Yogananda Harmony

Ananda Is Within You

Meet Swami Kriyananda

Swami Kriyananda was, perhaps, the most expansive disciple of Yogananda, carrying on his mission with ceaseless zeal, all life long.

 

Building Communities

“You have a great work to do” Yogananda to Kriyananda

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Books

“Your work is writing, editing, and lecturing.” Yogananda to Kriyananda

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Teaching Self-realization and God-realization

“You’d better learn to like it. That is what you will have to do.” Yogananda to Kriyananda

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Schools

In 1917, Mukunda, now a monk with the name Swami Yogananda, took the first outward step toward the fulfillment of his mission by founding a small school for boys in the village of Dihika, Bengal. In 1918 the Maharaja of Kasimbazar graciously gave him permission to transfer this fast-growing school to the Kasimbazar palace in Ranchi, Bihar, where the school flourished.

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Music

“I am keenly aware not only that I have done them [communities] for my Guru, but that it is he who has accomplished them through me. I have felt his guidance in every decision, both large and small, of my life. Even the music and the song lyrics have all come by his blessing.”

Please enjoy:

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Ananda Yoga

During the fall of 1949 Master asked me, in company with several other monks, to demonstrate the yoga postures before Swami Premananda, an Indian disciple visiting Mt. Washington from Washington, D.C., where he served as the minister of an SRF church. I was at best a mediocre Hatha Yogi; many of the postures I couldn’t contort myself into at all. That evening however, in Master’s presence, I suddenly found myself able to assume even difficult poses with ease. Indeed, from that day on I became recognized as SRF’s Hatha Yoga “expert.” I posed for the photographs that illustrated the poses in a series of articles in Self-Realization Magazine. If ever anyone was needed to demonstrate the postures, I was the one selected. Master often had me serve lunch when he had guests, and afterwards had me demonstrate the postures to them. Would that expertise might always be acquired so effortlessly!
  • Here you receive an introduction into the postures on Yogananda’s path.
  • The deeper purpose and practice of Hatha Yoga is discussed here. You can apply these words to your own practice here.
  • Here you find some essential quotes by Kriyananda on Ananda Yoga, the Hatha Yoga tradition he established.

 

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The Arts

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