Living in a spiritual community isn’t all it’s cracked out to be. It’s much, much more. Besides the fountainhead of bliss gushing forth amidst daily spiritual practice, service and fellowship, there come truly beautiful, blessed and rewarding opportunities. Such was our recent two-day trip, as myself, along with my six fellow 20-something-year-old gurubhais (fellow disciples) …

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Over the past several years, the Yoga Festivals in Italy have grown in size and importance.

Ananda has been involved from the beginning, cooperating with the organizers and making presentations of Ananda Yoga and meditation at both the Milan and Rome venues.

The Rome Festival is held in the large park of Villa Pamphilli, an area of …

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Note from the editor: May 22 marked the launch of a newly published original edition of the Autobiography of a Yogi in Italian. The event took place in Milan.

Swami Kriyananda addressed a full room of 500 avid listeners, after having given a number of magazine and television interviews the previous days, and a private donors’ …

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The city of Frederick reclines in the rolling hills of central Maryland as it has since before the days of the Civil War. It is from this charming, quiet city that I began my adventure to the woods of northern Massachusetts for my first Kriya initiation.This journey starts, as many Ananda journeys have started, with …

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Note from the editor: Krishna Deep, a monk at Ananda’s new community in Pune, is writing about Yogananda’s birthday celebration there in March 2009.
Dear Gurubhais,
Wish you all happy Master’s birthday!!!

Entrance to the community, graced by Master’s presence.
Today is a …

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Dearest friends,
Many of the Ananda India staff and devotees from Gurgaon – Delhi – Noida (also known as India National Capitol Region - NCR) went to Pune the weekend of March 27–29 for a retreat on our new community land.

It was hard to believe just how much things have progressed in just one …

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The year 2009 was one of great expansion for Ananda Sangha outreach. All of it came through the grace of God, which is reflected in the title of this post.

Here are some of the year’s highlights. …

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