Finding God, Sharing God

12/15/2025

12/15/2025

The Christ Child's Asleep

During the Ananda Palo Alto December 14, 2025 Sunday Service, Nayaswami Shanti, who was leading the service that day, offered the congregation an interactive...

12/15/2025

The Christmas Mystery

12/15/2025

Homework? From Nayaswami Shanti to the entire congregation during Sunday Service? 🤪 Being here was fun.

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12/13/2025

Following the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. through the eyes of Swami Kriyananda and the Ananda World Brotherhood Communities, we are taking a look, week by week, into the books read from during the Ananda Sunday Service.

The books are called Affirmations For Self-Healing and Rays of the One Light.

I hope to also offer in-depth recorded readings from Rays of the Same Light, the original and much larger weekly commentary on the Holy Bible and Bhagavad Gita.

Music is also an important element for sharing the vibrations deeply palpable during the Ananda Sunday Services. For this reason, I will be sharing recorded chants that are typically sung before and during service.

This is an opportunity to find and experience your divinity within daily. Creating a daily simple route, such as what is found in Affirmations and Rays, elevates your joy, happiness and success.

Please join Finding God Sharing God for a guided year-long spiritual growth exploration into God's greatest love.

It is helpful, and although, not necessary to have the books for this journey, you may find that you want them for reference during the day. You can purchase these and other books from Crystal Clarity Publishers.

12/12/2025

12/12/2025

12/12/2025

Some years ago, Jyotish and I were blessed to visit the Italian town of San Giovanni Rotondo, where the great saint Padre Pio had lived. While there, we met a beautiful soul—an elderly widow—who had been one of Padre Pio’s “children,” or, in our terms, his disciples. She told us that once Padre Pio, who regularly received thousands of requests, gathered his children together and said, “I’m carrying as much of a load as I can right now. Would any of you be willing to volunteer to share some of this burden? It may mean that you catch a cold or the flu, but you can join me in helping others.” A great wave of hands immediately went up.

Now is the time for all of us to raise our hands—to help spread Yogananda’s message of world unity and brotherhood. This can be done inwardly, in the solitude of prayer, or outwardly, as we offer love and support to everyone we meet. But we should act consciously, as Master’s “children,” carrying forward his mission of unity.

Some of you may know that in 2014 Jyotish and I received, on behalf of Ananda, the Global Peace Ambassador Award in the chapel at the United Nations. During the ceremony, we read Master’s “Prayer for a United World.” As you can imagine, it was one of the most memorable moments of our lives.

I’ll end by quoting a portion of that prayer:

“Let us pray in our hearts for a League of Souls and a United World. Though we may seem divided by race, creed, color, class, and political prejudices, still, as children of the one God, we are able in our souls to feel brotherhood and world unity. May we work for the creation of a United World in which every nation will be a useful part, guided by God through man’s enlightened conscience.

“In our hearts we can all learn to be free from hate and selfishness. Let us pray for harmony among nations, that they march hand in hand through the gate of a fair new civilization.”

Joined with you in Spirit,

Nayaswami Devi

Continue reading, *One God, One World* or share your thoughts with us here, https://www.ananda.org/jyotish-and-devi/one-god-one-world-yogananda/

Subscribe via email on our website: https://www.ananda.org/jyotish-and-devi/blog/

Listen to this week’s extra commentary in the blog's podcast: https://www.ananda.org/video/series/a-touch-of-light-podcast/

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

✋ Keep your eye on Finding God, Sharing God this coming year.

There is a work in progress to share a year-long exploration of the Ananda Sunday Service through Affirmation and Rays.

With permission from Crystal Clarity Publishers, we will be visiting Swami Kriyananda’s books Affirmations For Self-Healing and Rays of the One Light and his music from each Sunday. And of course there will be the talk. 🤞

To us, peace and harmony starts with finding God within ourselves. Here is where we share what worked great for us! 🙏

Some years ago, Jyotish and I were blessed to visit the Italian town of San Giovanni Rotondo, where the great saint Padre Pio had lived. While there, we met a beautiful soul—an elderly widow—who had been one of Padre Pio’s “children,” or, in our terms, his disciples. She told us that once Padre Pio, who regularly received thousands of requests, gathered his children together and said, “I’m carrying as much of a load as I can right now. Would any of you be willing to volunteer to share some of this burden? It may mean that you catch a cold or the flu, but you can join me in helping others.” A great wave of hands immediately went up.

Now is the time for all of us to raise our hands—to help spread Yogananda’s message of world unity and brotherhood. This can be done inwardly, in the solitude of prayer, or outwardly, as we offer love and support to everyone we meet. But we should act consciously, as Master’s “children,” carrying forward his mission of unity.

Some of you may know that in 2014 Jyotish and I received, on behalf of Ananda, the Global Peace Ambassador Award in the chapel at the United Nations. During the ceremony, we read Master’s “Prayer for a United World.” As you can imagine, it was one of the most memorable moments of our lives.

I’ll end by quoting a portion of that prayer:

“Let us pray in our hearts for a League of Souls and a United World. Though we may seem divided by race, creed, color, class, and political prejudices, still, as children of the one God, we are able in our souls to feel brotherhood and world unity. May we work for the creation of a United World in which every nation will be a useful part, guided by God through man’s enlightened conscience.

“In our hearts we can all learn to be free from hate and selfishness. Let us pray for harmony among nations, that they march hand in hand through the gate of a fair new civilization.”

Joined with you in Spirit,

Nayaswami Devi

Continue reading, *One God, One World* or share your thoughts with us here, https://www.ananda.org/jyotish-and-devi/one-god-one-world-yogananda/

Subscribe via email on our website: https://www.ananda.org/jyotish-and-devi/blog/

Listen to this week’s extra commentary in the blog's podcast: https://www.ananda.org/video/series/a-touch-of-light-podcast/

12/04/2025