The Pilgrims tell their stories Community Pilgrimage to India – Part 1: Puri In February 2024, a rare event took place: a pilgrimage (almost) exclusively for community members of Ananda Assisi in Italy: 40 participants made their way to New Delhi in India and from there to four different pilgrimage sites: Puri, Calcutta, Varanasi and Babaji’s Cave. In a four-part … Read More

Hello, dear friends! What a month its has been! Our pilgrimage proved to be a time of both and adventure and deep blessing. Our journey started in Puri, a wonderful city on the coast. Our days were blissfully spent doing yoga and taking long walks on the beach.  We meditated at length at our beloved Sri Yukteswar’s Karar Ashram, where … Read More

Dear Friends, From Ananda Shanti we went to a small town called Guardabosone, which is the home of Ananda Giri. The leaders are Janaka and Bharati. Janaka was born and grew up in Guardabosone, and most of his family still lives in the town. Over the past years they have purchased several buildings and beautifully renovated them to provide the … Read More

On October 4, a small group of our community residents traveled to Hannover to serve in an event called Yoganandafest, organized by Ananda Germany. The venue was a huge complex in the countryside with various buildings — a true spiritual marketplace, largely inspired by Swami Sivananda. We had our own designated hall, which was soon transformed into a Temple dedicated to the masters of Kriya Yoga and Self-realization. With typical German … Read More

Dear Friends, We left for Rome on September 25. The traveling party for this journey is Asha, Dambara, and Atul Wadhwa. Asha for most of the talking. Dambara for the music. Atul for videography and helping Ishani with social media.  Ishani isn’t traveling with us, but as Keeper of the Instagram Account and now Facebook, and Youtube as well, she … Read More

On the weekend of September 15, more than forty Ananda Sangha members gathered from Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to practice Kriya Yoga together and draw inspiration from Jyotish and Devi, Ananda’s spiritual directors worldwide, and from Anand and Kirtani, our European directors. We met in the Dutch province of Limburg – a strategic geopolitical … Read More

There are times when things appear complicated and impossible, but if you feel a strong calmness in your heart, you know that, with the help of the Guru and by the grace of the Divine Mother, even seemingly impossible things will come to fruition. It had been months since Jacopo, Valentina, Cristina, Gandi and I had been trying to set … Read More

Darmstadt, our next stop, was the birthplace of Heinrich Hoffman, whose “Christ and the rich young ruler” was the portrait of Jesus that Yogananda singled out as the most suitable for altars dedicated to the line of Kriya masters. We arrived there on Friday afternoon after a seven-hour ride. Our hotel was comfortable and, fortunately, there was some time to … Read More