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Every Sunday morning we gather for meditation, chanting, readings, and a talk by an Ananda minister. The Service is broadcast live: click here at 10:50am on Sunday to watch. Recordings of a part of the Sunday Service are posted here within a few days. (You can also attend in person.)

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Nayaswami DharmarajThe Law is Perfected in Love
February 12, 2012

Nayaswami Dharmaraj

While following the law, we should strive always to trace it back to its origins in the vision of God.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi RamThe Importance of Soul-Receptivity
February 5, 2012

Tyagi Ram

“Be in tune,” Paramhansa Yogananda would tell his disciples. “Delusion can’t touch you, if you will keep in tune.”

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami DharminiThe Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation
January 29, 2012

Nayaswami Dharmini

Great avatars, such as Krishna and Jesus Christ, are born as babies even as we all are. 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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami HaridasThe Infinite Christ
January 22, 2012

Nayaswami Haridas

Jesus came not to dogmatize people with a new teaching, but to bring them timeless, universal truths.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami DharmarajIs God Present There, Where There is Ignorance?
January 15, 2012

Nayaswami Dharmaraj

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Ramesha NaniDid God Create the Universe—or Become It?
January 8, 2012

Ramesha Nani

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Ram

At the Heart of Silence—the Eternal Word
January 1, 2012

Tyagi Ram

Cosmic Sound—the “Word” of God—and Cosmic Light: These are eternal. The world, as revealed to us by our senses, is illusory.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Dharmaraj

The Divine Ascension
December 25, 2011

Nayaswami Dharmaraj

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

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Dharmaraj

What Was the Star of Bethlehem?
December 18, 2011

Tyagis Dharmaraj & Dharmini

The Scriptures enjoin us to meditate on the lives of great souls, that we may discover our own latent spiritual greatness.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Ram

Living in the Presence of God
December 11, 2011

Tyagi Ram

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Dharmaraj

What Is It, to Fail Spiritually?
December 4, 2011

Tyagi Dharmaraj

Grieve not, friends, if you feel that you have been foolish. No error is forever. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna promises every devotee, “Arjuna, none who works for self-redemption Will ever meet an evil destiny!”

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Roma

The Law of Karma—Bondage, or Soul-Release
November 27, 2011

Nayaswami Roma

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Dharmaraj

Reincarnation: The Spiral Staircase
November 20, 2011

Tyagi Dharmaraj

Krishna, in the Bhagavad Gita, silences Arjuna’s reasonable doubts on the subject [of reincarnation] 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.”

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Shivani

The Promise of the Scriptures
November 13, 2011

Nayaswami Shivani

In God’s eyes, 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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Devi

Faith Is a Call to Prayer; Prayer Is a Call to Faith
November 6, 2011

Nayaswamis Devi and Jyotish
Spiritual Directors, Ananda Worldwide

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Dharmini

Why Tell God Anything, When He Knows Everything?
October 30, 2011

Tyagi Dharmini

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Shivani

What Is the Best Way to Pray?
October 23, 2011

Nayaswami Shivani

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Haridas

First Things First
October 16, 2011

Nayaswami Haridas

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Dharmaraj

Victory Demands the Courage of Conviction

October 9, 2011

Tyagi Dharmaraj

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Ram

In Surrender Lies Victory!
October 2, 2011

Tyagi Ram

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Dharmini

Many Are The Pathways to Truth
September 25, 2011

Tyagi Dharmini
(includes celebration of Lahiri Mahasaya’s mahasamadhi)

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Durga

Intuition Is Simple: The Intellect Is Complex
September 18, 2011

Nayaswami Durga

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Dharmaraj

Truth Invites; It Never Commands
September 11, 2011

Tyagi Dharmaraj
(Includes commemoration of September 11, 2001)

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.”

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Roma

Ego: Friend or Foe?
September 4, 2011

Nayaswamis Roma and Haridas

That which the ego relinquishes, offering it up to soul-consciousness, is reclaimed forever in cosmic consciousness. Nothing is ever lost.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Dharmini

Who Are the True Christians?
August 28, 2011

Tyagis Dharmini and Dharmaraj

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Dharmaraj

Does God Hide the Truth?
August 7, 2011

Tyagi Dharmaraj

God’s hidden reality cannot be understood by the reasoning faculty.

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

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Ram

How Democratic Is Truth?
July 31, 2011

Tyagis Ram and Dikshini

The scriptures advise, not secrecy, but discretion in the sharing of truth.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Dharmaraj

Self-Effort, Too, Is Needed
July 17, 2011

Tyagis Dharmaraj and Dharmini

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Durga

Self-Realiance vs. Self-Reliance
July 10, 2011

Nayaswami Durga and Brook Cassady

Our strength must come from within, but must be coupled with recognition of our inner link with broader and higher realities.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Brook Cassady

Abiding in God
July 3, 2011

Brook Cassady

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?

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Ram

The Redeeming Light
June 26, 2011

Tyagis Ram and Dikshini

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Durga

The Eternal Now
June 19, 2011

Nayaswami Durga and Brook Cassady

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Shivani

How Devotees Rise
June 12, 2011

Nayaswamis Shivani and Durga

Divine blessings are not common in this world. They are extraordinary.

When they come, we should give them priority above every other consideration.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Tyagi Ram

Why do Devotees Fall?
June 5, 2011

Tyagis Ram and Dikshini

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.”

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Brook Cassady

The Inner Kingdom
May 29, 2011

Brook Cassady and Nayaswami Durga

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Durga

Mother’s Day Service
May 8, 2011

Nayaswami Durga

Seeking, ever seeking my departed mother, I found the deathless Mother of the Universe. What I had lost in my earthly mother’s death, I found again forever in my Cosmic Mother.

—Paramhansa Yogananda, Whispers from Eternity

Nayaswami Durga

Easter: Resurrection for Every Soul
April 24, 2011

Nayaswami Durga

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.

Resurrection, Yogananda explained, means transformation, ultimately, from any lower state of being to a higher one.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Dharmadevi Romano

Palm Sunday: Who Is This Son of Man?
April 17, 2011

Dharmadevi and Narayan Romano

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. His consciousness, however, was centered in infinity.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Ramesha Nani

How High Should We Aspire?
April 10, 2011

Ramesha and Bhagavati Nani

The highest virtue is to transcend the very thought of personal virtue in the realization of God alone as the Doer.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Shivani

To Each According to His Faith
April 3, 2011

Nayaswami Shivani and Dharmadevi Romano

Our faith is the attractive power of our underlying state of conciousness. Goodness attracts goodness. Evil attracts evil. Whatever there is in you of lightness or dark, offer it up to the heights.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Durga

Deeds vs. Intentions
March 27, 2011

Nayaswamis Durga and Vidura

Jesus Christ emphasized repeatedly the spirit, not the letter, of the law.

In 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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Brook Cassady

We Are Children of the Light
March 20, 2011

Brook Cassady

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Swami Kriyananda

Commemoration of Yogananda’s Mahasamadhi
March 6, 2011

Nayaswami Kriyananda

When I met Master, I had never met such a great man in my life. And yet, somehow, he always represents to me not a human being but a principle. I would look into his eyes, and I would see just space there. I would see no ego. There was no sense of reaction. What he did was react back to you your own higher self.

Swami Kriyananda

Can God Be Found through the Intellect?
February 27, 2011

Nayaswami Kriyananda

I myself found the way to God, in a sense, through the intellect, not through the heart. I wish I had found it through the heart: the path of love is much sweeter. But I was determined to understand truth with my mind.

Swami Kriyananda

Can Man See God?
February 20, 2011

Nayaswami Kriyananda

There is a power in our lives that will guide us, if we will listen. And we must have faith in that power, because it can help us.

Nayaswami Haridas

The Law Is Perfected in Love
February 13, 2011

Nayaswamis Haridas and Roma

Justice to all is a human law, though divinely inspired. 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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Durga

The Importance of Soul-Receptivity
February 6, 2011

Nayaswami Durga

“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 the Bible passage Paramhansa Yogananda often quoted to his disciples.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Devi

The Mystery of an Avatara, or Divine Incarnation
January 30, 2011

Nayaswamis Devi and Jyotish

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.

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Jyotish

The Infinite Christ
January 23, 2011

Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi

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.

—Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the One Light

Nayaswami Roma

Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?
January 16, 2011

Nayaswamis Roma and Haridas

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!

—Arjuna, in the Bhagavad Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold