Ananda Sangha Chennai

03/12/2025

Except from the video https://youtu.be/NqL36m-FLv8?si=3WrVVYo3q0GBNFgb

02/12/2025

Calmness

Though the winds of difficulties howl around me, I stand forever calmly at the center of life’s storms.

Affirmations for Self-Healing by Swami Kriyananda

அமைதி

என்னை சுற்றிலும் கஷ்டங்கள் புயல்காற்றாக
ஆரவாரிக்கும் போதும், நான் வாழ்க்கையின் சூறாவளியின் நடுவில் எப்போதும் அமைதியுடன் நிற்கிறேன்.

01/12/2025

Full video here: https://youtu.be/nP8BMkofU_A

30/11/2025

29/11/2025

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you.”—John 14:26.
These Biblical words refer to the threefold nature of God as Father, Son, Holy Ghost (Sat, Tat, Aum in the Hindu scriptures). God the Father is the Absolute, Unmanifested, existing beyond vibratory creation. God the Son is the Christ Consciousness (Brahma or Kutastha Chaitanya) existing withinvibratory creation; this Christ Consciousness is the “only begotten” or sole reflection of the Uncreated Infinite. Its outward manifestation or “witness” is Aum or Holy Ghost, the divine, creative, invisible power which structures all creation through vibration. Aum the blissful Comforter is heard in meditation and reveals to the devotee the ultimate Truth.

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda

28/11/2025

Intuition is developed by exercising common sense, daily introspection and analysis, depth of thought and continued activity in one direction, calmness, and, best of all, by holding on to the calm after-effects of meditation.

If you can produce a perfect state of calmness in concentration and meditation, you will be able to solve deep problems. If you hold onto the calmness that comes after meditation, then you will be guided aright. Intuition guides your reason. When you have developed intuition, you will stand firm in your knowledge, though the universe rise up to defeat you. Whenever you want to solve a problem intuitively, first go into deep meditation or silence. Do not think of your problem during meditation, but meditate until you feel a sense of calmness filling the inner recesses of your body, and your breath becomes calm and quiet. Then ask God to direct your intuition so that you may know what you should do.

How to Have Courage, Calmness, and Confidence by Paramhansa Yogananda

27/11/2025

Though words and customs vary
Like waves upon the sea,
One life beneath the surface
Binds everyone to me.
Who knows the truth knows all men as brothers.
Who knows the truth knows all men as—
Brothers!

26/11/2025

We are offering: Kriya Yoga classes - at our center: Yoga exercises/pranayama and meditation techniques taught by Paramhansa Yogananda (Author of Autobiography of a Yogi)
Join on ANY ONE DAY: Nov 29th OR 30th OR Dec 4th.
Time: 2:00-6:00 pm on all days.
https://anandachennai.org/contact-us/

25/11/2025

The way to know God is by inner stillness of heart. This stillness is attained by loving more fully, more calmly, more whole-heartedly, never by deadening the emotions or hardening our hearts against those who would harm us.

Nothing and no one truly belongs to us; we are His alone. Joy is ours when we accept fully that we are God’s, that God’s nature is joy, and that His nature is our nature, in our souls.

I’ve always loved a statement of St. Jean Vianney’s: “If you knew how much God loves you, you would die for joy!”

From the book 'In Divine Friendship'
Letters of Counsel and Reflection by Swami Kriyananda

24/11/2025

A Meditation Practice

Meditate on the heart. Think of it as a lotus, its petals, like rays of energy, turned upward toward the brain.

Visualize each petal as a specific aspect of your feelings: love, aspiration, enthusiasm, longing, tenderness, fiery devotion, self-dedication, renunciation of lesser goals in life. Direct all of these aspects upward, toward superconsciousness.

Visualize, now, the mud out of which the lotus grows, as it lifts itself high into the air to absorb the sunlight. The lotus looks upward, away from the mud of its origins. Yet it cannot deny those origins, lest it die. Think of it as sustained by them – turned away not in contempt, but gratefully, in its aspiration toward higher realities.

Do not mentally reject what you’ve been in the past. See God’s presence there also, in the mud of your human origins. See God rising through long, arduous effort to reclaim Himself in the Great Self; God in the sunlight; God as the eternally shining, ever-blissful Sun.

Awaken to Superconsciousness by Swami Kriyananda