Ananda India

The Culmination of a Life’s Work

Success and Joy

Now, living in Gurgaon, near Delhi, over the age of 80, Swami Kriyananda works harder than ever, to establish his guru’s work in India. Recently he completed The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita, a book based on Yogananda’s explanation of the Bhagavad Gita, as well as Revelations of Christ, which contains Yogananda’s explanations of Christ’s teachings.

In India, Swami Kriyananda has made a tremendous impact. Within the first year of his arrival, his television show “The Way of Awakening” was being broadcast to an audience of millions. Now frequently when he goes out, strangers thank him for his program. More recently, his articles have also regularly appeared in the India Times, the largest English newspaper in India.

Kriyananda’s talks regularly fill halls to overflowing – reminiscent of Yogananda’s first years in America! A talk he gave at Siri Fort in India drew 2,000 people.

Visitors also describe his spiritual state as possessing a profound depth and magnetism. God’s joy seems to overflow from within him, touching all he meets.

All of this – in fact, everything he has ever achieved – he lays at the feet of his guru, Yogananda.

Final Chapter

Yogananda once told Swami Kriyananda, “God won’t come to you until the end of life. Death itself will be the final sacrifice you’ll have to make.”

Now, 60 years later, he is working harder than ever to help others seek God. In 2006, 2007, and 2008, he traveled to Italy and America during the spring and summer, launching new books and giving talks.

In 2006, because of his service to the spiritual future of humanity, Kriyananda was nominated to membership of the prestigious Club of Budapest, joining such world-renowned figures as the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Jane Goodall, among others.

In 2007, during a visit to Rome, he was honored with the Julius Caesar Medal. Equivalent to the “keys to the city of Rome,” it represents the highest award given to heads of State.

As Kriyananda himself has said:

Acting as a channel for his guru (in turn a perfect channel of God), he has inspired many souls, and will continue to inspire them far into the future.