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Jivan Mukta

The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita

A Way to Awakening

Swami Kriyananda — a Disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda

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Paramhansa Yogananda

Swami Kriyananda

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Jivan Mukta is a dedicated Kundalini Yogi, international teacher and a sensitive healer born in Chile in 1977. He has been a yogi for nearly 20 years and out of this thorough experience he created and currently directs the Meditative Healing Program™ since 2011. Jivan Mukta has over 15 years of healing practice and almost 10 years teaching this program. He is also a lead teacher trainer and mentor with the experience of training hundreds of Kundalini Yoga instructors in many countries and cities. He has degrees in Political Science and History and a Doctorate in Study of Religions from the University of Helsinki. He has studied, practiced and given consultations of Spiritual Astrology and Numerology for years. He has also developed the Total Man Training™ for empowering spiritual men and consciousness in these unique gatherings. Since 2019 he lives in Gran Canaria with his family. He is the Director of Yoga Lafontaine.

<p>Jivan Mukta is a dedicated Kundalini Yogi, international teacher and a sensitive healer born in Chile in 1977. He has been a yogi for nearly 20 years and out of this thorough experience he created and currently directs the Meditative Healing Program™ since 2011. Jivan Mukta has over 15 years of healing practice and almost 10 years teaching this program. He is also a lead teacher trainer and mentor with the experience of training hundreds of Kundalini Yoga instructors in many countries and cities. He has degrees in Political Science and History and a Doctorate in <em>Study of Religions</em> from the University of Helsinki. He has studied, practiced and given consultations of Spiritual Astrology and Numerology for years. He has also developed the Total Man Training™ for empowering spiritual men and consciousness in these unique gatherings. Since 2019 he lives in Gran Canaria with his family. He is the Director of Yoga Lafontaine.</p>

A Talk with Jivan Mukta. The role of Experience.The Future of Kundalini Yoga 

Swami Kriyananda reads and comments on his book "Conversations with Yogananda." TV series "A Way to Awakening" recorded in India. In 1948 at the age of twenty-two, Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) became a disciple of the Indian yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda. At Yogananda’s request, Swami Kriyananda devoted his life to lecturing and writing, helping others to experience the living presence of God within. He taught on four continents in seven languages over the course of 65 years. His talks, his music, and his many books have touched the lives of millions. An advocate of simple living and high thinking, his more than 150 books emphasize the need to live wisely by one’s own experience of life, and not by abstract theories or dogmas. A composer since 1964, Walters has written over 300 musical works. His music is inspiriing, soothing, and uplifting. Swami Kriyananda took the ancient teachings of Raja Yoga and made them practical and immediately useful for people in every walk of life. His books and teachings on spiritualizing nearly every field of human endeavor include business life, leadership, education, the arts, community, and science. He wrote extensive commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita, both based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. He is known as the “father of the intentional communities movement,” which began in the United States in the late 1960s. It was at a garden party on July 31, 1949 that Yogananda gave a talk quoted above that changed the course of Swami Kriyananda’s life. “Moved to his core” by the tremendous energy with which Yogananda made his pronouncement, Kriyananda later wrote: “Deeply, I vowed that day to do my utmost to make his words a reality.” The opportunity to do so came in 1967. He founded the first of what are now 10 Ananda communities worldwide in Nevada City, California. With the help of a few friends and many miracles, Swami Kriyananda was able to purchase a small piece of land in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City, California. Thus was started a spiritual community, which is now known as Ananda Village. More than 200 people live in this intentional spiritual community dedicated to Yogananda’s ideals. Other Ananda communities have developed over the years to include Ananda Palo Alto, Ananda Sacramento, Ananda Portland, Ananda Seattle, Ananda Los Angeles, Ananda Laurelwood (also a college), Ananda Assisi in Italy, and Ananda India near Delhi and Pune. Each community has a spiritual focus (a teaching center and temple) and a community (homes where members live). More than 1,000 people live in these intentional spiritual communities. Swami Kriyananda’s example of inspired leadership was the reason for Ananda’s success. He uplifted and encouraged people through personal example, spiritual counseling, writing, lecturing, music, and prayer. He trained the current Ananda leaders in much the same way: free from egoic motivation, always placing the spiritual needs of others foremost in all decisions. He was a patient and sensitive teacher, allowing people to learn by experience, and never placing institutional needs ahead of the needs of an individual. “People are more important than things” is one of the foremost guiding principles of Ananda. And “Where there is adherence to dharma [right action], there is victory,” is another.

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