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00:00Where I live, the sound of traffic is incessant. People everywhere, rushing about their lives.
00:13My name is Juliette. I'm an investigative journalist. My magazine sent me to write a
00:20profile of a spiritual community in Northern California and its founder, a man named Swami
00:26Kriyananda. I'd like you to go there, take a look around. If you think they have some
00:30answers, I want you to write an article on it. The community is called Ananda, which
00:36means joy. On first glance, everyone seemed happy, but appearances can be deceiving. Spirituality
00:46and charismatic leaders made me think of cults. But when I met Kriyananda, those thoughts
00:52went away. Spirituality is a free-flowing thing. You're living in grace even though
00:57you may not know it. At the age of 22, he became a lifelong disciple of the 20th century
01:03yoga master Paramahansa Yogananda. In 1968, he inspired a handful of young idealists to
01:10create the first Ananda community. Now Ananda communities are flourishing around the world.
01:20There was a story here, but it wasn't at all what I expected. It was a gathering place
01:26of extraordinary individuals living their lives by an ancient science, both spiritual
01:32and practical. I learned about their teachings and how they put them into action. A completely
01:37integrated life. The physical body, the mind, the emotions. And of course the spirit. It's
01:46an exciting time in medicine, because we now understand that the brain is really much
01:51more changeable than we ever realized. People that meditate regularly feel happy, feel like
01:59it's easy to learn new things, you feel creative, kinder, more empathy toward other people.
02:05Community is really about people. We're able to live simply here because we know that happiness
02:10comes from inside. We can probably define spirituality as, does it make you feel happy?
02:18I'm happy, aren't I? Imagine a world where the goal is finding happiness.