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Sunday Satsangs
in the Ananda Assisi Temple of Light
Every Sunday morning at 11:30, the Ananda community and our guests gather in the Temple of Light to celebrate the presence of God within us. The traditional satsang includes music, chanting, meditation, affirmation, and a talk by one of the Ananda Lightbearers, followed by the Festival of Light.
Usually in Italian, the talk is sometimes in English, with Italian translation. A 30-40 minute segment of each satsang is available. The most current satsang is listed here first, with previous ones also available for your inspiration.
Click here to see all the available videos from Ananda Europa.
The Redeeming Light
27 June 2010, Jayadev
Video (in Italian, 23:31 min.)
“Where My light is,” God once told a saint whom the divine light had healed, “no darkness can dwell.” The divine light—pure, calm, liberating—is the only final cure for every kind of delusion: ill health, emotional grief, and spiritual ignorance. Seek it daily in the silence, in deep meditation.
The Eternal Now
Nayaswami Kriyananda, 20 June 2010
Video (in Italian, 34:52 min.)
MP3 (audio, in Italian, 43 MB)
“When will I find God?” Many devotees have asked this question. Because worldly goals require time, usually, for their fulfillment, we imagine time to be a factor on the spiritual path. And so it is, but only because we think it is! God is as much with us now as He will ever be. It is not He who needs to come to us: We need to come to Him! And that process of coming is a matter of transforming our self-perception.
How Devotees Rise
13 June 2010, Triveni
Video (in Italian, 16:35 min.)
Never allow a moment of inner joy, for instance, to be set aside for lesser “duties.” Divine attunement is our highest priority. As Lahiri Mahasaya, the guru of Yogananda’s guru, said, “To listen to the heart’s inner sound (AUM, which issues from the very center of our being) is man’s highest duty.”
The Inner Kingdom
30 May 2010, Uma Macfarlane
Video (in English with Italian translation, 37:05 min.)
Most people imagine that the “inner kingdom,” as Jesus described it, lacks the fascination they attribute to sense life: the bright lights, the diverse attractions, the joys and the laughter. Little do they realize what a vast universe exists in their own selves!
Activity vs. Inner Communion
16 May 2010, Claudio and Anjali Gregorelli
Video (in Italian, 30:54 min.)
Wrong attitude was the object of his criticism. What he was criticizing was forgetfulness of the true goal of right, spiritual action. Good deeds, outwardly, without inner communion with God, will result in good karma but will not bring final freedom from all karma.
Sunday Satsang with Nayaswami Kriyananda
9 May 2010
Video (in Italian, 42:02 min.)
The Secret of Right Action
2 May 2010, Narya Tosetto
Video (in Italian, 22:24 min.)
Jesus didn’t tell Martha: “Martha, you are doing too much.” He told her, rather, “You are letting your work affect your inner peace.” That was the contrast: not work vs. contemplation, but restless preoccupation vs. peaceful absorption under all circumstances.
Perfection Is Self-Transcendence
25 April 2010, Mayadevi Lauer
Video (in Italian, 24:06 min.)
Strive always to be impersonal, as though whatever happens to you were happening to someone else.
How High Should We Aspire?
18 April 2010, Shivani Lucki
Video (in Italian, 37:03 min.)
Don’t be satisfied with a goodness born merely of ego-definitions. The highest virtue is to transcend the very thought of personal virtue in the realization of God alone as the Doer. Before this realization, even the thought, “I am kind,” or, “I am truthful,” is self-limiting.
To Each According to His Faith
11 April 2010, Anand Stickney
Video (in English with Italian translation, 35:50 min.)
Our faith is the attractive power of our underlying state of consciousness.
Goodness attracts goodness; it takes goodness even to see goodness.
Evil attracts evil, and it takes evil even to see evil—
that is, to take special note of its existence.
Resurrection for Every Soul
4 April 2010 (Easter), Narya Tosetto
Video (in Italian, 22:21 min.)
Resurrection, Yogananda explained, means transformation, ultimately, from any lower state of being to a higher one. Worldly consciousness cannot imagine such transformation except in terms of, perhaps, an improvement of the present mess of potage with the addition of a new flavoring. Divine consciousness, however, is capable of taking the base metal of worldliness and transforming it into the spiritual gold of divine wisdom and love.
Who Is This Son of Man?
28 March 2010 (Palm Sunday), Shivani Lucki
Video (in Italian, 33:08 min.)
Was Jesus a human being, merely? Those who, on Palm Sunday, called him king little realized the actual nature of his kingdom. He was far more than what they imagined. Yes, of course he ate, drank, walked, slept, and talked like others. His consciousness, however, was centered in infinity.
We Are Children of the Light
21 March 2010, Jayadev
Video (in Italian, 24:55 min.)
The great masters, including Jesus Christ, have always emphasized the divine potential of mankind. To encourage us, they address us as children of light, not of darkness.
Reason vs. Intuition
14 March 2010, Narya Tosetto
Video (in Italian, 26:50 min.)
Jesus, when addressing his critics, appealed to reason and common sense. In his training of the disciples, however, he, like all great masters, encouraged in them the development of a higher faculty: soul-intuition. For it is only by intuition that spiritual perceptions are achieved.
The Law Is Perfected in Love
14 February 2010 (Saint Valentine's Day), Helmut Lauer
Video (in Italian, 26:46 min.)
While following the law, we should strive always to trace it back to its origins in the vision of God. Therefore Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita urges the devotee not to be satisfied with spiritual precepts alone, but to go beyond them to the direct, inner experience of truth.
The Mystery of Avatara, or Divine Incarnation
24 January 2010, Uma Macfarlane
Video (in English with Italian translation, 23:55 min.)
The Bhagavad Gita in the fourth Chapter states, as we saw last week: O Bharata, whenever virtue declines and vice predominates, I incarnate on earth. Taking visible form, I come to destroy evil and re-establish virtue.
Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?
17 January 2010, Anand Stickney
Video (in English with Italian translation, 40:12 min.)
If there should rise suddenly within the skies
Sunburst of a thousand suns
Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of,
Then might be that Holy One’s
Majesty and radiance dreamed of!
–Arjuna, in the Bhagavad Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold
Did God Create the Universe—or Become It?
10 January 2010, Oliver Graf
Video (in Italian, 28:27 min.)
The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, contains a passage that explains the essential truth that creation is a process of becoming. The universe is not separate from God the Creator, but a part of Him even as our own dream-creations, during sleep, are figments of our consciousness.
At the Heart of Silence—the Eternal Word
3 January 2010, Narya Tosetto
Video (in Italian, 27:38 min.)
Divine vision beholds the oneness of cosmic vibration, of which all things, no matter how diverse, are manifestations. Cosmic Sound—the “Word” of God—and Cosmic Light: These are eternal. The world, as revealed to us by our senses, is illusory.
Living in the Presence of God
13 December 2009, Shivani Lucki
Video (in Italian, 32:37 min.)
If you would see God, watch for Him everywhere.
If you would hear His voice, listen for it in all sounds and also in their supporting silences.
If you would know God, seek His wisdom behind merely human knowledge.
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Ananda is located in the tranquil hills of Umbria, Italy on “Strada Statale 444” between Assisi and Gualdo Tadino. It is the largest retreat center in Europe for Yogananda’s teachings.
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