Ananda Sangha Books

The Book that Sparked a Spiritual Revolution !

Paramhansa Yogananda was the first yoga master of India whose mission was to live and teach in the West. In the 1920s, enthusiastic audiences filled the largest halls in America to hear him speak. His initial impact was truly impressive. But his lasting influence is greater still. This book, first published in 1946, helped launch, and continues to inspire, a spiritual revolution in the West.

Only rarely does a sage of Paramhansa Yogananda's stature write a firsthand account of his life experiences. Followers of many religious traditions have come to recognize Autobiography of a Yogi as a masterpiece of spiritual literature. Yet, for all its depth, it is full of gentle humor, lively stories, and practical common sense.

A Handbook on Discipleship is Step Three of the Ananda Course in Self-Realization, though it can also be studied independently of the Ananda Course. It includes lessons on discipleship and the Guru–Disciple relationship, the main theme of Paramhansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi. These lessons are universal to all spiritual paths and traditions.

How to Use Meditation for Inner Peace, Intuitive Guidance, and Greater Awareness Swami Kriyananda. We have all experienced our subconscious minds–in our sleep, dreams, and through our unconscious thoughts and emotions. And, of course, we're all intimately familiar with the normal conscious state of awareness from which we go about our daily lives. But there is a third, less well-known state of awareness: the superconscious. The hidden mechanism at work behind intuition, spiritual and physical healing, successful problem solving, and finding deep, lasting joy, superconscious awareness is the missed link to living richer, more meaningful lives. Though many of us have experienced fleeting moments of raised consciousness and enlightenment, few know how to purposely enter such an exalted state.

This is the first volume of the Ananda Course in Self-Realization. As the course foundation it includes clear, step-by-step instruction in the breath/mind connection, concentration, meditation, the Hong-Sau technique, and Yogananda’s Energisation Exercises.

A complete, practical training program in yoga, meditation, the fundamentals of the spiritual path, health and vitality, and affi rmations. This course offers techniques in the path of Kriya Yoga including:
• Yogananda’s Hong-Sau technique of concentration
• Simple “do-able” suggestions of how to sit comfortably for meditation
• How to still the restless mind

Have you wanted to learn to meditate, but just never got around to it? Or tried "sitting in the silence" only to find your mind wandering, or wanting to jump up after only a few minutes? Do you wish you had a guidebook that explained clearly in plain English what to do, step-by-step? If so, Meditation for Starters is just what you've been looking for. This little book with companion CD, provides everything you need to begin a meditation practice. It is filled with easy-to-follow instructions, beautiful guided visualizations, and answers to important questions on meditation such as:

• What meditation is (and isn't)
• How to relax your body and prepare yourself for going within
• Techniques for interiorizing and focusing the mind

This concise book brilliantly encapsulates the essential keys to meditation with seed thoughts for each day of the month. Each affirmation is presented in a straightforward manner that allows the reader to repeat and remember it before meditating. This potent guide to meditation will help readers tap the well-spring of joy and inner peace with them.

This little book can change your life. Open it to any page to unlock the hidden power within you.

In this collection of pithy and profound sayings, readers will find wise guidance and key insights to the practice of meditation, and secrets for bringing the peace of meditation into the trials and clamor of their daily life.

The Art and Science of Raja Yoga contains fourteen lessons in which the original yoga science emerges in all its glory — a proven system for realizing one’s spiritual destiny. This is the most comprehensive course on yoga and meditation available today, giving you a profound and intimate understanding of how to apply these age-old teachings, on a practical, as well as spiritual, day-to-day level in this modern age.

Over 450 pages of text and photos give you a complete and detailed presentation of hatha yoga (yoga postures), yoga philosophy, affirmations, meditation instruction, and breathing techniques.

Paramhansa Yogananda was one of the most significant spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. His Autobiography of a Yogi, published in 1946 and printed in more than 20 languages, has touched the hearts of millions and remains the best-selling spiritual autobiography of all time. Great teachers work through their students, and Yogananda was no exception. Kriyananda writes in the introduction to the present volume, "After I'd been with him a year and a half, he began urging me to write down the things he was saying during informal conversations." The Essence of Self-Realization, nearly 300 sayings rich with spiritual wisdom, is the fruit of that labor of love. 

The Art and Science of Raja Yoga contains fourteen lessons in which the original yoga science emerges in all its glory — a proven system for realizing one’s spiritual destiny. This is the most comprehensive course on yoga and meditation available today, giving you a profound and intimate understanding of how to apply these age-old teachings, on a practical, as well as spiritual, day-to-day level in this modern age.

This unique book teaches hatha yoga as it was originally intended: as a way to uplift your consciousness and aid your spiritual development. Kriyananda's inspiring affirmations and clearly written instructions show you how to attune yourself to the consciousness of each pose, so that each yoga posture becomes a doorway to life-affirming attitudes, clarity of understanding and an increasingly centered and uplifting awareness.

In this book, Nayaswami Gyandev McCord shares these spiritual teachings as originally taught by the great Yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda and Yogananda’s direct disciple (and Nayaswami Gyandev’s teacher), Swami Kriyananda. These teachings include: the mind-energy-body connection; the art of meditation; dozens of techniques for spiritualizing one’s Yoga postures practice; spiritual Yoga routines; affirmations and energy control suggestions for standing, seated, relaxation, and inverted postures; mastering pranayama (energy control), and breathing exercises for specific results (greater energy, calmness, concentration, etc.); and Yoga as a way of life.

Many of us spend more of our waking hours at work than at any other activity in our day. Frequently, however, we find ourselves feeling dissatisfied with our careers, yearning to improve this most important aspect of our lives.

Whether you are looking for a new job, want to improve your current situation, or simply want to clarify your career goals, 30-Day Essentials for Career will help. Special emphasis is given to assisting you to develop the attributes and mental skills necessary for breathing new life into your career, by showing you how to become a happier, more effective boss, manager, or employee.

The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda, Volume 4 
Paramhansa Yogananda

This is the fourth volume in The Wisdom of Yogananda series. The series features writings not available elsewhere. They capture the Master's expansive and compassionate wisdom, his sense of fun, and his practical spiritual guidance.

Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of the great spiritual master and world teacher, Paramhansa Yogananda (author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi), merges the Indian and Western “secret ingredients” for material success.

It can rightly be called as “A Lifetime of Experience in 26 Lessons“

“I have two purposes for writing these lessons. One is to help people who want to succeed materially without sacrificing their spiritual principles — indeed, for those who would like to know how to use spiritual principles as a means to achieve success! Anyone studying these lessons will find contained in them priceless advice for how to achieve true success in a new age way” – Swami Kriyananda

How to Attract What You Need When You Need It Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) Unlock the Hidden Secrets of True Abundance

This book can change your life by changing how you think and feel about money. Offering simple, powerful techniques for attracting material and spiritual success, Money Magnetism is a practical, easy-to-understand guide that will help you quickly realize results. With its fresh, new insights Money Magnetism goes far beyond the scope of other "money" books.

In this moving collection of pithy and profound sayings, you will find wise guidance to life’s well-worn paths, and warm comfort for its ups and downs.

Drawing on his bestselling book series, Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) offers sage words on virtually all aspects of the search for fulfillment: from success and prosperity to leadership and winning people to your ideas.

This lovely edition offers counsel and enlightenment on the spot, when you need it—no matter who you are or where you are in life. A veritable treasure trove of powerful affirmations, it is a volume to be dipped into and savored again and again.