Sri Ramakrishna taught that regarding God as Divine Mother is a great yoga practice. As a human mother’s love is unconditional, so is God’s love for you. Divine Mother will clean you up, teach you, guide you and bring you home.

Sri Ramakrishna advised: “It is necessary to obtain joy.” Ramakrishna Ananda shares several passages from the Bible and the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna on what spiritual joy is like. We also practice a joy attunement.

Ramakrishna Ananda explains the yoga perspective on enriching your life, blessing your family, and more from the book, “On Tyranny.” Watch the final 10 lessons now!

Ramakrishna Ananda explains how to help worldwide love and peace be a fact from the yoga perspective of Timothy Snyder’s book, “On Tyranny.” Watch the first 10 lessons now!

One of the keys to making progress on the yoga path is to chant God’s name and glories while allowing Spirit to move in your life. If you chant God’s name and glories with love and appreciation, Spirit will lovingly respond and take you where you want to go.

Yogis say that we are meant to have awe and wonder, powerful transforming experiences that change our lives and bring great joy. Find out how you can experience the glorious, dazzling, mind-stopping states of awe and wonder.

If you do bhakti yoga well, you can go high and far. Here’s the secret to strengthening your love, your bhakti: thoughts are strong, but feelings are stronger. If you can let go of negative feelings, then your heart’s true feeling — love — will shine through.

Chanting the name of God helps you profoundly gather your attention and focus your awareness. Discover how chanting can help you sense God’s attributes such as goodness, love, joy, light, and then to become completely immersed in God.

Normal bhakti, an actual flow of love for God, is wonderful. However, it’s really just the beginning. If you are fortunate, your bhakti prepares your nerves and mind for higher intensities of ecstatic love called prema.

Trickles of love can become a mighty life-renewing river. This state of intense love is called prema. In prema, your love soars, roars and explodes into ongoing ecstatic love. You discover you are one of the most fortunate people in the world.