Dear Swamiji, Happy 100th birthday today, May 19, 2026! On the one hand, it’s hard to believe you were born a century ago and spent your entire life, after meeting our great guru Paramahansa Yogananda...
“Would that it were so simple…” is a line from a Coen Brothers movie that’s always stuck with me. In the scene, a refined British actor is trying to teach a rather...
“Spirit and Nature dancing together, Victory to Spirit and victory to Nature, Radhe, Radhe, Radhe Govinda jai Radhe, Radhe, Radhe Govinda jai” I can think of no better place (outside the spine)...
Does it bother you that some folks appear to get away with appallingly selfish behavior, as if they’ve been issued a free pass? You know the ones, the egocentric and greedy who always seem to get what...
This week we honor Swami’s Moksha Day—the sacred anniversary when, thirteen years ago on April 21, he consciously left the body and attained spiritual freedom. Next month we celebrate his birthday...
The arrival of spring is accompanied by many glories of the natural world, and the subtle supernatural world that lies just behind it. Everything in creation is Consciousness. Through the...
In the 4th century AD, deep in the Egyptian desert, travel-weary clergymen ended a long and difficult search for the venerable desert saint, Anthony the Great. Back in Alexandria, a great religious...
Lent is upon us, Good Friday ahead. You needn’t be a Christian to grasp the season’smeaning. Allegorically, it’s universal. We are called to prepare, that Easter may dawnagain. Easter recounts the...
On March 7th, 1952, Paramahansa Yogananda did not die a normal mortal death. He entered the state of mahasamadhi — the conscious, final exit from the body by a God-realized master. And although...
