Paramhansa Yogananda's Vision of World Brotherhood Colonies (with Swami Kriyananda)

Swami Kriyananda emphasizes the importance of his guru, Paramhansa Yogananda’s vision to create intentional brotherhood communities that will become vital elements for the new societies of the New Age. These communities will provide essential and valuable opportunities for individuals to live in harmony together, while mutually supporting each other’s spiritual, material, and personal development. Kriyananda reflects on his own experiences of successfully founding such communities (Ananda) and notes that small communities illustrate the tangible realization of human potential and spiritual ideals that promise to promote a transformation of global society and culture in the coming years.

Recorded July 7, 2010 at Ananda Village

ABOUT PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA

ABOUT SWAMI KRIYANANDA
In 1948 at the age of twenty-two, Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) became a disciple of the Indian yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda. At Yogananda’s request, Swami Kriyananda devoted his life to lecturing and writing, helping others to experience the living presence of God within. He taught on four continents in seven languages over the course of 65 years. His talks, his music, and his many books have touched the lives of millions. An advocate of simple living and high thinking, his more than 150 books emphasize the need to live wisely by one’s own experience of life, and not by abstract theories or dogmas. A composer since 1964, Walters has written over 400 musical works. His music is inspiring, soothing, and uplifting.

His books and teachings on spiritualizing nearly every field of human endeavor include business life, leadership, education, the arts, community, and science. He wrote extensive commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita, both based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. He is known as the “father of the intentional communities movement,” which began in the United States in the late 1960s, fullfilling Yogananda's dream.

He founded the first of what are now 10 Ananda communities worldwide in 1967 near Nevada City, California. Other Ananda communities have developed over the years to include Ananda Palo Alto, Ananda Sacramento, Ananda Portland, Ananda Seattle, Ananda Los Angeles, Ananda Assisi in Italy, and Ananda India near Delhi and Pune. Each community has a spiritual focus (a teaching center and temple) and a community (homes where members live). More than 1,000 people live in these intentional spiritual communities.

ABOUT ANANDA WORLDWIDE

HOW TO STAY IN TOUCH

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