat to eat that you know not of,” meant that he had steaks or sandwiches secreted about his person. His reference, of course, was to spiritual, not material, substance.

Words, even though appearing in the scriptures, are no substitute for direct perception of truth. Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the second Chapter: The sage who knows God has as little need for the Scriptures as one might have for a pond when the whole land is covered in flood.]]>
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	<description>What is needed to gain true wisdom? In this Sunday Service Nayaswami Ananta emphasizes the importance of an open heart. He explains why pure feeling must support our thinking to arrive at understanding. He does so through sharing stories from the lives of Swami Kriyananda, Paramhansa Yogananda, and Jesus Christ.

This talk emphasizes the importance of balancing intellectual understanding with heartfelt devotion on the spiritual path. Ananta uses anecdotes and examples from various spiritual figures to illustrate how true wisdom comes from a combination of knowledge and love. They recount the story of St. Anthony of Padua preaching to fish, highlight the devotional qualities of figures like Sister Gyanamata and Rajarshi, and discuss Swami Kriyananda's approach to philosophy and writing.

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This talk emphasizes the importance of balancing intellectual understanding with heartfelt devotion on the spiritual path. Ananta uses anecdotes and examples from various spiritual figures to illustrate how true wisdom comes from a combination of knowledge and love. They recount the story of St. Anthony of Padua preaching to fish, highlight the devotional qualities of figures like Sister Gyanamata and Rajarshi, and discuss Swami Kriyananda's approach to philosophy and writing.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta at Ananda Village, recorded February 26th 2023.

What is needed to gain true wisdom? In this Sunday Service Nayaswami Ananta emphasizes the importance of an open heart. He explains why pure feeling must support our thinking to arrive at understanding. He does so through sharing stories from the lives of Swami Kriyananda, Paramhansa Yogananda, and Jesus Christ.

This talk emphasizes the importance of balancing intellectual understanding with heartfelt devotion on the spiritual path. Ananta uses anecdotes and examples from various spiritual figures to illustrate how true wisdom comes from a combination of knowledge and love. They recount the story of St. Anthony of Padua preaching to fish, highlight the devotional qualities of figures like Sister Gyanamata and Rajarshi, and discuss Swami Kriyananda's approach to philosophy and writing.

The talk stresses that while intellectual study is valuable, it's the opening of the heart that leads to genuine spiritual progress. Listeners are encouraged to cultivate devotion alongside their studies, reminded that "God watches the heart."
Transcript
The Importance of Devotion in Spiritual Practice
Nayaswami Ananta:

I would like to read from Whispers from Eternity. This is the first reading under Prayers of Devotion, and Master wrote:
"I Bring for Thee the Myrrh of Devotion"

With folded hands, bowed head, and heart laden with the myrrh of reverence, I come to Thee. Thou art my parents; I am Thy child. Thou art the Master; I am ready to obey the silent command of Thy voice. I conjured the fragrant devotion of all hearts and mixed it with my tears. Now I am eager to wash Thy feet in silence. A river of my ardent crystal tears of craving rushes forth to meet Thee. Wilt Thou see that my boisterous flood of devotion be not lost in the desert of disappointment? Wilt Thou see that my mad flood of devotion follow always the right course, which leads to Thee?
I think the answer is "Yes." The topic is: "By Thinking, Can We Arrive at Understanding?" I always get a little nervous thinking that someone might come to Ananda and think, "They're against thinking." We're not. Swami Kriyananda was probably, or was, the most prolific philosopher among the disciples of Paramhansa Yogananda. I think he wrote 140 books. So he was certainly a prolific philosopher and was in favor of thinking.

But we need to attune our thinking to the divine guidance and intuition. Otherwise, as said in the reading, we can go astray. I love this reading.

Because you can just picture these young rabbis, and scribes, and Pharisees coming to Jesus Christ, who turns out to be the savior of their religion, promised throughout the entire Old Testament, sitting down with them, and they want to discuss kosher rules of etiquette for eating. And they're talking to an avatar. They're talking to a prem avatar, an incarnation of divine love, and they want to discuss hygiene. I'm all for hygiene.

But the point is that, as Yogananda said, "God watches the heart." All the books in the world, and all the writings and all the philosophy in the world, if it doesn't have the love of God it is not going to take us to Self-realization. It's not going to bring us to the state that we are seeking, which is realization of the Self. And that's why I read this reading from Whispers.
Balancing Intellect and Heart on the Spiritual Path
The devotion that is part and parcel of Yogananda's teachings was always stressed by Kriyananda. He came to Master with a slightly intellectual bent because he was a brilliant philosopher and a student of philosophy.

I'd like to point out something else about Swami Kriyananda. He wrote the play The Peace Treaty, which is one of his most philosophical works about government and human interaction. And he wrote it when he was 15 years old, I think, maybe 16, but in that era. And if you've ever read The Peace Treaty or seen it performed, the philosophy of government and the rule is incredibly deep. I always hoped that we could have it performed for the United Nations or the US Congress, but it hasn't happened yet.

But then, Swami came to Yogananda with that bent. Yogananda saw that with just a little bit of his guru-given guidance, he could awaken the intense devotion of brother Kriyananda, whom he made the head of the monks. And Kriyananda became one of the great chanters of that organization, because he had so much devotion.
Swami Kriyananda's Approach to Philosophy and Devotion
By the time he was ready to begin Ananda, Swamiji would, and did write books on philosophy. And yet, he stressed always, as he began Ananda, and as we grew and clarified our work and our purpose, that devotion was the main thing. God watches the heart.

And so it became important for us to focus on that and keep the philosophy. Swamiji wrote, you know, many philosophical books: Out of the Labyrinth used to be called Crisis in Modern Thought. That's the way out: the way in. Most of the world is interested in going into the labyrinth, we want to get out.

But the point is that he wrote a book and it wasn't a very popular book. I think he liked the fact that I told him once, that this is one of my favorite books that he ever wrote. I think I got a lot of points for that one, because this philosophy went over people's head because it was so deep.

But Master used to say, "Make your heart a hermitage." And that's important and has always been a foundation of our work.

Did you know that Anandamoyi Ma didn't know how to read? And yet philosophers would come to her to explain the scriptures, because she went by vibration and consciousness. And that is what we have to do.

We have to, yes, we have to learn the teachings, and we have to understand them. But if our wisdom guides our intellect, the brain can be a great asset. If wisdom does not guide our intellect, we can go all sorts of places. I love this reading, in the part where Swami talks about the the hair splitting philosophy of the early Pharisees and scribes.
The Limitations of Intellectual Understanding Alone
And in case you don't know, there are many Christian philosophers in 2023, who are really into definitions and philosophical hairsplitting, such that it brings them to ridiculous conclusions.

I sometimes listen to philosophers—Christian philosophers, because Christianity is predominant in this country. But I find it also in Hindu philosophers and Sufi philosophers and Muslim philosophers. But they keep the intellect going, and they keep deductions going, but they're under the influence of the dark force, into-the labyrinth forces.

And their conclusions are mind numbing. One of them being that "Christ is the only way, and if you accept Christ as your ultimate savior, that's the only way you can get to heaven." It leaves out all the Hindus in the world, all the Christians, a lot of Christians, a lot of Muslims, a lot of shamans, a lot of people are left out in the cold. And yet they don't open their heart to the reality that their brothers and sisters are sincerely trying to follow the path that they have to God.

"I will reason, I will will, I will act, but guide Thou my reason, will, and activity to the right path in everything." Master said that was his highest prayer. By the way, since he was a Hindu, he said that many prayers were the highest prayer. The point is it's the center of our practice, "Guide Thou my reason, will, and activity to the right path in everything." That's what we have to do.

We have to ask the Divine Mother to guide our thoughts. And, to paraphrase my grandmother, a lady from Ireland, "Use your head for something besides a hat rack." I love grandma's advice! It's important.

Swamiji would ask us to think and to philosophize. His books go into this philosophy in many, many ways and on many, many points, but what the main measure that you can use, that he asked us to use, was "What is the feeling of the philosophy? What what do you derive from this book?"

I used to read books in college. And I would feel so heavy, and so spent after reading them. I go, "How can this be a famous book? This is just so heavy."

And yet you read the Autobiography, you read Swami's books, and you feel this lightness. Because it has the consciousness of the Divine, it has the heart open, to receive, just like the Purification Ceremony, "Open your heart to Me, and I will enter and take charge of your life." Think your way through to the end, you could get into really deep water roadway down a snowy road with no chains. And you'll just be stuck there. And it'll take you a while until you open your heart.
St. Anthony of Padua: Opening Hearts through Devotion
I have to tell you a story from Italy, long time ago. Anthony of Padua, a great saint who lived a long time ago in Italy, he was out and he was preaching the gospel of Jesus. And that was his thing. And he went to these different towns. So he went to this one town. I don't know if I should name it, it's bad PR. But it was Rimini in in Italy, northern Italy, on the Adriatic.

And he went to tell everyone about the good news about Jesus Christ and the gospel and how Jesus loves you and all these things. But no one wanted to hear him. "No, not today, go somewhere else, Padre." And so he said, "Okay, well, my job is to talk about Jesus." So he went down to the harbor there, and he started to give his talk about Jesus to the fish. They were the only ones that wanted to listen.

So, the fish lined up by size with the little fish in the front, big fish in the back. So I guess I was one of the big fish. I'm always in the back, you know. And so they're all lined up, and they listened to Anthony of Padua tell the story about Jesus. So the townspeople kind of felt pretty bad.

And so he gave the talk and then started walking out of the town. And they said, "Oh, Anthony! Come back, come back. We're sorry, we want to hear about Jesus, too." He gave a talk, and they got into it. But that intellectual resistance that people have, we see it a lot. We see it maybe more, I don't know if it's more or less.

And it's with giving the teachings online. You don't see... you don't know how many people are interested. But from what we know about Ananda.org and Ananda Online, a lot of people are interested and their hearts are open and they're touched by our music, or by our schools, or by some aspect of what we do. And through that, they open their heart, and they feel Master's love. We're all channels of that love and that devotion.
Examples of Devotion: Gyanamata, Rajarshi, and Kriyananda
You know, Paramhansa Yogananda was talking about Sister Gyanamata at the end of her life. And he made a remarkable statement. He said, "I've searched Sister's life and I haven't found a single sin. Even a thought," meaning that he searched her thoughts and her whole life, and she didn't commit a single sin, even of thought. It was a statement of how great that that soul was.

We're put at different points. Sister Gyanamata didn't write any books. Luckily, she wrote letters to the nuns, and we have the book God Alone. But other than that, she didn't write any books. She just served.

But she emanated wisdom: Gyanamata, mother of wisdom. And Rajarshi, similarly, didn't write any books. He talked to people. We have some of his talks, we have letters to him from Master. But Rajarshi wrote very little. It wasn't his dharma! It may not be for us.

I think Swamiji wrote enough books for all of us. Whenever he saw an aspect of the teachings that could be clarified, expressed, deepened, he would write a book, or write a song. Notice that all of his songs are about the heart. It's in the heart that "songs of joy reside resound," not in the head that "songs of joy resound." It isn't our nature and it isn't our path because it wasn't Master's path.

Swami Sri Yukteswar was a gyanavatar, incarnation of wisdom. And he gave us wisdom. And he... his philosophy was deep. But what does he say in The Holy Science? "You can't take a single step on the spiritual path without love." This is a gyanavatar. This is an incarnation of wisdom. That's what he has to say.
Balance Intellect and Heart as a Key to Spiritual Understanding
So let's practice that. Let's practice keeping our devotion strong. Yes, use your mind. Read the books! I read every one of Swami Kriyananda's books, and I've read them again and again, because there's so much depth there. But it's depth with love, with devotion, with feeling. And that is what we need to realize the Self.

I've always noticed that when I was in university and studying philosophers, and even religious philosophers, the lack of joy was really evident. It was so dry. And with Kriyananda, there was joy from the start and there was devotion from the start. And when he picked up a harmonium, your heart opened and when we sing his songs, when we chant chants by Master wrote, you can feel that.

Keep that in your wisdom. Keep that in your knowledge. By thinking in that way, you will arrive at understanding. But we need to keep that focus and keep that awareness. Keep that consciousness of how much God loves you, and that God has given you an intellectual capacity to understand His plan to some extent.

I would note that in the Autobiography of Yogi Sri Yukteswar says, "Babaji's spiritual stature is beyond human comprehension." So if you think you're going to get there with your brain, good luck, my friends! Use your brain, use the intellect but keep your heart open.

God watches the heart. All of you, everyone here, and everyone online would not be drawn to these teachings if that touch of the heart had not already begun. Blow on that flame and make it big.

God bless you all.

[Songs sung by the Joy Singers: "I, My, Me, Mine" and "In the Temple of Isis."]
The Week's Reading
The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There are many places in the Gospels where we see Jesus in open conflict with the Pharisees – that is to say, with man-made as opposed to true, mystical tradition. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 15, we see a good example of how they and he “locked horns.” Then some of the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came and asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples break our ancient tradition and eat their food without washing their hands properly first?” Jesus, after scolding them for their hypocrisy in observing lesser rules so carefully while ignoring the much more important ones, said, “Listen, and understand this thoroughly! It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that makes him common or unclean. It is what comes out of a man’s mouth that makes him unclean.”

It wasn’t that Jesus counseled against such wholesome practices as washing one’s hands before eating. In an age, however, when lesser rules were given too much importance relative to the truly important observances – cleansing the heart of impure desires, for example – he emphasized the supreme importance of loving God and of communing with Him. The Pharisees – the orthodox religionists of his day, in other words – had brought true religion down to a level of intellectual hair-splitting. They mistakenly considered the way to understanding to lie through a mine-field of definitions, which they tried to refine to ultimate exactitude. Jesus taught, however, that the intellect alone can never lead one to truth. Without love, indeed, there is no ultimate verity. Without fixity of purpose, born of the heart’s devotion, the intellect wanders endlessly. It cannot settle for long on anything. As the Bhagavad Gita says in the second Chapter: The intellects of those who lack fixity of spiritual purpose are inconstant, their interests endlessly ramified.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded February 19th 2023.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"Can Man See God?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There is a saying in Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John that would seem to respond with a definite No to the question, Can man see God? The saying is: No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Many great saints, however, claim to have seen God. If we ask, then, “Can God be seen?” rather than, “Can man see God?” the answer is, “Yes! Else those saints lied; and, else, the Scriptures themselves lie.” The point is, it is not man – this human body, these human eyes – that sees God. God can be seen only with spiritual vision – with the eye of the soul. As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the eleventh Chapter: “Thou canst not see Me with mortal eyes. Therefore I now give thee sight divine. Behold My supreme power of Yoga!” With these words Hari, the exalted Lord of Yoga, revealed himself to Arjuna in His infinite form.

Paramhansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, describes the supernal experience in words more readily comprehensible to modern minds than the poetic phraseology of the Bhagavad Gita. The chapter “An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness” is one of the most inspiringly beautiful in all mystical literature. Here is a brief excerpt:

An oceanic joy broke upon calm endless shores of my soul. The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light. [I saw] the divine dispersion of rays pour from an Eternal Source, blazing into galaxies, transfigured with ineffable auras. Again and again I saw the creative beams condense into constellations, then resolve into sheets of transparent flame. By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament. I cognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart. Irradiating splendor issued from my nucleus to every part of the universal structure.…The creative voice of God I heard resounding as Aum, the vibration of the Cosmic Motor.”

This, so the great masters aver, is what God is. And this also, they insist, is what we are in our deepest reality.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded February 12th 2023.

Nayaswami Pranaba takes us along his journey of knee surgery, where he gets the chance to practice the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda on many occasions. He illustrates that each situation gives an opportunity to deepen our attunement and dedication to the spiritual path.

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The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"The Law Is Perfected in Love"

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, we read: The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Grace means the power to rise, spiritually. Truth means the experience of divine realities, not the application in the outer world of that inner experience. Divine love is the soul’s experience of oneness with God. Kindness is the human manifestation of that love. Grace is deeper than mere kindness. Wisdom is a divine experience. Justice to all is a human law, though divinely inspired. It follows as a consequence of the experience of wisdom. Truth goes deeper than mere justice. While following the law, we should strive always to trace it back to its origins in the vision of God. Therefore Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita urges the devotee not to be satisfied with spiritual precepts alone, but to go beyond them to the direct, inner experience of truth.

In the eighteenth Chapter of that great Scripture he says:

Nay! but once more Take My last word,

My utmost meaning have!

Precious thou art to Me; right well beloved!

Listen! I tell thee for thy comfort this.

Give Me thy heart! adore Me! serve Me! cling In faith and love and reverence to Me!

So shalt thou come to Me!

I promise true, For thou art sweet to Me!

And let go those – Rites and writ duties!

Fly to me alone! Make Me thy single refuge!

I will free Thy soul from all its sins! Be of good cheer!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Badri Matlock and Tyagi Atman at Ananda Village, recorded February 5th 2023. 

Paramhansa Yogananda often emphasized the importance of attunement to his close disciples and truth seekers. Badri shares practical pointers that strengthen our attunement in daily life, such as:

 	kindness
 	positive flow
 	devotion
 	practicing the presence of God
 	loyalty
 	seeing God in others
 	divine friendship

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"The Importance of Soul-Receptivity". 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John states: But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. This was a passage Paramhansa Yogananda often quoted to his disciples. “Be in tune,” he would tell them. “Delusion can’t touch you, if you will keep in tune.” “A few of you will fall,” he said once. “But it needn’t be, if you would stay in tune.” Of a disciple who became highly advanced, even though she didn’t meditate much, he said, “She got there by attunement.” To one who found meditation difficult, he said, “I will meditate for you, as long as you stay in tune.”

Truth is a state of consciousness, not a well-worded definition. It is in that consciousness, above all, that our lives are transformed. Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the tenth Chapter: To those who are ever attached to Me, and who worship Me with love, I impart discernment, by means of which they attain Me. Out of my love for them, I, the Divine within them, set alight in them the radiant lamp of wisdom, thereby dispelling the darkness of their ignorance.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Nayaswami Ananta at Ananda Village, recorded January 29 2023.

God's love for his devotees expresses itself most purely through the love from guru to disciple.
Nayaswami Maria shares through accounts of great masters like Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya and Paramhansa Yogananda, that the guru is always aware of the disciple's needs. These touching stories show the guru's unconditional love and never-ceasing presence.

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The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation." 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. The Bhagavad Gita in the fourth Chapter states, as we saw last week: O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue.

What is the mystery of this divine manifestation? Great avatars, such as Krishna and Jesus Christ, are born as babies even as we all are. They take human form, and go through normal human experiences as they grow from childhood to adulthood. They eat. They play. They may seem to suffer sickness and disappointment like the rest of us. In what way are they different from other human beings? The important thing to understand is that, even as they are like us, so are we also like them. Their realization can be ours, too. They come on earth to show us our own divine potential. The difference lies not in the manner of their manifestation on earth, but in the consciousness with which they are born. All things are condensations, so to speak, of the Cosmic Vibration – AUM, described by St. John’s Gospel as the Word. Most human beings, however, are unconscious of their divine origin. The avatars, on the other hand, come consciously as manifestations of that divine reality.

As the Gospel says in the first Chapter: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded January 22 2023. 

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

"The Infinite Christ".

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John contains some of the most profound spiritual teachings in the Bible. In the first Chapter many subtle truths are suggested concerning higher stages of Self-realization. Here, John the Baptist is described as one reaching up toward that high state. “He was not that light,” the Gospel tells us, “but was sent to bear witness of that light.” Jesus Christ, by contrast, is described as the light itself.
That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
One essential truth stands out in this teaching: that Jesus came not to dogmatize people with a new teaching, but to bring them timeless, universal truths. Disciples saw the master clothed in human form, and therefore judged him in terms of his greatness relative to the greatness of other teachers. Wisdom, however, sees the master’s very greatness in terms of a cosmic unity. There is a passage in The Path, by Swami Kriyananda, in which this point is emphasized. The Master, Paramhansa Yogananda, explained,
“The saint who attains that exalted consciousness never says, ‘I am God,’ for he sees it was the vast Ocean that became his little wave of ego. The wave, in other words, would not claim, when referring to the little self, to be the Ocean.” At this juncture Debi, who was present, cried excitedly, “But Sir, if you are one with that Ocean, that means you are God!” “Why I?” Master asked. “Say ‘He.’ He is God.” “But still, Sir, you are one with Him, and He is the only reality. That means you, too, are God.” “But this body isn’t God!” “You aren’t identified with your body, Sir, so one may still say that you are God.” “Well, in that case why do you say, ‘You’? You, too, are that! In a discussion of this sort, it is less confusing if we say, ‘He.’” “But what’s the difference?” “The Scriptures say . . .” Master began. “It’s only your humility, Sir,” Debi broke in, “that makes you distinguish between yourself and Him.” “How can there be humility, when there is no consciousness of ego?” Triumphantly Debi cried, “But if you have no ego left, that means you are God!” Master laughingly continued the earlier statement, which Debi had interrupted: “The Scriptures say, ‘He who knows Brahma becomes Brahma.’” “There!” cried Debi. “You said it yourself!” Master rejoined, still laughingly, “I didn’t say it. It’s the Scriptures that say so.”
Master, in other words, would not identify those words with the human body speaking them. It was in his overarching spirit that he saw himself one with the Infinite. But Debi was unable to make this mental leap from a pure expression of Infinity to Infinity Itself. “You quoted those Scriptures, Sir,” he reminded Master relentlessly. “That means you agree with them!” Recognizing that the distinction was, perhaps, too subtle for many to grasp, Master concluded, “Well, he who says he is God, isn’t God. And,” he added with a smile, “he who says he isn’t, isn’t!” And there the subject rested, amid general laughter. The greater a spiritual teaching, the more greatly we betray it by particularizing it with dogmas. Truth itself, not the Christian truth or the Hindu truth, incarnates on earth with the birth of a fully liberated master.

As the Bhagavad Gita teaches in the fourth Chapter:
Unborn, changeless, Lord of Creation and controller of My cosmic nature though I am, yet entering Nature I am dressed in the cosmic garment of My own maya (delusion). O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue.
Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Erin Vinacco at Ananda Village, recorded January 15 2023. 

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

 "Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, makes a reference to the divine light that is obscure to the rational faculty, but that enlightens our higher nature: “The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.”

Reason recoils from this statement with innumerable questions. What is this darkness? Is it conscious, that it should comprehend anything? What sort of light would be capable of shining in darkness without transforming at least that part of the darkness in which it shines into light? Does this light shine only at night? And if so, why only then? The solution is that, to divine sight, even daylight seems darkness. The sun itself, like the moon which shines only by reflected light from the sun, is but a kind of reflection of the cosmic light, which, being immaterial, is invisible to the eyes but which is the Great Source of all material reality.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda describes his youthful visit to Ram Gopal Muzumdar, the “sleepless saint,” who lived in the vision of that hidden light.
“Around midnight,” Yogananda wrote, Ram Gopal fell into silence, and I lay down on my blankets. Closing my eyes, I saw flashes of lightning; the vast space within me was a chamber of molten light. I opened my eyes and observed the same dazzling radiance. The room became a part of the infinite vault which I beheld with interior vision. “Why don’t you go to sleep?” “Sir, how can I sleep in the presence of lightning, blazing whether my eyes are shut or open?” “You are blessed to have this experience; the spiritual radiations are not easily seen.” The saint added a few words of affection. This is the “light that shineth in darkness.”
It has been described variously in the great scriptures. In the Bhagavad Gita, the eleventh Chapter, the devotee, Arjuna, is given an experience of the infinite state and exclaims in awe:
If there should rise suddenly within the skies
Sunburst of a thousand suns
Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of,
Then might be that Holy One’s Majesty and radiance dreamed of!
Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Tyagi Dhyan and Jitendra Guindon at Ananda Village, recorded January 8 2023.

If we want to follow our soul call - bliss - it is not so important what we do as much as how we do it.
Swami Kriyananda suggested we practice three key attitudes in our daily lives to uplift our consciousness.

Three Keys for Living in God's Bliss:

 	self-control
 	devotion
 	calmness

Dhyan shares with us how to practice them and why.

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The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is

Did God Create the Universe – or Become It? 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, contains a passage that explains the essential truth that creation is a process of becoming. The universe is not separate from God the Creator, but a part of Him even as our own dream-creations, during sleep, are figments of our consciousness. God’s is the life; God’s, the reality. Not a melody could be composed, not a poem written, were the melody and the poem not already there, simply waiting to be expressed. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Ego-directed desire is like static; it distorts the radioed messages of Infinity. But the pristine impulse from the divine, undistorted by limitation and delusion, is the life that gives rise to all that is. As the seventh Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states:

I am the fluidity of water. I am the silver light of the moon and the golden light of the sun. I am the AUM chanted in all the Vedas: the Cosmic Sound moving as if soundlessly through the ether. I am the manliness of men. I am the good sweet smell of the moist earth. I am the luminescence of fire; the sustaining life of all living creatures. I am self-offering in those who would expand their little lives into cosmic life.

O Arjuna, know Me as the eternal seed of all creatures. In the perceptive, I am their perception. In the great, I am their greatness. In the glorious, it is I who am their glory.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[New Year's Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Nayaswami Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded January 1 2023.

The beginning of the new year is a good time for reflection and resolutions.

How can we live our new year's resolutions and keep our spiritual aspirations high? Paramhansa Yogananda said to avoid that which is most insidious in our minds:

 	absentmindedness and
 	fillers

Nayaswami Parvati explains these challenges and shares examples of positive habits we can practice instead. She shares inspiration and ideas to help us live more and more in God's presence.

&amp;nbsp;

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is
At the Heart of Silence - the Eternal Word
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, these immortal lines appear: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Human vision beholds individuality and separation everywhere. Divine vision beholds the oneness of cosmic vibration, of which all things, no matter how diverse, are manifestations. Cosmic Sound – the “Word” of God – and Cosmic Light: These are eternal. The world, as revealed to us by our senses, is illusory.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda relates an early experience he received of the divine aspect of reality: Sitting on my bed one morning, I fell into a deep reverie. “What is behind the darkness of closed eyes?” This probing thought came powerfully into my mind. An immense flash of light at once manifested to my inward gaze. Divine shapes of saints, sitting in meditation posture in mountain caves, formed like miniature cinema pictures on the large screen of radiance within my forehead. “Who are you?” I spoke aloud. “We are the Himalayan yogis.” The celestial response is difficult to describe; my heart was thrilled. “Ah, I long to go to the Himalayas and become like you!” The vision vanished, but the silvery beams expanded in ever-widening circles to infinity. “What is this wondrous glow?” “I am Iswara. I am Light.” The voice was as murmuring clouds. “I want to be one with Thee!”

Out of the slow dwindling of my divine ecstasy, I salvaged a permanent legacy of inspiration to seek God. Wise are we if we meditate on that experience of Yogananda’s, and salvage from it even a breath of his inspiration. For, quite simply, there is nothing else! As the Bhagavad Gita says in the seventh Chapter: I make and unmake this universe. Apart from Me nothing exists, O Arjuna. All things, like the beads of a necklace, are strung together on the thread of My consciousness, and are sustained by Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Christmas Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, recorded December 25th 2022. Badi Matlock shares the Christmas Story in the beginning.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

The Divine Ascension


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 14, we read:

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

What is this “I,” when spoken by a master who has conquered every vestige of ego-consciousness? Therein lies the mystery of true Scriptural teaching. That “I” that is no “I”: Does it even exist? In what way is it different from the consciousness that animates other human beings?

Jesus was not saying, “Look at me. Don’t look at other masters.” He was saying, rather, “Look at the divine Self that is the essence of who you are, your very Self. You are that ‘I.’ No man cometh unto the divine consciousness except by first recognizing his own intrinsic divinity, hidden behind his delusive ego.”

The Bhagavad Gita, in the fourth Chapter, states:

O Son of Pritha [Arjuna], in whatever way people accept Me, in that same way do I appear to them. For all men, in some way, pursue The Path to Me.

Meditate on the divine incarnations. Their lives, and the consciousness animating them, will be your stairway to the Infinite.

Thus, through Holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded December 18th 2022. 

What was the significance of the visit to Christ the child by the Three Kings? Nayaswami Ananta explains who those Three Kings were and how their journey relates to our own celebration of Christmas and the birth of Christ Consciousness within us.

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This week's reading is:

What Was the Star of Bethlehem?

(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Divine vision is the opposite of worldly sight. Divine vision sees God’s presence behind all outward appearances. Worldly sight sees appearances, merely, coating even the blazing wisdom of a saint. A master, to the worldly man, is a human being with, perhaps, a slightly better attitude than the norm. The Scriptures therefore strive to demonstrate how the divine consciousness, when openly active among men in the lives of great masters, must never be viewed as an expression of ordinary human consciousness. To seek the presence of Divinity behind the life of a great master is to prepare oneself to recognize that same Divinity also in lower manifestations until at last one beholds God everywhere.

Thus it was that Paramhansa Yogananda, on observing his new disciple Swami Kriyananda struggling with the contrast between the guru’s human appearance and his inner, divine reality, looked at him deeply one day and said, “If you only knew my consciousness!”

The story of the birth of Jesus Christ contains an account in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 2, of the star of Bethlehem. The wise men who sought Jesus in his manger said,

“We have seen his star in the east.”…And, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.

This account was important, for it showed all mankind that Jesus was a divine incarnation, and no ordinary man – that he brought divine consciousness to earth,even though he would play a human role among human beings, and that others, too, by “receiving him” in their inner hearts, would acquire power, as the Bible puts it, to “become the sons of God.”

The Scriptures enjoin us to meditate on the lives of great souls, that we may discover our own latent spiritual greatness. As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the fourth Chapter:

Who knows the truth touching my births on earth

And my divine work, when he quits the flesh

Puts on its load no more, falls no more down

To earthly birth: to Me he comes, dear Prince!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jaya and Brahmachari Sagar at Ananda Village, recorded December 11th 2022.

This week's reading is:

Living in the Presence of God

(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 25, we read of a King – capitalized, for the reference is to God – who welcomes certain devotees to the divine consciousness, saying, “I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.”

The elect asked him when it was they had served Him in these ways, and the King answered, “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

To see God as residing in every human being, as indeed He does, is to open oneself to limitless opportunities for serving Him. Paramhansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, described a saint who lived in this consciousness as “the greatest man of humility I ever knew.” He described a seemingly chance encounter with this saint:

Another day found me walking alone near the Howrah railroad station. I stood for a moment by a temple, silently criticizing a small group of men with drum and cymbals who were violently reciting a chant.

“How undevotionally they use the Lord’s divine name in mechanical repetition,” I reflected. My gaze was astonished by the rapid approach of Master Mahasaya. “Sir, how come you here?”

The saint, ignoring my question, answered my thought. “Isn’t it true, little sir, that the Beloved’s name sounds sweet from all lips, ignorant and wise?” He passed his arm around me affectionately; I found myself carried on his magic carpet to the Merciful Presence.

If you would see God, watch for Him everywhere. If you would hear His voice, listen for it in all sounds and also in their supporting silences. If you would know God, seek His wisdom behind merely human knowledge.

The Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter, states:

One who beholds My presence everywhere,

And all things dwelling equally in Me,

He never loses loving sight of Me,

Nor I of him, through all eternity.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded December 4th 2022. 

This week's reading is:

What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?

(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The first passage is from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 25. Jesus tells the Parable of the Ten Virgins, five of them wise, and five, foolish. They await their Bridegroom, the Christ Consciousness. The wise virgins keep the oil in their lamps, symbolic of their devotion, lit through the night. The foolish virgins placed no oil in their lamps. These foolish ones are like the average devotee, going through the motions of outer ritual but keeping no fire of love burning in the heart.

When the Bridegroom’s coming is announced, the foolish virgins realize their mistake, and hasten out to purchase oil. During their absence, the Christ Consciousness comes and embraces those who have been awaiting him with devotion. The foolish ones, by their lackluster devotion, are not accepted by him. “‘Watch, therefore,’” Jesus told his listeners, “‘for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.’”

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda describes the “foolish virgin” consciousness he encountered in the Mahamandal hermitage he stayed in as a young man, in Benares. “I was pleased,” he wrote,

that my new home possessed an attic, where I managed to spend the dawn and morning hours. The ashram members, knowing little of meditation practices, thought I should employ my whole time in organizational duties. They gave me praise for my afternoon work in their office.

“Don’t try to catch God so soon!” This ridicule accompanied one of my early departures toward the attic.…[Later, during meditation] I felt lifted as though bodily to a sphere uncircumscribed.

“Thy Master cometh today!” A divine womanly voice came from everywhere and nowhere.

This supernal experience was pierced by a shout from a definite locale. A young priest nicknamed Habu was calling me from the downstairs kitchen.

“Mukunda, enough of meditation! You are needed for an errand.”

The Divine Mother’s words were not spoken for the benefit of that priest – the “foolish virgin,” but for Mukunda, the “wise virgin.” For this was the day his guru, Sri Yukteswar, came to him.

Grieve not, friends, if you feel that you have been foolish. No error is forever. Someday, if you keep your lamp lit now, your opportunity will come. In the Bhagavad Gita, the sixth Chapter, Krishna promises every devotee:

Arjuna, none who works for self-redemption

Will ever meet an evil destiny!

Spiritual failure, though a deep disappointment, is always temporary. “Eternal Hellfire” is but a projection of vindictiveness in the human mind.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded November 27th 2022.

When "bad" things keep happening to us, it may feel like life is unfair. In this Sunday Service Nayaswami Jyotish explains the law of karma and describes it as an individualized lesson plan. He shares how we can best learn the lessons from our lesson plan through:

 	Affirmations
 	Attitudes
 	Success thoughts
 	Attunement to the Guru and
 	Kriya Yoga

&amp;nbsp;

This week's reading is:

The Law of Karma – Bondage, or Soul-Release
(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians contains this oft-quoted statement:

Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

In Autobiography of a Yogi Paramhansa tells a story from the life of the Benares saint Trailanga Swami:

A skeptic once determined to expose Trailanga as a charlatan. A large bucket of calcium-lime mixture, used in whitewashing walls, was placed before the swami.

“Master,” the materialist said, in mock reverence, “I have brought you some clabbered milk. Please drink it.”

Trailanga unhesitatingly drained, to the last drop, the containerful of burning lime. In a few minutes the evildoer fell to the ground in agony.

“Help, swami, help!” he cried. “I am on fire! Forgive my wicked test!”

The great yogi broke his habitual silence. “Scoffer,” he said, “you did not realize when you offered me poison that my life is one with your own. Except for my knowledge that God is present in my stomach, as in every atom of creation, the lime would have killed me. Now that you know the divine meaning of boomerang, never again play tricks on anyone.”

The well-purged sinner, healed by Trailanga’s words, slunk feebly away.

Yogananda goes on to say:

The reversal of pain was not due to any volition of the master, but came about through unerring application of the law of justice which upholds creation’s farthest swinging orb. Men of God-realization like Trailanga allow the divine law to operate instantaneously; they have banished forever all thwarting crosscurrents of ego.

Not by reason alone, but by Self-realization, are the ins and outs of destiny fully understood. Their web, though tied forever to the post of ego-motivation, is too intricate to be perceived as a single thread. Only great masters can see it with clarity. It is visible to them in all its workings – not from within the tangle, but from above, in superconsciousness.

As Sri Krishna said in the fourth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita: “He who beholds inaction in action, and action in inaction, is wise among men; he is one with the Spirit; he has attained the true goal of action (perfect freedom).”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Sundara Traymar and Tyagi Atman at Ananda Village, recorded November 20th 2022.

This week's reading is:

Reincarnation – the Spiral Staircase
(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Book of Revelation, Chapter 3, Jesus Christ tells us: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out.”

There is a difference between Church dogmas, which are based on reasoned deductions from Scriptural statements, and the pronouncements of wisdom, which are based on the inner realization of Scriptural truths. Reason, like a train, can only follow already-existing tracks of human experience. Human memory, being short, is seldom able to cross back over the threshold of a person’s present existence. Biblical references to previous lifetimes on earth are overlooked in the deductive process, and we find them therefore excluded from the body of official dogma. Nevertheless, such references exist. The Bible itself presents them – as does Jesus in this passage – not as abstract teaching, but as direct, personal perception of truth.

In the same way Krishna, in the Bhagavad Gita, silences Arjuna’s reasonable doubts on the subject not by reasoned argument, but by the frank statement contained in the fourth Chapter of that great Scripture:

Arjuna, you and I have passed through many births. I know all of them, though you, O chastiser of foes, recall them not.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Nayaswami Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded November 13th 2022.

In the Bible, Jesus tells the story of the prodigal son, who, after leaving and wasting all of his father's money, comes back to the palace to be received with open arms. Nayawami Parvati sheds light on the deeper meaning of this parable and how the prodigal son's journey represents the journey of almost every soul on earth.

This week's reading is:

The Promise of the Scriptures

(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 15, we read the famous Parable of the Prodigal Son. Jesus tells of the man who took the wealth bestowed on him by his father, and squandered it in foreign lands, where he fell into evil ways. At last, repentant, he returned to his father’s home. When his father saw him, he was (Jesus tells us)

moved with compassion, and ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.” But the father said to his servants, “Fetch quickly the best robe and put it on him, and give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet; and bring out the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; because this my son was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” And they began to make merry.

Small-hearted human beings, identified as they are with their little egos, give exaggerated importance to any slight they receive from others. Thus, they imagine God, like them, to be petty, unpardoning, and vindictive. In God’s eyes, however, when human beings go astray there is nothing to forgive. All of us are aspects, only, of His own Self. He who made us resides in us. He is not far away from us in some far-off heaven. His call to us, always, is to return to our own home, within.

The way of return is described in the Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter:

Supreme blessedness is that yogi’s who has completely calmed his mind, controlled his ego-active tendencies (rajas), and purged himself of desire, thereby attaining oneness with Brahma, the Infinite Spirit.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Nayaswami Ananta at Ananda Village, recorded November 6th 2022.

Faith, as opposed to mere belief, is based on personal experience and deep conviction. When we meditate on God with deep concentration, we attain that experience that gives us profound faith in Him. 

In this Sunday Service, Nayaswami Maria shares how the power of faith takes us victoriously through life's challenges. She emphasizes the power of attunement to the Divine and attuning ourselves to those who already have obtained full faith in God. 


This week's reading is:

Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith

(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapters 7 and 21, we read:

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. . . .

Verily I say unto you, if you have faith, and doubt not…if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

Paramhansa Yogananda showed by his own example that prayer is a power, provided we believe deeply in that power. When our thoughts and feelings are strongly focused and then united in growing awareness to the Divine Presence within, they can bring even seemingly unrealistic wishes to fulfillment.

When Paramhansa Yogananda was in charge of his school in Ranchi, India, he took the boys on occasional outings to the surrounding countryside. “There was a waterfall not far away,” he told Swami Kriyananda, “where I took them sometimes. It was dangerous to cross there. But I would cry out to the boys, ‘Do you believe in God?’ ‘Yes!’ they would shout back enthusiastically. And so we always crossed in safety.

“Years later, after I’d gone to America, one of the teachers tried to do the same thing, but he lacked spiritual power. One of the boys slipped on a rock and was drowned.”

Thus, the Master explained, belief alone is not enough. It must be united to one-pointed awareness, which leads to Self-realization. The Bhagavad Gita, in the sixth Chapter, underscores the necessity for such one-pointed concentration:

Whenever the mind, fickle and restless, wanders off from its concentration, let the meditating yogi withdraw it resolutely, spurning every distraction (no matter how alluring!), and bring it back again and again under the control of the Self.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Badri Matlock and Nayaswami Parvati with Nayaswami Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded October 30th 2022.

It may seem unnecessary to tell God things He already knows, but sharing our thoughts and feelings with God is an essential part of the spiritual path.
Badri Matlock illustrates why God wants us to share with Him through the eye of a parent. Then he shares in depth how opening up to God transforms us as it leads to ego transcendence.

This week's reading is:

Why Tell God Anything When He Knows Everything? Why Offer God Anything, When He Has Everything?


(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ teaches as the ideal prayer one that addresses very human demands to God: “Give us this day our daily bread,” “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” and, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

Jesus himself says, just before suggesting this prayer, “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” Why, then, his recommendation that we pray for anything? The answer is that we should offer ourselves up in acceptance of His abundance. Don’t pester God, as though pulling constantly on His sleeve to get His attention. Approach Him with the confidence of a child in its parent. And in that spirit, then, ask Him lovingly, but with complete trust, as though demanding your birthright, and without the slightest doubt in your mind that He wants only your best. For you don’t have to persuade Him, the way a beggar or a stranger might. You are His own child.

God knows everything already. He knows what is in your heart. It is you who need to clarify your feelings, that you attune yourself to Him in turn more clearly. For only by such clarity will you be able to receive perfectly what He gives you.

For the same reason, we need to offer ourselves to Him not because He needs anything from us (except, as Yogananda said, our love, to complete His love for us), but because by self-giving we expand our awareness from its confinement in the little ego, outward to infinity.

“Those who partake of the nectar remaining after a sacrifice,” says the Bhagavad Gita in the fourth Chapter, “attain to the Infinite Spirit. That person, however, who makes no sacrifices never truly succeeds in enjoying even the blessings of this material world; how, then, could he attain happiness in subtler realms?”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Jitendra Guindon and Nayaswami Maria and Nayaswami Ananta at Ananda Village, recorded October 23rd 2022.

When we pray to God, we often don't know if what we pray for is (spiritually) beneficial for us. But God knows and works with our reality.
In this Sunday Service Jitendra emphasizes that we have to make God our very own to pray most effectively.

Paramhansa Yogananda said to think of God while we pray as:

 	listening
 	loving
 	attentive
 	all ever-accepting

Jitendra expands on the importance of cultivating and deepening our relationship with God in whatever form we worship Him.

This week's reading is:

What Is the Best Way to Pray?

(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ and Sri Krishna, both, advised praying to God as personal. Yet both emphasized also that God is above form, and that He must be sought, ultimately, in Infinity. As Jesus put it, “God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

Yet he spoke of God constantly as our Heavenly Father. In what is known as the Lord’s Prayer, he proposed a very human prayer to the Heavenly Father, asking fulfillment for all our spiritual needs.

The Bhagavad Gita explains that man, living as he does in a human body, finds it difficult to worship Infinity as though the ego and body didn’t even exist. Far better for human beings, Krishna says, to work with reality as we know it than to affirm a reality of which the human mind is incapable of forming any clear notion. Encouraging the devotee in this direction, he says, “O Arjuna, be thou a yogi!” – that is to say, be one who works with, not in rejection of, the energies of the body and the natural tendencies of the mind.

In the twelfth Chapter of the Gita, Arjuna asks:

“Those who, ever steadfast, worship Thee as devotees [that is to say, in an “I” and “Thou” relationship], and those who contemplate Thee as the immortal, unmanifested Spirit – which group is the better versed in yoga?”

The blessed Lord replied: “Those who, fixing their minds on Me, adore Me, ever united to Me through supreme devotion, are in My eyes the perfect knowers of yoga. . . .

“Those whose strict aim is union with the Unmanifested choose a more difficult way; arduous for embodied beings is The Path of dedication to the Absolute” – the followers, that is to say, of The Path of Gyana Yoga.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Tyagi Atman and Tyagi Bhaktimarg at Ananda Village, recorded October 16th 2022.

Jesus Christ said: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
For those who want to put God first, Tyagi Atman offers ways to make God the center of our lives. Some of the topics that he touches are:


the role of Gyana Yoga and Bhakti yoga 
the importance of having the right consciousness and intention
how tuning into different "bhavs" (moods) can enrich our spiritual journey and deepen our devotion. 

Tyagi Atman shares lessons from the deep inspiration he found on his pilgrimages to India.

This week's reading is:

First Things First

(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

That expression, “First things first,” is a piece of counsel often given to students of business techniques. It is the advice of practicality to those who aspire to worldly success. But according to the Hermetic doctrine, “As above, so below,” that which works best in one level of life is often the best guide to what will work best on every other level. If a person is true to his highest priorities, he will generally find that his other needs are fulfilled naturally as well.

This is true, certainly, of the search for God. One of the greatest sayings of Jesus Christ was this simple sentence, in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 6:

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Paramhansa Yogananda gave his elder brother Ananta a wonderful lesson in this truth. It was Ananta who had captured him and brought him back from his flight to the Himalayas, described by Yogananda in Autobiography of a Yogi. In Yogananda’s book we read how Ananta later challenged him, in the city of Agra, to pit his divine faith against such “practical” worldly considerations as the need for earning a living. Fearless before that challenge, the young aspirant agreed to go by train, without any money, to the nearby town of Brindaban; not to miss a single meal in Brindaban; and to find his way back to Agra without begging and without in any other way asking for help. In one of the most thrilling chapters in the book, Yogananda fulfilled all the conditions of the test. Yogananda continued the account:

As the tale was unfolded, my brother turned sober, then solemn.

“The law of demand and supply reaches into subtler realms than I had supposed.” Ananta spoke with a spiritual enthusiasm never before noticeable. “I understand for the first time your indifference to the vaults and vulgar accumulations of the world.”

Late as it was, my brother insisted that he receive diksha (initiation) into Kriya Yoga.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the ninth Chapter:

Those who worship lesser gods go to their gods…but those who worship Me come to Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Mantradevi and Nayaswami Krishnadas at Ananda Village, recorded October 9th 2022.

This week's reading is:

Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction

(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ said in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 10:

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

He that findeth [that is to say, that clingeth to] his life shall lose it: and he that loseth [in other words, that giveth up] his life for my sake shall find it.

God tests the firmness of our faith. The “sword” described here is the sword of discrimination. The struggle Jesus describes is not a war against unknown enemies, but the struggle with our own attachment to all that is nearest and dearest to us, humanly speaking. Ultimately, it is a war against the ego itself, and against anything with which we surround ourselves to bolster the ego’s fragile sense of security.

When Yogananda, as a boy, fled to the Himalayas to embrace a life of solitary meditation, he was apprehended by his older brother Ananta, and brought home again. At a certain point, before he would accept defeat, he whispered to his friend Amar, his companion on the flight, “Let us slip away when opportunity offers. We can go on foot to Rishikesh.”

But Amar, whose brother had accompanied Ananta, had turned pessimist, disclaiming any intention of continuing their adventure. Yogananda’s memorable comment on Amar’s refusal was, “He was enjoying the familial warmth.”

The spiritual warrior rejects that “familial warmth.” Rather, he claims the whole universe as his home.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the fourteenth Chapter:

Unaffected by outward joys and sorrows, or by praise and blame; secure in his divine nature; regarding with equal gaze a clod of mud, a stone, and a bar of gold; impartial toward all experiences, whether pleasant or unpleasant; firm-minded; untouched by either praise or blame; treating everyone alike whether friend or foe; free from the delusion that, in anything he does, he is the doer: Such an one has transcended Nature’s triune qualities.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[When we experience uncomfortable feelings, they always originate from the ego. When we surrender our ego, our identification with the little self, all discomfort dissolves. Nayaswami Ananta shares through stories from the lives of Krishna and Jesus, how the mantra "Thy will be done" can guide us to inner freedom and victory.

Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded October 2nd 2022.

This week's reading is:

In Surrender Lies Victory!


(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

A case might be made for surrender as a path to victory in worldly conflicts – the way of passive resistance, for example, in preference to armed resistance. But our point here concerns a higher kind of surrender: the surrender of our deluded, egoic will to the wise and almighty will of God.

Human will is, as Paramhansa Yogananda used to say, guided by whims and limited understanding. The divine will is in harmony with every level of reality. Though the divine will sometimes appears to us, at first, to be wrong, it proves always, eventually, to be for our highest good.

Human will is inconsistent; it leads us one day to success, another, to disaster. The divine will, when we surrender to it completely (though it is not always easy to do so!), always brings us deep inner peace and joy in the end.

Jesus Christ demonstrated this perfect surrender to God’s will in the Garden of Gethsemane, the night before he was captured and imprisoned, preparatory to his crucifixion. He went apart from the others to pray, and asked them to pray also. But when he returned to them he found them asleep.

Out of his love for them he excused them, saying, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” He then urged them again, saying, “Watch and pray.” Their weakness, in those circumstances, was particularly sad, and the disciples themselves must have regretted it bitterly, later on.

We all know the symptoms of human weakness, though we may excuse them in ourselves, saying, “Well, after all, I’m only human.” But what are the signs of true strength? We find in all cases that these are the fruit of a life wholly surrendered to God. The Bhagavad Gita lists these signs in the thirteenth Chapter:

Humbleness, truthfulness, and harmlessness,

Patience and honor, reverence for the wise,

Purity, constancy, control of self,

Contempt for sense-delights, self-sacrifice,

Perception of the certainty of ill

In birth, old age, and frail mortality,

Disease, the ego’s suffering, and sin;

Detachment, lightly holding thoughts of home,

Children, and wife – those ties which bind most men;

An ever-tranquil heart, heedless of good

Or adverse fortune, with the will upraised

To worship Me alone, unceasingly;

Loving deep solitude, and shunning noise

Of foolish crowds; calm focus on the Self

Perceived within and in Infinity:

These qualities reveal true Wisdom, Prince.

All that is otherwise is ignorance!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Brahmachari Sagar and Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded September 25th 2022.

As different as the many spiritual paths outwardly may be, they all take the devotee through the same stepping stones. Through stories and examples, Brahmachari Sagar helps us tune into the one element on the path that will take us to truth, no matter how often we waver.

This week's reading is:

Many Are the Pathways to Truth

(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

On the dedication page of Swami Kriyananda’s book The Path appears the following account:

A group of Paramhansa Yogananda’s disciples had gone with him to see a movie about the life of Gyandev, a great saint of medieval India. Afterwards they gathered and listened to the Master explain certain, subtler, aspects of that inspiring story. A young man in the group mentioned another film he had seen years earlier, in India, about the life of Mirabai, a famous woman saint.

“If you’d seen that movie,” he exclaimed, “you wouldn’t even have liked this one!”

The Guru rebuked him. “Why make such comparisons? The lives of great saints manifest in various ways the same, one God.”

The Bible contains a similar account in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 9:

And John…said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.

And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

The more central a truth, the greater the number of contexts in which it can be applied. Truth is like a pure white light, containing within itself the full spectrum of the rainbow.

Let no one tell you what your path to God ought to be. Many are The Paths. Select your own according to the dictates of your own nature, no matter how out of step that puts you with other people.

Sri Krishna in the third Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, states:

Trying even unsuccessfully to fulfill one’s own spiritual duty (dharma) is better than pursuing successfully the duties of others. Better death itself in the pursuance of one’s own duties. The pursuance of another’s duties is fraught with (spiritual) danger.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Krishnadas and Nayaswami Mantradevi at Ananda Village, recorded September 18th 2022.

Developing intuition is essential on the path of Self-Realization. It is through intuitive perception that we can know God. In this Sunday Service Nayaswami Krishnadas answers the following questions:

 	How can feeling and reason support our intuition?
 	What are the pitfalls of reason in our quest for intuitive perception?
 	What is the antidote to the downside of the intellect?

Nayaswami Krishnadas shares from the heart with relatable examples.

This week's reading is:
Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex
(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Mark, Chapter 10, we read a passage that Yogananda often quoted:

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

It has often been noted that a critical attitude tends to paralyze creativity. Good critics, for example, seldom produce works of creative genius, though their creations may be intellectually clever. The intellect separates; it analyzes, then puts things together again piece by piece. Intellect lacks intuition’s flow, which descends smoothly, like a river, from the superconscious.

Paramhansa Yogananda described intuition as “the soul’s power of knowing God.” To receive the kingdom of God, Jesus was saying, one must do so with the openness and trust of a little child. Intellectuals may object to this statement, saying, “But there must also be discrimination. You wouldn’t want a person to be so open-minded that his brain falls out!” The truth is, however, that the intellect can be fooled, even when it does its best to discriminate wisely. Only intuition is capable of penetrating to the heart of a matter and knowing truth from falsehood. It was the clear understanding of a child, not the elaborately persuaded intellects of his elders, that enabled the child in Hans Christian Andersen’s story to cry out in surprise, “Why isn’t the Emperor wearing any clothes?”

Therefore it was that Sri Krishna said, in the ninth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

To you, who are free from the carping spirit, I shall now reveal wisdom sublime. Grasping it with your mind, and perceiving it by intuitive realization, you shall escape the evils of delusion.

Thus, through Holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded September 11th 2022.

One key ingredient to finding spiritual truth is commitment. Nayaswami Pranaba explains why intentions on their own are not enough and how commitment leads us to truth and transformation.
He dives deeper into this topic by explaining the real meaning of the Beatitudes, which are often not well understood.

Nayaswami Pranaba sheds light on the following Beatitudes:

 	Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
 	Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the Earth.
 	Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
 	Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God

This week's reading is:
Truth Invites; It Never Commands
(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Free will is a basic principle of life. God never coerces: He invites us to live in such a way that we find fulfillment in ourselves. If we refuse to live rightly, Paramhansa Yogananda taught, God simply says, “I will wait.” We have eternity to live. In that eternity we live as we choose: in self-created darkness – a darkness as intense, and as long lasting, as we choose – or in the infinite light, the true Self, which is God.

Jesus Christ in the Beatitudes offered a beautiful example of God’s way of inviting mankind to seek perfection – not by commanding, but by offering His human children the incentive they need to choose the right of their own volition.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit,” Jesus said, “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.…Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.…Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”

In each of the Beatitudes Jesus explains the blessing attendant upon observing it. The divine way, similarly, for each of us is not to do violence to our own natures. Spirituality must be attained naturally. It can never be attained by force.

The Bhagavad Gita says, in the third Chapter:

Even the wise behave in accordance with Nature as it is manifested in them. Of what avail, then, is suppression?

The Scripture then goes on, however, to explain that this doesn’t mean we should surrender to the dictates of our lower nature. Rather, it emphasizes our need to aspire to the heights, but each of us in accordance with his own nature and not in imitation of anyone else’s, offering ourselves up for purification by divine grace. Desire, whatever form it takes – so the Bhagavad Gita explains – should be resisted, even if only mentally. “Attachment and repulsion to sense objects, both of these are universally rooted. No one should accept their influence. For, verily, they are man’s enemies.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded September 4th 2022.

Is the ego just our friend or our foe? Or can it be both?

Nayaswami Ananta explains why the ego can bring us so much suffering and how it doesn't have to be that way.
He dives deeper into how the following three practices can help us turn our ego enemy into our ego friend:

 	The practice of meditation
 	Seeing our highest potential
 	Expanding our sense of what we see around us

This week's reading is:
Ego: Friend or Foe?
(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ begins his Beatitudes with the words:

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

To be “poor in spirit” in such a way as to merit the kingdom of heaven doesn’t mean to be poor-spirited. Rather, it means to see oneself as owning nothing, since all belongs to God. For all is a manifestation of His consciousness.

St. John of the Cross wrote, “If you would own everything, seek to own nothing.” That which the ego relinquishes, offering it up to soul-consciousness, is reclaimed forever in cosmic consciousness. Nothing is ever lost. Paramhansa Yogananda tells the story in Autobiography of a Yogi of the levitating saint, Bhaduri Mahasaya.

“Master,” said a disciple of this saint once, ardently. “You are wonderful! You have renounced riches and comforts to seek God and teach us wisdom!” It was well-known that Bhaduri Mahasaya had forsaken great family wealth in his early childhood, when single-mindedly he entered the yogic path.

“You are reversing the case! The saint’s face held mild rebuke. “I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciates! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!”

The Bhagavad Gita in the third Chapter states:

All things are everywhere by Nature wrought

In interaction of the qualities.

The fool, cheated by self, thinks, ‘This I did’

And ‘That I wrought’; but – ah, thou strong-armed prince! –

A better-lessoned mind, knowing the play

Of visible things within the world of sense,

And how the qualities must qualify,

Standeth aloof even from his acts.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Mantradevi and Nayaswami Krishnadas at Ananda Village, recorded August 28th 2022.

When we relate too much to our physical reality; our body, our senses, and our personal relationships, we lose more and more our connection with God. The path of Self-Realization brings us back to Him, going beyond all matter and form. This is the path the saints take.

In this Sunday Service Nayaswami Mantradevi shares several stories demonstrating the importance of raising our consciousness on the path of Self-Realization.

This week's reading is:
Who Are True Christians?
(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ said, in Chapter 10 of the Gospel of St. John: “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.”

Many Christians, not surprisingly, quote this saying in condemnation of other spiritual teachers – not only the old Testament prophets, but also Buddha, Krishna, and others who lived before Jesus, as well as (by inference) any who came after him. Yet Jesus himself said, in St. Matthew Chapter 5, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”

Nowhere do we find Jesus condemning, or even gently criticizing, other spiritual masters. His criticisms were reserved for worldly attitudes, and for those hypocritical Pharisees who had allowed religion to become, for them, a pretense.

Paramhansa Yogananda explained that the expression “All that ever came before me” referred to those spiritual teachers who place their egos and their self-importance ahead of the Christ Consciousness, in the sense of drawing people’s devotion to themselves and not offering it where alone it truly belongs, to God.

Yogananda himself was very firm in this regard. For example, he never spoke of anyone as his disciple. Instead, he always insisted, “They are God’s disciples. God is the Guru, not I.”

Ego is a way-station on the soul’s journey toward enlightenment. The soul is first trapped in lower bodily forms. Slowly it evolves to the human level, at which point self-consciousness appears. Only in human form can self-consciousness transcend material form altogether, including the lower identity of ego-consciousness, and discover the true, divine Self within. Self-consciousness manifested as ego is an incentive to deliberate self-development. Later in this process of development, however, the ego becomes an obstruction. Inevitably, new spiritual aspirants do not emerge effortlessly from the vortex of ego-consciousness. Desire must be offered up resolutely and ever-more wholeheartedly on the altar of Infinity. It is a gradual process, and few even among those who seek to help others are free of ego. If, however, their motive in teaching is not to serve, but to be served, they deserve a severe reprimand, as Jesus gave them. For their direction of development is no longer upward, but downward. In the name of giving up desires they are creating new ones. As it says in the Bhagavad Gita in the third Chapter:

Desire obscures even the wisdom of the wise. Their relentless foe it is, a flame never quenched.

Intellect, mind, and senses: These combined are referred to as the seat of desire. Desire, through them, deludes and eclipses the discrimination of the embodied soul.

O Arjuna, discipline your senses! And, having done so, work to destroy desire, annihilator of wisdom and of Self-realization.

Give God the credit for everything you do. See Him as the true Doer.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Tyagi Atman and Tyagi Bhaktimarg at Ananda Village, recorded August 21nd 2022.

Everything that comes to us in life comes from God and comes specifically to us because of our past actions. In this Sunday Service Tyagi Atman shares why tests are actually blessings in disguise. He explains the role and true meaning of Tapasya and how its practice gives us opportunities to grow in daily life.

Tyagi Atman concludes with examples from Swami Kriyananda's life, how he continuously rose in the highest possible way to meet his tests, and how his tests strengthened him and helped those around him.

This week's reading is:
How Should We Meet Our Tests?
(From Rays of the One Light - Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda)

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we considered Satan’s temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, after his baptism by John. We discussed the question, Does Satan exist?

All of us experience temptation of one kind or another in our lives – some of us, frequently; others, only occasionally. Whether temptation comes to us from our own subconscious, or from outside ourselves, is secondary to the fact that it does come, and that we must deal with it. More important, then, is the question, How to deal with it – in fact, how to deal with tests of any kind?

Martin Luther flung an ink pot at the devil, who had appeared to test him. A dark stain on the wall of Luther’s cell is pointed out to tourists in support of this story. Unfortunately, our trials are not often so summarily dismissed. As a fellow monk once said to Swami Kriyananda, speaking of Satan, “If only I could get my hands on him!”

Jesus during his temptations in the wilderness overcame them, and thereby set an example for all time, by clinging the more determinedly to God. As Paramhansa Yogananda used to say, “Darkness cannot be driven out of a room with a stick. Once you turn on the light, however, the darkness will vanish as though it had never been.” Jesus manifested this principle. The Bible tells us therefore that at last, “The devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.”

In the Bhagavad Gita the point is clarified further by the added explanation that there are three qualities in human nature: sattvic, or spiritually elevating; rajasic, or ego-activating; and tamasic, or spiritually darkening. It is this triune aspect of human nature that the third Chapter refers to with the words:

As fire is hidden by smoke, as a mirror is dulled by rust, and as an embryo is enclosed in the womb, so is the indwelling Self enveloped by desire.

Yogananda explained that each of these examples describes one of the qualities, or gunas. Sattva guna, that which elevates our consciousness, can be freed of any identity with ego by a little puff of meditation and right affirmation. Rajo guna, which embroils the ego in restless activity, can be worked off with a little more, and a little longer, effort. Tamo guna, embracing as it does such mental states as laziness and stupidity, can only be outgrown in time, since it inhibits even the desire for self-improvement.

The example Jesus gave us was intended more for those in whom sattva guna is predominant. But if you yourself find elements in your consciousness that resist even the effort to cling to God in prayer and meditation, don’t despair. Patience, as it has been well said, is the fastest path to God. As long as your efforts take you steadfastly in the right direction, you will come out right in time. Remember Yogananda’s words: “A saint is a sinner who never gave up.”

If, however, your nature impels you, even against your will, to move in the wrong direction – toward egoic desires, and away from God – strive at least to detach yourself mentally from your wrong actions, which are induced by habit. The time will come when their own stored-up energy will tire and diminish. At that time, if you have not contributed to that energy by your consenting will, you will find it possible at last to redirect your energies more constructively.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Erin Vinacco and Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded August 14th 2022.

Delusion seems to be an obvious force in life, but it can catch us with its subtle ways: sometimes appearing to be good disguised as our likes and dislikes and desires.

In this Sunday Service, Erin talks about the two currents of consciousness: one that draws us downward and outward to attachment and another that brings us inward and upward back towards our true home in God and Spirit.

She raises the question many may ask themselves: if all is God, why would He create delusion? Erin continues to share solutions: now that I am here, what can I do to get out of delusion?

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Does Satan Exist?
Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Bible tells us in Chapter 4 of the Gospel of St. Matthew:

Then [after baptism] was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

To most modern minds, this passage seems quaintly obsolete. Psychologists would say – have said, in fact – that the temptation of Jesus, if it occurred at all, was purely psychological. They call it a projection of desires lurking in his own subconscious mind.

The subconscious plays a strong part, certainly, even if not a unique one, in any testing the spiritual seeker must undergo.

The Bhagavad Gita, in dealing with this undeniable reality, quotes Arjuna in the third Chapter, and then Sri Krishna’s reply:

“Yet tell me, Teacher! [said Arjuna] by what force doth man

Go to his ill, unwilling; as if one

Pushed him in that path?”

[Krishna replied:]

“Desire it is!

Passion it is! born of the Darknesses,

Which pusheth him. Mighty of appetite,

Sinful, and strong is this! – man’s enemy!”

Yet even Krishna describes passion as “born of the Darknesses.” The fact is, as Paramhansa Yogananda wrote in Autobiography of a Yogi, “All thoughts vibrate eternally in the cosmos.…Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived.” Psychology, yes, but psychology attuned to currents of consciousness that pervade the entire universe, attracted by each of us according to our own personal inclinations.

Yogananda, quoted in The Path, said, “I used to think Satan was only a human invention, but now I know, and add my testimony to that of others who lived before me, that Satan is a reality. He is a universal, conscious force whose sole aim is to keep all beings bound to the wheel of delusion.”

We should take pains, then, to attract uplifting currents of universal consciousness, and to avoid attracting the negative, which – disease that it is! – can infect our thoughts even while it leads us to believe that our thoughts are purely our own.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Nayaswami Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded August 7th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Does God Hide the Truth?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In last week’s reading we saw that the great masters themselves counsel discretion in the dissemination of truth. The counter-argument is sometimes made, “But the Lord doesn’t hide! He reveals His beauty in the sunsets, His tender sympathy in the rain, His wrath in the thunder, His restless energy in the brooks, His power in the sunlight.”

There are exoteric truths, and there are also esoteric truths. There is that which is revealed impersonally and left up to us to interpret – such as the thunder and our perception of it as divine wrath; the rain and our perception of it as God’s sympathy. But behind even God’s most open expressions there lies impenetrable mystery.

“The wind blows where it wills,” said Jesus in Chapter 3 of the Gospel of St. John. “You hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from, or where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

And Sri Krishna says in the ninth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

By Me the whole vast Universe of things

Is spread abroad; – by Me, the Unmanifest!

In Me are all existences contained;

Not I in them!

God’s hidden reality cannot be understood by the reasoning faculty. India’s Shankya philosophy states frankly, “Ishwar ashiddha: God is not provable.”

A willingness to seek the underlying reality behind appearances is essential for those who would know God.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded July 31st 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
How Democratic Is Truth?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

We live in an age when people assume that knowledge should be available equally to all. In matters susceptible of judgment by normal common sense, however, everyone knows there are exceptions. Access to a control room for intercontinental missiles is limited, by universal consent, to a very few. Access to the controls of a passenger airliner is limited to those with the necessary knowledge for operating them, and also to those with the proper authorization. If people don’t see the disadvantages of making more subtle knowledge universally available, it is only because they are ignorant of the risks involved.

In the case of subtle knowledge, the main disadvantage in making it universally available is the harm it might do to the person himself. True, by mocking truth he might undermine the faith of a few truth seekers. But then, such tests can also be beneficial, as a means of strengthening faith. Again true, the clever doubter’s misrepresentation of those truths may dissuade a few seekers from following the spiritual path. But if a seeker really is sincere, he will recognize the truth eventually because it resonates with his own being.

No, the greatest problem accrues to the shallow doubter himself. To give him an opportunity to affirm his ignorance might only estrange him even more from the truth, delaying the time when he will turn – as all people must, eventually – to the light.

Thus, the Scriptures advise, not secrecy, but discretion in the sharing of truth. Jesus Christ says in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 7:

Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

And Sri Krishna says in the eighteenth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita:

Never speak of these truths to one who is without self-control or devotion, who renders no service, who does not care to hear, or who speaks ill of Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Asha Nayaswami and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded July 24th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Do You Need a Guru?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Many people scoff at the idea of having a guru. True to human nature generally, they make a virtue of their scoffing. “I am responsible for what I do,” they announce, “responsible for my mistakes as well as for my victories. What would I ever learn if I handed over my development to someone else? To depend on another for guidance would be an act of spiritual cowardice.”

It would be understandable for someone gifted with some trivial ability, for instance with words, to insist on doing his crossword puzzle himself without letting anyone else help him. But supposing, even in such trivial matters, he had no such gift? What virtue would there be in refusing to learn? For that matter, where would the gift itself come from? That which is a gift is not a native ability. Still, crossword puzzles are hardly an important challenge. What if a person wanted to do something daring: to climb a cliff, for instance, but refused to study the art of mountain climbing? He would climb at the risk of his life.

And how much more is risked than physical life in the great adventure of the divine search, where the risk is to salvation itself! Where is the sacrifice in seeking guidance? Even a mountain guide wouldn’t presume to do one’s climbing for one; his purpose would be only to help the neophyte to climb safely. To have a wise guru is not a sign of weakness, but of plain common sense.

All the saints, aware as they are of the hazards of the adventure, agree on the importance of having a guide, or guru. And these are the heroes speaking, not cowards or spiritual weaklings.

Jesus emphasized the importance of having a teacher by asking John to baptize him. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 3, we read of his coming to John. “Thus,” Jesus said to John, “it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.”

In the Bhagavad Gita, the fourth Chapter, Sri Krishna says:

Open thyself to those who have attained wisdom. They will be thy teachers. Ask questions of them [both verbally and mentally]. Serve them faithfully, and with devotion.

How is the devotee to recognize one who has attained wisdom? The Bhagavad Gita gives us this inspiring description of the sage:

By this sign is he known,

Being of equal grace to comrades, friends,

Chance-comers, strangers, lovers, enemies,

Aliens and kinsmen; loving all alike,

Evil or good.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded July 17th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

These past weeks we discussed the need for balancing self-effort with receptivity to divine grace. Both are important in the spiritual life. Passive dependence on grace hasn’t the magnetism to attract grace. Boastful self-confidence, however, which closes itself off from the higher, divine power is shallow, brittle, and – given life’s many uncertainties – susceptible to ultimate failure.

There is a story in the Bible that illustrates the need to put forth personal effort so as to draw magnetically on the divine power. The story occurs in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 8:

But as he went, the crowds nearly suffocated him. Among them was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years and who had derived no benefit from anybody’s treatment. She came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak. As a result, her hemorrhage stopped immediately.

“Who was it who touched me?” Jesus asked.

When everybody denied it, Peter remonstrated,

“Master, the crowds are all round, pressing you on every side!”

But Jesus said, “Somebody touched me. I felt power going out from me.”

When the woman realized that she had not escaped notice, she came forward trembling and fell at his feet, and admitted before everyone why she had touched him, adding that she had been instantaneously cured.

“Daughter,” Jesus said, “It is by your faith that you have been healed. Go in peace.”

Self-confidence and self-effort are necessary, as the ignition of a car is necessary to the motor. Of what use the ignition, however, if the motor itself will not work? Wise is he who recognizes the real power in the universe, and guides his life by that supreme power. As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the ninth Chapter:

To those who meditate on Me as their Very Own, ever united to Me by incessant worship, I make good their deficiencies, and render permanent their gains.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev and Nayaswami Susan at Ananda Village, recorded July 10th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we considered the need for attunement – with God, with the gurus, with the wisdom of others – until we make that wisdom our own. There is a strong, and in fact valid, belief nowadays in the need for standing on one’s own feet rather than depending weakly on others to carry us by their strength.

Swami Kriyananda was once asked, “What is the best yoga posture?” “That one,” he replied, “which sets you squarely on your own two feet.”

Our strength must come from within. If that strength comes from the ego, however, instead of from soul-consciousness, it is like a guitar string without its sounding board: the notes it emits will be thin and feeble. Our strength must come from within, but must be coupled with recognition of our inner link with broader and higher realities.

The Bhagavad Gita says in the tenth Chapter:

Everyone in this world whose life is glorious, or prosperous, or powerful – know that his achievement is but a little spark from the great sun of My effulgence.

Jesus in talking to his disciples emphasized also the power of attunement with his own consciousness as a ray of the Divine. For this ray had descended already, through him, in response to their devotion; it was a sign that God was already “listening” to them with receptive attention, and did not require to be wooed in that way any longer. In the passage preceding the one that we read last week, Jesus said:

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

This was the meaning of Paramhansa Yogananda’s counsel also, when speaking more intimately to the disciples of the need for attunement with him.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, recorded July 3rd 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Abiding in God


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Yogananda often emphasized – more often to his disciples than to the general public, but also to everyone generally, for it was a universal teaching – the importance of attunement. For divine understanding cannot be created: It must be perceived. To the disciples, Yogananda spoke of the importance of attunement with the guru. To others, he urged the importance at least of attuning oneself to higher consciousness. Can an eagle rise without support from the sustaining air?

Jesus Christ said in the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 15:

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

How can we “abide in him”? Jesus says, “If my words abide in you.” By words he meant not only his spoken words, but his vibrations, his consciousness, of which the words are only an expression. We must abide by the teachings, but we must also absorb those teachings into ourselves, that they become our own experience. For disciples of this path, the more, in their hearts, they live consciously in the presence of the masters, the more they will find the divine presence living within them.

And for all truth seekers, whether disciples or not, the more they live sustained inwardly by the awareness of God’s presence, the higher they will find themselves soaring in wisdom and joy.

For the Bhagavad Gita says, in the tenth Chapter:

I am the Source of everything; from Me all creation emerges. Blessed with this realization, the wise, awe-stricken, adore Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Krishnadas and Nayaswami Mantradevi at Ananda Village, recorded June 26th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
The Redeeming Light


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Book of Isaiah in the Bible, Chapter 9, tells us:

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

What is this light of which so many Scriptures speak? In Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda, we read of an early experience the Master had with that light:

I was blessed about the age of eight with a wonderful healing through the photograph of Lahiri Mahasaya. This experience gave intensification to my [divine] love. While at our family estate in Ichapur, Bengal, I was stricken with Asiatic cholera. My life was despaired of; the doctors could do nothing. At my bedside, Mother frantically motioned me to look at Lahiri Mahasaya’s picture on the wall above my head.

“Bow to him mentally!” She knew I was too feeble even to lift my hands in salutation. “If you really show your devotion and inwardly kneel before him, your life will be spared!”

I gazed at his photograph and saw there a blinding light, enveloping my body and the entire room. My nausea and other uncontrollable symptoms disappeared; I was well. At once I felt strong enough to bend over and touch Mother’s feet in appreciation of her immeasurable faith in her guru. Mother pressed her head repeatedly against the little picture.

“O Omnipresent Master, I thank thee that thy light hath healed my son!”

I realized that she too had witnessed the luminous blaze through which I had instantly recovered from a usually fatal disease.

“Where My light is,” God once told a saint whom the divine light had healed, “no darkness can dwell.” The divine light – pure, calm, liberating – is the only final cure for every kind of delusion: ill health, emotional grief, and spiritual ignorance. Seek it daily in the silence, in deep meditation.

As the Bhagavad Gita says in the fifth Chapter:

For whom

That darkness of the soul is chased by light,

Splendid and clear shines manifest the Truth

As if a Sun of Wisdom sprang to shed

Its beams of light.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Tyagi Atman and Tyagi Bhaktimarg at Ananda Village, recorded June 19th 2022. Atman shares many stories about his recent pilgrimage to India and what attitudes he learned there which are useful for breaking down the ramparts of the ego.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
The Eternal Now


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

“When will I find God?” Many devotees have asked this question. Because worldly goals require time, usually, for their fulfillment, we imagine time to be a factor on the spiritual path. And so it is, but only because we think it is! God is as much with us now as He will ever be. It is not He who needs to come to us: We need to come to Him! And that process of coming is a matter of transforming our self-perception.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 4, Jesus Christ says:

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

There is a practical teaching in these words, apart from their statement that we have God already, and have only to realize that truth. Jesus is saying, “Lift up your eyes and look. . . .” To hold the eyes uplifted is the best position for meditation. For the seat of superconsciousness lies at a point midway between the eyebrows – in the frontal lobe of the brain just behind that point. This point is known also as the Christ center. By lifting up your eyes and concentrating there, you will find it easier to enter the state of ecstasy. That is why saints in every religion have often been observed, during states of deep inner communion, with their eyes uplifted, focused on the inner light – ”white,” as Jesus said, “already to harvest.”

The Bhagavad Gita goes further into this meditative teaching. In the sixth Chapter it states:

Holding the spine firm, the neck and head erect and motionless, let the yogi focus his eyes at the starting place of the nose [the point between the eyebrows]. Let not his gaze roam elsewhere.

In meditation, tell yourself: “I have Him already! I am alive forever in the Divine Light.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Nayaswami Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded June 12th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
How Devotees Rise


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Last week we asked the question, Why do devotees fall? and we considered the downfall of Judas in this context. Jesus, in answer to Judas’s criticism for allowing Mary to rub his feet with spikenard, a very costly ointment, said, “The poor always ye have with you: but me ye have not always.”

Jesus is saying here that there is one supreme “injustice” that needs eradication: poverty, yes, but not of a material kind: poverty in a spiritual sense.

Divine blessings are not common in this world. They are extraordinary. When they come, we should give them priority above every other consideration.

Never allow a moment of inner joy, for instance, to be set aside for lesser “duties.” Divine attunement is our highest priority. As Lahiri Mahasaya, the guru of Yogananda’s guru, said, “To listen to the heart’s inner sound (AUM, which issues from the very center of our being) is man’s highest duty.”

Mary was not, at that moment, communing with the Master inwardly. She was serving him outwardly – but in a spirit very different from the restless fussing for which Jesus had reprimanded her sister, Martha. Those who see a radical difference between the paths of action and meditation should understand this distinction. To serve in the right spirit is necessary, for only thereby can we overcome our karmic tendencies toward restless activity. The important thing is that that spirit be always inwardly focused: that in everything we do we act in loving service to the Lord.

Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says in the third Chapter:

The state of freedom from action [that is, of eternal rest in the Spirit] cannot be achieved without action. No one, by mere renunciation and outward non-involvement, can attain perfection.

Whenever the spirit of God descends upon you, however, remember the words of Jesus, “Me ye have not always with you.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded June 5th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Why Do Devotees Fall?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

An endlessly fascinating question is, Why did Judas fall after receiving the extraordinary blessing of being accepted into the inner circle of Jesus Christ’s disciples? For Judas was one of the twelve apostles. Yet he be-trayed Jesus, and earned for himself the opprobrium of Christendom for all futurity for his sin.

We find Judas reprimanding Jesus just days before that betrayal. Jesus, aware that his disciples would soon be facing, with his death, the supreme tragedy of their lives, allowed Mary to express her devotion by anointing his feet with costly ointment. This act of “wanton waste,” as Judas saw it, awakened indignation in that disciple.

“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?”

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and kept the purse, and bare what was put therein.

Then said Jesus, “Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you: but me ye have not always.”

Doubt not the power of delusion. Respect it – indeed, fear it, though not in the sense of cowering before it. For, as Yogananda said, “One is not safe until he attains nirbikalpa samadhi – the state of final union with God.”

Judas, through attachment to money, opened his consciousness to subtle influences, which may be called satanic, that drew his thoughts toward other related attitudes: the importance of worldly power, for instance, and of worldly influence.

The Bhagavad Gita gives a graphic explanation of how easily the mind can be drawn downward, once it begins to feed on wrong attitudes. In the second Chapter, Sri Krishna states:

If one ponders on sense objects, there springs up attraction to them. From attraction grows desire. Desire, impatient for fulfillment, flames to anger. From anger there arises infatuation (the delusion that one object alone is worth clinging to, to the exclusion of all others). From infatuation ensues forgetfulness of the higher Self. From forgetfulness of the Self follows degeneration of the discriminative faculty. And when discrimination is lost, there follows the annihilation of one’s spiritual life.

“At the first thought of delusion,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “that is the time to stop it.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Mantradevi and Nayaswami Krishnadas at Ananda Village, recorded May 29th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
The Inner Kingdom


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Most people imagine that the “inner kingdom,” as Jesus described it, lacks the fascination they attribute to sense life: the bright lights, the diverse attractions, the joys and the laughter. Little do they realize what a vast universe exists in their own selves!

There are many passages in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible that describe aspects of this inner kingdom. In the Book of Genesis we read: “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden…. And the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:8, 9). This garden was in no earthly place. It exists even now, in the very Self of every human being! The legend of Adam and Eve is allegorical. It describes how the first human beings dissipated their spiritual energy, centered in the spine. The spine is the channel through which flows the river of baptism and of spiritual life.

The Bhagavad Gita tells us, “The wise speak of an eternal ashvatta tree, with its roots above and its branches below” (15:1) The “tree of life,” spoken of also in Genesis, is the spine. Its roots are above, in the brain’s energy. Its branches are the outward spreading nervous system. When the “sap,” which is to say, the energy, flows downward the consciousness is drawn into delusion. On the other hand, when the energy is drawn upward in deep meditation, the consciousness is drawn toward its eternal source, God, and is at last united with Him.

Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita therefore urges his chief disciple Arjuna to embrace the yoga science, the path of meditation. “The yogi,” he says, “is greater than the ascetic, greater even than the followers of the paths of wisdom [Gyana Yoga] or of action [Karma Yoga]. Be thou, O Arjuna, a yogi!”

For those who would find the divine truth, Krishna gives this description of the yogi:

Steadfast a lamp burns, sheltered from the wind;

Steadfastly meditating, solitary,

Such is the likeness of the Yogi’s mind

Shut from sense-storms and burning bright to heaven.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, recorded May 22nd 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
The Best Way to Worship
The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In Chapter 4 of the Gospel of St. John, the woman of Samaria asks Jesus, Where is the best place to worship? This question might be expanded to include: What is the best church? What is the best religion? Is it important to go on pilgrimage to holy shrines? What is the best ritual? What is the best mantra or prayer?

Jesus cut across all such questioning with his reply:

The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

It was not that outer considerations of place, church, ritual, etc., are irrelevant. Each person should find those practices and observances which are compatible with his own nature – one might say, with his own vibrations. Not everyone’s natural path is the same. God sent different religions into the world to satisfy different human needs.

The overarching concern, however, considering that the goal is to find God, is to include in one’s worship daily, inner communion with the Lord. God is Silence: He must be sought, therefore, in inner silence. God is Absolute Love: He must be sought, therefore, in the silence of love. God is Spirit, and thus immaterial: He must be sought, above all, in the expanding peace of deep meditation.

Thus, the Bhagavad Gita states in the sixth Chapter:

Sequestered should he sit,

Steadfastly meditating, solitary,

His thoughts controlled, his passions laid away,

From every craving for possession freed.

Wherever you are, whatever your outward beliefs and observances, seek God in the silence of your own soul.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded May 15th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
The Secret of Right Action


The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

One of the most famous stories in the Gospels is that of Martha and Mary. Jesus, visiting the home of Martha, was teaching while her sister Mary sat at his feet absorbing his divine love and wisdom. Martha, meanwhile, busied herself with serving her guests, and was upset with Mary for not helping her.

“‘Lord,’ she cried, ‘doesn’t it matter to you that my sister has left me to do all this serving alone? Please ask her to help me.’

“‘Martha, Martha,’ Jesus answered, ‘thou art careful and troubled about many things.

“‘But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.’”

This story is classic, for Martha’s complaint is very understandable, and not, on the surface of it, spiritually wrong. Jesus might well have told Mary to get up and help her. Nor do we really know that he didn’t, considerate as he always was of others’ needs. But the teaching here doesn’t concern the obvious dilemma of devotees: to work for God, or to spend all one’s time in prayer. It concerns, rather, the attitude of the mind.

Jesus didn’t tell Martha: “Martha, you are doing too much.” He told her, rather, “You are letting your work affect your inner peace.” That was the contrast: not work vs. contemplation, but restless preoccupation vs. peaceful absorption under all circumstances.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the second Chapter:

Actions performed under the influence of desire are greatly inferior to those which are guided by wisdom. Happiness eludes people when they act from self-interest. Seek shelter, therefore, in the equanimity of wisdom.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Badri Matlock and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded May 8th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
The Secret of Right Action


One of the most famous stories in the Gospels is that of Martha and Mary. Jesus, visiting the home of Martha, was teaching while her sister Mary sat at his feet absorbing his divine love and wisdom. Martha, meanwhile, busied herself with serving her guests, and was upset with Mary for not helping her.

“‘Lord,’ she cried, ‘doesn’t it matter to you that my sister has left me to do all this serving alone? Please ask her to help me.’

“‘Martha, Martha,’ Jesus answered, ‘thou art careful and troubled about many things.

“‘But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.’”

This story is classic, for Martha’s complaint is very understandable, and not, on the surface of it, spiritually wrong. Jesus might well have told Mary to get up and help her. Nor do we really know that he didn’t, considerate as he always was of others’ needs. But the teaching here doesn’t concern the obvious dilemma of devotees: to work for God, or to spend all one’s time in prayer. It concerns, rather, the attitude of the mind.

Jesus didn’t tell Martha: “Martha, you are doing too much.” He told her, rather, “You are letting your work affect your inner peace.” That was the contrast: not work vs. contemplation, but restless preoccupation vs. peaceful absorption under all circumstances.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the second Chapter:

Actions performed under the influence of desire are greatly inferior to those which are guided by wisdom. Happiness eludes people when they act from self-interest. Seek shelter, therefore, in the equanimity of wisdom.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev and Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded May 1st 2022

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Perfection is Self-Transcendence


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

We begin this week with a passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5:

Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you; and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; . . .

If ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same?

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even pagans so?

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

This teaching is a continuation of last week’s lesson. To love all equally is possible only by seeing God everywhere – in others as well as in oneself. See whatever comes to you unasked for as a manifestation of His will. Be grateful for the pains you experience, for they are healing strokes of His love. Sometimes, healing is effected only by strong measures, but His love for you is manifested in the very attempt to heal.

Strive always to be impersonal, as though whatever happens to you were happening to someone else.

Persecution gives us the supreme opportunity to deny the thought, “This is happening to me,” and to affirm our inner freedom from the thought of ego. Don’t allow the negative perceptions of others to become your own self-definition.

Seek God: This is the true goal of life – though how difficult to cling to in the midst of hatred, spite, and persecution! The Bhagavad Gita tells us in the seventh Chapter:

Out of thousands, one strives for spiritual attainment; and out of many blessed true seekers, who strive assiduously to reach Me, one, perhaps, perceives Me as I am.

O truth seeker, be one, among all those thousands, who seeks the supreme goal!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Nayaswami Ananta at Ananda Village, recorded April 24th 2022.

Nayaswami Maria explores the concept of aspiration and its significance in spiritual growth. The tendency is to set low aspirations due to fear of failure or lack of confidence. However, it is important to aim high in our spiritual endeavors, as climbing a mountain. Higher aspirations lead to greater growth and fulfillment, pushing us beyond our comfort zones. Challenge yourself to develop a meaningful life aligned with your spiritual ideals.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is:
How High Should We Aspire?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The passage this week is from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 5:

I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

The easiest explanation for these words is that they were spoken in criticism of the scribes and Pharisees, particularly since Jesus was often verbally attacked by them, and stood up to them fearlessly. However, it wouldn’t have been much of a challenge to the disciples, who aspired to spiritual perfection, to tell them, “Don’t be like those who lack any such aspiration.”

Jesus in fact says only a few verses later, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

What Jesus was referring to here, then, was the self- righteousness of the priests. Don’t seek perfection, he was saying to his disciples, in the image you project toward others. Don’t be satisfied with a goodness born merely of ego-definitions. The highest virtue is to transcend the very thought of personal virtue in the realization of God alone as the Doer. Before this realization, even the thought, “I am kind,” or, “I am truthful,” is self-limiting.

As it says in the Bhagavad Gita, the seventh Chapter:

Yet hard the wise Mahatma is to find,

That man who sayeth, “All is Vasudev!”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Easter Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded April 17th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book Rays of the One Light is:
(Easter) Resurrection for Every Soul


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 20, we read the inspiring account of Jesus’ resurrection:

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord! . . .

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in their midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

The resurrection of Jesus, doubted by many but affirmed by those who were close to him, was a miraculous event, though one not unique in history. For many great saints of other religions have appeared to their disciples after death. Sometimes their appearances have been, as that of Jesus was, in flesh-and-blood form, and not only in vision.

Paramhansa Yogananda relates in Autobiography of a Yogi the account of his guru Sri Yukteswar’s resurrection after his earthly passing. Miracles of this type are revealed only rarely to the masses, but accounts of them, related by men and women of reputed truthfulness, have inspired many devotees with faith in the reality of subtler-than-material states of existence.

Resurrection, Yogananda explained, means transformation, ultimately, from any lower state of being to a higher one. Worldly consciousness cannot imagine such transformation except in terms of, perhaps, an improvement of the present mess of potage with the addition of a new flavoring. Divine consciousness, however, is capable of taking the base metal of worldliness and transforming it into the spiritual gold of divine wisdom and love.

In keeping with this truth, the Bhagavad Gita, in the ninth Chapter, tells us:

Ah! ye who into this ill world are come – fleeting and false – set your faith fast on Me! Fix heart and thought on Me! Adore Me! Bring Offerings to Me! Make Me prostrations! Make Me your supremest joy! and, undivided, unto My rest your spirits shall be guided.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Palm Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded April 10th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
(Palm Sunday) Who Is This Son of Man?


For those who are studying this book by the week, particularly for reading at Sunday services, this chapter and the next may be inserted wherever Palm Sunday and Easter occur.

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

On Palm Sunday, the throng joyfully acclaimed Jesus Christ as he entered Jerusalem, casting palm fronds before him and singing, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! The Lord bless the king of Israel!” (John 12:13)

Jesus Christ had told the people, “The son of man must be lifted up.” His reference – so we are told – was to the mode of his impending crucifixion. Some persons on that occasion had asked, “Who is this son of man?”

Was Jesus a human being, merely? Those who, on Palm Sunday, called him king little realized the actual nature of his kingdom. He was far more than what they imagined. Yes, of course he ate, drank, walked, slept, and talked like others. His consciousness, however, was centered in infinity. Yes – again – he laughed like others: But his laughter expressed divine joy, not mere merriment. Again, he wept like them: But never with human grief. The tears he shed were for the sufferings of unenlightened human beings: Never were they shed in self-pity.

Jesus Christ was wakeful in God. Most people, by contrast, are asleep spiritually.

How strange to reflect that less than a week from that entry into Jerusalem – so joyfully acclaimed – he would be arrested, condemned, and crucified! Such is the bitter-sweetness of human existence: smiles of welcome one day – insults, even persecution the next. How few realize that Christ’s suffering would not be for himself, but for people’s ignorance – for those who had not yet understood the deeper reality that dwelt also in them!

Everyone is born “trailing clouds of glory,” as the poet Wordsworth put it. Even the meanest beggar has lived a story, or will eventually have lived it, more magnificent than the greatest epic ever written.

In the Bhagavad Gita, this dichotomy between the “son of man” and the inner “Son of God” is beautifully described. Sri Krishna, representing God in human form, reveals his true nature in infinity. In the eleventh chapter of that great scripture, his chief disciple Arjuna exclaims:

O Infinite Light!

Thy radiance, spreading o’er the universe,

Shines into the very darkest abyss!

Thy voice o’erwhelms the roar of cosmic cataclysms!

Lo! the myriad stars are Thy diadem;

Thy scepter radiates power everywhere!

O Immortal Brahman, Lord of all:

Again and again at Thy feet of Infinity

I lie in prostration before Thee!

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Brahmachari Sagar, Nayaswami Parvati and Nayaswami Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded April 3rd 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
To Each According to His Faith


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3, we read:

Everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

It is a common experience, shared by most people, that when a person errs he experiences a desire to hide that error from his conscience instead of holding it up for purification. Error clutches its misdeeds to itself, and resists correction, though it is only in the state of purity that we can achieve perfect freedom. It requires an act of will to offer that awareness up to the light, and to hold it there until one’s inner darkness is completely dissipated.

For every state of consciousness has its own attractive power. And the more we allow that attraction to act upon us, the more we attract to ourselves the objective circumstances and experiences natural to it. Our faith is the attractive power of our underlying state of consciousness. Goodness attracts goodness; it takes goodness even to see goodness. Evil attracts evil, and it takes evil even to see evil – that is, to take special note of its existence.

Whatever there is in you of darkness or light, offer it up to the heights. In the Supreme Light alone will we find salvation. Accept nothing less in yourself as your lasting reality. As the Bhagavad Gita says, in the twelfth Chapter:

Cling thou to me!

Clasp Me with heart and mind! So shalt thou dwell

Surely with Me on high. But if thy thought

Droops from such height; if thou be’st weak to set

Body and soul upon Me constantly,

Despair not! give Me lower service! seek

To reach Me, worshiping with steadfast will;

And, if thou canst not worship steadfastly,

Work for Me, toil in works pleasing to Me!

For he that laboureth right for love of Me

Shall finally attain! But, if in this

Thy faint heart fails, bring Me thy failure!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, recorded March 27th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Deeds vs. Intentions


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus Christ emphasized repeatedly the spirit, not the letter, of the law. In Chapter 5 of the Gospel of St. Matthew he speaks of the sin of killing, and of the legal punishment attendant on that sin, but says that more important than the act is the desire to kill, or to do harm. He shows that the sin of harmful desire goes beyond merely wanting to kill.

“My message to you,” he said, “is this: Whoever is angry with his brother without cause already stands condemned; whoever contemptuously calls his brother a fool shall answer for it to the Supreme Council; and whoever calls his brother an outcast of God shall be in danger of hellfire.”

“Brother,” here, means any other human being. For all of us in the highest sense are brothers and sisters – children of our one Father-Mother, God. The true self of one is the Self of all. To hurt another is, even if one doesn’t realize it, to hurt oneself.

Swami Kriyananda in The Path recalls an episode in which the Master, Paramhansa Yogananda, revealed his sense of identity even with the plants. “One day,” Kriyananda wrote, “we were moving a delicate but rather heavy tropical plant into position on the hillside. Our handling evidently was too rough, for Master cried out, ‘Be careful what you are doing. Can’t you feel? It’s alive!’”

To wish death to anyone – to wish even harm to another creature – is to deny in oneself the reality of that divine life of which all of us are manifestations. It is, in short, to deny the eternal truth, proclaimed by the Bhagavad Gita in the second Chapter:

This Self is never born, nor does it perish. Once existing, it cannot ever cease to be. It is birthless, eternal, changeless, ever itself. It is not slain when the body is slain.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Krishnadas and Nayaswami Mantradevi at Ananda Village, recorded March 20th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
We Are Children of the Light


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

It is common for people to perceive themselves according to their present realities. A person in ill health says, “I am ill.” Few say, “I am well; it is my body that is suffering.” People in a low income bracket say, “I am poor.” Only the unusual person will say, “Though outwardly I live in poverty, inwardly I am wealthy.”

Thus, when it comes to moral and spiritual development, people commonly identify themselves with their weaknesses and their mistakes. They consider it almost a sign of humility to say, “I am a sinner,” though in effect what this means is that they identify themselves with their sinfulness, not with the soul’s power to transcend all limitations in God.

The great masters, including Jesus Christ, have always emphasized the divine potential of mankind. To encourage us, they address us as children of light, not of darkness.

The Bible, in the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3, makes the point that our true home is not the mud of this Earth, but the light of heaven. “No man hath ascended up to heaven,” it tells us, “but him that came down from heaven.” This passage continues: “[even so] the Son of man who is in heaven,” emphasizing that Jesus, though he lived on earth, is perceived by the eye of wisdom as conscious, even in human form, of his true reality in heavenly spheres.

The way to know God is to live in godly consciousness, and not to bewail our imperfection and our distance from God. Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” And the Bhagavad Gita states,

Seekers of union with the Lord find Him dwelling in their own hearts. But those who, lacking in wisdom, seek Him with impure motives, cannot perceive Him however much they struggle to do so.

“If you want to know God,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “live in the thought that you have Him already.”

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Erin Vinacco and Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded March 13th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Reason vs. Intuition


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Jesus, when addressing his critics, appealed to reason and common sense. In his training of the disciples, however, he, like all great masters, encouraged in them the development of a higher faculty: soul-intuition. For it is only by intuition that spiritual perceptions are achieved.

In Chapter 16 of the Gospel of St. Matthew we find Jesus drawing on the intuition of his disciples by asking them who they thought he was, in reality. They immediately understood that what he wanted from them was a subtle answer, not some obvious reply based on his nationality, sex, and the like. Peter it was, at last, who understood and answered the question on its intended level: the spiritual.

“Thou art the Christ,” he said, “the son of the living God.”

“And Jesus turned to him, saying, ‘Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonah: for not by human nature was this truth revealed to thee, but by my heavenly Father. And I tell thee this also: Thou art Peter, which is to say, a rock, and upon this rock will I build my church, and never will the powers of darkness overwhelm it.’”

Jesus was pleased with his disciple for relating to the question on its deepest level. Reason could not have given Peter that answer. The answer came through the faculty of soul intuition, and proved him thereby to be a spiritually advanced disciple. It was his intuitive perception – that insight which cannot be shaken by tempests of reasonable doubt – that Jesus praised in referring to him as a rock. The “church” he referred to, next, was the edifice of cosmic consciousness. Any outer church institution would have to depend, as in fact the Christian churches have always done, on the level of understanding of its individual leaders and members. Peter’s intuitive perceptions could never have been passed on to an outward succession of prelates.

Clarity comes by direct soul-perception. Confusion results from excessive dependence on reason as the guide to understanding. As the second Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states:

When your intellect, at present confused by the diversity of teaching in the Scriptures, becomes steadfast in the ecstasy of deep meditation, then you will achieve final union with God.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev and Nayaswami Indradevi at Ananda Village, recorded March 6th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Dogmatism vs. Common Sense


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 7, Jesus warns:

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Jesus here, as indeed many times during his teaching, counsels people to use their God-given common sense, and not to rely on high-flown but undemonstrable claims. Common sense goes beyond abstract reason, for it is rooted in actual experience.

Even common sense, however, is deficient when the judgment called for goes beyond sensory experience. Ultimately, what he emphasized always, therefore, was intuitive perception.

Thus, he expected more of his disciples than crude common sense, and often scolded them for being too literal-minded – as he did, elsewhere, when they thought his statement, “I have meat to eat that you know not of,” meant that he had steaks or sandwiches secreted about his person. His reference, of course, was to spiritual, not material, substance.

Words, even though appearing in the scriptures, are no substitute for direct perception of truth. Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the second Chapter:

The sage who knows God has as little need for the Scriptures as one might have for a pond when the whole land is covered in flood.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Nayaswami Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded February 27th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There are many places in the Gospels where we see Jesus in open conflict with the Pharisees – that is to say, with man-made as opposed to true, mystical tradition. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 15, we see a good example of how they and he “locked horns.”

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came and asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples break our ancient tradition and eat their food without washing their hands properly first?”

Jesus, after scolding them for their hypocrisy in observing lesser rules so carefully while ignoring the much more important ones, said,

“Listen, and understand this thoroughly! It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that makes him common or unclean. It is what comes out of a man’s mouth that makes him unclean.”

It wasn’t that Jesus counseled against such wholesome practices as washing one’s hands before eating. In an age, however, when lesser rules were given too much importance relative to the truly important observances – cleansing the heart of impure desires, for example – he emphasized the supreme importance of loving God and of communing with Him.

The Pharisees – the orthodox religionists of his day, in other words – had brought true religion down to a level of intellectual hair-splitting. They mistakenly considered the way to understanding to lie through a mine-field of definitions, which they tried to refine to ultimate exactitude. Jesus taught, however, that the intellect alone can never lead one to truth. Without love, indeed, there is no ultimate verity. Without fixity of purpose, born of the heart’s devotion, the intellect wanders endlessly. It cannot settle for long on anything. As the Bhagavad Gita says in the second Chapter:

The intellects of those who lack fixity of spiritual purpose are inconstant, their interests endlessly ramified.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Nayaswami Ananta at Ananda Village, recorded February 20th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Can Man See God?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

There is a saying in Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John that would seem to respond with a definite No to the question, Can man see God? The saying is:

No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Many great saints, however, claim to have seen God. If we ask, then, “Can God be seen?” rather than, “Can man see God?” the answer is, “Yes! Else those saints lied; and, else, the Scriptures themselves lie.”

The point is, it is not man – this human body, these human eyes – that sees God. God can be seen only with spiritual vision – with the eye of the soul.

As the Bhagavad Gita puts it in the eleventh Chapter:

“Thou canst not see Me with mortal eyes. Therefore I now give thee sight divine. Behold My supreme power of Yoga!”

With these words Hari, the exalted Lord of Yoga, revealed himself to Arjuna in His infinite form.

Paramhansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, describes the supernal experience in words more readily comprehensible to modern minds than the poetic phraseology of the Bhagavad Gita. The chapter “An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness” is one of the most inspiringly beautiful in all mystical literature. Here is a brief excerpt:

An oceanic joy broke upon calm endless shores of my soul. The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.

[I saw] the divine dispersion of rays pour from an Eternal Source, blazing into galaxies, transfigured with ineffable auras. Again and again I saw the creative beams condense into constellations, then resolve into sheets of transparent flame. By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament.

I cognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart. Irradiating splendor issued from my nucleus to every part of the universal structure.…The creative voice of God I heard resounding as Aum, the vibration of the Cosmic Motor.”

This, so the great masters aver, is what God is. And this also, they insist, is what we are in our deepest reality.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Jitendra Guindon, Nayaswami Parvati, and Nayaswami Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded February 13th, 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
The Law Is Perfected in Love


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, we read:

The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Grace means the power to rise, spiritually. Truth means the experience of divine realities, not the application in the outer world of that inner experience.

Divine love is the soul’s experience of oneness with God. Kindness is the human manifestation of that love. Grace is deeper than mere kindness.

Wisdom is a divine experience. Justice to all is a human law, though divinely inspired. It follows as a consequence of the experience of wisdom. Truth goes deeper than mere justice.

While following the law, we should strive always to trace it back to its origins in the vision of God. Therefore Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita urges the devotee not to be satisfied with spiritual precepts alone, but to go beyond them to the direct, inner experience of truth. In the eighteenth Chapter of that great Scripture he says:

Nay! but once more

Take My last word, My utmost meaning have!

Precious thou art to Me; right well beloved!

Listen! I tell thee for thy comfort this.

Give Me thy heart! adore Me! serve Me! cling

In faith and love and reverence to Me!

So shalt thou come to Me! I promise true,

For thou art sweet to Me!

And let go those –

Rites and writ duties! Fly to me alone!

Make Me thy single refuge! I will free

Thy soul from all its sins! Be of good cheer!

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded February 6th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
The Importance of Soul-Receptivity


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Chapter 1 of the Gospel of St. John states:

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.

This was a passage Paramhansa Yogananda often quoted to his disciples. “Be in tune,” he would tell them. “Delusion can’t touch you, if you will keep in tune.”

“A few of you will fall,” he said once. “But it needn’t be, if you would stay in tune.”

Of a disciple who became highly advanced, even though she didn’t meditate much, he said, “She got there by attunement.”

To one who found meditation difficult, he said, “I will meditate for you, as long as you stay in tune.”

Truth is a state of consciousness, not a well-worded definition. It is in that consciousness, above all, that our lives are transformed. Therefore the Bhagavad Gita says, in the tenth Chapter:

To those who are ever attached to Me, and who worship Me with love, I impart discernment, by means of which they attain Me.

Out of my love for them, I, the Divine within them, set alight in them the radiant lamp of wisdom, thereby dispelling the darkness of their ignorance.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded January 30th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Bhagavad Gita in the fourth Chapter states, as we saw last week:

O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue.

What is the mystery of this divine manifestation? Great avatars, such as Krishna and Jesus Christ, are born as babies even as we all are. They take human form, and go through normal human experiences as they grow from childhood to adulthood. They eat. They play. They may seem to suffer sickness and disappointment like the rest of us. In what way are they different from other human beings?

The important thing to understand is that, even as they are like us, so are we also like them. Their realization can be ours, too. They come on earth to show us our own divine potential.

The difference lies not in the manner of their manifestation on earth, but in the consciousness with which they are born. All things are condensations, so to speak, of the Cosmic Vibration – AUM, described by St. John’s Gospel as the Word. Most human beings, however, are unconscious of their divine origin. The avatars, on the other hand, come consciously as manifestations of that divine reality.

As the Gospel says in the first Chapter:

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded January 23rd 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
The Infinite Christ


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John contains some of the most profound spiritual teachings in the Bible. In the first Chapter many subtle truths are suggested concerning higher stages of Self-realization.

Here, John the Baptist is described as one reaching up toward that high state. “He was not that light,” the Gospel tells us, “but was sent to bear witness of that light.” Jesus Christ, by contrast, is described as the light itself. “That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”

One essential truth stands out in this teaching: that Jesus came not to dogmatize people with a new teaching, but to bring them timeless, universal truths. Disciples saw the master clothed in human form, and therefore judged him in terms of his greatness relative to the greatness of other teachers. Wisdom, however, sees the master’s very greatness in terms of a cosmic unity.

There is a passage in The Path, by Swami Kriyananda, in which this point is emphasized. The Master, Paramhansa Yogananda, explained,

“The saint who attains that exalted consciousness never says, ‘I am God,’ for he sees it was the vast Ocean that became his little wave of ego. The wave, in other words, would not claim, when referring to the little self, to be the Ocean.”

At this juncture Debi, who was present, cried excitedly, “But Sir, if you are one with that Ocean, that means you are God!”

“Why I?” Master asked. “Say ‘He.’ He is God.”

“But still, Sir, you are one with Him, and He is the only reality. That means you, too, are God.”

“But this body isn’t God!”

“You aren’t identified with your body, Sir, so one may still say that you are God.”

“Well, in that case why do you say, ‘You’? You, too, are that! In a discussion of this sort, it is less confusing if we say, ‘He.’”

“But what’s the difference?”

“The Scriptures say . . .” Master began.

“It’s only your humility, Sir,” Debi broke in, “that makes you distinguish between yourself and Him.”

“How can there be humility, when there is no consciousness of ego?”

Triumphantly Debi cried, “But if you have no ego left, that means you are God!”

Master laughingly continued the earlier statement, which Debi had interrupted: “The Scriptures say, ‘He who knows Brahma becomes Brahma.’”

“There!” cried Debi. “You said it yourself!”

Master rejoined, still laughingly, “I didn’t say it. It’s the Scriptures that say so.” Master, in other words, would not identify those words with the human body speaking them. It was in his overarching spirit that he saw himself one with the Infinite. But Debi was unable to make this mental leap from a pure expression of Infinity to Infinity Itself.

“You quoted those Scriptures, Sir,” he reminded Master relentlessly. “That means you agree with them!”

Recognizing that the distinction was, perhaps, too subtle for many to grasp, Master concluded, “Well, he who says he is God, isn’t God. And,” he added with a smile, “he who says he isn’t, isn’t!”

And there the subject rested, amid general laughter.

The greater a spiritual teaching, the more greatly we betray it by particularizing it with dogmas. Truth itself, not the Christian truth or the Hindu truth, incarnates on earth with the birth of a fully liberated master. As the Bhagavad Gita teaches in the fourth Chapter:

Unborn, changeless, Lord of Creation and controller of My cosmic nature though I am, yet entering Nature I am dressed in the cosmic garment of My own maya (delusion).

O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Tyagi Atman and Tyagi Bhaktimarg at Ananda Village, recorded January 16th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, makes a reference to the divine light that is obscure to the rational faculty, but that enlightens our higher nature: “The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” Reason recoils from this statement with innumerable questions. What is this darkness? Is it conscious, that it should comprehend anything? What sort of light would be capable of shining in darkness without transforming at least that part of the darkness in which it shines into light? Does this light shine only at night? And if so, why only then?

The solution is that, to divine sight, even daylight seems darkness. The sun itself, like the moon which shines only by reflected light from the sun, is but a kind of reflection of the cosmic light, which, being immaterial, is invisible to the eyes but which is the Great Source of all material reality.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda describes his youthful visit to Ram Gopal Muzumdar, the “sleepless saint,” who lived in the vision of that hidden light. “Around midnight,” Yogananda wrote,

Ram Gopal fell into silence, and I lay down on my blankets. Closing my eyes, I saw flashes of lightning; the vast space within me was a chamber of molten light. I opened my eyes and observed the same dazzling radiance. The room became a part of the infinite vault which I beheld with interior vision.

“Why don’t you go to sleep?”

“Sir, how can I sleep in the presence of lightning, blazing whether my eyes are shut or open?”

“You are blessed to have this experience; the spiritual radiations are not easily seen.” The saint added a few words of affection.

This is the “light that shineth in darkness.” It has been described variously in the great scriptures. In the Bhagavad Gita, the eleventh Chapter, the devotee, Arjuna, is given an experience of the infinite state and exclaims in awe:

If there should rise suddenly within the skies

Sunburst of a thousand suns

Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of,

Then might be that Holy One’s

Majesty and radiance dreamed of!

Thus, through holy scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Nayaswami Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded January 9th 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
Did God Create the Universe – or Become It?


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, contains a passage that explains the essential truth that creation is a process of becoming. The universe is not separate from God the Creator, but a part of Him even as our own dream-creations, during sleep, are figments of our consciousness. God’s is the life; God’s, the reality. Not a melody could be composed, not a poem written, were the melody and the poem not already there, simply waiting to be expressed.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Ego-directed desire is like static; it distorts the radioed messages of Infinity. But the pristine impulse from the divine, undistorted by limitation and delusion, is the life that gives rise to all that is. As the seventh Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states:

I am the fluidity of water. I am the silver light of the moon and the golden light of the sun. I am the AUM chanted in all the Vedas: the Cosmic Sound moving as if soundlessly through the ether. I am the manliness of men. I am the good sweet smell of the moist earth. I am the luminescence of fire; the sustaining life of all living creatures. I am self-offering in those who would expand their little lives into cosmic life. O Arjuna, know Me as the eternal seed of all creatures. In the perceptive, I am their perception. In the great, I am their greatness. In the glorious, it is I who am their glory.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, recorded January 2nd 2022.

This week's reading from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is:
At the Heart of Silence – the Eternal Word


Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within.

The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

In the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, these immortal lines appear:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Human vision beholds individuality and separation everywhere. Divine vision beholds the oneness of cosmic vibration, of which all things, no matter how diverse, are manifestations. Cosmic Sound – the “Word” of God – and Cosmic Light: These are eternal. The world, as revealed to us by our senses, is illusory.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda relates an early experience he received of the divine aspect of reality:

Sitting on my bed one morning, I fell into a deep reverie.

“What is behind the darkness of closed eyes?” This probing thought came powerfully into my mind. An immense flash of light at once manifested to my inward gaze. Divine shapes of saints, sitting in meditation posture in mountain caves, formed like miniature cinema pictures on the large screen of radiance within my forehead.

“Who are you?” I spoke aloud.

“We are the Himalayan yogis.” The celestial response is difficult to describe; my heart was thrilled.

“Ah, I long to go to the Himalayas and become like you!” The vision vanished, but the silvery beams expanded in ever-widening circles to infinity.

“What is this wondrous glow?”

“I am Iswara. I am Light.” The voice was as murmuring clouds.

“I want to be one with Thee!”

Out of the slow dwindling of my divine ecstasy, I salvaged a permanent legacy of inspiration to seek God.

Wise are we if we meditate on that experience of Yogananda’s, and salvage from it even a breath of his inspiration. For, quite simply, there is nothing else! As the Bhagavad Gita says in the seventh Chapter:

I make and unmake this universe. Apart from Me nothing exists, O Arjuna. All things, like the beads of a necklace, are strung together on the thread of My consciousness, and are sustained by Me.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.

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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Nayaswami Ananta at Ananda Village, recorded December 12th 2021.

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	<title>Reincarnation - The Spiral Staircase (With Nayaswami Devi)</title>
	<itunes:title>Reincarnation - The Spiral Staircase (With Nayaswami Devi)</itunes:title>
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	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures (With Erin Vinacco)</title>
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	<itunes:title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer — Prayer Is a Call to Faith (With Nayaswami Parvati)</itunes:title>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Atman and Bhaktimarg Goering at Ananda Village, recorded October 31st 2021.]]>
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	<title>First Things First (With Nayaswami Jyotish)</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded October 17th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2232</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction (With Nayaswami Ananta)</title>
	<itunes:title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction (With Nayaswami Ananta)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded October 10th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2213</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth (With Nayaswami Jaya)</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jaya</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jaya and Nayaswami Sadhana Devi at Ananda Village, recorded September 26th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2417</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex (With Jitendra Guindon)</title>
	<itunes:title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex (With Jitendra Guindon)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Jitendra Guindon</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Jitendra Guindon and Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded September 19th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2199</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Truth Invites, It Never Commands (With Nayaswami Devi)</title>
	<itunes:title>Truth Invites, It Never Commands (With Nayaswami Devi)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, recorded September 12th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2187</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Ego: Friend or Foe? (With Nayaswami Pranaba)</title>
	<itunes:title>The Ego: Friend or Foe? (With Nayaswami Pranaba)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded September 5th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1811</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2021 19:07:47 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Who Are True Christians? (With Nayaswami Maria)</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Nayaswami Ananta at Ananda Village, recorded August 29th, 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2003</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:41:54 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests? (With Nayaswami Jaya)</title>
	<itunes:title>How Should We Meet Our Tests? (With Nayaswami Jaya)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jaya</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jaya and Nayaswami Sadhana Devi at Ananda Village, recorded August 22nd 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2089</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2021 16:11:37 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Does Satan Exist? (With Nayaswami Jyotish)</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded August 15th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2307</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Does God Hide the Truth? (With Sundara Traymar)</title>
	<itunes:title>Does God Hide the Truth? (With Sundara Traymar)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Sundara Traymar</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Sundara Traymar and Nayaswami Pranaba and Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded August 8th, 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1614</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Democratic Is Truth? (With Nayaswami Anandi)</title>
	<itunes:title>How Democratic Is Truth? (With Nayaswami Anandi)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Anandi and Nayaswami Bharat at Ananda Village, recorded August 1st, 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2091</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 17:48:42 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Do You Need A Guru? (With Nayaswami Ananta)</title>
	<itunes:title>Do You Need A Guru? (With Nayaswami Ananta)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Nayaswami Maria at Ananda Village, recorded July 25th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2168</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Self-Effort, Too, is Needed (With Nayaswami Parvati)</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Effort, Too, is Needed (With Nayaswami Parvati)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded July 18th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2043</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Self-Reliance Versus *Self*-Reliance (With Badri Matlock)</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Reliance Versus *Self*-Reliance (With Badri Matlock)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Badri Matlock</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Badri Matlock and Nayaswami Anandi and Bharat at Ananda Village, recorded July 11th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Abiding in God (With Nayaswami Devi)</title>
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	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-7-4-Devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, recorded July 4th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1907</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Redeeming Light (With Nayaswami Pranaba)</title>
	<itunes:title>The Redeeming Light (With Nayaswami Pranaba)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded June 27th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2019</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Eternal Now (With Nayaswami Bharat)</title>
	<itunes:title>The Eternal Now (With Nayaswami Bharat)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Bharat and Anandi at Ananda Village, recorded June 20th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2412</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Devotees Rise (With Brahmachari Sagar)</title>
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	<title>How Devotees Fall (With Nayaswami Jyotish)</title>
	<itunes:title>How Devotees Fall (With Nayaswami Jyotish)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded June 6th 2021.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Inner Kingdom (With Nayaswami Anandi)</title>
	<itunes:title>The Inner Kingdom (With Nayaswami Anandi)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-5-30-Anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Anandi and Bharat at Ananda Village, recorded May 30th 2021.]]>
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Worship? (With Erin Vinacco)</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is the Best Way to Worship? (With Erin Vinacco)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-5-23-Erin.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Erin Vinacco</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Erin Vinacco and Nayaswami Pranaba and Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded May 23rd 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1473</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Activity vs Inner Communion (With Nayaswami Jyotish)</title>
	<itunes:title>Activity vs Inner Communion (With Nayaswami Jyotish)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-5-16-Devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded May 16th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1978</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Secret of Right Action (With Nayaswami Jaya)</title>
	<itunes:title>The Secret of Right Action (With Nayaswami Jaya)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-5-9-Jaya.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jaya</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jaya and Sadhana Devi at Ananda Village, recorded May 9th 2021.

(The music is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2165</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence (With Nayaswami Maria)</title>
	<itunes:title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence (With Nayaswami Maria)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-5-2-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Ananta at Ananda Village, recorded May 2nd, 2021. (The music is taken from earlier recordings.)]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2455</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How High Should We Aspire? (With Jitendra Guindon)</title>
	<itunes:title>How High Should We Aspire? (With Jitendra Guindon)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-4-25-Jitendra.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Jitendra Guindon and Nayaswami...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Jitendra Guindon and Nayaswami Anandi and Bharat at Ananda Village, recorded April 25th 2021.  (The music is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2191</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith (With Nayaswami Parvati)</title>
	<itunes:title>To Each According to His Faith (With Nayaswami Parvati)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2018-4-18-Parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>Easter Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and P...</description>
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<![CDATA[Easter Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded April 18th 2021.

(The music is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2076</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Deeds vs Intentions (With Nayaswami Ananta)</title>
	<itunes:title>Deeds vs Intentions (With Nayaswami Ananta)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-4-11-Ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Easter Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Maria at Ananda Village, recorded April 11th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1748</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Resurrection for Every Soul (With Badri Matlock)</title>
	<itunes:title>Resurrection for Every Soul (With Badri Matlock)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-4-4-Easter-Jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>Easter Sunday Service with Badri Matlock and Nayas...</description>
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<![CDATA[Easter Sunday Service with Badri Matlock and Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded April 4th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2525</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Who Is This Son of Man? (With Sundara Traymar)</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Is This Son of Man? (With Sundara Traymar)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-3-28-Sundara.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Sundara Traymar</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Sundara Traymar and Nayaswami...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Sundara Traymar and Nayaswami Parvati and Pranaba at Ananda Village, recorded March 28th 2021.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1657</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>We Are Children of the Light (With Nayaswami Maria)</title>
	<itunes:title>We Are Children of the Light (With Nayaswami Maria)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-3-21-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Ananta at...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Ananta at Ananda Village, recorded March 21st 2021. (The music in the beginning is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2232</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reason vs Intuition (With Nayaswami Bharat)</title>
	<itunes:title>Reason vs Intuition (With Nayaswami Bharat)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-3-14-Bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Bharat and Anandi at...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Bharat and Anandi at Ananda Village, recorded March 14th 2021.  (The music is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2040</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Dogmatism vs Common Sense (With Nayaswami Devi)</title>
	<itunes:title>Dogmatism vs Common Sense (With Nayaswami Devi)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-3-7-Devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami J...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, recorded March 7th 2021.  (The music is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2377</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding? (With Nayaswami Pranaba)</title>
	<itunes:title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding? (With Nayaswami Pranaba)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-2-28-Pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded February 28th 2021.  (The music of the first song is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2111</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Can Man See God? (With Badri Matlock)</title>
	<itunes:title>Can Man See God? (With Badri Matlock)</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-2-21-Badri.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Badri Matlock</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Badri Matlock and Nayaswami An...</description>
	<itunes:summary>Sunday Service with Badri Matlock and Nayaswami An...</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Badri Matlock and Nayaswami Ananta and Maria at Ananda Village recorded February 21th 2021.  (The music is taken from earlier recordings.)]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2172</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Law Is Perfected in Love (With Nayaswami Anandi)</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law Is Perfected in Love (With Nayaswami Anandi)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
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	<title>The Mystery of Avatara (With Nayaswami Parvati)</title>
	<itunes:title>The Mystery of Avatara (With Nayaswami Parvati)</itunes:title>
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	<title>The Infinite Christ (With Nayaswami Ananta)</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
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	<title>Is God Present Even There Where There Is Ignorance? (With Nayaswami Krishnadadas)</title>
	<itunes:title>Is God Present Even There Where There Is Ignorance? (With Nayaswami Krishnadadas)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Krishnadas</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Krishnadadas and Mantradevi at Ananda Village, recorded Jan 17 2021.  (The music is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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	<title>Did God Create the Universe or Become It? (With Brahmachari Sagar)</title>
	<itunes:title>Did God Create the Universe or Become It? (With Brahmachari Sagar)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Sagar</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Brahmachari Sagar and Tyagis Atman and Bhaktimarg at Ananda Village, recorded Jan 10 2021.  (The music is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>At the Heart of Silence - The Eternal Word (With Nayaswami Devi)</title>
	<itunes:title>At the Heart of Silence - The Eternal Word (With Nayaswami Devi)</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, recorded Jan 3 2021. (The music is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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	<title>The Divine Ascension</title>
	<itunes:title>The Divine Ascension</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Erin Vinacco</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Erin Vinacco and Nayaswami Ananta and Maria at Ananda Village, recorded Dec 27 2020. You can find more Sunday Services here. (The music is taken from earlier recordings).

ABOUT ANANDA WORLDWIDE

Ananda is a worldwide movement to help individuals realize the joy of their own higher Self. Ananda is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda and was founded by his direct disciple Swami Kriyananda in 1968.]]>
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	<title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</itunes:title>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, recorded Dec 20 2020. You can find more Sunday Services here.  (The music is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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	<title>Living in the Presence of God</title>
	<itunes:title>Living in the Presence of God</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Bharat and Anandi at Ananda Village, recorded Dec 13 2020. (The music is taken from earlier recordings).]]>
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	<title>What Is It to Fail Spiritually?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is It to Fail Spiritually?</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village, recorded Dec 6 2020.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reincarnation: The Spiral Staircase</title>
	<itunes:title>Reincarnation: The Spiral Staircase</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-22-Devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, recorded Nov 22 2020. You can find more Sunday Services here.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2020 21:06:32 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures</title>
	<itunes:title>The Promise of the Scriptures</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-15-Anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer, Prayer Is a Call to Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer, Prayer Is a Call to Faith</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-8-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Maria at...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Maria at Ananda Village, recorded Nov 8 2020.]]>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2020 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Why Tell God Anything When He Knows Everything?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Tell God Anything When He Knows Everything?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-1-Jitendra.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Guindon</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Jitendra Guindon at Ananda Vil...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Jitendra Guindon at Ananda Village, recorded Nov 1 2020.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-25-Ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>First Things First</title>
	<itunes:title>First Things First</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</title>
	<itunes:title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-11-Sagar.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Sagar</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Brahmachari Sagar and Nayaswami Anandi and Bharat Cornell at Ananda Village.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>In Surrender Lies Victory</title>
	<itunes:title>In Surrender Lies Victory</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-4-Parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Pranaba...</description>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</title>
	<itunes:title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</itunes:title>
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	<title>Intuition Is Simple, the Intellect Is Complex</title>
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	<title>Ego: Friend or Foe?</title>
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	<title>Who Are the True Christians?</title>
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	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</title>
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	<title>Does Satan Exist?</title>
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	<title>How Democratic is Truth?</title>
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	<title>Do You Need a Guru?</title>
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	<title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</title>
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	<title>Self-Reliance vs. *Self*-Reliance</title>
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	<title>Abiding in God</title>
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	<title>The Redeeming Light</title>
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	<title>How Devotees Rise</title>
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	<title>The Best Way to Worship</title>
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	<title>Activity Versus Inner Communion</title>
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	<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
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	<title>Perfection is Self-Transcendence</title>
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	<title>How High Should We Aspire?</title>
	<itunes:title>How High Should We Aspire?</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
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	<title>Resurrection for Every Soul</title>
	<itunes:title>Resurrection for Every Soul</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Who Is This Son of Man?</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Is This Son of Man?</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Maria at Ananda Village, Palm Sunday 2020.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1942</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Deeds versus Intentions</title>
	<itunes:title>Deeds versus Intentions</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>We Are Children of the Light</title>
	<itunes:title>We Are Children of the Light</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2412</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reason versus Intuition</title>
	<itunes:title>Reason versus Intuition</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Krishnadas</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Nayaswami Krishnadas and Mantradevi.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2233</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Dogmatism Versus Common Sense</title>
	<itunes:title>Dogmatism Versus Common Sense</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-3-8-atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2239</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</title>
	<itunes:title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-3-1-erin.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Erin Vinacco</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Erin Vinacco, with Nayaswami Ananta and Maria, at Ananda Village, March 1, 2020. https://www.ananda.org/video/series/sunday-service]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2163</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:35:23 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Can Man See God?</title>
	<itunes:title>Can Man See God?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-2-23-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2067</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Law is Perfected in Love</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law is Perfected in Love</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-2-16-sundara.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Sundara Traymar</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Sundara and Nayaswami Parvati...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Sundara and Nayaswami Parvati and Pranaba at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1833</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</title>
	<itunes:title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-2-9-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>1980</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</title>
	<itunes:title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-2-2-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Ananta at...</description>
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			<itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Infinite Christ</title>
	<itunes:title>The Infinite Christ</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-1-26-jitendra.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Jitendra Guindon, and Nayaswam...</description>
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			<itunes:duration>2074</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Is God Present Even There Where There Is Ignorance?</title>
	<itunes:title>Is God Present Even There Where There Is Ignorance?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-1-19-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Pranaba...</description>
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			<itunes:duration>2463</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Did God Create the Universe or Become It?</title>
	<itunes:title>Did God Create the Universe or Become It?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-1-12-gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev and Indradev...</description>
	<itunes:summary>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev and Indradev...</itunes:summary>

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			<itunes:duration>2258</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>At the Heart of Silence—the Eternal Word</title>
	<itunes:title>At the Heart of Silence—the Eternal Word</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-1-05-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswam...</description>
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			<itunes:duration>2367</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Divine Ascension</title>
	<itunes:title>The Divine Ascension</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019-12-29-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Nayaswami Pr...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Nayaswami Pranaba and Parvati.]]>
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	<title>What Is It to Fail Spiritually?</title>
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	<title>The Law of Karma - Bondage, or Soul Freedom?</title>
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	<title>Reincarnation - The Spiral Staircase</title>
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	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures</title>
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	<title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer - Prayer Is a Call to Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer - Prayer Is a Call to Faith</itunes:title>
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	<title>Why Tell God Anything When He Knows Everything?</title>
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
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	<title>First Things First</title>
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	<title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</title>
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	<title>In Surrender Lies Victory</title>
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	<title>Many Are the Paths to Truth</title>
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	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
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	<title>Intuition is Simple. The Intellect is Complex</title>
	<itunes:title>Intuition is Simple. The Intellect is Complex</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Tyagi Dr. Peter at Ananda Vill...</description>
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	<title>Truth Invites, It Never Commands</title>
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	<title>Ego, Friend or Foe?</title>
	<itunes:title>Ego, Friend or Foe?</itunes:title>
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	<title>Who Are the True Christians?</title>
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	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</title>
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	<title>Does Satan Exist?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does Satan Exist?</itunes:title>
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	<title>Does God Hide the Truth?</title>
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	<title>How Democratic is Truth?</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Do You Need a Guru?</title>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Nayaswami Anandi and Bharat.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:54:42 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2202</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2019 21:35:49 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2053</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 20:05:20 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Abiding in God</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2211</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2019 19:56:19 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Eternal Now</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>1843</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:00:16 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Devotees Rise</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2252</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Devotees Fall</title>
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	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2308</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2019 21:35:45 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Inner Kingdom</title>
	<itunes:title>The Inner Kingdom</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Krishnadas</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Krishnadas and Mantradevi at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2199</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Best Way to Worship</title>
	<itunes:title>The Best Way to Worship</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>1947</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Activity vs Inner Communion</title>
	<itunes:title>Activity vs Inner Communion</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village, on Swami Kriyananda's birthday.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2019 20:45:06 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
	<itunes:title>The Secret of Right Action</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2002</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2019 23:39:33 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Perfection is Self-Transcendence</title>
	<itunes:title>Perfection is Self-Transcendence</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>1980</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2019 18:45:08 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How High Should We Aspire?</title>
	<itunes:title>How High Should We Aspire?</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Badri Matlock</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Badri Matlock at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2215</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2019 19:36:03 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Resurrection For Every Soul</title>
	<itunes:title>Resurrection For Every Soul</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Easter Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi, with Kalidas sharing the Easter story for children, at Ananda Village.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:08:59 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>To Each According to His Faith</itunes:title>
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			<itunes:duration>1878</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 20:07:01 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Deeds vs Intentions</title>
	<itunes:title>Deeds vs Intentions</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Tyagis Dr. P...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Tyagis Dr. Peter and Lisa.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1734</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2019 02:44:59 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>We Are Children of the Light</title>
	<itunes:title>We Are Children of the Light</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Ananta at Ananda Village, March 24th 2019. https://www.ananda.org/video/series/sunday-service]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2019 18:51:44 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reason vs Intuition</title>
	<itunes:title>Reason vs Intuition</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-3-17-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2019 21:35:09 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</title>
	<itunes:title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:57:14 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>By Thinking, Can We Arrive at Understanding?</title>
	<itunes:title>By Thinking, Can We Arrive at Understanding?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-3-3-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2161</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2019 20:41:26 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Can Man See God?</title>
	<itunes:title>Can Man See God?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019-2-24-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch Nayaswami Ananta's inspiring and joyful Sunday Service at Ananda Village, February 24th, 2019 - full of practical advice and encouragement.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2234</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 02:03:16 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Law is Perfected in Love</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law is Perfected in Love</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>1944</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:32:42 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</title>
	<itunes:title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019-2-10-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2525</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:51:10 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</title>
	<itunes:title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019-2-3-jitendra.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Brahmachari Jitendra at Ananda...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Brahmachari Jitendra at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2444</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:41:19 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Infinite Christ</title>
	<itunes:title>The Infinite Christ</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-1-27-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Ananta at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1773</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2019 23:33:25 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</title>
	<itunes:title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-1-20-badri.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Badri Matlock</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Watch Badri Matlock's Sunday Service at Ananda Village, January 20th, 2019.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1931</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:56:25 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Did God Create the Universe - or Become It?</title>
	<itunes:title>Did God Create the Universe - or Become It?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-1-13-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Pranaba at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2134</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2019 19:52:21 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>At the Heart of Silence—The Eternal Word</title>
	<itunes:title>At the Heart of Silence—The Eternal Word</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-01-06-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1768</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:05:26 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Divine Ascension</title>
	<itunes:title>The Divine Ascension</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-12-30-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Bharat and Anandi at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1808</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2018 20:56:47 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-12-23-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>Christmas Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Ba...</description>
	<itunes:summary>Christmas Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Ba...</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Christmas Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Badri Matlock and Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1778</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2018 20:49:46 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Living in the Presence of God</title>
	<itunes:title>Living in the Presence of God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-12-16-gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev</description>
	<itunes:summary>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Is It, to Fall Spiritually?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is It, to Fall Spiritually?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-12-09-jitendra.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Brahmachari Jitendra</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Brahmachari...</description>
	<itunes:summary>Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Brahmachari...</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Brahmachari Jitendra.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1930</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:52:24 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Law of Karma - Bondage, or Soul-Release</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law of Karma - Bondage, or Soul-Release</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-12-02-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
	<description>Nayaswami Ananta and Maria share during their insp...</description>
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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Ananta and Maria share during their inspiring Sunday Service at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1704</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 21:34:57 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reincarnation–the Spiral Staircase</title>
	<itunes:title>Reincarnation–the Spiral Staircase</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-11-25-mantradevi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Mantradevi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Mantradevi and Maria at Ananda Village, Nov 25th, 2018.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2035</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures</title>
	<itunes:title>The Promise of the Scriptures</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-11-18-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Anandi and Durga at...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Anandi and Durga at Ananda Village, Nov 18th, 2018.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2061</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-11-11-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Parvati...</description>
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	<title>Why Tell God Anything When He Already Knows Everything?</title>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service at Ananda Village with Gita Matlock and Nayaswami Ananta &amp;amp; Maria.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:31:29 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Tyagi Dr. Peter Van Houten at Ananda Village.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:16:20 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>First Things First</title>
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	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Tyagi Atman at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2812</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 20:55:05 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</title>
	<itunes:title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Badri Matlock</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Badri Matlock (and Anandi Cornell) at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1993</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2018 21:14:06 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>In Surrender Lies Victory</title>
	<itunes:title>In Surrender Lies Victory</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2365</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 22:28:13 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</title>
	<itunes:title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Mantradevi</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Mantradevi and Tyagi Lisa at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2208</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:33:30 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex</title>
	<itunes:title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev and Tyagi Lisa at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1836</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 22:28:52 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Truth Invites; It Never Commands</title>
	<itunes:title>Truth Invites; It Never Commands</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-9-16-jitendra.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jitendra at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2084</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:00:05 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Ego: Friend of Foe?</title>
	<itunes:title>The Ego: Friend of Foe?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-9-9-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Parvati and Pranaba at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1917</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:50:22 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Who Are the True Christians?</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Are the True Christians?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-9-2-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Anandi and Bharat at...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Anandi and Bharat at Ananda Village.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2191</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2018 22:06:50 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sunday-Service-8-26_01.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Maria, at...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Ananta and Maria, at Ananda Village, August 26th, 2018.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Does Satan Exist?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does Satan Exist?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-8-19-gita.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Gita Matlock</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Gita Matlock at Ananda Village...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Gita Matlock at Ananda Village, August 19th, 2018.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1333</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Does God Hide the Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does God Hide the Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-8-12-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Pranaba and Parvati at Ananda Village, August 12th, 2018.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2124</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Democratic Is Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Democratic Is Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-8-5-atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Tyagi Atman at Ananda Village, August 5th, 2018.

Reading starts at: 2:57
Atman's talk begins at: 6:30]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2349</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Do You Need a Guru?</title>
	<itunes:title>Do You Need a Guru?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-7-29-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Anandi and Bharat at...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Anandi and Bharat at Ananda Village, July 29th, 2018.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-7-22-badri.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Badri Matlock</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Badri Matlock at Ananda Villag...</description>
	<itunes:summary>Sunday Service with Badri Matlock at Ananda Villag...</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Badri Matlock at Ananda Village, July 22, 2018]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1811</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Self-Reliance vs. self-Reliance</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Reliance vs. self-Reliance</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2017-7-15-gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev at Ananda Vi...</description>
	<itunes:summary>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev at Ananda Vi...</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Gyandev at Ananda Village, July 15th 2018.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1805</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Abiding in God</title>
	<itunes:title>Abiding in God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-7-8-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswam...</description>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service with Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi at Ananda Village, July 8th, 2018.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2474</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Redeeming Light</title>
	<itunes:title>The Redeeming Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-7-1-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Sunday Service with Nayaswami Maria and Ananta at...</description>
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	<title>The Inner Kingdom</title>
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	<title>The Best Way to Worship</title>
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	<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
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	<title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</title>
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	<title>How High Should We Aspire</title>
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
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	<title>Deeds vs Intentions</title>
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	<title>We Are Children of the Light</title>
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	<title>Resurrection for Every Soul</title>
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	<title>Who Is This Son of Man</title>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service at Ananda Village, with Nayaswami Ananta and Maria, Palm Sunday March 25th, 2018
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	<title>Reason vs. Intuition</title>
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	<title>Dogmatism Versus Common Sense</title>
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	<title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</title>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service March 4th, 2018, at Ananda Village, with Nayaswami Diksha and Gyandev McCord]]>
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	<title>Can Man See God?</title>
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	<title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</title>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Service at Ananda Village on February 18th, 2018
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	<title>The Importance of Soul Receptivity</title>
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	<title>The Infinite Christ</title>
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	<title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</title>
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	<title>Did God Create the Universe or Become It?</title>
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	<title>At the Heart of Silence—The Eternal Word</title>
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	<title>New Years Eve Sunday Service</title>
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			<itunes:duration>1835</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Special Chrismas Eve Sunday Service</title>
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	<title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</title>
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	<title>Living in the Presence of God</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2110</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?</title>
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	<title>The Law of Karma</title>
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	<title>Reincarnation–The Spiral Staircase</title>
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			<itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures</title>
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			<itunes:duration>1957</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2043</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Why Tell God Anything, when He Knows Everything?</title>
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
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	<title>First Things First</title>
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	<title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</title>
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	<title>In Surrender Lies Victory!</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2293</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</title>
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	<title>Intuition Is Simple : The Intellect Is Complex</title>
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	<title>Truth Invites; It Never Commands</title>
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			<itunes:duration>1469</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Paramhansa Yogananda Gives up His Motorcycle</title>
	<itunes:title>Paramhansa Yogananda Gives up His Motorcycle</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-9-3-gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Gyandev</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Gyandev</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>153</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Gyandev</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Who Are True Christians?</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Are True Christians?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017-8-27-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Maria</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Maria</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/who-are-true-christians-13/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2129</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Maria</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017-8-20-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Parvati</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Parvati</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-should-we-meet-our-tests-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2052</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

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<item>

	<title>Does Satan Exist?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does Satan Exist?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017-8-13-devi-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Devi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Devi</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/does-satan-exist-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2792</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

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<item>

	<title>Does God Hide the Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does God Hide the Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017-8-6-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Bharat</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Bharat</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/does-god-hide-the-truth-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2068</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Bharat</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>How Democratic Is Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Democratic Is Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017-7-30-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Jyotish</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Jyotish</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-democratic-is-truth-12/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2431</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Jyotish</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Do You Need a Guru?</title>
	<itunes:title>Do You Need a Guru?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-7-23-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Pranaba</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Pranaba</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/do-you-need-a-guru-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1911</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Pranaba</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-7-16-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/self-effort-too-is-needed-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1584</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Self-Reliance vs. Self-Realiance</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Reliance vs. Self-Realiance</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-7-9-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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			<itunes:duration>2030</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Abiding in God</title>
	<itunes:title>Abiding in God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Sunday-Service-Vixia-HF200.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://www.ananda.org/sunday-service/.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/abiding-in-god-13/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2223</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>The Redeeming Light</title>
	<itunes:title>The Redeeming Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-6-25-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://www.ananda.org/sunday-service/.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-redeeming-light-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1788</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>The Eternal Now</title>
	<itunes:title>The Eternal Now</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-6-18-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://www.ananda.org/sunday-service/.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-eternal-now-12/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2387</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>How Devotees Rise</title>
	<itunes:title>How Devotees Rise</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-6-12-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://www.ananda.org/sunday-service/.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-devotees-rise-12/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2049</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>The Inner Kingdom</title>
	<itunes:title>The Inner Kingdom</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Anandi052917-MP3.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Anandi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Anandi</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-inner-kingdom-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2164</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Anandi</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Activity vs. Inner Communion</title>
	<itunes:title>Activity vs. Inner Communion</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-5-14-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/activity-vs-inner-communion-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2164</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
	<itunes:title>The Secret of Right Action</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/EL-Sunday-Service-5-8-17-Project.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-secret-of-right-action-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2117</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</title>
	<itunes:title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-4-30-krishnadas.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Krishnadas</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://www.ananda.org/sunday-service/.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2070</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>How High Should We Aspire?</title>
	<itunes:title>How High Should We Aspire?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-4-23-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-high-should-we-aspire-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1942</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Easter Sunday: Resurrection for Every Soul</title>
	<itunes:title>Easter Sunday: Resurrection for Every Soul</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-04-16-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Devi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Devi</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/easter-sunday-resurrection-for-every-soul/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2291</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

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<item>

	<title>Palm Sunday: Who Is This Son of Man?</title>
	<itunes:title>Palm Sunday: Who Is This Son of Man?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-4-9-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

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			<itunes:duration>2233</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>To Each According to His Faith</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-4-2-gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

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			<itunes:duration>2282</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Deeds vs. Intentions</title>
	<itunes:title>Deeds vs. Intentions</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-3-26-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/deeds-vs-intentions-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2173</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>We Are Children of the Light</title>
	<itunes:title>We Are Children of the Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-3-19-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village S...</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village S...</itunes:summary>

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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/we-are-children-of-the-light-13/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2036</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reason vs. Intuition</title>
	<itunes:title>Reason vs. Intuition</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-03-12-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Jyotish</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Jyotish</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/reason-vs-intuition-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2636</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</title>
	<itunes:title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-3-5-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/dogmatism-vs-common-sense-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1787</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</title>
	<itunes:title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2-26-2017-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/by-thinking-can-we-arrive-at-understanding-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2164</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Can Man See God?</title>
	<itunes:title>Can Man See God?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017-2-19-mantradevi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/can-man-see-god-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2491</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017-2-12-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-law-is-perfected-in-love-12/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1997</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</title>
	<itunes:title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017-2-5-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-importance-of-soul-receptivity-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1959</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</title>
	<itunes:title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017-1-29-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-mystery-of-avatara-or-divine-incarnation-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1832</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Infinite Christ</title>
	<itunes:title>The Infinite Christ</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017-1-22-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-infinite-christ-13/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1883</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</title>
	<itunes:title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017-1-15-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/is-god-present-even-there-where-there-is-ignorance-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1949</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Did God Create the Universe—Or Become It?</title>
	<itunes:title>Did God Create the Universe—Or Become It?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017-1-8-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/did-god-create-the-universe-or-become-it-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2492</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>At the Heart of Silence—The Eternal World</title>
	<itunes:title>At the Heart of Silence—The Eternal World</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017-1-1-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/at-the-heart-of-silence-the-eternal-world-2/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2050</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016-12-18-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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			<itunes:duration>1360</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Living in the Presence of God</title>
	<itunes:title>Living in the Presence of God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016-12-11-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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			<itunes:duration>2080</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016-12-4-peter.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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			<itunes:duration>1855</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<item>

	<title>The Law of Karma — Bondage, or Soul-Release</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law of Karma — Bondage, or Soul-Release</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-27-diksha.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Diksha</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Diksha</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Diksha</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-law-of-karma-bondage-or-soul-release-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1788</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Diksha</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Reincarnation: the Spiral Staircase</title>
	<itunes:title>Reincarnation: the Spiral Staircase</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Sunday-Service-11.20.16-Atman-Reincarnation-Long-MP3.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>With Atman Goering</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Atman Goering</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/reincarnation-the-spiral-staircase-12/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2383</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

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<item>

	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures</title>
	<itunes:title>The Promise of the Scriptures</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-13-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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			<itunes:duration>2047</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-06-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/faith-is-a-call-to-prayer-prayer-is-a-call-to-faith-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1846</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-10-23-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/what-is-the-best-way-to-pray-14/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>First Things First</title>
	<itunes:title>First Things First</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-10-16-krishnadas.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Krishnadas</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/first-things-first-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2471</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</title>
	<itunes:title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-10-9-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/victory-demands-the-courage-of-conviction-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1986</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>In Surrender Lies Victory!</title>
	<itunes:title>In Surrender Lies Victory!</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-10-3-dr-peter.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/in-surrender-lies-victory-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1968</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</title>
	<itunes:title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-9-25-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://www.ananda.org/sunday-service/.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/many-are-the-pathways-to-truth-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1521</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex</title>
	<itunes:title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-9-18-peter.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/intuition-is-simple-the-intellect-is-complex-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1850</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Ego—Friend or Foe?</title>
	<itunes:title>Ego—Friend or Foe?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-9-4-anandi-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/ego-friend-or-foe-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2032</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Who Are True Christians?</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Are True Christians?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-8-28-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/who-are-true-christians-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-8-21-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-should-we-meet-our-tests-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2117</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Why Don't We Act in Our Highest Interest?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Don't We Act in Our Highest Interest?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-8-14-devi-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/why-dont-we-act-in-our-highest-interest/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2512</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>How Democratic Is Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Democratic Is Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-7-31-atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-democratic-is-truth-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1645</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Do You Need a Guru?</title>
	<itunes:title>Do You Need a Guru?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-7-24-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/do-you-need-a-guru-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2266</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Sunday-Service-071716-MP3.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Anandi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Anandi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1873</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-7-10-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

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			<itunes:duration>1815</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<item>

	<title>Abiding in God</title>
	<itunes:title>Abiding in God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-7-3-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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			<itunes:duration>2159</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

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<item>

	<title>The Redeeming Light</title>
	<itunes:title>The Redeeming Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-6-26-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-redeeming-light-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1616</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>The Eternal Now</title>
	<itunes:title>The Eternal Now</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-6-19-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-eternal-now-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2091</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>How Devotees Rise</title>
	<itunes:title>How Devotees Rise</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-6-12-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-devotees-rise-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1653</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<item>

	<title>Why Do Devotees Fall?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Do Devotees Fall?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-6-5-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/why-do-devotees-fall-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1788</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Inner Kingdom</title>
	<itunes:title>The Inner Kingdom</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-5-29-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-inner-kingdom-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2084</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>The Best Way to Worship</title>
	<itunes:title>The Best Way to Worship</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-5-22-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-best-way-to-worship-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1879</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
	<itunes:title>The Secret of Right Action</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sunday-ServiceAnandi-May-2016.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village S...</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village S...</itunes:summary>

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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-secret-of-right-action-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1889</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

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<item>

	<title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</title>
	<itunes:title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sunday-Service-May-2016.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village S...</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village S...</itunes:summary>

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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/perfection-is-self-transcendence-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1738</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>To Each According to His Faith</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016-4-17-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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			<itunes:duration>1815</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Deeds vs. Intentions</title>
	<itunes:title>Deeds vs. Intentions</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016-4-10-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/deeds-vs-intentions-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1875</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Resurrection for Every Soul</title>
	<itunes:title>Resurrection for Every Soul</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-3-27-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/resurrection-for-every-soul-4/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2754</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Who Is This Son of Man?</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Is This Son of Man?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-3-20-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/who-is-this-son-of-man-4/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1958</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Reason vs. Intuition</title>
	<itunes:title>Reason vs. Intuition</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-3-13-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/reason-vs-intuition-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1831</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</title>
	<itunes:title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-3-6-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/dogmatism-vs-common-sense-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2157</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<item>

	<title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</title>
	<itunes:title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-2-28-mantradevi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/by-thinking-can-we-arrive-at-understanding-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1922</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Can Man See God?</title>
	<itunes:title>Can Man See God?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2016-2-21-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

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			<itunes:duration>1879</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2016-2-14-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

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			<itunes:duration>1905</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</title>
	<itunes:title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2016-2-7-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

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			<itunes:duration>1914</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Infinite Christ</title>
	<itunes:title>The Infinite Christ</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016-1-24-atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-infinite-christ-12/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2246</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</title>
	<itunes:title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016-1-17-drpeter.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:summary>

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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/is-god-present-even-there-where-there-is-ignorance-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2688</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Did God Create the Universe—Or Become It?</title>
	<itunes:title>Did God Create the Universe—Or Become It?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016-1-10-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/did-god-create-the-universe-or-become-it-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2169</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>At the Heart of Silence—The Eternal Word</title>
	<itunes:title>At the Heart of Silence—The Eternal Word</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016-1-3-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village S...</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village S...</itunes:summary>

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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/at-the-heart-of-silence-the-eternal-word-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2623</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Divine Ascension</title>
	<itunes:title>The Divine Ascension</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-12-27-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://www.ananda.org/sunday-service/]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-divine-ascension-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2220</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-12-20-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</description>
	<itunes:summary>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: https://www.ananda.org/sunday-service/]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2051</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To watch Sunday service live from Ananda Village Sundays at 11am, visit: http://anandaold.wpengine.com/sunday-service/</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Living in the Presence of God</title>
	<itunes:title>Living in the Presence of God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-12-13-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Maria</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Maria</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/living-in-the-presence-of-god-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1986</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Maria</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Law of Karma—Bondage, or Soul-Release</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law of Karma—Bondage, or Soul-Release</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2015-11-29-krishnadas.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Krishnadas</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Krishnadas</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Krishnadas</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-law-of-karma-bondage-or-soul-release-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1956</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Krishnadas</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Reincarnation — the Spiral Staircase</title>
	<itunes:title>Reincarnation — the Spiral Staircase</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Sunday-Service-11.23.15.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/reincarnation-the-spiral-staircase-11/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1591</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures</title>
	<itunes:title>The Promise of the Scriptures</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2015-11-15-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Pranaba</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Pranaba</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-promise-of-the-scriptures-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1524</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Pranaba</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2015-11-8-gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Gyandev</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Gyandev</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/faith-is-a-call-to-prayer-prayer-is-a-call-to-faith-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2146</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Gyandev</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Why Tell God Anything, when He Knows Everything?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Tell God Anything, when He Knows Everything?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2015-11-1-peter.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/why-tell-god-anything-when-he-knows-everything-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1859</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-10-25-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Parvati</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Parvati</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/what-is-the-best-way-to-pray-12/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2359</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Parvati</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>In Surrender Lies Victory!</title>
	<itunes:title>In Surrender Lies Victory!</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-10-4-atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>How can you say “Yes” to life and still maintain personal integrity?</description>
	<itunes:summary>How can you say “Yes” to life and still maintain personal integrity?</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Atman describes what it really means to say "Yes" to life — and the pitfalls that people fall into surrounding this spiritual principle.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/in-surrender-lies-victory-6/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2108</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</title>
	<itunes:title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-9-27-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>Nayaswami Pranaba uses the ocean as an allegory for the spiritual path.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Nayaswami Pranaba uses the ocean as an allegory for the spiritual path.</itunes:summary>

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			<itunes:duration>1574</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex</title>
	<itunes:title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-9-20-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Bharat</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Bharat</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/intuition-is-simple-the-intellect-is-complex-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1579</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

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<item>

	<title>Truth Invites, It Never Commands</title>
	<itunes:title>Truth Invites, It Never Commands</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sunday-Service-sept-2015.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Truth doesn’t need to command. It simply invites by the nature of your souls enthusiasm towards higher consciousness.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Truth doesn’t need to command. It simply invites by the nature of your souls enthusiasm towards higher consciousness.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[Truth doesn't need to command. It simply invites by the nature of your souls enthusiasm towards higher consciousness.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/truth-invites-it-never-commands-6/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1734</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Truth doesn’t need to command. It simply invites by the nature of your souls enthusiasm towards higher consciousness.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
<item>

	<title>Ego—Friend or Foe?</title>
	<itunes:title>Ego—Friend or Foe?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-9-6-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>How to be free of the ego (hint: you have to really want it).</description>
	<itunes:summary>How to be free of the ego (hint: you have to really want it).</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[What is the ego? It is the soul identified with the body. It keeps us from seeing who we really are — it keeps us from seeing God. The ego keeps us in delusion.

Nayaswami Anandi also shares Yogananda's story, and how his guru helped him become free.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/ego-friend-or-foe-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1879</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>How to be free of the ego (hint: you have to really want it).</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Who Are True Christians?</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Are True Christians?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-8-30-gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Gyandev</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Gyandev</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/who-are-true-christians-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1955</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Gyandev</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-8-23-mantradevi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Spiritual tests are to catch our attention so that we can redirect our energy.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Spiritual tests are to catch our attention so that we can redirect our energy.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA["Spiritual tests are of the ego; the soul is steeped in joy." Mantradevi shares the mechanics of how tests work and how we can best overcome them.

She shares stories also of Somnath and Sarita Ghosh (link to their talk), the great nephew and niece-in-law of Paramhansa Yogananda who stayed at her home at Ananda Village for two weeks not long ago.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-should-we-meet-our-tests-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2112</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Spiritual tests are to catch our attention so that we can redirect our energy.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Does Satan Exist?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does Satan Exist?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-8-16-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>This Sunday Service talk concludes Spiritual Renewal Week.</description>
	<itunes:summary>This Sunday Service talk concludes Spiritual Renewal Week.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[This Sunday Service talk concludes Spiritual Renewal Week.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/does-satan-exist-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1961</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>This Sunday Service talk concludes Spiritual Renewal Week.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Does God Hide the Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does God Hide the Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-8-9-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/does-god-hide-the-truth-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1826</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>How Democratic Is Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Democratic Is Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-8-2-15-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Parvati</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Parvati</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-democratic-is-truth-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1845</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Parvati</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Do You Need a Guru?</title>
	<itunes:title>Do You Need a Guru?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-7-26-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/do-you-need-a-guru-6/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1858</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-7-19-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Bharat</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Bharat</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/self-effort-too-is-needed-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2158</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

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	<title>Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-7-12-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Pranaba</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Pranaba</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/self-reliance-vs-self-reliance-6/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1913</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Pranaba</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Abiding in God</title>
	<itunes:title>Abiding in God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-7-5-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Jyotish</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Jyotish</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/abiding-in-god-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1899</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Jyotish</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Redeeming Light</title>
	<itunes:title>The Redeeming Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-6-28-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>Everything in creation is made of God’s light — the cutting edge of science even suspects so — and to realize this is our destiny.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Everything in creation is made of God’s light — the cutting edge of science even suspects so — and to realize this is our destiny.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[During the climax of movies, in a theater, Yogananda would remind his disciples that everything comes from the beam in the projection booth.

In the scary, exciting, dramatic times of our own lives, we have to realize that this world, too, is only light — projected on "the screen of duality."]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-redeeming-light-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1910</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Everything in creation is made of God’s light — the cutting edge of science even suspects so — and to realize this is our destiny.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Eternal Now</title>
	<itunes:title>The Eternal Now</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-6-21-devarshi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devarshi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Devarshi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Devarshi</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-eternal-now-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1916</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Devarshi</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>How Devotees Rise</title>
	<itunes:title>How Devotees Rise</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Sunday-Service-Vixia-HF2001.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Krishnadas</dc:creator>
	<description>On the spiritual path, it is important to balance our efforts with devotion.</description>
	<itunes:summary>On the spiritual path, it is important to balance our efforts with devotion.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[On the spiritual path, it is important to balance our efforts with devotion.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-devotees-rise-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2228</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Why Do Devotees Fall?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Do Devotees Fall?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Sunday-Service-Vixia-HF200.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Anandi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Anandi</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/why-do-devotees-fall-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2129</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
		<itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>

	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Anandi</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Inner Kingdom</title>
	<itunes:title>The Inner Kingdom</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-5-31-atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>With Atman Goering</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Atman Goering</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-inner-kingdom-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2044</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Atman Goering</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>The Best Way to Worship</title>
	<itunes:title>The Best Way to Worship</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-5-24-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>God loves and accepts us no matter what — it is we who sometimes don’t accept ourselves. Also: Nayaswami Devi shares how we to take the blessings of a special weekend and use them to grow spiritually.</description>
	<itunes:summary>God loves and accepts us no matter what — it is we who sometimes don’t accept ourselves. Also: Nayaswami Devi shares how we to take the blessings of a special weekend and use them to grow spiritually.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[Nayaswami Devi shares that God loves us unconditionally — even if we sometimes judge ourselves, we are always his beloved child.

She also speaks about the previous weekend, the dedication of the Swami Kriyananda Moksha Mandir and celebration of Swami Kriyananda's birthday, and how we can use high spiritual experiences to make lasting spiritual growth.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-best-way-to-worship-10/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1871</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>God loves and accepts us no matter what — it is we who sometimes don’t accept ourselves. Also: Nayaswami Devi shares how we to take the blessings of a special weekend and use them to grow spiritually.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</title>
	<itunes:title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-5-3-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>To transcend our worldly lives, we need to give everything we have, and accept the help of the guru.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To transcend our worldly lives, we need to give everything we have, and accept the help of the guru.</itunes:summary>

			<content:encoded>
<![CDATA[Nayaswami Maria shares a spiritual dream that she had, and winds her talk around the lessons that came through that dream.

Stories, illustrations, and other spiritual dreams are a part of the service.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/perfection-is-self-transcendence-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1941</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>To transcend our worldly lives, we need to give everything we have, and accept the help of the guru.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>How High Should We Aspire?</title>
	<itunes:title>How High Should We Aspire?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015-4-26-dr-peter.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/how-high-should-we-aspire-6/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2417</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<category>Spirituality</category> 

<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>To Each According to His Faith</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015-4-19-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Bharat</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Bharat</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2203</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Deeds vs. Intentions</title>
	<itunes:title>Deeds vs. Intentions</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015-4-12-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/deeds-vs-intentions-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1849</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Resurrection for Every Soul</title>
	<itunes:title>Resurrection for Every Soul</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015-4-5-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>Nayswami Jyotish explains the spiritual and symbolic reason why Easter happened.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Nayswami Jyotish explains the spiritual and symbolic reason why Easter happened.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Nayswami Jyotish explains the spiritual and symbolic reason why Easter happened.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2486</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Who Is This Son of Man?</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Is This Son of Man?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-3-29-jaya.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jaya</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Jaya</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Jaya</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/who-is-this-son-of-man-3/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2282</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>We Are Children of the Light</title>
	<itunes:title>We Are Children of the Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-3-22-mantradevi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Stillness and devotion are key qualities for success on the spiritual path.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Stillness and devotion are key qualities for success on the spiritual path.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Mantradevi shares stories from travels to India, where she experienced the quality of stillness, essential for deepening spiritual progress.

She also shares stories of time with Derek Bell, a famous Irish harpist, whom she considered a “hidden saint.” Despite his course outward appearance and manner, he was full of joy and of love for God.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2168</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reason vs. Intuition</title>
	<itunes:title>Reason vs. Intuition</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-3-15-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>The reality behind the appearance is the one that devotees need to seek, through intuitive perception.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The reality behind the appearance is the one that devotees need to seek, through intuitive perception.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Maria explains the meaning of the story from the Bible, in which Peter realizes that Jesus is "the Christ, the living Son of God." His realization came not through careful reasoning but through intuitive perception.

She shares other stories of the reality behind appearances as well: stories of Paramhansa Yogananda, Swami Kriyananda, and of the vibrations of energy that underlie reality.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2140</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</title>
	<itunes:title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-3-8-diksha.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Diksha</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Diksha</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Diksha</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/dogmatism-vs-common-sense-7/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1890</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</title>
	<itunes:title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-3-1-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1570</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Can Man See God?</title>
	<itunes:title>Can Man See God?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015-2-22-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>Nayaswami Anandi tells us through many humorous stories how to find our way back to God.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Nayaswami Anandi tells us through many humorous stories how to find our way back to God.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Anandi tells us through many humorous stories how to find our way back to God.

She talks about how to lighten our consciousness by going on a "mental diet" and reads a quote by Paramhansa Yogananda on how to clear out unwanted mental habits.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2019</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015-2-15-devarshi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devarshi</dc:creator>
	<description>The story of Karna, the “greatest giver,” in the Mahabharata, and the gifts that Krishna asked of him.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The story of Karna, the “greatest giver,” in the Mahabharata, and the gifts that Krishna asked of him.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[On Valentine’s Day weekend, Nayaswami Devarshi talks about what Divine love is and isn’t. He shares also the illuminating story of Karna from the Mahabharata—a great warrior who was generous to a fault, but fell in with the “wrong crowd.”]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1875</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</title>
	<itunes:title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sunday-Service-Vixia-HF200.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Devi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Devi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1966</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</title>
	<itunes:title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015-2-1-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Pranaba</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Pranaba</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1629</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</title>
	<itunes:title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015-1-18-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>How to use challenges of the spiritual life to quicken our progress on the path.</description>
	<itunes:summary>How to use challenges of the spiritual life to quicken our progress on the path.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The spiritual life is not easy — but, Nayaswami Anandi says, it seems that we grow because of the challenges.

Through stories, an explanation of prarabda karma, and a metaphor involving a baby, a football player, and a seesaw, Anandi shows how we can use the experiences God sends to us to advance on the spiritual path.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/is-god-present-even-there-where-there-is-ignorance-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2219</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Did God Create the Universe—Or Become It?</title>
	<itunes:title>Did God Create the Universe—Or Become It?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015-1-11-atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>With Atman Goering</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Atman Goering</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/did-god-create-the-universe-or-become-it-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>2272</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>At the Heart of Silence — The Eternal World</title>
	<itunes:title>At the Heart of Silence — The Eternal World</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015-01-04-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>Seven revolutionary teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, discussed in-depth.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Seven revolutionary teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, discussed in-depth.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Basing his talk on a recent blog post, 7 Revolutionary Teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, Nayaswami Jyotish elaborates on it in a talk that is deep and poetic.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2401</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Divine Ascension</title>
	<itunes:title>The Divine Ascension</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2014-12-28-bharat1.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>Even when something is happening to us directly, we don’t need to take it personally.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Even when something is happening to us directly, we don’t need to take it personally.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[As we progress on the spiritual path, our awareness in meditation becomes more and more interiorized, and we develop an awareness of ourselves not so identified with our body. Because of this, even when something happens to us directly, we find that we don't have to take it personally and have an emotional reaction to it.

Nayaswami Bharat tells the story of discovering this for himself during his early years at Ananda Village, and also shares stories of the grace and power of avatars, incarnations of God: Paramhansa Yogananda standing down a thug in Chicago, and Mahavatar Babaji protecting a servant from almost-certain death.]]>
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/the-divine-ascension-9/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1855</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014-12-21-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>The story of Christmas, and how to let the Christ be born within us.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The story of Christmas, and how to let the Christ be born within us.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The Christ Consciousness, symbolized by the child Jesus, needs to be born within ourselves; we prepare ourselves with devotion, with meditation, and with God's joy.

Nayaswami Devi shares the story of Christmas and the story of Kumar in Sri Yukteswar's hermitage — with a rarely-heard ending.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2432</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Living in the Presence of God</title>
	<itunes:title>Living in the Presence of God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014-12-14-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/living-in-the-presence-of-god-8/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1785</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/12-07-2014-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>To become one with all that is, we need to stay awake — to keep seeking union with the Christ Consciousness.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To become one with all that is, we need to stay awake — to keep seeking union with the Christ Consciousness.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi, just returned from travels to Italy and India, share inspiring thoughts connected to the parable about the wise and foolish virgins, and the deep meaning of that story. ]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2419</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Law of Karma—Bondage, or Soul-Release</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law of Karma—Bondage, or Soul-Release</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/11-30-2014-mantradevi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2306</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reincarnation — The Spiral Staircase</title>
	<itunes:title>Reincarnation — The Spiral Staircase</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-11-23-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>It’s important to let go of attachments and old negative thoughts, so that we don’t bring them with us when we pass on. Nayaswami Anandi shares two excellent techniques for doing so.</description>
	<itunes:summary>It’s important to let go of attachments and old negative thoughts, so that we don’t bring them with us when we pass on. Nayaswami Anandi shares two excellent techniques for doing so.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Anandi first learned about the concept of reincarnation in junior high school, and she thought that it made no sense — you could be born as a cow, a fireman, a schoolteacher — it seemed so random.

Later on, she took to the idea, and she offers tips and techniques that we can use to make the most out of this incarnation!

Even if you don't believe in reincarnation, you'll still find something useful in the talk!]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2011</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Why Tell God Anything, when He Knows Everything? Why Offer God Anything, when He Has Everything?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Tell God Anything, when He Knows Everything? Why Offer God Anything, when He Has Everything?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-11-02-gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>Why pray to God if he already knows what we need? Because prayer helps us grow.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Why pray to God if he already knows what we need? Because prayer helps us grow.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Picking up on the theme of prayer from the previous week's service, Nayaswami Gyandevi adresses the question of why we should pray to God at all? He knows our hearts, he knows our minds, and he knows what we are going to pray even before we pray it.

The answer is not because God needs us to pray for any reason, but because we need to pray for our own spiritual growth. It is a way of opening our lives to His grace.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1964</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>First Things First</title>
	<itunes:title>First Things First</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014-10-19-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>As devotees, we need to keep our mind on what is most important — God’s bliss.</description>
	<itunes:summary>As devotees, we need to keep our mind on what is most important — God’s bliss.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Through stories and illustrations, including three recent trips to the emergency room, Nayaswami Bharat shares the importance of putting first things first, and the enjoyable effects of doing so.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1908</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</title>
	<itunes:title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-28-durga.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>To grow and expand in yourself, you must have courage to do what you believe is right, regardless of anyone else’s opinion.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To grow and expand in yourself, you must have courage to do what you believe is right, regardless of anyone else’s opinion.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[An entertaining and inspiring service filled with stories from legend and real life about the importance of following our own true path.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1977</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex</title>
	<itunes:title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-21-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>True love comes not from us, but from God — when we attune with that love completely, we become saints.</description>
	<itunes:summary>True love comes not from us, but from God — when we attune with that love completely, we become saints.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[True love comes not from us, but from God—when we attune with that love completely, we become saints.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2011</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Truth Invites; It Never Commands</title>
	<itunes:title>Truth Invites; It Never Commands</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-14-Atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>We are in a new age, and religion needs to be approached in a new way.</description>
	<itunes:summary>We are in a new age, and religion needs to be approached in a new way.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[We are in a new age, and religion needs to be approached in a new way: where spiritual truths are realized not through rules and dogma, but individual volition and understanding.

Atman talks about the yugas, cycles of time that influence consciousness, and shares stories of Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda that illustrate their distinctive and fresh approaches to spiritual seeking.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2405</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Ego — Friend or Foe?</title>
	<itunes:title>Ego — Friend or Foe?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-07-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>The human incarnation is a great blessing; it’s as a human that we have the freedom to choose to evolve and be one with God or to just live in his dream.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The human incarnation is a great blessing; it’s as a human that we have the freedom to choose to evolve and be one with God or to just live in his dream.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The human incarnation is a great blessing; it's as a human that we have the freedom to choose to evolve and be one with God or to just live in his dream.

Maria explains that our only real job in this life is to understand that we are not just ego, that we are so much more.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2137</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>The human incarnation is a great blessing; it’s as a human that we have the freedom to choose to evolve and be one with God or to just live in his dream.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Who Are True Christians?</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Are True Christians?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-08-31-Anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>The ego is the barrier between us and freedom, peace, and perfect joy.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The ego is the barrier between us and freedom, peace, and perfect joy.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Anandi shares stories and thoughts about our spiritual freedom, and what it means to achieve it. The main obstacle standing in our way, she says, is the ego.

She also shares two stories from the life of Rajarshi Janakananda, Paramhansa Yogananda's most advanced disciple, and the story of Premi, an Ananda member whose group meditation was interrupted by angry political protestors.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1982</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014-08-24-Jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>“The real temptation is the contraction into darkness, away from light.” Jyotish explains the two opposing forces in the universe and how the choices we make daily that bring us towards one or the other.</description>
	<itunes:summary>“The real temptation is the contraction into darkness, away from light.” Jyotish explains the two opposing forces in the universe and how the choices we make daily that bring us towards one or the other.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA["The real temptation is the contraction into darkness, away from light." Nayaswami Jyotish explains the two opposing forces in the universe and how the choices we make daily that bring us towards one or the other.

Nayaswami Devi also shares stories illustrating this point.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2119</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Does Satan Exist?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does Satan Exist?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014-08-17-Diksha.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Diksha</dc:creator>
	<description>Diksha explains two currents of consciousness exist within each of us: one compelling us downward and therefore outwards; another bringing us inward and upwards toward God.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Diksha explains two currents of consciousness exist within each of us: one compelling us downward and therefore outwards; another bringing us inward and upwards toward God.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Diksha explains two currents of consciousness exist within each of us: one compelling us downward and therefore outwards; another bringing us inward and upwards toward God.

She illustrates this point by sharing various stories of how important our choices are toward one or the other.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1810</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Diksha explains two currents of consciousness exist within each of us: one compelling us downward and therefore outwards; another bringing us inward and upwards toward God.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Does God Hide the Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does God Hide the Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014-08-10-Ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>God hides the truth in some ways, but reveals it in many others — the choice to find it is up to us.</description>
	<itunes:summary>God hides the truth in some ways, but reveals it in many others — the choice to find it is up to us.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[God is everywhere, Nayaswami Ananta says — in everyone and in everything. But to discover Him, we have to make an effort.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1725</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Democratic Is Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Democratic Is Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014-08-03-Devarshi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devarshi</dc:creator>
	<description>In this weeks sunday service, Devarshi talks about how the two most important truths on the spiritual path are rendering selfless service and cultivating devotion.</description>
	<itunes:summary>In this weeks sunday service, Devarshi talks about how the two most important truths on the spiritual path are rendering selfless service and cultivating devotion.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[In this weeks sunday service, Devarshi talks about how the two most important truths on the spiritual path are rendering selfless service and cultivating devotion.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1812</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Do You Need a Guru?</title>
	<itunes:title>Do You Need a Guru?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014-07-27-krishnadas.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Krishnadas</dc:creator>
	<description>Paramhansa Yogananda said that the magnetism of a guru is necessary for us to reach Self-realization.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Paramhansa Yogananda said that the magnetism of a guru is necessary for us to reach Self-realization.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA["Does one need a guru?" Swami Kriyananda was once asked. "No," he replied, "That is, unless you want to find God."

Nayaswami Krishnadas talks about the need for a guru, and how our Self-Realization line of masters had gurus even though they were already enlightened souls.

He explains how the magnetism of the guru, more than his or her words or outward guidance, is what helps us advance on the spiritual path, and shares stories from his first meeting with Swami Kriyananda that illustrate this.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2217</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Paramhansa Yogananda said that the magnetism of a guru is necessary for us to reach Self-realization.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014-07-20-asha.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Asha Nayaswami</dc:creator>
	<description>Becoming one with the Christ Consciousness means knowing how to follow It through the crowds of our own conflicting thoughts and desires.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Becoming one with the Christ Consciousness means knowing how to follow It through the crowds of our own conflicting thoughts and desires.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Becoming one with the Christ Consciousness means learning how to follow it through the "suffocating crowds" of the many conflicting thoughts and desires in our mind.

But when we grasp the hem of God's garment, Nayaswami Asha says, and hold on, we will be healed.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2089</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Abiding in God</title>
	<itunes:title>Abiding in God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014-07-06-Devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>Attunement with a true guru, which Paramhansa Yogananda emphasized with his disciples, is one of the most important facets of a search for God.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Attunement with a true guru, which Paramhansa Yogananda emphasized with his disciples, is one of the most important facets of a search for God.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The ego isn't able to bring itself out of delusion, as Nayaswami Devi explains, but needs the help of one who is free — a guru, who accepts responsibility for the spiritual evolution of the disciple.

By way of illustrations and stories, Devi shares the necessity of attuning ones consciousness with God through a guru, and helps inspire the listener to make the best of the time we have, and the blessings we have, to seek the truth of God's bliss. Without Him, she says, we are nothing.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1800</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Redeeming Light</title>
	<itunes:title>The Redeeming Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-06-29-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Light is one of the eight attributes of God, and it can transform us entirely.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Light is one of the eight attributes of God, and it can transform us entirely.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA["Where My light is, there no darkness can dwell." These words of God in one of the stories told by Nayaswami Maria hold true in all times and places.

Maria shares stories of God's light, and shares how we can transform our own lives with openness to that light.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Eternal Now</title>
	<itunes:title>The Eternal Now</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-06-22-Jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>By concentrating at the spiritual eye, we can still our consciousness and perceive our Higher Self.</description>
	<itunes:summary>By concentrating at the spiritual eye, we can still our consciousness and perceive our Higher Self.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Lahiri Mahasaya denoted rates of vibration for each chakra, Nayaswami Jyotish explains. The spiritual eye, with the lowest rate of vibration, is the one that brings us into the deepest stillness. In stillness, we perceive the true reality.

Jyotish also explains the meaning of the three wise men and their trip to visit Jesus — and about Jesus's lesser-known return trip to India during the middle of his life.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2409</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Devotees Rise</title>
	<itunes:title>How Devotees Rise</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-06-15-Jaya.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jaya</dc:creator>
	<description>Regardless of our upbringing, culture or life circumstances, we always have the choice to rise, to become light.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Regardless of our upbringing, culture or life circumstances, we always have the choice to rise, to become light.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Regardless of our upbringing, culture or life circumstances, we always have the choice to rise, to become light.

Jaya shares that although our essential nature remains the same, when we choose to rise something deep inside of us changes.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1879</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Why Do Devotees Fall?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Do Devotees Fall?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-06-08-Ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>The more we allow energy to collect around our ego, the faster we fall — but if we focus on the light, we become lighter, and rise.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The more we allow energy to collect around our ego, the faster we fall — but if we focus on the light, we become lighter, and rise.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The more we allow energy to collect around our ego, the faster we fall — but if we focus on the light, we become lighter, and rise.

If we concentrate energy at our ego, we can fall, but if we focus on the light, we rise. Nayaswami Ananta shares thoughts and techniques to help us stay strong, and become stronger, on the spiritual path.]]>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Inner Kingdom</title>
	<itunes:title>The Inner Kingdom</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-06-01-Mantradevi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>“Be thou a Yogi” Krishna advises Arjuna. Taking charge of our energy gives us the ability to take charge of our lives.</description>
	<itunes:summary>“Be thou a Yogi” Krishna advises Arjuna. Taking charge of our energy gives us the ability to take charge of our lives.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA["Be thou a Yogi" Krishna advises Arjuna. Taking charge of our energy gives us the ability to take charge of our lives. Mantradevi shares compelling stories to illustrate this point.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Best Way to Worship</title>
	<itunes:title>The Best Way to Worship</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-05-25-Jaya.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jaya</dc:creator>
	<description>Stories from India, instructive and entertaining, about how to worship God in the most effective way.</description>
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<![CDATA[What is the best way to worship God? "With all thy heart, mind, soul, and strength," as Jesus said.

Nayaswami Jaya shares stories from India, both instructive and entertaining, that shed light on how to worship God in the most effective way.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Best Way to  Worship</title>
	<itunes:title>The Best Way to  Worship</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.anandapaloalto.org/joy/AshaSS20140525.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Asha Nayaswami</dc:creator>
	<description>With Asha Nayaswami</description>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Activity vs. Inner Communion</title>
	<itunes:title>Activity vs. Inner Communion</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-05-18-Devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>Stories about Swami Kriyananda, whom Nayswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish describe as a “magician of divine love.”</description>
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<![CDATA[Not long before his passing, a reporter asked Swami Kriyananda what his greatest accomplishment was. Referring to one of the songs that he wrote, he replied, "Love Is a Magician."

Ending a weekend in celebration of his life, Nayaswami Devi tells stories about the love of Swami Kriyananda, and Nayaswami Jyotish explains how that love was not rooted in him alone, but in the very universe.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2235</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
	<itunes:title>The Secret of Right Action</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-05-11-Parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>It may be a challenge to bring God’s presence into our work, but it’s a necessity.</description>
	<itunes:summary>It may be a challenge to bring God’s presence into our work, but it’s a necessity.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[One of the most important teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, Nayaswami Parvati says, is that we need to balance the spirit of work and the spirit of meditation — so that when we work, and when we meditate, we are experiencing the presence of God.

Parvati shares stories from her own life: serving at the market at Ananda Village, working at a rice-drying facility, and acting as Swami Kriyananda's secretary, to illustrate how one can remember God while engaged on this physical plane.

It may sometimes be challenging, she says, but it is a requirement for Self-realization.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</title>
	<itunes:title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-05-04-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Maria shares that on the spiritual path, we transcend identification with our little selves (ego) when we choose to live in higher states of awareness, in God consciousness.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Maria shares that on the spiritual path, we transcend identification with our little selves (ego) when we choose to live in higher states of awareness, in God consciousness.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Yogananda defines the ego as the soul identified with the body.

Maria shares that on the spiritual path, we transcend identification with our little selves (ego) when we choose to live in higher states of awareness, in God consciousness.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How High Should We Aspire?</title>
	<itunes:title>How High Should We Aspire?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-04-27-Devarshi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devarshi</dc:creator>
	<description>Devarshi talks about how all is Vasudev, all is God, including ourselves.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Devarshi talks about how all is Vasudev, all is God, including ourselves.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Devarshi talks about how all is Vasudev, all is God. Not just in all creation, but within ourselves. When we discover this, we are free. The teachings of Yoga, is a path to reach that freedom.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Resurrection for Every Soul</title>
	<itunes:title>Resurrection for Every Soul</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-04-20-Jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>Easter Sunday – Jyotish shares stories of Jesus’s life and how he accepted God’s tests as His love.</description>
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<![CDATA[Easter Sunday - Jyotish shares stories of Jesus's life and how he accepted God's tests as His love.
It's not that the tests in our own lives won't come, it's how we learn from them and learn to attune our will to God's.]]>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Who Is the Son of Man?</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Is the Son of Man?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-04-13-Gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>The life of Jesus was about so much more than his death on the cross.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The life of Jesus was about so much more than his death on the cross.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Gyandev takes us on a walk back in time to the days of Jesus in the weeks before his death, and vividly describes the people, events, and lessons from that time, especially the last week before the crucifixion.

The life of Jesus was about so much more than his death on the cross — and his life is still incredibly meaningful for us today. His state of consciousness, Christ consciousness, continues to point the way for us to attain soul-liberation.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>To Each According to His Faith</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-04-07-Anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>We all make mistakes — and God wants us to give those to Him completely.</description>
	<itunes:summary>We all make mistakes — and God wants us to give those to Him completely.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[If you fail at everything, Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita says, bring God your failure. But how many of us, Nayaswami Anandi asks, fully do this?

When we give our mistakes to God, we are more often like a person who gives a half-eaten box of chocolates: we give some, but keep the rest for ourselves.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>To Each According to His Faith</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.anandapaloalto.org/joy/AshaSS20140406B.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Asha Nayaswami</dc:creator>
	<description>NOTE: This video may begin with 20 seconds of sile...</description>
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	<title>Deeds vs. Intentions</title>
	<itunes:title>Deeds vs. Intentions</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-03-30-Krishnadas.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Krishnadas</dc:creator>
	<description>All of us are family, for we were all created by God.</description>
	<itunes:summary>All of us are family, for we were all created by God.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[When Jesus said "brother," he wasn't referring to those who are related to us by birth, but everyone. Under God, we are all a part of the same family.

Nayaswami Krishnadas tells stories of interactions with Swami Kriyananda and a trip to Hawaii — making a special connection with a little gecko — that helped him come to this understanding that we are all one.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>We Are Children of the Light</title>
	<itunes:title>We Are Children of the Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-03-23-Ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Ananta talks about focusing on the reality of our inner light.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Ananta talks about focusing on the reality of our inner light.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Ananta talks about focusing on the reality of our inner light. The inner light is soft and gentle, yet constant and vibrant.

Yogananda describes the inner light of a thousand million suns crushed into one, yet not blaring like the outer light of maya (delusion).]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reason vs. Intuition</title>
	<itunes:title>Reason vs. Intuition</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-03-16-Devarshi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devarshi</dc:creator>
	<description>After many lifetimes, Devarshi says, if we are meditating, we are almost one with God.</description>
	<itunes:summary>After many lifetimes, Devarshi says, if we are meditating, we are almost one with God.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA["God is just behind our thoughts," said Paramhansa Yogananda. Devarshi takes this as a theme for the talk and explains what it means for us: that we are almost there.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1590</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</title>
	<itunes:title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-03-09-Devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>On the anniversary of Sri Yukteswar’s mahasamadhi, Nayaswami Devi tells stories about his life.</description>
	<itunes:summary>On the anniversary of Sri Yukteswar’s mahasamadhi, Nayaswami Devi tells stories about his life.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[On the anniversary of Sri Yukteswar's mahasamadhi, Nayaswami Devi tells stories about his life. She tells of his meeting with Babaji, Yogananda's time in his hermitage, and of his centeredness-in-truth. He was an ideal example, she says, of having one's head in the clouds with one's feet firmly planted on the ground.
Finally, Devi offers suggestions for how to attune to his liberated consciousness.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1856</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</title>
	<itunes:title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-03-02-Bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>Bharat talks about how attunement to a larger reality creates thinking that is also expansive.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Bharat talks about how attunement to a larger reality creates thinking that is also expansive.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Our thoughts change according to the consciousness we are inhabiting. Bharat talks about how attunement to a larger reality creates thinking that is also expansive.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1241</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Can Man See God?</title>
	<itunes:title>Can Man See God?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-02-23-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Maria talks about how when we look for God in all that we do, we open ourselves to experiencing the divine within everything.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Maria talks about how when we look for God in all that we do, we open ourselves to experiencing the divine within everything.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA["The scientist investigates , the yogi becomes."
Maria talks about how when we look for God in all that we do, we open ourselves to experiencing the divine within everything.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1346</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-02-16-Atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>By practicing the teachings with devotion, we allow grace to enter our lives.</description>
	<itunes:summary>By practicing the teachings with devotion, we allow grace to enter our lives.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Atman talks about the importance of applying the teachings to daily life, not just intellectualizing them. By practicing the teachings with devotion, we allow grace to enter our lives.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1994</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Importance of Soul Receptivity</title>
	<itunes:title>The Importance of Soul Receptivity</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-02-09-Durga.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>When we open ourselves to the Guru’s grace, he can fill us with power and love.</description>
	<itunes:summary>When we open ourselves to the Guru’s grace, he can fill us with power and love.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The guru's job is to take responsibility for our lives. We make that possible with our own receptivity and openness — in short, through discipleship.

Durga expands on this theme and shares stories of the greatest example of discipleship at Ananda — Swami Kriyananda.





The conclusion of a story that Durga tells: After Ram Lila told Swami Kriyananda about his near-death experience, Swamiji sold the moped, as mentioned on page 431 in Swami Kriyananda as We Have Known Him.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1661</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</title>
	<itunes:title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-02-02-Jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>When out of compassion, God incarnates on earth, what should be our response?</description>
	<itunes:summary>When out of compassion, God incarnates on earth, what should be our response?</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Nayaswami Jyotish shares the yogic teachings on the stages of Self-realization, defining terms like sabikalpa samadhi, jivan mukta, siddha, and avatara.

He explains also what the avatars can mean to us, and what our relationship to them should be, for our spiritual growth.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1948</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Infinite Christ</title>
	<itunes:title>The Infinite Christ</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2014-01-26-Ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Everything in this world, Ananta says, is animated by the light of Christ Consciousness.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Everything in this world, Ananta says, is animated by the light of Christ Consciousness.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Everything in this world, Ananta says, is animated by the light of Christ Consciousness — and our abilities, whether great or small, are likewise only expressions of the Divine.

His talk is part encouragement, part practical suggestions, in how to stop identifying with our little human nature and realize ourselves as infinite joy, as infinite bliss.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1761</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</title>
	<itunes:title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2014-01-19-Anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>When you are going through challenges, find a ray of light and focus on it.</description>
	<itunes:summary>When you are going through challenges, find a ray of light and focus on it.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[When you are going through challenges, Anandi says, find a ray of light and focus on it.

She tells stories about Martin Luther King Jr., Paramhansa Yogananda, and others, finding "the light that shineth in darkness." That light is always present and available to us, even in our darkest trials.

The book she mentions by Nayaswami Asha is Loved and Protected, available online.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2153</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Did God Create the Universe or Become It?</title>
	<itunes:title>Did God Create the Universe or Become It?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2014-01-12-Pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>Did God create the universe or become it?” It may seem like a minor philosophical point, but it can determine the very direction of our spiritual life.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Did God create the universe or become it?” It may seem like a minor philosophical point, but it can determine the very direction of our spiritual life.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[When Nayaswami Pranaba was seven years old, he thought that summer vacation was of equal length to the rest of the school year — and was very surprised when he was told that the vacation was two months, and the school year 10 months!

Maya can trick us. Sometimes its "veils" may seem like concrete walls, but no matter how challenging life may seem, God is always there behind them.

We just have to keep trying, no matter what.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1938</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>At the Heart of Silence, The Eternal Word</title>
	<itunes:title>At the Heart of Silence, The Eternal Word</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2014-01-05-Devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>Devi talks about Yogananda’s world mission of uniting the best of East and West and incorporating into our own being.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Devi talks about Yogananda’s world mission of uniting the best of East and West and incorporating into our own being.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Devi talks about Yogananda's legacy of incorporating the best of all religions and cultures into our own being.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1575</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Divine Ascension</title>
	<itunes:title>The Divine Ascension</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-12-29-Mantradevi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>What did Jesus mean when he said, “None can come into the Father but by me”?</description>
	<itunes:summary>What did Jesus mean when he said, “None can come into the Father but by me”?</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[We have two levels of our being: our little self, or ego, and our big Self, which is cosmic, and one with all that is.

Our goal on the spiritual path is to transition our awareness to that broader level. A very good way we can do this is to love all with God's love.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What was the Star of Bethlehem?</title>
	<itunes:title>What was the Star of Bethlehem?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-12-22-Jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>Jyotish encourages us very sincerely to merge our consciousness with Christ, during this Christ-mas time.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Jyotish encourages us very sincerely to merge our consciousness with Christ, during this Christ-mas time.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Christmas, in the West, is an especially holy time of year. Jyotish encourages us very sincerely to exit the body through our spiritual eye and merge our consciousness with Christ, during this Christ-mas time.
"My eyes are enthralled, O Father, with the beauty of the flowers, the passing scenes of life, and the sailing, silent clouds. Open that eye in me which sees nothing but Thee. With that gaze — above, beneath, around, within or without may I behold Thee. Teach me to see in all things nothing but Thee. Open in me that eye which beholds in all beauty only Thy reigning beauty!"
—Paramhansa Yogananda, Whispers from Eternity]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Living in the Presence of God</title>
	<itunes:title>Living in the Presence of God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-12-15-Parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>To practice the presence of God, we need only three things.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To practice the presence of God, we need only three things.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[To improve at something, we need practice. On the spiritual path, practicing the presence of God is how we, in time, come to feel ourselves in the presence of God in every moment.

Divine devotion, practice of techniques such as meditation, and concentration — these things, Nayaswami Parvati says, are what we need.

In this talk she mentions being inspired by Frank Laubach’s Letters of a Modern Mystic (available free here as a PDF) as well as Brother Laurence’s Practice of the Presence of God.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Is It to Fail Spiritually?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is It to Fail Spiritually?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-12-08-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Maria talks about knowing who you truly are in God.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Maria talks about knowing who you truly are in God.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Maria talks about knowing who you truly are in God.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1801</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Law of Karma — Bondage, or Soul-Release?</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law of Karma — Bondage, or Soul-Release?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-12-01-Bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>The law of karma, Swami Kriyananda said, is rooted in love.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The law of karma, Swami Kriyananda said, is rooted in love.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Karma helps us learn from the consequences of our actions. It helps us grow.

Through stories and illustrations, Bharat shows that karma can be welcomed with an even mind in all circumstances, and that we can see what comes to us as a blessing.

When we are in bliss, Bharat says, nothing else matters.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1472</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reincarnation, the Spiral Staircase</title>
	<itunes:title>Reincarnation, the Spiral Staircase</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2013-11-24-Devarshi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devarshi</dc:creator>
	<description>The goal of life is to get off the wheel of reincarnation — to “click the opt-out button.”</description>
	<itunes:summary>The goal of life is to get off the wheel of reincarnation — to “click the opt-out button.”</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[God wants us to become free, and will help us once we sincerely want to be out. This is the goal of life, to get off of the wheel of karma and learn that we are truly a child of God.

He mentions how Mark Twain remembered past lives and tells of the story of a minister's meeting with the daughter of an American president.

A good book to learn more is Karma and Reincarnation, by Paramhanasa Yogananda.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2114</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures</title>
	<itunes:title>The Promise of the Scriptures</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2013-11-17-Ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>We’ve all walked away from God at one point or another. Why wait to return?</description>
	<itunes:summary>We’ve all walked away from God at one point or another. Why wait to return?</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The story of the prodigal son is the central focus of Ananta's talk. Everyone falls down on the spiritual path, he says. Everyone gets confused by maya. The important thing is our recovery.

Ananta tells the story of a man who left an Ananda community and returned ten years later.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-11-10-AnandiNEW.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>To develop faith, put your beliefs into practice.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To develop faith, put your beliefs into practice.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA["More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones," said St. Theresa of Avila. Anandi explains that we don't always know what we truly need — and what we want isn't always the best thing for us.

She shares stories from the Mahabharata and the life of Helen Keller about how, after everything else has failed us, we have to rely on God.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2061</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Why Tell God Anything, when He Knows Everything?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Tell God Anything, when He Knows Everything?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2013-11-3-Durga.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Accepting life as it is gives us the power, with God’s help, for changing our circumstances and ourselves.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Accepting life as it is gives us the power, with God’s help, for changing our circumstances and ourselves.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA["I am well!" This statement, if we believe it, can become true, no matter how ill we are.

Durga tells the story of her mother-in-law using it after surgery, and other stories of freedom and overcoming in this inspired talk.

She and her husband Vidura serve at Ananda's Meditation Retreat, mentioned several times throughout the talk. You can visit it here: www.meditationretreat.org.

&amp;nbsp;

&amp;nbsp;]]>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013-10-27-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Maria talks about devotion and how to pray in your own unique way.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Maria talks about devotion and how to pray in your own unique way.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Maria talks about devotion and how to pray in your own unique way.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1425</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>First Things First</title>
	<itunes:title>First Things First</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013-10-20-Atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>If you’re viewing this Sunday Service, you’re probably already seeking God — but what about seeking Him first?</description>
	<itunes:summary>If you’re viewing this Sunday Service, you’re probably already seeking God — but what about seeking Him first?</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you."

Atman tells stories of miracles and deep teachings, directed towards the elucidation of a single point: if we seek God first, everything else will fall into place.]]>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</title>
	<itunes:title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013-10-13-Diksha.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Diksha</dc:creator>
	<description>To step onto the spiritual path, we need to have c...</description>
	<itunes:summary>To step onto the spiritual path, we need to have c...</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[To step onto the spiritual path, we need to have courage in what we feel is right. The fruit of such conviction is victory: experiencing the presence of God.

Diksha tells two stories of individuals who experienced  that presence, and what they did as a result.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</title>
	<itunes:title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013-10-13-Diksha.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Diksha</dc:creator>
	<description>Two stories, both unusual and profound, about experiencing the presence of God.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Two stories, both unusual and profound, about experiencing the presence of God.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[To step onto the spiritual path, we need to have courage in what we feel is right. The fruit of such conviction is victory: experiencing the presence of God.

Diksha tells two stories of individuals who experienced  that presence, and what they did as a result.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>In Surrender Lies Victory</title>
	<itunes:title>In Surrender Lies Victory</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013-10-06-Jaya.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jaya</dc:creator>
	<description>Love God and serve God — these will help us forget our preoccupation with our little selves.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Love God and serve God — these will help us forget our preoccupation with our little selves.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[In the early days of Ananda, Swami Kriyananda started a small renunciate order at Ananda — a traditional expression of the principle of surrendering one's life completely to God.

In the years since, members of Ananda have come to understand that renunciation and surrender — words that could sometimes be interchanged, Jaya suggests — are primarily inner practices. The outward expression doesn't matter so much.

After sharing what Swami Kriyananda felt about the traditional expression of renunciation at Ananda today, Jaya closes by telling a Cherokee story of two wolves.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2155</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Many Are the Pathways to God</title>
	<itunes:title>Many Are the Pathways to God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2013-09-29-Anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>About expressing your true, Divine nature; and about how everyone’s path is unique.</description>
	<itunes:summary>About expressing your true, Divine nature; and about how everyone’s path is unique.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Anandi shares clear advice on how to express and expand on your true, Divine inner nature — a nature that is unique for everyone.

To be a saint, Swami Kriyananda said, you have to be so clear in your dedication that everyone in the world could say you were wrong, and you would still continue to do what you feel is right.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1892</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Intuition Is Simple, the Intellect Is Complex</title>
	<itunes:title>Intuition Is Simple, the Intellect Is Complex</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2013-09-22-Ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Think of the most uplifting moment in your life — was it a moment of intellectual fulfillment?</description>
	<itunes:summary>Think of the most uplifting moment in your life — was it a moment of intellectual fulfillment?</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Think of the most uplifting moment in your life — was it a moment of intellectual fulfillment? It was most likely, as Nayaswami Ananta says, a moment that resonated with our heart.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1855</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Truth Invites, Never Commands</title>
	<itunes:title>Truth Invites, Never Commands</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-09-15-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>God offers us a very simple choice.</description>
	<itunes:summary>God offers us a very simple choice.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[God never coerces us; but he has given us the desire for His bliss, and we will never rest until all other desires are subsumed in that one.

Jyotish leads the congregation through a little exercise, tells a story of how Yogananda worked with a student who wasn't ready, and invites us to explore the question, "How much choice do we really have in our lives?"]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2263</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Ego: Friend or Foe?</title>
	<itunes:title>Ego: Friend or Foe?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-09-08-gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>Tips and advice on how to overcome the ego — and a discussion of what the ego is.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Tips and advice on how to overcome the ego — and a discussion of what the ego is.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Explaining the difference between egoism and egotism, Gyandev talks about egoic attitudes and how we can overcome them.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2108</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Tips and advice on how to overcome the ego — and a discussion of what the ego is.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Who Are True Christians?</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Are True Christians?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-09-01-Bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Bharat</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Bharat</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Bharat</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-08-25-Devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>To face the tests that come to us, we can draw on one of the qualities of God, such as light, peace, love, or joy.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To face the tests that come to us, we can draw on one of the qualities of God, such as light, peace, love, or joy.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[In each story of Swami Kriyananda told by Devi, she highlights a divine quality that he expressed, whether it is sharing Light with the patients in an emergency room, giving Calmness to the residents of Ananda Village after the fire of 1976, or offering Power to Devi when she was facing her own spiritual tests.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2336</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Does Satan Exist?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does Satan Exist?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-08-18-Devarshi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devarshi</dc:creator>
	<description>“If you knew how much God loves you,” said the Cure d’Ars, “You would die of joy.”</description>
	<itunes:summary>“If you knew how much God loves you,” said the Cure d’Ars, “You would die of joy.”</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA["If you knew how much God loves you," said the Cure d'Ars, "You would die of joy." It took Devarshi 35 years, he tells us, to realize that this was not only a sweet sentiment, but a spiritual teaching.

During the service he also tells the story of the brakes failing on his van and being saved by taking the name of The Lord in vain ("I learned that is never really is in vain," he says). This talk is both entertaining and inspiring.





This is the full quote that Devarshi reads at the end of the service:
Did we but know how our Lord loves us, we would die of joy! Our only happiness on earth is to love God, and to know that God loves us. To be loved by God, to be united to God, to live in the presence of God, to live for God. Oh, blessed life and blessed death!
—St. John Vianney, the Cure D’Ars
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			<itunes:duration>1834</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Does God Hide the Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does God Hide the Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-08-11-Maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>God hides from the devotee, yet remains always with him — right here and right now.</description>
	<itunes:summary>God hides from the devotee, yet remains always with him — right here and right now.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[God can be close to us, without us seeing Him — but it doesn't mean that He doesn't inspire, or support, or reveal Himself to us in other ways.

Nayaswami Maria shares stories of the devotee missing God, from her own life, from spiritual allegory, and from the lives of great saints.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2013</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Democratic Is Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Democratic Is Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-08-04-Atman.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>Atman talks about the importance of only giving people divine truth when they are ready.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Atman talks about the importance of only giving people divine truth when they are ready.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Atman talks about the importance of only giving people divine truth when they are ready. He tells stories to illustrate times in the lives of Paramhansa Yogananda, Swami Kriyananda, and himself when that was successfully and unsuccessfully applied — including giving books and yoga classes to his family members.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2223</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Do You Need a Guru?</title>
	<itunes:title>Do You Need a Guru?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-07-28-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>After a weekend celebrating the completion of the...</description>
	<itunes:summary>After a weekend celebrating the completion of the...</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[After a weekend celebrating the completion of the movie Finding Happiness, Jyotish shares about the guru — and what he really is, which is not at all something that everyone understands. He says that a guru is totally unnecessary — until you want to find God.

The song after the talk is an original composition of David Shannon.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2571</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-07-21-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>What is the best way to draw God’s grace? Stories of Sister Gyanamata, and St. Theresa of Avila, the healing power of Mother Nature.</description>
	<itunes:summary>What is the best way to draw God’s grace? Stories of Sister Gyanamata, and St. Theresa of Avila, the healing power of Mother Nature.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[To be healed by God, what is needed? By way of many illustrations and stories, Anandi talks about God's grace, and the story of the woman who was healed in a crowd by Jesus.

She talks about healing — mentioning a story about a lake of sulfuric acid, broadcast online here — and tells stories of overcoming trials from the lives of Sister Gyanamata and St. Theresa of Avila.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>What is the best way to draw God’s grace? Stories of Sister Gyanamata, and St. Theresa of Avila, the healing power of Mother Nature.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-07-14-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>The essence of the path of yoga is the union of the little self with the cosmic Self.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The essence of the path of yoga is the union of the little self with the cosmic Self.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The essence of the path of yoga, Ananta says, is the union of the little self with the cosmic Self. We can't do this on our own; we have to rely on God.

Ananta tells how Ananda Sacramento got a temple, a letter from Swami Kriyananda, and other stories.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1776</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Abiding in God</title>
	<itunes:title>Abiding in God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-07-07-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>Love for God is more important than anything else.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Love for God is more important than anything else.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Pranaba talks about the task that devotees face to "abide in God," and to remember him. Even if we are sometimes distracted, even if we can't do it constantly, he says, our love of God is more important than all the mundane details of our lives. He closes by telling a story from The Life of Pi, and of the story from that book and movie about the tiger called "Richard Parker."]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1708</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Redeeming Light</title>
	<itunes:title>The Redeeming Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-06-30-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Devi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Devi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1768</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Eternal Now</title>
	<itunes:title>The Eternal Now</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-06-23-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Are time and space real? Or is the only reality The Eternal Now?</description>
	<itunes:summary>Are time and space real? Or is the only reality The Eternal Now?</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Time and space must be the greatest inventions of maya, Maria conjectures during this talk. "They seem so real to us," she says. "Can you imagine a world without them?" And yet, God, our true reality, is beyond both of these.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2150</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Devotees Rise</title>
	<itunes:title>How Devotees Rise</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-06-17-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>Through many “washings and regenerations” we realize that we are a child of God, and rise.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Through many “washings and regenerations” we realize that we are a child of God, and rise.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Through many "washings and regenerations" we realize that we are a child of God, and rise. We are not our mistakes, Parvati reminds us, but should remember always our highest potential.

She tells the story of an engineer's dream on the night of Swami Kriyananda's passing, and other delightful anecdotes from years on the path.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2117</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Why Do Devotees Fall?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Do Devotees Fall?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-06-09-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Bharat</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Bharat</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1824</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Inner Kingdom</title>
	<itunes:title>The Inner Kingdom</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-06-02-devarshi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devarshi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Devarshi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Devarshi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1635</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Best Way to Worship</title>
	<itunes:title>The Best Way to Worship</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-05-26-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1864</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>A Celebration of Swami Kriyananda's Life</title>
	<itunes:title>A Celebration of Swami Kriyananda's Life</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-05-19-jyotishi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Devi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Devi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>6872</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
	<itunes:title>The Secret of Right Action</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-05-12-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Anandi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Anandi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1540</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</title>
	<itunes:title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-05-05-krishnadas.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Krishnadas</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Krishnadas</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Krishnadas</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2425</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Krishnadas</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Deeds vs. Intentions</title>
	<itunes:title>Deeds vs. Intentions</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-04-14-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Bharat</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Bharat</itunes:summary>

	
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	<guid>https://www.ananda.org/video/deeds-vs-intentions-5/</guid>
	
			<itunes:duration>1771</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>We Are Children of the Light</title>
	<itunes:title>We Are Children of the Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-04-07-nirmala.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Nirmala</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Nirmala</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Nirmala</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1760</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Nayaswami Nirmala</itunes:subtitle><itunes:keywords>Spirituality</itunes:keywords></item>
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	<title>Easter Sunday Service: Resurrection for Every Soul</title>
	<itunes:title>Easter Sunday Service: Resurrection for Every Soul</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-03-31-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>The story of Christ’s resurrection has lessons for us on multiple levels.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The story of Christ’s resurrection has lessons for us on multiple levels.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The story of Christ's resurrection has meaning for us on multiple levels. On the outer level, the story is one of the most dramatic in history. It teaches us that death is only a transition. On the inner level, each character in the story represents an aspect of our consciousness.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2329</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Who Is This Son of Man?—Palm Sunday Service</title>
	<itunes:title>Who Is This Son of Man?—Palm Sunday Service</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-03-24-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Ananta</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Ananta</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Ananta</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1791</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reason vs. Intuition</title>
	<itunes:title>Reason vs. Intuition</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-02-14-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>Through reason, Yogananda said, scientists have only discovered one-millionth of the reality of the universe.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Through reason, Yogananda said, scientists have only discovered one-millionth of the reality of the universe.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Yogananda said that through reason, scientists have only discovered one-millionth of the reality of the universe. Anandi wonders out loud of that number isn't over-estimating things in favor of the scientists.

With anecdotes and insights, Anandi investigates the differences between reason and intuition, the principles that help intuition operate, and how intuition is necessary to relate to a master — or even to our friends — in the best spirit.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1933</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</title>
	<itunes:title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-03-10-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Maria</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Maria</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Can Man See God?</title>
	<itunes:title>Can Man See God?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-02-24-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>A simple talk on how opening to God’s grace, with energy and self-effort, will allow us to realize Him.</description>
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<![CDATA[

A simple talk on how opening to God's grace, with energy and self-effort, will allow us to realize Him.


Bharat uses the example of an exponential curve to describe the spiritual path, which Yogananda said could be challenging at first but became in time effortlessly liberating.

Stories in this talk include that of the young gorillas who learned how to cooperate and the old nature expert who said to a boy that there wasn't anywhere be could look without seeing God.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1924</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</title>
	<itunes:title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-02-10-devarshi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devarshi</dc:creator>
	<description>How can we be more in tune with God, more open to His grace?</description>
	<itunes:summary>How can we be more in tune with God, more open to His grace?</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Attunement with the grace of God through the Guru is an essential aspect of spiritual progress and is necessary for our final union with Him. In this talk Devarshi explains how to make that possibility a living reality, in part drawing on the life story of St. Simeon, the New Theologian.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1518</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Mystery of An Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</title>
	<itunes:title>The Mystery of An Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-02-03-gyandev.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Gyandev</dc:creator>
	<description>Gyandev explains the concept of the avatar, a Sanskrit word that means divine descent, and tells a joke about several great avatars playing poker in heaven.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Gyandev explains the concept of the avatar, a Sanskrit word that means divine descent, and tells a joke about several great avatars playing poker in heaven.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Gyandev talks about the avatars: who they are, why they come to earth, and how it is our duty to become like them. Worth watching of course, but especially for the story about Buddha, Krishna, Moses, and Jesus playing poker in heaven.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2080</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Infinite Christ</title>
	<itunes:title>The Infinite Christ</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-01-27-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>What is Christ Consciousness? When we have our awareness in complete one-ness with every particle and atom of creation.</description>
	<itunes:summary>What is Christ Consciousness? When we have our awareness in complete one-ness with every particle and atom of creation.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[As Yogananda said, Christ Conscious is when we have our awareness in complete one-ness with every particle and atom of creation.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2312</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</title>
	<itunes:title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-01-20-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>The light of God is within all creation, even in very difficult times and circumstances; it is the solution to our problems.</description>
	<itunes:summary>The light of God is within all creation, even in very difficult times and circumstances; it is the solution to our problems.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Beginning with the unusual life-after-death story of Howard Storm, Anandi talks about how it is the light of God that is behind all creation, and how it is our most important duty and blessing to live in that light.
“Whatever comes, good or bad, all will be turned to good if you see God and refuse to acknowledge the power of evil or trouble.” —Paramhansa Yogananda]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>At the Heart of Silence</title>
	<itunes:title>At the Heart of Silence</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2013-01-06-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>God is always with us, even if we are not able to see or hear Him (Her). In this talk Jyotish shares entertaining stories and very practical techniques for spiritual advancement.</description>
	<itunes:summary>God is always with us, even if we are not able to see or hear Him (Her). In this talk Jyotish shares entertaining stories and very practical techniques for spiritual advancement.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[How can you see God? He (or She), like a tuning fork, manifested creation through vibration, and this vibration can be seen as light or heard as the sound of Aum. It is always with us, even if we are not always able to perceive it. Jyotish also shares entertaining stories of Himalayan yogis and a few very practical techniques for spiritual advancement and seeing God.
In the talk he mentions Devi Mukherjee's book, Shaped by Saints, available free online and available here for purchase.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2406</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Last Commandment</title>
	<itunes:title>The Last Commandment</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-12-30-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Jesus’ last commandment was “Love one another as I have loved you.” This begs the question, How does God love us?</description>
	<itunes:summary>Jesus’ last commandment was “Love one another as I have loved you.” This begs the question, How does God love us?</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Jesus' last commandment was to "Love one another as I have loved you." Sharing and growing in divine love  and friendship is, as Maria explains, our purpose for being here on earth.  ]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1964</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Divine Ascension</title>
	<itunes:title>The Divine Ascension</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-12-23-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>To experience God, realize that He is already with you. To share God with others, realize that He is already with you.</description>
	<itunes:summary>To experience God, realize that He is already with you. To share God with others, realize that He is already with you.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[What do we need to do to experience God's presence? As Devi explains, we only have to accept that He is with us already.

In this very sweet talk she shares the story of a visit of Ananda pilgrims to the spot where Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2728</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-12-16-dharmadas.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Dharmadas</dc:creator>
	<description>Who were the wise men, really? Dharmadas takes us on their journey and illuminates their relevance to our own lives.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Who were the wise men, really? Dharmadas takes us on their journey and illuminates their relevance to our own lives.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The journey of the wise men, who saw the star of Bethlehem, have relevance for our spiritual lives even today. With interesting historical and sociological asides, Dharmadas takes us with them to visit the baby Jesus.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Living in the Presence of God</title>
	<itunes:title>Living in the Presence of God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-12-09-mantradevi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Advice and strategies for growing beyond the little self and embracing the much larger, more expansive, and more joyful reality of our true Self.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Advice and strategies for growing beyond the little self and embracing the much larger, more expansive, and more joyful reality of our true Self.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[The goal of the spiritual path could be said to be to overcome the ego, and Mantradevi offer tips, tricks, and strategies for expanding our awareness. 
 
She also tells a story from her and Krishnadas's recent visit to Thailand, and from a movie called "Lost Horizons" that provided Swami Kriyananda with much inspiration for Ananda. ]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1973</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-12-04-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>Bharat’s talk gives hope to any who feel that they may be failing in some way in the spiritual path.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Bharat’s talk gives hope to any who feel that they may be failing in some way in the spiritual path.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[On the spiritual path, we can experience many ups and downs. Yogananda said to be like a tractor — moving uphill, moving downhill, always keeping a constant pace, heading towards God. Bharat's talk gives hope to any who feel that they may be failing in some way. ]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2111</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Law of Karma — Bondage or Soul-Release?</title>
	<itunes:title>The Law of Karma — Bondage or Soul-Release?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-12-25-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>How can we become free of our past karma? The first step is to be grateful for everything that comes to us.</description>
	<itunes:summary>How can we become free of our past karma? The first step is to be grateful for everything that comes to us.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[What is the law of karma? It is the spiritual equivalent to the well known law of physics, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." But more importantly, what can we do about it? As Jyotish explains, the first step is gratitude. ]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2709</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Reincarnation — The Spiral Staircase</title>
	<itunes:title>Reincarnation — The Spiral Staircase</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-11-18-sabari.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
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			<itunes:duration>1828</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures</title>
	<itunes:title>The Promise of the Scriptures</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-11-11-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
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			<itunes:duration>1706</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer</title>
	<itunes:title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-11-04-asha.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Asha Nayaswami</dc:creator>
	<description>With Asha Nayaswami</description>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Why Tell God Anything, when He Knows Everything?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Tell God Anything, when He Knows Everything?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-10-28-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Anandi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Anandi</itunes:summary>

	
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	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-10-21-durga.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2040</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</itunes:title>
	<link>http://anandala.org/mp3/2012-10-21sunday_shivani.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Shivani</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Shivani</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Shivani</itunes:summary>

	
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	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>First Things First</title>
	<itunes:title>First Things First</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-10-14-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Bharat</description>
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			<itunes:duration>1924</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</title>
	<itunes:title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-10-07-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Maria</description>
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			<itunes:duration>1901</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>In Surrender Lies Victory!</title>
	<itunes:title>In Surrender Lies Victory!</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-09-30-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Anandi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Anandi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1496</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</title>
	<itunes:title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</itunes:title>
	<link>http://anandala.org/mp3/southbay/2012-09-23sunday_haridas_roma.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>Their farewell Service at Ananda South Bay, before leaving for India</description>
	<itunes:summary>Their farewell Service at Ananda South Bay, before leaving for India</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Their farewell Service at Ananda South Bay, before leaving for India]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1552</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</title>
	<itunes:title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-09-23-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Devi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Devi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2285</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Truth Invites; It Never Commands</title>
	<itunes:title>Truth Invites; It Never Commands</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-09-09-parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Parvati</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Parvati</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2142</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Ego: Friend or Foe?</title>
	<itunes:title>Ego: Friend or Foe?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-09-02-savitri.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Savitri</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Savitri</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Savitri</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1909</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Should We Meet Our Tests?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-08-19-diksha.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Diksha</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Diksha</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Diksha</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1921</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Does God Hide the Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>Does God Hide the Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-08-05-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>Does God hide the truth? Not only that; He also hides Himself, as if He is playing hide-and-seek.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Does God hide the truth? Not only that; He also hides Himself, as if He is playing hide-and-seek.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[One of the classic explanations for why God created the universe is “Because he wanted to play hide and seek with mankind.”

Jyotish ranges in the discussion of the long-sought Higgs-Boson sub-atomic particle to the touching story of a man whose mental illness was healed by the great Indian saint, Anandamoyi Ma, after throwing at her an orange.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2242</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Democratic Is Truth?</title>
	<itunes:title>How Democratic Is Truth?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-07-29-anandi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
	<description>How can we know when to share spiritual teachings with others, and how to be open to them ourselves?</description>
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<![CDATA[With whom can we share spiritual teachings? How can we know when friends and family members are ready? How can we make ourselves ready to hear spiritual truths? 
Drawing on the teachings of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, Nayaswami Anandi explains four ways that we can see if we and others are ready for spiritual truth. Finally, she shares the story of a (now) long-time Kriya yogi, who in his early twenties was severely alcoholic, but still ready to learn meditation. ]]>
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			<itunes:duration>1506</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Do You Need a Guru?</title>
	<itunes:title>Do You Need a Guru?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-07-22-peter.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Atman Goering</dc:creator>
	<description>Peter covers four stages that devotees go through in their understanding of the guru-disciple relationship.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Peter covers four stages that devotees go through in their understanding of the guru-disciple relationship.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[Do you need a guru? In this service, Peter covers four stages that devotees go through in their understanding of the guru-disciple relationship:
 
1. The idea that they can get everything they need from books
2. The realization that they need teachers to help them understand deep truths
3. The acceptance of the idea that they need the guru, but not being sure if a guru who is no longer in the body can guide them
4. The faith that a true guru, in the body or not, is their guide to salvation]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2572</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-07-15-maria.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Maria</dc:creator>
	<description>Is self-effort more important, or is faith? Maria tells stories from Ananda to illustrate the right balance of these two qualities.</description>
	<itunes:summary>Is self-effort more important, or is faith? Maria tells stories from Ananda to illustrate the right balance of these two qualities.</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[What place does self-effort have on the spiritual path? Is it more important, or is faith?
In this talk Maria tells the story of how Ananda Sacramento acquired its first temple after 20 years, and the sustained effort that was required. She also shares an inspiring story of Garret (Arjuna) Stanley, an Ananda Village resident who passed away very recently.
Finally, she quotes Yogananda, who said that with the spiritual path, 25 percent is our effort, 25 percent is the effort of the Guru on our behalf, and 50 percent is God’s grace.
But, she explains, the 25 percent that is our effort takes everything we have to give.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2005</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance</title>
	<itunes:title>Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-07-08-nitai.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Nitai</dc:creator>
	<description>40 years after he first arrived at Ananda Village, Nitai discusses what brought him onto the spiritual path and how his journey has helped him find his “larger Self.”</description>
	<itunes:summary>40 years after he first arrived at Ananda Village, Nitai discusses what brought him onto the spiritual path and how his journey has helped him find his “larger Self.”</itunes:summary>

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<![CDATA[40 years after he first arrived at Ananda Village, Nitai gives the last Sunday Service before heading to the Ananda Center at Laurelwood near Portland.
In the autobiographical talk, Nitai discusses what brought him onto the spiritual path and how the journey of finding the practice of meditation, Autobiography of a Yogi, Ananda, and Swami Kriyananda prepared him to let go of the little “self” and embrace the big “Self.”]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2672</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Abiding in God</title>
	<itunes:title>Abiding in God</itunes:title>
	<link>http://anandala.org/mp3/2012-07-01sunday_shivani.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Shivani</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Shivani</description>
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			<itunes:duration>2445</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Abiding in God</title>
	<itunes:title>Abiding in God</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-07-01-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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	<title>The Redeeming Light</title>
	<itunes:title>The Redeeming Light</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-06-24-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
	<description>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1972</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Redeeming Light</title>
	<itunes:title>The Redeeming Light</itunes:title>
	<link>http://anandala.org/mp3/2012-06-24sunday_jyotish_devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Devi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Devi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2114</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Eternal Now</title>
	<itunes:title>The Eternal Now</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-06-17-devarshi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devarshi</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Devarshi</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Devarshi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>How Devotees Rise</title>
	<itunes:title>How Devotees Rise</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-06-10-jyotish.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Jyotish</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Jyotish</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2624</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Why Do Devotees Fall?</title>
	<itunes:title>Why Do Devotees Fall?</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-06-03-bharat.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Bharat</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Bharat</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1616</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Inner Kingdom</title>
	<itunes:title>The Inner Kingdom</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-05-27-pranaba.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
	<description>With Nayaswami Pranaba</description>
	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Pranaba</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2182</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Inner Kingdom</title>
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	<title>The Best Way to Worship</title>
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	<title>Activity vs. Inner Communion</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2283</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2306</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
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			<itunes:duration>1982</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>How High Should We Aspire?</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2456</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2201</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Easter Sunday Service: Resurrection for Every Soul</title>
	<itunes:title>Easter Sunday Service: Resurrection for Every Soul</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-04-08-devi.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>3112</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Palm Sunday: Who Is This Son of Man?</title>
	<itunes:title>Palm Sunday: Who Is This Son of Man?</itunes:title>
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			<itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Palm Sunday: Who Is This Son of Man?</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2299</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Deeds vs. Intentions</title>
	<itunes:title>Deeds vs. Intentions</itunes:title>
	<link>https://www.ananda.org/mp3/2012-03-25-ananta.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Ananda Sangha Worldwide</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>1845</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>We Are Children of the Light</title>
	<itunes:title>We Are Children of the Light</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2020</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>We Are Children of the Light</title>
	<itunes:title>We Are Children of the Light</itunes:title>
	<link>http://anandala.org/mp3/southbay/2012-03-18sunday_parvati.mp3</link>
	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Parvati</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2030</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Reason vs. Intuition</title>
	<itunes:title>Reason vs. Intuition</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jyotish</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2746</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</title>
	<itunes:title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</itunes:title>
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			<itunes:duration>2103</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Dogmatism vs. Common Sense</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2462</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</title>
	<itunes:title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</itunes:title>
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			<itunes:duration>2415</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Can Man See God?</title>
	<itunes:title>Can Man See God?</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Devi</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2469</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Anandi</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>2347</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</title>
	<itunes:title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</itunes:title>
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			<itunes:duration>2128</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</title>
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			<itunes:duration>1773</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Infinite Christ</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2423</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Infinite Christ</title>
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	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1066</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</title>
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	<title>Did God Create the Universe — Or Become It?</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2328</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>At the Heart of Silence - the Eternal Word</title>
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	<title>The Divine Ascension</title>
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	<title>What Was the Star of Bethlehem?</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2475</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Living in the Presence of God</title>
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			<itunes:duration>1821</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2410</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>The Law of Karma—Bondage, or Soul-Release</title>
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	<title>The Law of Karma — Bondage or Soul-Release?</title>
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	<title>Reincarnation — The Spiral Staircase</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2128</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures</title>
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	<title>The Promise of the Scriptures</title>
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	<title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2709</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Faith Is a Call to Prayer</title>
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	<title>Why Tell God Anything, When He Knows Everything?</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2857</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
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	<title>What Is the Best Way to Pray?</title>
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	<title>First Things First</title>
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	<title>First Things First</title>
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	<title>Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2048</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>In Surrender Lies Victory!</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2318</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Many Are the Pathways to Truth</title>
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	<title>Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex</title>
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	<title>Ego: Friend or Foe?</title>
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	<title>How Should We Meet Our Tests</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2800</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed</title>
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			<itunes:duration>1945</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Abiding in God</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2572</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Easter Sunday Service — Resurrection for Every Soul</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2604</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2222</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
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			<itunes:duration>3009</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>The Law Is Perfected in Love</title>
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			<itunes:duration>1610</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>The Importance of Soul-Receptivity</title>
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			<itunes:duration>1745</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>The Mystery of An Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</title>
	<itunes:title>The Mystery of An Avatara, or Divine Incarnation</itunes:title>
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			<itunes:duration>1797</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>The Infinite Christ</title>
	<itunes:title>The Infinite Christ</itunes:title>
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			<itunes:duration>2330</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</title>
	<itunes:title>Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?</itunes:title>
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	<itunes:summary>With Ananda Sangha Worldwide</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1118</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?</title>
	<itunes:title>What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?</itunes:title>
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	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Anandi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2312</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Reincarnation — The Spiral Staircase</title>
	<itunes:title>Reincarnation — The Spiral Staircase</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Bharat</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>1472</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Truth Invites; It Never Commands</title>
	<itunes:title>Truth Invites; It Never Commands</itunes:title>
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	<dc:creator>Nayaswami Pranaba</dc:creator>
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			<itunes:duration>1861</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Abiding in God</title>
	<itunes:title>Abiding in God</itunes:title>
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			<itunes:duration>4010</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>Activity vs. Inner Communion</title>
	<itunes:title>Activity vs. Inner Communion</itunes:title>
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	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Jyotish</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>2392</itunes:duration>
		
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>

	
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	<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
	<itunes:title>The Secret of Right Action</itunes:title>
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	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Maria</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1942</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>Perfection Is Self-Transcendence</title>
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			<itunes:duration>2360</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>How High Should We Aspire?</title>
	<itunes:title>How High Should We Aspire?</itunes:title>
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	<itunes:summary>With Nayaswami Anandi</itunes:summary>

	
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			<itunes:duration>1949</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>To Each According to His Faith</title>
	<itunes:title>To Each According to His Faith</itunes:title>
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			<itunes:duration>2039</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>(Easter) Resurrection for Every Soul</title>
	<itunes:title>(Easter) Resurrection for Every Soul</itunes:title>
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The Easter story, told by the late Timothy Kretzmann, begins shortly before the 3-minute mark.]]>
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			<itunes:duration>2101</itunes:duration>
		
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	<title>First Things First</title>
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	<title>A Tribute to Swami Kriyananda, with Nayaswami Dhyana</title>
	<itunes:title>A Tribute to Swami Kriyananda, with Nayaswami Dhyana</itunes:title>
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	<description>A long-time disciple reflects on decades of spiritual service under Swami Kriyananda, tracing her journey across continents while carrying his core message of selfless giving. She describes how deep, committed Kriya Yoga practice transforms lives, recounts encounters with eager seekers across India finally finding practical guidance, and honors Swamiji's greatest gift: showing thousands how to find inner communion with God through meditation.</description>
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<![CDATA[This tribute, delivered by a long-time disciple Nayaswami Dhyana, reflects on a life of spiritual service shaped by the guidance of Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda. Dhyana traces her journey across continents, from Italy to Africa to Australia to India, always carrying Swamiji's central message: share and give. She describes how Kriya Yoga, the meditation practice at the heart of Yogananda's teachings, transformed her own practice from perfunctory routine into deep, inspired commitment after encountering Ananda's community and Swamiji's intensive, structured approach.

It's emphasized that authentic Kriya practice requires community, instruction, review, and sustained effort, not bare minimum compliance. Dhyana recounts moving scenes of seekers in India finally finding practical guidance after decades of reading the Autobiography of a Yogi without having known how to proceed.

Spiritual transmission flows not through institutions or books alone, but through living teachers who embody and actively transmit the teachings. Swamiji's consistent counsel, she notes, was always to tune inward through Kriya and connect directly with the Gurus rather than depending on any external authority, including himself.]]>
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	<title>The Blessing of a Guru</title>
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<![CDATA[Watch this inspiring Sunday Service talk with Nayaswami Maria, recorded at Ananda Village on December 3rd, 2023. 

It is very natural, very human to make a mistake, to err, to fail perhaps momentarily. But as Swami Kriyananda also reminds us, intrinsic to failure is success. And it is in that moment, in the singular moment, whatever is happening, whatever the circumstance, whatever the world view, that we have a choice. Nayaswami Maria shares how to make each decision in each moment count towards our spiritual fulfillment with the help of our guru. Because it is our destiny to succeed, it is our destiny to merge in God.

The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is

"What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?" 

Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

The first passage is from the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 25. Jesus tells the Parable of the Ten Virgins, five of them wise, and five, foolish. They await their Bridegroom, the Christ Consciousness. The wise virgins keep the oil in their lamps, symbolic of their devotion, lit through the night. The foolish virgins placed no oil in their lamps. These foolish ones are like the average devotee, going through the motions of outer ritual but keeping no fire of love burning in the heart.

When the Bridegroom’s coming is announced, the foolish virgins realize their mistake, and hasten out to purchase oil. During their absence, the Christ Consciousness comes and embraces those who have been awaiting him with devotion. The foolish ones, by their lackluster devotion, are not accepted by him. “‘Watch, therefore,’” Jesus told his listeners, “‘for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.’”

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda describes the “foolish virgin” consciousness he encountered in the Mahamandal hermitage he stayed in as a young man, in Benares. “I was pleased,” he wrote, that my new home possessed an attic, where I managed to spend the dawn and morning hours.

The ashram members, knowing little of meditation practices, thought I should employ my whole time in organizational duties. They gave me praise for my afternoon work in their office. “Don’t try to catch God so soon!” This ridicule accompanied one of my early departures toward the attic.…[Later, during meditation] I felt lifted as though bodily to a sphere uncircumscribed. “Thy Master cometh today!” A divine womanly voice came from everywhere and nowhere.

This supernal experience was pierced by a shout from a definite locale. A young priest nicknamed Habu was calling me from the downstairs kitchen. “Mukunda, enough of meditation! You are needed for an errand.” The Divine Mother’s words were not spoken for the benefit of that priest – the “foolish virgin,” but for Mukunda, the “wise virgin.” For this was the day his guru, Sri Yukteswar, came to him.

Grieve not, friends, if you feel that you have been foolish. No error is forever. Someday, if you keep your lamp lit now, your opportunity will come. In the Bhagavad Gita, the sixth Chapter, Krishna promises every devotee:

Arjuna, none who works for self-redemption 

Will ever meet an evil destiny! 

Spiritual failure, though a deep disappointment, is always temporary. “Eternal Hellfire” is but a projection of vindictiveness in the human mind.

Thus, through holy Scripture, God has spoken to mankind.]]>
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