Go On Alone
Description
This book shows that small communities of individuals seeking a new way of living can provide a model for the present age. Go On Alone is dedicated to all those who want inner freedom. It proves that such freedom is attainable. Little groups of individuals can accomplish what large social groups have never been able to achieve.
The Ananda communities, in their history of over thirty years, have demonstrated that attitudes of kindness, sharing, and cooperation actually work.
Swami Kriyananda, author of some 150 books and composer of over 400 works of music, has devoted his life primarily to helping develop the cooperative community movement. Ananda communities thrive around the world. After numerous "trials by fire"-figurative as well as literal-Kriyananda, and those who chose to share this dramatic adventure with him, have succeeded to the point where theirs is a story that needs to be heard.
Ananda is a meaningful alternative to greed and cutthroat competitive practices. You will find in these pages a deeply meaningful story. If what you seek in life is greater inspiration and understanding, you will find fulfillment here. The story is different, yes. In some ways it is highly unusual. Its underlying message, however, is universal.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Person
A prolific author, accomplished composer, playwright, and artist, and a world-renowned spiritual teacher, Swami Kriyananda (1926?2013) referred to himself simply as a close disciple of the great God-realized master, Paramhansa Yogananda. He met his guru at the age of twenty-two, and served him during the last four years of the Master's life. He dedicated the rest of his life to sharing Yogananda's teachings throughout the world.
Kriyananda was born in Romania of American parents, and educated in Europe, England, and the United States. Philosophically and artistically inclined from youth, he soon came to question life's meaning and society's values. During a period of intense inward reflection, he discovered Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, and immediately traveled three thousand miles from New York to California to meet the Master, who accepted him as a monastic disciple. Yogananda appointed him as the head of the monastery, authorized him to teach and give Kriya initiation in his name, and entrusted him with the missions of writing, teaching, and creating what he called ?world brotherhood colonies.?
Kriyananda founded the first such community, Ananda Village, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California in 1968. Ananda is recognized as one of the most successful intentional communities in the world today. It has served as a model for other such communities that he founded subsequently in the United States, Europe, and India.
Content
Contents
Introduction
1. Yogananda's Mission to the West
2. Master's Commission to Me
3. Organizing the Work
4. The Third Presidency
5. Polarization
6. Six Blind Boys and an Elephant
7. Rights and Wrongs
8. I Go to India
9. My First Year in India
10. My First Lecture Tour
11. Fresh Water for Dirty Drains
12. I Return to America
13. The Delhi Project
14. The Reaction
15. Retrospect
16. Afterthoughts
17. Getting My ?Sea Legs?
18. ?Your Work Is Writing and Lecturing?
19. Seclusion Versus Outward Activity
20. A Choice Is Thrust Upon Me
21. I Take Up Writing Music
22. I Dive into the Water
23. ?New Age? Movements
24. Crystal Clarity
25. Land Ahoy!
26. Domes and Self-Expansion
27. Ananda Retreat
28. Hidden Influences
29. Community Beginnings
30. Karmic Patterns
Conclusion
Afterword
About the Author
Further Explorations
