Rajarshi Janakananda was Paramahansa Yogananda's most spiritually advanced disciple, and was also extremely successful on the material plane, being a self-made millionaire and funding much of Master’s work. It was in his honor that
40 devotees gathered at the Ananda Palo Alto temple on Saturday for a joyful morning of karma yoga, beautifying the church and the grounds.
We started with a two-page “
wish list” of projects, and a truly impressive amount of them were accomplished. Some of the indoor projects included cleaning carpets and chairs;
building some new storage shelves; cleaning and organizing
vases,
candles, candleholders, altar cloths,
closets, and supplies; and framing or reframing many
pictures of Master and other saints. The yoga center is also enjoying a newly cleaned entrance and sparkling windows.
Outdoors, one of the largest projects was laying down a coat of
primer on the teaching center walls that have yet to be painted. This necessitated, of course, the extra step of covering in
plastic anything that
didn’t need to be covered in primer. We also had a team of
gardeners working with the plants around all the buildings, and a
duo of Cinderellas scrubbing stains off the courtyard paving stones. And in the midst of all that, we also replaced the gutter downspouts, and cleaned and organized the
dumpster and
storage areas.
It was a beautifully productive day that left not just the temple but all of us buzzing with new energy and magnetism. Well done, all!
[
More photos here, thanks to Dambara.]
Rajarshi Janakananda was Paramahansa Yogananda's most spiritually advanced disciple, and was also extremely successful on the material plane, being a self-made millionaire and funding much of Master’s work. It was in his honor that 40 devotees gathered at the Ananda Palo Alto temple on Saturday for a joyful morning of karma yoga, beautifying the church and the grounds.
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