Video and Audio from Ananda
India Events
We are pleased to offer recordings of our acharyas' discourses for Ananda India events
List of occasions:
Thanksgiving and Ananda India's 8th Anniversary
Stillness and Christ Consciousness
25 December 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswamis Dharmadas & Nirmala
"It's an incredible drama each soul goes through! But at a certain point it culminates in that Love, in that Christ Consciousness, that infinite consciousness."
- Nayaswami Nirmala
Christmas Satsang
25 December 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswami Kriyananda
"God has given you the free will, not to choose the color of tie you're going to wear, but he's given you the free will to go toward Him, or away from Him."
- Nayaswami Kriyananda
Thanksgiving and Ananda India's 8th Anniversary
Building Communities
25 November 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by an Acharya Panel
"These buildings and all the things that we created gave us a wonderful opportunity to give everything to God. None of this was for us, it was all just to give back to Master, to give back to God and Guru."
- Brahmachari Shurjo
The Power of Prayer
26 November 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswamis Jaya & Nirmala
"Perhaps one of the best reasons to have community is to pray for one another. Hold one another in the light and try to send blessings and support to every person. This is the blessing of spiritual community."
- Nayaswami Jaya
A Renunciate Order for the New Age
The Nayaswami Order
12 November 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswami Kriyananda
"The channel is blessed by the light that flows through it. It's like a stained glass window: when the sun shines through the window, it becomes more beautiful; so we become more beautiful as we express God in our lives."
- Nayaswami Kriyananda
Why a New Renunciate Order?
12 November 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswamis Dharmadas and Nirmala
"Our words have to align to the life that we're trying to live and our life has to align to the words we're striving to live by. They both have to come together."
- Nayaswami Dharmadas
AKASH Classes in Pune City
29 October 2011, Delhi
Discourse by Nayaswami Dharmadas
"If you are to evaluate your whole life, will you be satisfied at the end? That is, ultimately, the final examination that we face. There is no such thing as "cramming" for that exam, you have to start doing the work early; and yoga, fortunately, is about starting where you are.".
- Nayaswami Dharmadas
Diwali Weekend
How to Live in Community, Class 1
27 October 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswami Kriyananda
"We must try to purge ourselves to get rid of all our self-definitions. Try never to think "I'm a man" or "I'm a woman", etc. Every time you think "I'm this or that kind of person", change that thought!"
- Nayaswami Kriyananda
Spiritual Communities: A Vision for the Future
28 October 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswamis Dharmadas and Nirmala
"We can live in harmony, and that's what Ananda is all about. It's not like we're creating this community for ourselves: we're creating this community as an example to others."
- Nayaswami Nirmala
How to Live in Community, Class 2
29 October 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswami Kriyananda
"Never call yourself a sinner. Never hate yourslef. If you hate yourself, you're defining yourself as a sinner, and that's the whole thing we need to get away from."
- Nayaswami Kriyananda
Yogananda's Biography Book Launch
13 October 2011, Delhi
Discourse by Nayaswami Kriyananda
Nayaswami Kriyananda's 85th Birthday
Our Part In Swamiji's Mission
22 May 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Tyagi Biraj
"If we just open our hearts and listen, there's no lack of possibilities to serve. It's just a matter of: are we willing to listen to the guidance? And then, of course, maybe even harder: are we willing to take the first step?".
- Tyagi Biraj
Mother's Day Retreat
Channeling Divine Mother in Daily Life
7 May 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Brahmacharini Blezy
"We have love to inspire love. We have to feel a truth to manifest its glory. Only when we feel a truth will we be willing to stand up up for it and offer ourselves in services of its cause. True feeling prepares the way for the next step: self-offering.".
- Brahmacharini Blezy
Discourse by Tyagini Asavari
"Motherhood is an expression of the unconditional love of God. Mothers were created to show us that He loves us with or without cause. A home is made gracious by the presence of the Divine Mother in the form of the human mother."
- Paramhansa Yogananda
Discourse by Katyayani Shitut
"If a mother loves everyone as her own children, we can actually see a reflection of Divine Mother in her."
- Katyayani Shitut
Worshipping God as the Divine Mother
7 May 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Tyagini Lahari
"Prayer is talking to God, and meditation is listening to the answer, receiving, and going into that communion in which you can really experience those aspects of God: love, light, peace, calmness, joy..."
- Tyagini Lahari
How to be a Success Retreat
The Attributes of Success
23 April 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Sundeep Bhatia
"First of all, one must believe in what he's doing. Then, with single-pointed focus, go after that thing, and the rest leave it to God and Guru.".
- Sundeep Bhatia
Discourse by Dhruv Tewari
"The world was telling me: 'Dhruv, you're doing it!'. But I know that wasn't what I wanted, I knew that wasn't real success."
- Dhruv Tewari
Discourse by Amol Parkhi
"If the business or the endeavor has a divine purpose, then it is worthwhile. When you come out of it, you realize that higher purpose, you make yourself an instrument for the Guru, and you find the blessings in that."
- Amol Parkhi
Discourse by Sundeep Bhatia
"Paramhansa Yogananda said: 'Wise is a person who seeks God, and the successful person is he who finds God. So, we're all trying to be the 'most successful', because we're trying to find God."
- Sundeep Bhatia
The History of Ananda's Guest Retreat
23 April 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Sundeep Bhatia
"When we started we had nothing... nothing! We only had good intentions: to do something for our Guru. And because of that we could achieve what we have achieved."
- Sundeep Bhatia
How to be a Success
23 April 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Brahmachari Jemal
"Often, somebody would ask Swamiji a question, and he would say: 'I don't know,' and as soon as he says that, his ego is gone enough that it allows God to come in and give the right answer. Ultimately that is what we are all looking for. And it comes. The saints promise us that it comes."
- Brahmachari Jemal
Health and Rejuvenation Retreat
Healthy Ego, Healthy Soul
9 April 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Brahmachari Aditya
"Believe in the Masters, believe in your Self, follow good dietary advice, do yoga postures -- they are in effect your soul dancing -- and meditate on God."
- Brahmachari Aditya
31 Ways to Superconscious Health
10 April 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Brahmachari Aditya
"Try to feel you are friends with all, because all, everything, is truly one: we are all one. A yogi in samadhi has realized that and he lives in that awareness. It's the most wonderful awareness to be in."
- Brahmachari Aditya
Paramhansa Yogananda's Mahasamadhi
Yogananda's Mission Begins
5 March 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswami Nirmala
"So many times people will say 'Oh, I was born just a month after Yogananda passed away. Oh no! I just missed it!' But everything is in the Divine Plan. It's not an accident that we were born when we were born, because Master could only live that short lifespan, and then it's up to us. It's up to us to continue sowing the seeds of God-realization in all receptive hearts".
- Nayaswami Nirmala
Discourse by Nayaswami Kirtani
"What happens in community? When we're living closer together and we all have the same goal, our freedom in God, the time that we spend together gives us many opportunities to have reflected back to us the things that we need to change."
- Nayaswami Kirtani
Discourse by Nayaswami Anand
"Meditate on the state, on the experience of immortality. Meditate on the idea of Eternity. Meditate on the aspect of Infinity; that you have no form, no limitation: eternal, ever existing consciousness that can just continue to expand and merge in ever-new aspects of joy in Spirit."
- Nayaswami Anand
Discourse by Nayaswami Dharmadas
"What impressed me was that I could see how different what Yogananda taught was from all the other things. His mission was not only to achieve Self-Realization; he had an outward aspect to that mission, and that was to serve. To serve others very dynamically and very energetically."
- Nayaswami Dharmadas
Yogananda's Mission
5 March 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswamis Jaya and Sadhanadevi
"Yogananda came at a time when America was very very practical and very practical minded; very much into expansion and doing new things. So, what he had to say fit right in with what America was trying to do. He expressed these esoteric teachings in ways which people who were totally practical could understand."
- Nayaswami Sadhanadevi
What Would Yogananda Do?
7 March 2011, Ananda Kriya Yogashram
Discourse by Nayaswami Nirmala
"If you want to be happy, then stop thinking about yourself! It's very simple! Just let yourself go and think only about how you can serve, how you can give, what you can give."
- Nayaswami Nirmala
Discourse by Nayaswami Dharmadas
"Master had a beautiful phrase... in a talk he said: 'Do little things in an extraordinary way... Do something that no one else has done, something that will dazzle the world.'"
- Nayaswami Dharmadas
Discourse by Nayaswamis Kirtani and Anand
"It's okay to enjoy the universe, but don't become absorbed in it. So, enjoy it for what it is, but don't let yourself be consumed. Find that balance where you never go beyond the will of God. But remember: 'I will will, I will act, I will reason; but guide Thou my reason, will and activity.'"
- Nayaswami Anand
