Ananda's Blog

The Power of Truthfulness

It’s said that we live in an unfortunate season of time; a time when simple living and elevated thinking give way to complicated...

Chaos and Crisis in Washington DC

Lord Krishna explains in the sacred text, Bhagavad-Gita, “Whatever action a great man performs, others will follow. And whatever...

Memories & spiritual Practice

It’s time to say goodbye and good riddance to 2020. I hope you’ve found some silver linings in a year that’s offered so little and taken...

Change

We come to the end of a long and painful year Where death and illness showed their suffering face Now hope and ending finally appear...

3 Ways to be Thankful

In this week of Thanksgiving how do we best fill up on thankfulness and let that fullness spill out into our lives? Also, how can we...

Red Carpet

My front doorsteps are strewn with red autumn leaves. I feel like a celebrity leaving the house and stepping onto a red carpet. Nature is...

The Yoga of Voting

Next Tuesday is Election Day here in the United States. And, by virtue of one form of disillusionment or another, a lot of people who...

Re-Loving the Gita

The Gita wasn’t the first book that connected me to Krishna, yet it remains the most impactful reading experience of my life. I remember...

The Privilege to Serve

Last night the temperatures took a dive, so we moved Tulsi Devi into her winter home - a clean and warm greenhouse. Tulsi devi is a...

Contentment

'Contentment' is one of the niyamas, the set of five personal observances that Patanjali lists in the second chapter of his Yoga-sutras....