Radio Ananda

Join us tomorrow August 29th from 2pm to 4pm, broadcast from Ananda Village. https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/event/babaji-janmashtami/

kirtan to Divine Mother, with Biraj

Music for Divine Love

Monsoon's refreshing showers are almost here, ready to cleanse and soften our arid hearts with pure devotional waters. Let's sing to the rain devas and actively draw this purification into our lives. #kirtan #monsoon #devotion #music #rain #purification

"I will be Thine Always" - Swami Kriyananda chants Paramhansa Yogananda Ji's

A joy to play with Keshava! We go WAY back :) Here is Life Is a Dream, by Swami Kriyananda.

Part 1 https://youtu.be/5AGx2O_Tz98 Published on Apr 6, 2021 Creation was manifested through the vibration of AUM, and even though matter is condensed vibration..., and as such appears to be solid, we are still, at heart, essentially vibration. Music, as pure vibration resonates with us at the heart of our being. #Yogananda #SwamiKriyananda #AnandaMusic #PureVibration #PhilophyinSong http://www.anandasacramento.org Part 2 https://youtu.be/IeTJTgjKuLU Published on Apr 6, 2021 The music that we surround ourselves with is a very important influence on the way we feel, and on the way we think. (Swami Kriyananda) Also, as a connection to Yogananda, we can use this spiritual tool to uplift our consciousness. #SwamiKriyananda #AnandaMusic #PhilosophyinSong #Uplift #SpiritualInfluence http://www.anandasacramento.org

Please join us as we broadcast Christ Lives: An Oratorio by Swami Kriyananda. In this musical offering, you will experience many chapters of the Jesus’s life. M...ay his example inspire and guide you with an ever greater yearning and determination to follow in his footsteps. You can listen in from 5:00 am to 6:15 am PST and 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm PST, for a repeat broadcast. May the light of Christ shine upon you! Website Calendar > https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/events/ Website Player > https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/#all-music Mobile Apps > https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/home-app//

Please join us as we broadcast Christ Lives: An Oratorio by Swami Kriyananda. In this musical offering, you will experience many chapters of the Jesus’s life. May his example inspire and guide you with an ever greater yearning and determination to follow in his footsteps. You can listen in from 5:00 am to 6:15 am PST and 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm PST, for a repeat broadcast. May the light of Christ shine upon you! Website Calendar > https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/events/... Website Player > https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/#all-music Mobile Apps > https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/home-app// See more

Through countless lives I’ve sought Your cup of sweetness, Found other cups, yet thirsted evermore! The streams in the hills of time All found their way into a ...desert: Ev’ry noon of bright fulfillment Ere many hours did sink to evening gloom. From a song ‘Through Many Lives’ by Swami Kriyananda

Palm Sunday Composed by Swami Kriyananda, performed by the Ananda Worldbrotherhood Choir in Palo Alto, 2008. Lyrics Sing out Hosanna to the son of David!... Bless’d he that cometh in the name of God. Sing out Hosanna in the highest. Sing Hosanna to the Lord! 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. Learn more at https://ananda.org. ___ HOW TO STAY IN TOUCH Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/AnandaWorldwide/videos Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anandaworldwide Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ananda.org Follow on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/anandasangha Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/anandaworldwide Take classes on our virtual spiritual community: https://www.ananda.org/online-classes/ Learn to meditate with our Online Lessons in Meditation course: https://www.onlinewithananda.org/lessons-in-meditation/ Download the FREE Ananda Meditation app and watch guided meditations https://www.ananda.org/meditation/app/ Find an Ananda Near You: https://www.ananda.org/find-ananda View Upcoming Live Events Around the World: https://www.onlinewithananda.org/live-events/

Commemorate Yogananda's Mahasamadhi with Radio Ananda On Sunday, March 7 we will be offering a short reading and musical inspiration in honor of Paramhansa Yogananda's Mahasamadhi the anniversary of the day he left his body. You can tune in 8:00 am to 10:00 am PST and 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm PST, for a repeat performance. We hope you will join us via our all-music website player or by using one of our mobile apps. May you be blessed on this sacred day.... https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/#all-music https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/home-app/ See more

Celebrate Valentine's Day with Radio Ananda Today, February 14th we are offering 2 inspirational albums from Swamiji's musical library: Secrets of Love and Love Chants. You can tune in from 2:00 to 4:00 and/or from 8:00 - 10:00 pm for a repeat performance. We hope you will join us via our website player https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/#all-music or by using one of our mobile apps. https://www.ananda.org/radioananda/#free-apps In loving gratitude, Jagrav

Devi wrote her last blog on the subject of calmness, saying, When you feel a recurring karmic situation moving towards you, make the necessary mental or behavi...oral adjustments while you are still free to do so. The more you can self-adjust early in the process, the less power karma will have over you. This is the proper way to fight our karmic battles. But there are times when the wiser decision is to sign a peace treaty, and withdraw from all activity. At first glance, peace and calmnesstwo of the eight qualities of Godmight seem similar, but they are actually quite different. Swami Kriyananda states it this way: Peace is the soothing cessation of all agitation of feeling, whereas Calmness is dynamic, and is the silent, essential core of creativity, of impersonal love, and of divine wisdom. Each of these attitudinal tools is needed at different times, just as a carpenter’s tool belt needs both a hammer and a saw. Calmness is good during activity, but peace, like sleep at night, won’t come until we relax. There is a wonderful true story that illustrates the peace that comes at the cessation of conflict. It is December 1914, five months into the First World War, and more than a million young men have died. The two sides have burrowed into opposing trenches, with a deadly no-man’s land in between. On Christmas Eve, the English hear hundreds of German voices singing Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht. The English respond by singing The First Noel, and Silent Night. Enthusiastically, joyfully, each side applauds the efforts of the other. Late into the night they trade carols, finally singing in unison. Then, opposing soldiers from each side come out of their trenches to exchange gifts, preciously hoarded food items, and photos of loved ones. They even worship together and say last rites for the dead of both sides. Alas, the next morning, obeying their leaders, they resume the bloody battle. For a few short hours the unifying Christ consciousness had worked the miracle of peace. We, too, would do well to learn the art of declaring peace when we find our minds filled with projects and worries, strife and negativity. Does all that mental activity really bring us happiness? How can we achieve inner peace? It is easiest to find in the stillness of deep meditation. If you calmly observe your thoughts and emotions, they will begin to diminish like mist under the morning sun. When you observe some whirlpool of thought or feeling, simply let it fade away. Those of you who practice the Hong-Sau technique of watching the breath will already have developed these skills. As you continue to withdraw, you will see into more and more subtle areas of your mind. Let it all go! In inner stillness you understand that while your ego wants to stay restless, your soul wants to rest in the peace of God. Gradually, peace becomes supremely attractive, and you will no longer want to return to the no-man’s land of worldly pulls. Our inner attitudes will magnetize outer changes also. If you have an aura of peace, the whole world will become peaceful in your presence. The former enemies that disturbed you will no longer feel the need to defend themselves. Then friendships will return, mutual laughter will replace old hurts, and the gentle beauty of peace will spread like wildflowers in spring. In peace, Nayaswami Jyotish Listen to the new commentary of this blog by Nayaswami Jyotish on *Peace* here: https://buff.ly/2OaK7JX

Welcome! Join me in chanting (link to lyrics below): https://ggle.io/3iAD

This beautiful chant by Paramhansa Yogananda, sung by his disciple Swami Kriyananda, will surely transport you to a peaceful state: "Engrossed is the bee of my ...mind, on the blue lotus feet of my Divine Mother. Engrossed is the bee of my mind, on the blue lotus feet of my Divine Mother. Divine Mother, my Divine Mother, Divine Mother, my Divine Mother. .." #ParamhansaYogananda #SwamiKriyananda #Chant #Spiritual #Masters

Light the Lamp of Thy Love In my house with Thine own hands Light the lamp of Thy love.... Thy transmuting lamp entrancing Wondrous are its rays. Change my darkness to Thy light And my evil into good. Touch me but once and I will change All my clay to Thy gold. All the sense lamps that I did light Blackened into worries. Sitting at the door of my soul Light Thy resurrecting lamp. Cosmic chants (1938 edition) by Paramhansa Yogananda

Channels, a song by Swami Kriyananda Birds sing of freedom as they soar lightly on the air. So may our hearts soar, high above all curbs and care.... Trees, standing firm, hold the secret of inner pow’r. Give us, when tested, strength to endure. Stars send a message of light through eternity: Lord, when in darkness, Your radiance we see. Flowers so soft and fragile stay fragrant though pressed to the ground. May we thus learn forbearance, for in kindness love is found. Mountains, remote and still, hint at higher worlds unseen. So may our lives be: soaring and serene. Rivers seek passage, unhindered by rock or tree. So may our lives flow, steadfast toward the sea! Mother, we thank You, Your joy shines in ev’rything! Open these channels that the world once more may sing. The song is performed here: https://youtu.be/bppIjlbl0uI

"Come Out of the Darkness, Mother!" https://rameshanani.bandcamp.com//come-out-of-the-darkness LYRICS:... Come out of the darkness, Mother Bathe me in Thy Light! #kirtan #meditationmusic

Occasionally, something will grab hold of my mind and won’t let go. Does that happen to you too? A few weeks ago I was watching an Ananda video on YouTube. As i...nternet sites do, they suggest things they think might interest you. In my case, there was a link to the song Shenandoah. Perhaps foolishly, I played it, and then its hauntingly lovely melody wouldn’t leave my mind. The words, however, are not particularly uplifting. It’s an old American folk song, sung by voyagers as they set out into the unknown. The lyrics start, "O Shenandoah, I long to see you, And hear your rolling river. O Shenandoah, I long to see you, Way, we’re bound away Across the wide Missouri." The Missouri River represented the dividing line into the unknown territory of the time. Then, subsequent verses tell of the singer’s love for the daughter of Shenandoah, who was a famous Native American chief. As I said, the words aren’t particularly negative, just not uplifting, so I decided to spiritualize them. If the melody was going to haunt me, I thought that I might as well be haunted by Divine Mother. So I rewrote the lyrics as: "O Divine Mother, I long to know You. Fade away, O world of maya. Divine Mother, I long to know You. Away, I’m bound away into the deep sushumna. "O Divine Mother, I long to see You. Fade away, O gaudy maya. Divine Mother, I long to see You. Away, I’m bound away through the bright Kutastha. "O Divine Mother, I long to hear You. Fade away, O noise of maya. Divine Mother, I long to hear You. Away, I’m bound away to merge into the bliss of AUM." I chose these three destinations quite purposely, as they represent the essence of our yogic path. First we must interiorize our life-force, bring it into the deep astral spine, and then lift it up and through the spiritual eye. Once we do that, the ego can melt away as our true Self merges with all that is. Sometimes it isn’t possible to stop a thought or a desire, but it is always possible to spiritualize ita strategy we can use in many contexts. Yogananda said, I don’t ask you to overcome temptation, just to resist it. When something is nagging at you, find a way to turn it toward the light. This world has many more tentacles that pull on us than just a song or melody. But we can always find a way to spiritualize them. Swami Kriyananda suggested, for example, that if you have a strong desire to buy something, go ahead and get it. But then give it away. Once he and I spent two days at Disney World in Florida, which has areas representing various countries. In the Japanese village, there was an exquisite tea service that caught Swamiji’s eye. Finally, after three visits to look at it, he decided to buy it. Imagine our surprise when, a couple of weeks later, Devi and I received it as a present. We still use it to serve tea to our guests, always remembering Swami’s kindness when we do so. His ability to spiritualize a desire is still a blessing forty years later. When the world pulls at you, turn its call toward God, and you will get an instant blessing. In the arms of Divine Mother, Nayaswami Jyotish Listen to recording of Shenandoah, https://buff.ly/2ER5xHN

Peace Performed by the Ananda Virtual Choir September 2020... Lyrics Peace gave us the mountains. Peace gave us the sky. Nightly, when starlight enfolds us, Peace is its lullaby. Amen. Amen. Peace gave us the morning. Peace gave us the sun. Bird songs that call us to welcome Day, and fresh labors begun. Amen. Amen. Peace gave us the seasons. Peace gave us the rain Cool clouds that gather to bless us, Mist hands that soothe away pain. Amen. Amen. Peace gave us our hearts’ love. Peace gave us our smiles: Rays of God’s presence within us. Light that all strife reconciles. Amen. Amen.

Our special guest Nayaswami Devarshi on this Tues Sept 1st 7:00-8:30pm will share his perspective on where we are now in our progress through the pandemic and t...he challenges we are facing. He will speak on how we got here, where we are going, and how to get there. https://www.facebook.com/events/421209832178579/ Changes bring challenges and challenges bring opportunities. What should we look for to take advantage of these opportunities? He will also explore how the religion of the New Age, particularly the practice of Kriya yoga, can help us now. See more

Please join us for today's Satsang: How to Prepare for Death: Live fully now! August 31st 5:30pm - 6:30... Ananda Worldwide Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ananda.org See more

We are happy to share Nayaswami Jyotish's newest painting, "Flow of Grace." ~ Swami Kriyananda writes: "The secret of meditation is... receptivity to God’s grace, in full awareness that God’s power alone can liberate the soul." To learn more about Jyotish's art visit http://jyotishart.com