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Ananda Palo Alto is a spiritual community based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

Offering meditation classes for over 40 years, Ananda is one of the largest centers for meditation in the Bay Area.

12/04/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~
Whispers #57: Teach Me to Use Every Dig of Criticism to Bring Myself Near the Fountain of Goodness in Me

“Teach me to sport every scar of trials as a medal of Thy chastisement, dusky at first but now shining. Thy sacred hands were the giver, working through Thy ever‐just law. Let therefore every teardrop of sorrow caused by the actions of others wash away some hidden taint in my mind.

Let every stroke of the pickaxe of wounding experience dig deeper and deeper into the soil of my understanding. Let every hurtful strike of circumstance into the soil of my comfort bring me nearer to the bubbling well of Thy solace in my heart. Let every gash of others’ hatred bring forth from me a loving cry for Thy love. Let all my trials be antidotes for bitterness, to bring healing solace to my soul. Let others’ unkindness inspire me to be more beautifully kind. Let their darkness not blind me, too, but stimulate me to seek Thy light. Let their harsh words remind me to use sweet words always. And let every bruise from stones of evil that are hurled at me intensify my inner fortitude, that I bless all with my goodness.

Inspire me to be like a jasmine vine, which sheds flowers on those who administer axe‐blows to its roots. May I never fail to shower blossoms of help and forgiveness on all who try to cut me with their wickedness.”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

10/16/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~
Whispers #183: Cutting Through the Cocoon of Ignorance

“I have heard Thy voice, Divine Mother, saying: “You have long remained enclosed in the cocoon of wrong human habits. Come out! ere the silk‐man, Death, come to destroy you! Cut away the delusive, comfort‐inducing silken cords of past habits which hold you, falsely secure, in their chamber of death.

Come out! Cease being a blind human worm sleeping and dreaming human weakness. Come out of your ages‐old cocoon of delusion! Spread wings of eternal power and splendor, through spiritualizing your ambitions.

Come out! Be the butterfly of eternity! Let your wings display their innate divine beauty. Let them spread out over all space, entertained by and entertaining everything, everywhere.

On wings of beauty, fly through the skies of infinity, attracting all toward everything that is most beautiful. Sun‐and‐stardust, glimmering on your wings, banish gloom from every heart as you soar past on your joyous way to your home in Me, O butter fly of eternity! ”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

10/09/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~

Whispers #201: I Shall Ne’er Turn My Gaze Away from Thee. Make Me See That Health and Sickness Both Are Dreams

I take this sacred vow: Never will I lower my love’s gaze below the eyebrow‐horizon of my constant thoughts of Thee! Never will I turn my uplifted inner sight away from Thee! Never will I let my mind dwell on anything that reminds me not of Thee! I will disdain the nightmare of ignorant behavior. I will court all dreams of noble achievement: those of love, kindness, and understanding, for they are Thy dreams.

Though I dream many dreams, wakefully I will ever think of Thee. In the sacred fire of constant remembrance, kept ever alight on my soul’s altar, I will ever behold Thy presence with the watchful eyes of devotional love.

Thy grace has shown me that the dualities of health and sickness, life and death, joy and sorrow are but passing fantasies. I am finished with those eternally self‐canceling delusions! I am persuaded at last that there is but one abiding reality: Thy eternal, ever‐conscious, ever‐new, ever‐thrilling, infinite Bliss.”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

10/02/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~

Whispers #66: Burn Thou My Frailties in the Furnace of Trials

“In the furnace of trials the ore of my life is being purified. The fire of experience melts away all my delusion’s dross. O Divine Artisan, burn away all my impurities; bring out in me the steel of endurance, and hone it to a fine edge by deep calmness. Forge in me, from the tempered steel of mental balance, sharp swords of self‐control and firm tenacity. With the weapon of inner equilibrium, teach me to fight every enemy of distraction.”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

09/18/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~

Whispers #153. Teach Me, That My Senses May Contact Nothing But the Good

“Bless me, that I may behold nothing but that which is good. Teach me, that I may touch only purity. Train me, that I may listen to Thy voice alone in all good speech, and in the beauty of all lovely melodies. Direct me to breathe only the perfume of pure scents from the flowers of Spirit. Invite me to indulge only in the wholesome taste of soul‐nourishing food. Teach me to absorb only that which reminds me of Thee.”
From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

08/28/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~

Whispers #53: Save Me from Shipwreck on the Ocean of My Dreams

“I was shipwrecked on the storm‐tossed ocean of mere dreams. My vessel of happiness was shattered utterly. Struggling, I tried to swim through those tossing waves of sadness and suffering. Then, suddenly, a little raft of hope, wafted to me by Thy winds of mercy, came floating to me! I grasped it—and held on! Little by little, floating thereon, I touched at last upon the golden isle of peaceful silence. Nymphs of Thy blessings met me and took me to Thy safe presence of eternal reassurance, beyond all waves of false, rising hopes and crashing disappointments.”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

08/21/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~

Whispers #217: A Prayer

“In disease or in health, in success or in failure, in poverty or in prosperity, in joy or in sorrow, in disaster or in safety, in life or in death, I stand immutably, unalterably, unshakably loyal, devoted, and firmly loving Thee, my Heavenly Father, forever, forever, and forever!”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

07/24/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~

Whispers #43: Make Me a Lion of Thy All-Conquering Wisdom

“I, a lion‐cub of the Divine Mother, found myself thrown into life among the sheep of human frailties: of fear, failure, and disease. Living long among them, I learned to bleat with weakness, forgetting my lion‐nature and its roars, which could frighten away all petty, pestering sorrows.

O Lion of Realization, Thou didst drag me away from those bleating sheep to the mirror‐smooth waters of meditation. There didst Thou cry, “Gaze!” But I held my eyes tightly shut, bleating with fear. Thy roar of wisdom then reverberated through my body. Thou madest me, by hard shaking and spiritual urging, open my eyes. And there, lo! in the crystal pool of my inner peace, I saw my features to be even as Thine own!

Now I know myself as the Lion of cosmic power. I will bleat no more with fear, weakness, and suffering, for I roar, now, with vibrant, almighty power! I bound about through the forest of all experiences, seizing little creatures of vexing worries, timid fears, and wild hyenas of disbelief, devouring them ruthlessly.

O Lion of Immortality, roar through me Thine all‐conquering power of wisdom!”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

07/03/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~
Whispers #149: Demand to Set Fire to the Forest of Darkness

“I built a fire of devotion in the dark forest of delusion. Alas! the fire only smoldered. Then Thou didst come and set fire to a few of my frailties. That fire quickly spread on, consuming the bushes of my prickly desires, my tall, towering vanities, and the thick underbrush of my arrogance. The whole forest of my darkness is blazing, and I behold only Thy light shining everywhere. I thank Thee, Father, for Thy help. Help me thus always. Let me open a path of light for all to follow!”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

06/12/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~
Whispers #46. Let Me Feel That Thou and I Art One

“When the sparks of cosmic creation flew from under Thy crucible of love, I danced with all the lights that heralded the coming of a myriad worlds. I am a little spark of Thy joyous, cosmic fire. O Thou sun of life! as Thy nectar poured into the little cups of human minds filled with molten liquid of vital sparks, they thought to contain Thy golden infinity in the smallness of their human feelings.

In each fragile, undulating mirror of human flesh I see reflected Thy restless dance of omnipresent power. In the lambent waters of life I behold Thy ever‐steady, almighty life.

Teach me, Christlike, by the power of concentration to still the restless storms of desire raging on the lake of my mind. Stilling those waters, I lovingly behold Thy unruffled face of cosmic stillness. Cause the little wave of my life to subside, that Thy consciousness in me spread out to become Thine own vastness.

Let me feel my heart throbbing in Thy breast, my feet moving with Thy energy, Thy breath breathing through mine, Thy energy actively moving my arms, Thy thoughts weaving all the thoughts in my brain. When I cry, Thy soft sigh within me wakens me to Thy joy. In Thy playfulness, little bubble‐visions of Thy creation oat dancingly in the chamber of my dreams, which manifest in my sleep of delusion.

Thy meteoric will courses through the skies of my own will power. Make me feel that it is Thou who art I. Oh make me Thyself, that I behold my little bubble of self ever floating in Thee!”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

05/08/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~
Whispers #44: I Am Thy Bird of Paradise, Wishing to Fly in Thy Astral Airplane

“Thy astral airplane of parting came to take my soul away from this earth. I wondered through what strange skies I would soar now, and to what lands I would travel.

I asked the mystic Pilot, Cosmic Law, whither I was to go. That Silent One answered soundlessly:

“I am the Pilot of Life, mistakenly called Terrible Death by ignorant earth‐folk. I am thy brother, uplifter, redeemer, friend— unloader of every gross burden of bodily troubles. I have come to fetch thee away from thy valley of broken dreams to the highlands of light, where poisonous vapors of sorrow never rise.

“I have broken mercifully thy cage of flesh‐attachment that thy soul‐bird may escape. I have broken thy chains of disease and fear. Thy long encasement behind bars of bones accustomed thee to thy little cage, making thee cling to it fearfully even when I opened its door. Yet, in thy heart, thou didst want thy freedom always. Why, now, art thou fear-led, having won thy long‐craved freedom?

“O bird of paradise! hop into My plane of omnipresence! Fold now thy fluttering wings and ride with Me peacefully, anywhere, everywhere in thine ethereal home!”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

04/24/2024

~ WISDOM WEDNESDAY ~
Whispers #194: I Will Be Thine Always

“I may go far, farther than the farthest star, but I will be Thine always! Devotees may come, devotees may go, but I will be Thine always.

I may bound over billows of many lives under sad, dark skies of loneliness, but I will be Thine always.

The whole world may ignore Thee, engrossed as it is in Thy gifts of money, power, and pleasure—mere playthings!—but I will be Thine always. Take everything from me if Thou willst, but, Lord, I will be Thine always.

Death, disease, and every imaginable trial may riddle and rend me, yet, while the embers of memory still flicker, look into my dying eyes: They will mutely say, “I will be Thine always.”

My voice may grow feeble, fail, and forsake me, and yet, with bursting heart and with the silent voice of my soul, I will ever whisper to Thee, “My Lord, I am Thine always!”

From "Whispers from Eternity," by Paramhansa Yogananda, published by Crystal Clarity: http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BWFE

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2171 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA
94306

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 5pm
	7pm - 9pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
	7pm - 9pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
	5:30pm - 9pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	9:30am - 2pm
Sunday	9am - 12:30pm

Telephone

+16503233363

Website

http://www.anandapaloalto.org/

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