Channel of Divine Love — Ananda

Nayaswami Anandi

For 50 years, Nayaswami Anandi was a deeply devoted disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda and a scholar of his beloved disciple, Swami Kriyananda. Anandi was a lovely channel of divine like to everybody she met. Her life’s quest was to reciprocate and categorical the pure love she acquired in such abundance from Sri Yogananda and from Swamiji.

Anandi left her physique on January 30, 2022. The bodily trigger was angiosarcoma, a uncommon and aggressive most cancers. For the earlier forty-one years, she and I shared a joyful soul marriage and lifetime of service, usually centered on lecturing and writing. On the time of her passing, I didn’t keep in mind that she had left behind an unfinished manuscript describing her vibrant internal life with Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda. Her passing introduced so many adjustments to my life that I had forgotten its existence.

4 months after her passing, I had a dream of a ebook hovering above my brow, absorbing my consideration. Exuding an exquisite presence, the ebook rotated a number of occasions, displaying alternately its back and front cowl. Feeling that I used to be to be concerned with the ebook by some means, I seemed intently for the title, however to no avail.

Upon awakening, I instantly sensed somebody strolling away from my bed room, and felt an exhilarating, blissful voice say, “Bye.” The voice was Nayaswami Anandi’s; the dream and the blissful messenger had been telling me that Anandi needed this ebook made obtainable to others. Inside per week I found her manuscript, which had no title, within the hatch of our espresso desk.

Swami Kriyananda & Paramhansa Yogananda

Anandi’s focus in life was perfecting her discipleship to Grasp. As soon as she had launched into the non secular path, she sought to make each second certainly one of service to her guru and to Swamiji. In 1993, as Anandi described within the notes she left within the hatch, she had a dream that highlighted the selection each severe disciple should make:

I stepped out of a automobile and instantly noticed Swamiji, and stated hiya. Then I walked on however felt empty inside. I went again and replayed the dream. This time, as I acquired out of the automobile, I supplied to cook dinner for Swamiji. Then we started cooking collectively on the sidewalk.

Whereas serving to Swamiji, I felt inside myself a joyous, intimate love — ‌a love we need to really feel on a regular basis.

I am simply right here. Individuals make of me what they are going to.-Swami Kriyananda

The vital takeaway from the dream, Anandi goes on to elucidate, is one thing Swamiji as soon as remarked: “I’m simply right here. Individuals make of me what they are going to. Some folks draw very shut, others maintain their distance inwardly, maybe ready to be invited.”

Anandi continues, “Some folks say, ‘I’m prepared to do no matter’s wanted!’ With these, Swami works intently. The extra we’re prepared to offer, the nearer drawn in we’re.”

As soon as I felt Swami’s power extra strongly, bliss, love, and stillness started flowing to me — ‌all the time flowing. Then I started praying to his power and acquired a stronger response; and after I prayed to you [Master] — ‌although I had by no means considered your power as being separate — ‌praying to you acted as a password that allowed me to enter into your stream. I felt the veil lifting between you and me and between Swami and me.

In her final correspondence with Swami Kriyananda, Anandi describes how his priceless present of divine love thrills and transforms us:

Dearest Swamiji,

I write this message immediately, however the actual message is written in my coronary heart and thoughts each day as I consider you.

Daily, I’m touched by awe, reverence, gratitude, and love for who you might be, for what you give to the world, and for what you give to every of us.

Your instance of true, egoless discipleship and dedication to serving Grasp is a priceless present that I draw from each day. The teachings expressed by means of your writings and talks more and more fill me with surprise for his or her readability and heart-touching depth.

However what’s most valuable to me is your superb love — ‌a unending lesson in itself. Love that’s so pure, humble, and crammed with pleasure, humor, and understanding. Every of us feels uniquely liked by you.

Swamiji, the final phrases you stated to me had been, “Thanks on your love by means of all these years.” Thank you for bringing me again all the time to like.

Could I sometime fulfill your priceless items by giving again to the world what you will have given to me.

At one other time, Anandi wrote these phrases to Yogananda:

Ideas of you fill my coronary heart immediately. Two or three weeks in the past I felt you wanting thoughtfully at me and inwardly I heard you say, “The quirks have disappeared.” I feel so too. When a ship is taken into pure water the barnacles drop off. Equally, when God permits a devotee to reside within the pure non secular water that surrounds a guru, faults disappear with out effort.

I’ve just one job. To maintain my consciousness with You, to develop in love and pleasure and attunement. To maintain my eye on the ball, within the current. To attempt to be related to You in love and pleasure, and to share that by means of service at Ananda.

The stream of our power have to be towards the non secular eye — ‌on a regular basis.” This precept Anandi sought all the time to observe. When she met with and endorsed others, inwardly she would sense the power at her non secular eye and backbone, then ship Grasp’s therapeutic power to whoever was in entrance of her. Many friends at Ananda Village have associated that they felt Anandi really noticed them.

She liked serving to others progress on the non secular path and was fairly forthcoming about her personal miscues when these might provide readability and hope to others. Anandi by no means spoke, nonetheless, of her most sacred experiences. Skilled in Divine Love shares many of those, valuable experiences she has let me know she needs to be shared. In deciding what to incorporate, I’ve chosen these elements of Anandi’s private correspondence with Paramhansa Yogananda which might be most instructive and deeply inspiring.

Half One in every of this ebook incorporates Anandi’s tales of Swami Kriyananda, particularly of how he helped her good her divine love and attunement. Half Two options excerpts from her private correspondence with Grasp. Anandi wrote Yogananda annually on his birthday (January 5) and through her yearly seclusion. These excerpts seize the intimate dialogue that develops between devoted disciple and guru — ‌even when the guru is now not within the bodily physique.

Half Three contains “What Stays, What Stays,” Nayaswami Jyotish’s weblog about Anandi’s everlasting qualities, and “Increasing Love” – my account of Anandi’s exceptional passage to increased realms, and the way she continues to go to and bless devotees on earth.

Skilled in Divine Love is Anandi’s present to the Divine in all of us — that we immerse ourselves utterly in God’s good love and bliss.

Boundless Blessings,
Nayaswami Bharat