Ananda Sangha Chennai

Name: Ananda Sangha Chennai
Address: 9, East Road, CIT Nagar West, Chennai, 600035, IN
Telephone: +919962996850
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Ananda is a global movement based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, exemplified by his direct disciple Nayaswami Kriyananda.

Ananda chennai spreads these teachings and the scientific technique of Kriya Yoga for Self-reallisation. Ananda is a global movement based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda and founded in 1968 by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters), a direct disciple of Yogananda and widely recognized as one of the leading spiritual teachers in the world before he left his body in April 2013. His spiritual

successor is Nayaswami Jyotish who co-directs Ananda Worldwide with his wife, Nayaswami Devi. Ananda offers support in your quest for spiritual growth, as well as instruction in ancient and effective techniques that allow you to experience joy, love, and inner peace in your life. Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi, was the first great Indian master of Yoga to live in the West. Yogananda’s teachings embrace the universal truths that underlie all religions. People from all faiths and backgrounds are welcomed at Ananda. We invite you to join us at our Sunday satsangs, group meditations, classes and events to experience the joy of your own being. May you experience the consciousness of inner joy and the presence of the Divine in every moment of your life.

08/06/2025

How to be creative all the time
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07/06/2025

Slideshow of quotes from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda

06/06/2025

From the song, Come Gather ‘Round by Swami Kriyananda

It’s in your heart
The songs of joy resound:
You’ll hear but echoes
In the world around.
Wind on a hill
Sounds lonely if you’re sad,
Free if you’re free,
Cheerful if you’re glad.
Mm-m-m cheerful if you’re glad.

05/06/2025

In the Mahabharata, even the historical characters are to some extent fictionalized. There is, for instance, an account for which I know no parallel in Indian history: Draupadi, a beautiful maiden, marries all the Pandava brothers together. There have been cases of polygamy in India, but none of polyandry that I know of, common though the practice was in Tibet. In the Mahabharata, Arjuna, the principal hero, wins Draupadi in an archery contest. On his return home with her and his brothers, and before they enter the house, he calls out, “Mother, I have brought home a prize.”
Their mother, unaware of the nature of this “prize,” calls back, “In that case, my son, be sure to share it equally with your brothers.” Since their mother’s word could not be falsified, the brothers all had to marry the same girl!

There is a deep meaning in this story. The Pandava brothers represent the five chakras, or energy-centers in the spine, and the spiritual qualities that manifest in the mind once their energy is directed toward the brain. Draupadi, their “wife,” represents the coiled “feminine” energy, kundalini, at the base of the spine. When kundalini is raised up the spine, she passes through the chakras, uniting herself with each one of them in turn. In this awakening of inner energy lies the secret of our eventual enlightenment.

The Hindu Way Of Awakening by Swami Kriyananda

04/06/2025

A disciple: “Master, why can’t I remember my past incarnations?”

“It is better so, usually,” replied the Master with
a humorous smile. “People would soon grow discouraged if they knew all the things they’d done wrong in the past! God gives them an opportunity to try again, without the false
hypnosis that they are their mistakes.

“The less attached you are to the body,” he continued, “especially during deep meditation, the more clearly you will remember your past lives and everything that you ever did in each one of them.”

The Essence of Self-Realization by Paramhansa Yogananda

03/06/2025

From the book, Paramhansa Yogananda: A Biography by Swami Kriyananda

“In the beginning”—that is to say, before Cosmic Creation—there is in existence only the ever-calm Spirit, vibrationless, fathomless. Its nature is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Bliss, or Satchidananda.

In Its Self-absorbed condition, as the Supreme Spirit, the Absolute Truth is Brahman. When It manifests Cosmic Creation, It is that Creation: It is the created universe. A portion of Its Infinite Self moves, becoming vibration.

The Cosmic Vibration, AUM, has three aspects: Brahma (the Creative Vibration), Vishnu (the vibration which keeps everything in a state of manifestation), and Shiva (the vibration which dissolves everything back into the Vibrationless Spirit again)…

I have written that the Spirit, when creating, is “center everywhere, circumference nowhere.” That center is the still, unmoving center at the heart of each cosmic vibration. It is the Christ consciousness, the motionless reflection of Spirit beyond Creation, existent in every atom. Thus, we have the Holy Trinity—in Christian teachings: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; stated in the reverse in the Hindu teachings: AUM, TAT, SAT.
SAT represents the Father aspect, beyond all vibration. AUM represents Creation itself. And TAT represents the Son aspect, the Kutastha Chaitanya.

02/06/2025

Guide me, Lord, throughout this day;�In all I do, in all I say.�Tell me when I go astray;�Hold me in Thy light.

Help me see that happiness�Comes not with wanting more, but less.�Teach me all my friends to bless,�Hold them in Thy light.

01/06/2025

Television appeared on the market only late in the Master’s life. He cautioned us against watching it too much. “Television has a satanic influence,” he said. “Don’t let yourselves be too fascinated by it. Seek, instead, the ‘television’ of superconscious visions in the spiritual eye.”

Conversations with Yogananda by Swami Kriyananda

31/05/2025

Prayer for Truthfulness

Heavenly Father, I will not fear the truth, for I know that Truth comes from Thee. Help me to see behind all appearances Thy smiling, all-compassionate gaze.

Affirmations for Self-Healing by Swami Kriyananda

30/05/2025

Lahiri Mahasaya had a very famous friend, Swami Trailanga, who was reputed to be over three hundred years old. The two yogis often sat together in meditation. Trailanga’s fame is so widespread that few Hindus would deny the possibility of truth in any story of his astounding miracles. If Christ returned to earth and walked the streets of New York, displaying his divine powers, it would cause the same excitement that was created by Trailanga decades ago as he passed through the crowded lanes of Benares…

In spite of his round face and huge, barrel-like stomach, Trailanga ate only occasionally. After weeks without food, he would break his fast with potfuls of clabbered milk offered to him by devotees.

A skeptic once determined to expose Trailanga as a charlatan. A large bucket of calcium-lime mixture, used in whitewashing walls, was placed before the swami.

“Master,” the materialist said, in mock reverence, “I have brought you some clabbered milk. Please drink it.” Trailanga unhesitatingly drained, to the last drop, the containerful of burning lime. In a few minutes the evildoer fell to the ground in agony. “Help, swami, help!” he cried. “I am on fire! Forgive my wicked test!”

The great yogi broke his habitual silence. “Scoffer,” he said, “you did not realize when you offered me poison that my life is one with your own. Except for my knowledge that God is present in my stomach, as in every atom of creation, the lime would have killed me. Now that you know the divine meaning of boomerang, never again play tricks on anyone.”

The reversal of pain was not due to any volition of the master, but came about through unerring application of the law of justice which upholds creation’s farthest swinging orb. Men of God-realization like Trailanga allow the divine law to operate instantaneously; they have banished forever all thwarting crosscurrents of ego.

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda

29/05/2025

It is axiomatic, surely, that our children’s upbringing ought to be progressive, in the sense of leading them somewhere. Where, then, should it lead? Leaving abstractions aside, isn’t the simple, obvious, most basic answer this: to lead them from immaturity to maturity? Isn’t the attainment of maturity what growing up is really all about?

If so, then it becomes necessary to ask ourselves, What is maturity?

For an answer, let me offer you another law, “The Maturity Principle”: Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.

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This book is directed toward helping children to find their way progressively toward maturity. My assumption throughout, then, is that maturity is a basic goal for all human beings. It is not the goal only of formal education. Education for life continues throughout all the years of our lives.

Education for Life by Swami Kriyananda

28/05/2025

Leadership is Intuition Guided by Common Sense

Common sense and intuition can be developed hand in hand, each offering its own type of clarity to the other. Common sense should check the suggestions of intuition. And intuition should inspire common sense always to look beyond the enclosure of the known to the open pasture of the unknown.

The Art of Supportive Leadership by Swami Kriyananda

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