Sunday Service at Ananda Village

God loves and accepts us no matter what — it is we who sometimes don’t accept ourselves. Also: Nayaswami Devi shares how we to take the blessings of a special weekend and use them to grow spiritually.

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To transcend our worldly lives, we need to give everything we have, and accept the help of the guru.

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With Dr. Peter Van Houten

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With Nayaswami Bharat

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With Nayaswami Ananta

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With Nayaswami Ananta

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Nayswami Jyotish explains the spiritual and symbolic reason why Easter happened.

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With Nayaswami Jaya

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Stillness and devotion are key qualities for success on the spiritual path.

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The reality behind the appearance is the one that devotees need to seek, through intuitive perception.

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With Nayaswami Gyandev

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With Nayaswami Ananta

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Nayaswami Anandi tells us through many humorous stories how to find our way back to God.

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The story of Karna, the “greatest giver,” in the Mahabharata, and the gifts that Krishna asked of him.

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With Nayaswami Devi

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With Nayaswami Pranaba

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How to use challenges of the spiritual life to quicken our progress on the path.

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With Atman Goering

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Seven revolutionary teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, discussed in-depth.

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Even when something is happening to us directly, we don’t need to take it personally.

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The story of Christmas, and how to let the Christ be born within us.

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With Nayaswami Ananta

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To become one with all that is, we need to stay awake — to keep seeking union with the Christ Consciousness.

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With Nayaswami Mantradevi

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It’s important to let go of attachments and old negative thoughts, so that we don’t bring them with us when we pass on. Nayaswami Anandi shares two excellent techniques for doing so.

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Why pray to God if he already knows what we need? Because prayer helps us grow.

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As devotees, we need to keep our mind on what is most important — God’s bliss.

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Will power is an important quality for devotees to develop, but we also need attunement to God’s will.

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To grow and expand in yourself, you must have courage to do what you believe is right, regardless of anyone else’s opinion.

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True love comes not from us, but from God — when we attune with that love completely, we become saints.

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We are in a new age, and religion needs to be approached in a new way.

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The human incarnation is a great blessing; it’s as a human that we have the freedom to choose to evolve and be one with God or to just live in his dream.

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The ego is the barrier between us and freedom, peace, and perfect joy.

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“The real temptation is the contraction into darkness, away from light.” Jyotish explains the two opposing forces in the universe and how the choices we make daily that bring us towards one or the other.

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Diksha explains two currents of consciousness exist within each of us: one compelling us downward and therefore outwards; another bringing us inward and upwards toward God.

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God hides the truth in some ways, but reveals it in many others — the choice to find it is up to us.

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In this weeks sunday service, Devarshi talks about how the two most important truths on the spiritual path are rendering selfless service and cultivating devotion.

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Paramhansa Yogananda said that the magnetism of a guru is necessary for us to reach Self-realization.

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Becoming one with the Christ Consciousness means knowing how to follow It through the crowds of our own conflicting thoughts and desires.

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Attunement with a true guru, which Paramhansa Yogananda emphasized with his disciples, is one of the most important facets of a search for God.

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Light is one of the eight attributes of God, and it can transform us entirely.

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By concentrating at the spiritual eye, we can still our consciousness and perceive our Higher Self.

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Regardless of our upbringing, culture or life circumstances, we always have the choice to rise, to become light.

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The more we allow energy to collect around our ego, the faster we fall — but if we focus on the light, we become lighter, and rise.

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“Be thou a Yogi” Krishna advises Arjuna. Taking charge of our energy gives us the ability to take charge of our lives.

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With Asha Nayaswami

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Stories from India, instructive and entertaining, about how to worship God in the most effective way.

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Stories about Swami Kriyananda, whom Nayswami Devi and Nayaswami Jyotish describe as a “magician of divine love.”

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It may be a challenge to bring God’s presence into our work, but it’s a necessity.

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Maria shares that on the spiritual path, we transcend identification with our little selves (ego) when we choose to live in higher states of awareness, in God consciousness.

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Devarshi talks about how all is Vasudev, all is God, including ourselves.

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Easter Sunday – Jyotish shares stories of Jesus’s life and how he accepted God’s tests as His love.

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The life of Jesus was about so much more than his death on the cross.

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We all make mistakes — and God wants us to give those to Him completely.

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All of us are family, for we were all created by God.

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Ananta talks about focusing on the reality of our inner light.

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After many lifetimes, Devarshi says, if we are meditating, we are almost one with God.

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On the anniversary of Sri Yukteswar’s mahasamadhi, Nayaswami Devi tells stories about his life.

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Bharat talks about how attunement to a larger reality creates thinking that is also expansive.

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Maria talks about how when we look for God in all that we do, we open ourselves to experiencing the divine within everything.

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By practicing the teachings with devotion, we allow grace to enter our lives.

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When we open ourselves to the Guru’s grace, he can fill us with power and love.

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When out of compassion, God incarnates on earth, what should be our response?

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Everything in this world, Ananta says, is animated by the light of Christ Consciousness.

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When you are going through challenges, find a ray of light and focus on it.

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Did God create the universe or become it?” It may seem like a minor philosophical point, but it can determine the very direction of our spiritual life.

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Devi talks about Yogananda’s world mission of uniting the best of East and West and incorporating into our own being.

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What did Jesus mean when he said, “None can come into the Father but by me”?

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Jyotish encourages us very sincerely to merge our consciousness with Christ, during this Christ-mas time.

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To practice the presence of God, we need only three things.

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Maria talks about knowing who you truly are in God.

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The law of karma, Swami Kriyananda said, is rooted in love.

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The goal of life is to get off the wheel of reincarnation — to “click the opt-out button.”

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We’ve all walked away from God at one point or another. Why wait to return?

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To develop faith, put your beliefs into practice.

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Accepting life as it is gives us the power, with God’s help, for changing our circumstances and ourselves.

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Maria talks about devotion and how to pray in your own unique way.

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If you’re viewing this Sunday Service, you’re probably already seeking God — but what about seeking Him first?

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To step onto the spiritual path, we need to have c...

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Love God and serve God — these will help us forget our preoccupation with our little selves.

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About expressing your true, Divine nature; and about how everyone’s path is unique.

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Think of the most uplifting moment in your life — was it a moment of intellectual fulfillment?

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God offers us a very simple choice.

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Tips and advice on how to overcome the ego — and a discussion of what the ego is.

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With Nayaswami Bharat

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To face the tests that come to us, we can draw on one of the qualities of God, such as light, peace, love, or joy.

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“If you knew how much God loves you,” said the Cure d’Ars, “You would die of joy.”

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God hides from the devotee, yet remains always with him — right here and right now.

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Atman talks about the importance of only giving people divine truth when they are ready.

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After a weekend celebrating the completion of the...

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What is the best way to draw God’s grace? Stories of Sister Gyanamata, and St. Theresa of Avila, the healing power of Mother Nature.

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The essence of the path of yoga is the union of the little self with the cosmic Self.

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Love for God is more important than anything else.

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With Nayaswami Devi

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Are time and space real? Or is the only reality The Eternal Now?

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Through many “washings and regenerations” we realize that we are a child of God, and rise.

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With Nayaswami Bharat

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With Nayaswami Devarshi

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With Nayaswami Ananta

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With Nayaswami Devi

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With Nayaswami Anandi

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With Nayaswami Krishnadas

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With Nayaswami Bharat

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With Nayaswami Nirmala

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The story of Christ’s resurrection has lessons for us on multiple levels.

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With Nayaswami Ananta

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Through reason, Yogananda said, scientists have only discovered one-millionth of the reality of the universe.

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With Nayaswami Maria

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A simple talk on how opening to God’s grace, with energy and self-effort, will allow us to realize Him.

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How can we be more in tune with God, more open to His grace?

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Gyandev explains the concept of the avatar, a Sanskrit word that means divine descent, and tells a joke about several great avatars playing poker in heaven.

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What is Christ Consciousness? When we have our awareness in complete one-ness with every particle and atom of creation.

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The light of God is within all creation, even in very difficult times and circumstances; it is the solution to our problems.

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God is always with us, even if we are not able to see or hear Him (Her). In this talk Jyotish shares entertaining stories and very practical techniques for spiritual advancement.

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Jesus’ last commandment was “Love one another as I have loved you.” This begs the question, How does God love us?

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To experience God, realize that He is already with you. To share God with others, realize that He is already with you.

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Who were the wise men, really? Dharmadas takes us on their journey and illuminates their relevance to our own lives.

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Advice and strategies for growing beyond the little self and embracing the much larger, more expansive, and more joyful reality of our true Self.

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Bharat’s talk gives hope to any who feel that they may be failing in some way in the spiritual path.

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How can we become free of our past karma? The first step is to be grateful for everything that comes to us.

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With Nayaswami Sabari

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With Nayaswami Ananta

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With Asha Nayaswami

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With Nayaswami Anandi

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With Nayaswami Durga

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With Nayaswami Shivani

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With Nayaswami Bharat

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With Nayaswami Maria

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With Nayaswami Anandi

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With Nayaswami Devi

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Their farewell Service at Ananda South Bay, before leaving for India

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With Nayaswami Parvati

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With Nayaswami Savitri

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With Nayaswami Diksha

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Does God hide the truth? Not only that; He also hides Himself, as if He is playing hide-and-seek.

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How can we know when to share spiritual teachings with others, and how to be open to them ourselves?

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Peter covers four stages that devotees go through in their understanding of the guru-disciple relationship.

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Is self-effort more important, or is faith? Maria tells stories from Ananda to illustrate the right balance of these two qualities.

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40 years after he first arrived at Ananda Village, Nitai discusses what brought him onto the spiritual path and how his journey has helped him find his “larger Self.”

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With Nayaswami Shivani

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With Nayaswami Devi

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With Nayaswami Ananta

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With Nayaswami Devi

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With Nayaswami Ananta

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With Nayaswami Devarshi