{"id":575,"date":"2021-11-02T17:28:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoganandafortheworld.com\/story\/?page_id=575"},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T18:14:02","slug":"a-place-called-ananda-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yoganandafortheworld.com\/story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of How Swami Kriyananda and Ananda Brought Paramhansa Yogananda’s Liberating Message to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou have a great work to do.\u201d<\/h1>\n

\u2014 Paramhansa Yogananda, to the young Swami Kriyananda<\/h2>\n

Swami Kriyananda met Paramhansa<\/strong> Yogananda <\/strong>in September, 1948, at the age of 22. For the remaining 65 years of his life, he worked tirelessly to bring the Master\u2019s liberating message to the world. In more than 140 books and over 400 songs and other musical compositions, through countless talks, and above all by fulfilling the Guru\u2019s dream of establishing \u201cWord Brotherhood Colonies\u201d where not only monastics but single people and families could live, work, and lead dedicated spiritual lives together, he showed how his Guru’s teachings offer answers for every challenge and dilemma that confront us in the modern world.<\/p>\n

In this website,<\/strong> we present the glowing story of the \u201cGreat Work\u201d that Yogananda repeatedly commissioned his young disciple to do. In his own words, and in the stories of those who helped create Ananda, we discover how Yogananda\u2019s message has reached countless thousands across the globe through this expression of his divine ray.<\/p>\n

Swami Kriyananda: As We Have Known Him<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This book presents many individuals\u2019 accounts<\/strong> of their experiences with Swami Kriyananda. \u201cI feel more love from you than I do from my own family,\u201d a retreat guest said to Swamiji. \u201cHow is that possible? We are meeting for this first time. You don\u2019t even know me.\u201d Thus begins one of almost two hundred stories about one of the most renowned spiritual teachers of our time, brought into clear focus by a true storyteller.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is a must<\/em> for anyone even remotely interested in spirituality. Kriyananda has been an ideal disciple of a great Master.\u201d \u2014 D.R. Kaarthikeyan, Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (India), National Human Rights Commission<\/p>\n

Swami Kriyananda \u2014 Lightbearer:
\nThe Life & Legacy of a Disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The profoundly inspiring story<\/strong> of Swami Kriyananda\u2019s unswerving dedication to his great Master\u2019s cause, as told by Nayaswami Asha. Its 680 pages are packed with insights for the spiritual seeker, offering answers to every spiritual dilemma:\u00a0 how to spiritualize our work and our relationships, secrets of successful leadership, the important role that the arts can play in the spread of new spiritual movements, how to bring spiritual principles into family life, child-raising and education, and much more.<\/p>\n

A Place Called Ananda: The trial by fire
\nthat forged one of the most successful cooperative communities
\nin the world today<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Among Swami Kriyananda\u2019s<\/strong> 140-plus books, this is the most personal. It tells the true, unvarnished story of his dismissal by Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), the organization founded by his Guru, and how in that great tragedy were hidden the seeds of a work that would bring Paramhansa Yogananda\u2019s liberating message to millions.<\/p>\n

Conversations With Ananda: How We Serve<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In Conversations with Ananda<\/em>,<\/strong> more than 70 pioneering members of the Ananda communities tell how, by their lives of dedicated service, they helped to transform Paramhansa Yogananda\u2019s cherished dream of “World Brotherhood Colonies\u201d into a living reality. Their stories are an eloquent testimonial to the blessings that attend a life dedicated to serving God\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Swami Kriyananda Stories:
\nEncounters With a Direct Disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Paramhansa Yogananda repeatedly<\/strong> told his disciple Swami Kriyananda, \u201cYou have a great work to do.\u201d And while there were aspects of his life that were of tremendous significance for the future of religion, Swamiji also served as a beacon of the light for many thousands of individual souls.<\/p>\n

To these friends, Swami Kriyananda was a savior, a divine friend who offered the beams of divine help they particularly needed. And while no one could tell the aggregate saga of his help to so many, they each can testify to the brilliance of that light as it swept through their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwami Kriyananda Stories offers many previously untold anecdotes that convey not merely the facts but the feeling of what it was like to be befriended by a great modern teacher who was one with God.\u201d \u2013 Nayaswami Asha, author of Swami Kriyananda: LIGHTBEARER, and Swami Kriyananda: As We Have Known Him<\/strong><\/p>\n

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