Ananda Sangha

Ananda Sangha – “fellowship of divine joy”—is a worldwide group of individuals who share the search for higher consciousness and the ideal of service to others by following the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. These teachings emphasize “Self-realisation” as direct inner experience of God. Non-sectarian, they are based on’s timeless universal truths and offer practical solutions to the challenges of modern life.

Ananda was founded in the USA in 1968 to support people in search of spiritual growth. In countries on six continents, Ananda Sangha provides classes, events, satsangs, study materials, and other resources around the world, through a network of individual devotees, communities, teaching centres, and meditation groups.

The Ananda Joy Logo (seen above in the Ananda Sangha web logo), represents the soul’s aspiration upward toward God and outward to embrace all beings in its quest for enlightenment. The downward curve shows the corresponding descent of divine grace.

Ananda Sangha

Everyn is familiar with the basic truths of Paramhansa Yogananda’s teaching. Still, his message of Self-realisation and Kriya Yoga is a new expression of these truths. It is a spiritual revolution for just as in the West.

“There are so many receptive souls in”, Swami Kriyananda said, “that in time the work here will dwarf everything else Ananda is doing.”With a small international group of Ananda devotees, he moved to in 2003, his 78th year, that he might dedicate his remaining life to make his guru’s teachings better known in the land of his birth.

Soon after, Swami Kriyananda began a nightly TV show, A Way to Awakening (AASTHA), reaching millions in as well as many nearby southeastern Asian countries and the USA. Ananda Sangha Publications was set up to print and distribute many of Yogananda’s and Kriyananda’s writings and musical recordings.

Swami Kriyananda’s 1st publication in was a correspondence course, Success and Happiness Through Yoga Principles, on applying dharmic principles to’s rising economic opportunities. It is now also available for group study and corporate seminars, and in both print and audio format. In turn came several more books, including what is often considered his crowning achievement, The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita.

Having long encouraged Ananda communities to develop economic means of support in areas compatible with spiritual focus, Kriyananda inspired several such enterprises in. The first was a boutique, Kalyana Kalpataru—The Wishing Tree—in Gurgaon’s Metropolitan Mall, carrying spiritual books, music, gifts, and yoga and meditation aids.

What is Ananda?

A worldwide spiritual movement to help you find joy within yourself, inspired by Paramhansa Yogananda and founded by his disciple, Swami Kriyananda.Ananda Sangha – “fellowship of divine joy”—is a worldwide group of individuals who share the search for higher consciousness and the ideal of service to others by following the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. These teachings emphasize “Self-realisation” as direct inner experience of God. Non-sectarian, they are based on’s timeless universal truths and offer practical solutions to the challenges of modern life.