Asha Nayaswami

New release, spring 2019

Asha Nayaswami met Kriyananda in 1969, when she was twenty-two. Recognition was immediate. "My Polestar," she called him. Soon he asked her to start taking notes for the book she would someday write about him. For 44 years she was in constant contact with Kriyananda as devotee, friend, personal assistant, and eventually spiritual leader in her own right.

By every measure - spiritual and material - his was a triumphant life. Success, however, did not come easily. He was plagued by ill-health, financial challenges, and years of persecution from fellow disciples, including a massive lawsuit that took a dozen years to resolve. The lesson of Kriyananda's life is in the struggle as well as the triumph.

This is a first-hand account of life with a great spiritual teacher, one who came not to show the world how great he is, but to awaken in everyone faith in their own spiritual potential.

These books published by Ananda Sangha Publication advocate a path of simple living and high thinking, thus covering a wide range of subjects emphasizing the need to live wisely by one’s own experience of life, and not by abstract theories or dogmas.