As we grow in yoga, we find we want to serve. The love and light of Spirit within us naturally seeks to help others. Our developing attunement with soul and Spirit reveals how we can best express. Explore ways in which you can contribute to a better, happier world through your loving service.

Joy is the essence of awakening to your spiritual nature. It comes through the practice all yoga paths, growing through stages of bliss, ecstasy and arriving at ananda, ever-new joy. It transforms and empowers, as well as thrills and delights. Discover how you can cultivate joy through yoga. You can live in ever-new, never-boring, progressive joy.

Spirit, in the yogic view, expresses as love, light and bliss. You can sense these attributes and assimilate them into your being as you grow in spiritual awareness. Explore yoga practices which open you to higher awareness. Enjoy passages from great scriptures including the Bible, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. You can live in the love, light and bliss of Spirit.

The Infinite Spirit lives and expresses in each of us as the soul. It sustains our heartbeat, breath and consciousness. Soul contacts improve our life and reinforce our progress. Ultimately, we center and live from our true self. Discover the characteristics of soul awareness. You can live in ongoing states of happiness, harmony, peace and bliss.

In the view of yoga, it is the eternal soul which expresses as light and consciousness through our thoughts, feelings and physical body. The confusion and delusion of maya, however, often keep us unaware of the soul. Yogis seek to discover the reality beyond maya and have developed many wonderful practices to contact soul and Spirit. Your life can be enriched and fulfilled by knowing and abiding in the immortal, blissful true self.

Yogis have found that a focus on goodness is the secret to a fulfilling life. Daily we have the choice to seek pleasure or goodness. Swami Chidbhavananda in his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita writes that the choice of goodness is a turning point on the spiritual path and a prerequisite for enlightenment. Explore how to become more fulfilled through a life focused on goodness. It not only advances spiritual growth but also leads to increased happiness.

Yogis and spiritual people around the world seek to become awake to the Divine. They endeavor to live in a state of grace no matter what is going on in the world. Their hearts are flooded with love, the essence of the Infinite Spirit. It helps them to choose to do the right thing and to build community wherever they are. Ups and downs come into every life and often bring crisis. You have the choice to live in crisis or in a state of grace and love.

Yogis describe life as a lila, a divine play. Practicing the Stage Light technique as described in the Panchadasi helps us become aware that the light of the soul is always shining on our lives. This develops into the realization that life is a divine play and we are individual lights interplaying with the Infinite Light. We behold the material world as a manifestation of Spirit. Living with an awareness of the soul and its gifts of light and consciousness can bring great joy, bliss and love into your life.

In this heartfelt introduction to Yoga World, Ramakrishna Ananda shares how authentic yoga harmonizes body, mind, and spirit, leading one from stress into peace, joy, and levels of higher awareness. Drawing from his own journey and the wisdom of a number of prominent yogis, you are invited to explore Yoga World and discover yoga’s power to reveal the true self.