What is Ananda?

Ananda is a worldwide, nondenominational, nonprofit, center for meditation, spiritual growth, and community based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Ananda’s primary goal is to help people achieve Self-realization.

As Yogananda said:“Self-realization means realizing your true Self as the great ocean of Spirit, by breaking the delusion that you are this little ego, this little human body and personality. . .”

Yogananda’s teachings are delightfully free of dogma. He delivered techniques and lessons that help us uplift our coinsciousness, ending ego-bound tendencies. He encouraged spiritual seekers to test the ideas he shares in the laboratory of their own lives, helping us discover that God is “nearer than the near; dearer than the dear”– knowable as the closest friend.

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