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How to Be a Channel of Light in Turbulent Times

In this Sunday service talk, Nayaswami Parvati weaves together personal stories and spiritual teachings to explore the timeless battle between darkness and light. Beginning with a reading from Yogananda's "Whispers from Eternity", she reflects on how divine light burns away ego, fear, and delusion from within. Drawing on experiences at Ananda, contemporary social tensions, and powerful historical examples—especially the story of Corrie ten Boom—the talk emphasizes practical spirituality: staying centered in the heart, consciously sending light instead of reacting with anger, and learning how to act with wisdom and love in dark or turbulent times. The core message is that true light begins from within and must be applied with compassion, discernment, and common sense to genuinely help others. Recorded at Ananda Village on January 18th, 2026. The reading for this week from Swami Kriyananda's book "Rays of the One Light" is "Is God Present Even There, Where There Is Ignorance?" Truth is one and eternal. Realize oneness with it in your deathless Self, within. The following commentary is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, makes a reference to the divine light that is obscure to the rational faculty, but that enlightens our higher nature: “The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” Reason recoils from this statement with innumerable questions. What is this darkness? Is it conscious, that it should comprehend anything? What sort of light would be capable of shining in darkness without transforming at least that part of the darkness in which it shines into light? Does this light shine only at night? And if so, why only then? The solution is that, to divine sight, even daylight seems darkness. The sun itself, like the moon which shines only by reflected light from the sun, is but a kind of reflection of the cosmic light, which, being immaterial, is invisible to the eyes but which is the Great Source of all material reality. In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda describes his youthful visit to Ram Gopal Muzumdar, the “sleepless saint,” who lived in the vision of that hidden light. “Around midnight,” Yogananda wrote, Ram Gopal fell into silence, and I lay down on my blankets. Closing my eyes, I saw flashes of lightning; the vast space within me was a chamber of molten light. I opened my eyes and observed the same dazzling radiance. The room became a part of the infinite vault which I beheld with interior vision. “Why don’t you go to sleep?” “Sir, how can I sleep in the presence of lightning, blazing whether my eyes are shut or open?” “You are blessed to have this experience; the spiritual radiations are not easily seen.” The saint added a few words of affection. This is the “light that shineth in darkness.” It has been described variously in the great scriptures. In the Bhagavad Gita, the eleventh Chapter, the devotee, Arjuna, is given an experience of the infinite state and exclaims in awe: "If there should rise suddenly within the skies Sunburst of a thousand suns Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of, Then might be that Holy One’s Majesty and radiance dreamed of!" ABOUT ANANDA WORLDWIDE Ananda is a worldwide movement to help individuals realize the joy of their own higher Self. Ananda is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda and was founded by his direct disciple Swami Kriyananda in 1968. Learn more at https://ananda.org/ ___ HOW TO STAY IN TOUCH Subscribe to our YouTube channel: / anandaworldwide Follow on Instagram: / anandaworldwide Like on Facebook: / ananda.org Follow on Pinterest: / anandasangha Dive into Yogananda’s spiritual teachings with Ananda Online: https://www.ananda.org/online-classes/ Learn to meditate with Ananda Course in Meditation: https://www.ananda.org/meditation/med... Download the FREE Ananda Meditation app and watch guided meditations https://www.ananda.org/meditation/app/ Visit the beautiful Ananda Meditation Retreat in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada: https://meditationretreat.org/ Visit "The Expanding Light", Ananda's guest retreat: https://www.expandinglight.org/ Find an Ananda near you: https://www.ananda.org/find-ananda If you have been touched in your own journey by Ananda and our videos please consider making a donation so that we, as a spiritual family, may all continue to reach and inspire souls everywhere: https://www.ananda.org/support/