Ananda Sangha Chennai

27/10/2025

The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita as explained by Paramhansa Yogananda and remembered by His Disciple Swami Kriyananda. From the chapter “The Nature of Right Action”:

“He is wise who, having been given the chance to seek God, seizes it with both his hands.”

27/10/2025

Individual and group meditation both are necessary. The former recharges the Soul with God; the latter recharges the mind with the good vibrations of the Spiritual convictions of other Souls. - Paramhansa Yogananda

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26/10/2025

26/10/2025

The true meditative way is the airplane way – the short route to God. Your whole body is saturated with peace and energy, due to the contact of God in meditation. - Paramhansa Yogananda

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25/10/2025

Meditation is that form of Concentration which you use to disengage your attention from distracting sensations and thoughts and apply it only upon God - Paramhansa Yogananda


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25/10/2025

In meditation, it’s especially important to watch for these moments of awakening. From time to time, we may find ourselves plodding along in our spiritual efforts, but not having the breakthroughs that take us to a deeper level. Then, one day, as Yoganandaji put it, “From behind the clouds of drudgery of routine meditative habits, there burst upon my consciousness the aurora of bliss.”

‘Watch for the “Aha” Moments’ from the book Touch of Divine Wisdom by Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi

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“The Aurora of Bliss
Written in the early 1920s”

“As one becomes immersed in bliss by deeper and deeper silent meditation, he finds the fountain of bliss spraying through the pores of his consciousness, thoughts, feelings, and sense-perceptions.

I remember the day when for the first time, unlooked-for, from behind the clouds of the drudgery of routine meditating habits, the aurora of bliss suddenly burst upon my consciousness. It surpassed all my expectations. Joy indescribable! The light of bliss illumined all the dark corners of consciousness, clearing away the shadows of all questions, passing X-raylike through gross objects and showing me all things lying beyond the horizon of mortal gaze — east, west, north, south, front and behind, above and beneath, within and without, all around — everywhere.”

Excerpt From
The Divine Romance
Paramhansa Yogananda

24/10/2025

Don’t waste time transforming old energy, but concentrate on developing a positive vortex of new energy. Once the positive vortex grows strong enough, it will either absorb the old, transforming it automatically, or cause it to dissipate for lack of cohesion. This was how I had succeeded in organizing the monks. It was how I succeeded, later, in building Ananda despite much internal dissension during our early years. It is how Master taught us to work on ourselves: Do what you can do; don’t worry about the obstacles that are beyond your strength.

From the book, ‘A Place Called Ananda’ by Swami Kriyananda

24/10/2025

As you dive more deeply into the Ocean of meditation and forget the Wave of your own little body, your consciousness expands, until the realization comes to you of your Oneness with all Nature and with God. The Bliss of God Consciousness merges into Universal Love. God is omnipresent and you are One with the Father - Paramhansa Yogananda


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23/10/2025

Discover Your True Nature in Silence

Because of long concentration upon the little body and its necessities, the soul has forgotten its omnipresent nature. God is omnipresent. Man’s soul, made in His image, has in it the seed experience of omnipresence. That omnipresence is hidden in the little soul as a tree is secreted in a small seed.

Looking at the body daily causes the mind to think of itself as confined in flesh. The mind, meditating upon the body, becomes limited by it. The mind, meditating upon the Infinite, becomes unlimited. Meditation upon the Infinite, as it grows deeper, convinces the mind that it is not encased only in the little body, but is in everything…

Meditation means constant thinking of the vastness within and without, so that the soul may forget its attachment to the little body and may remember its vast body as God.

How to Awaken Your True
Potential by Paramhansa Yogananda

23/10/2025

Kriya Yoga: Level 1 class coming up, 1 OR 2 Or 5 Nov; Timings: 2:00 – 6:00 pm; classes and course material available in English and Tamil. Kriya is the most effective technique available to mankind today for reaching the goal of Yoga: union with the Divine
- Kriya Yoga is a meditation technique that quickly accelerates one’s spiritual growth. It became widely known through Paramhansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi. According to Yogananda