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The Cult Dossier · No. 115 · Eastern-Derived
Ananda Church of Self-Realization
Ananda Sangha
1968 – present · Nevada City, California; Assisi, Italy; India
XII. THE WIDER FIELD — CONCISE ENTRIES
Fully religious — Yogananda-derived
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1968 Ananda Village founded in California.
- 1990–2002 Twelve years of litigation with the Self-Realization Fellowship. The outcome largely favours Ananda: SRF has no sole right to the term Self-realization or to Yogananda's name and likeness, though Ananda pays 29,000 dollars over sound recordings.
- 1994 ANNE-MARIE BERTOLUCCI, a former resident, sues Kriyananda and Ananda alleging sexual harassment and fraud.
- 1998 THE VERDICT IS UNUSUALLY PRECISE. Kriyananda is found liable for DECEPTION IN HIS USE OF THE TITLE ‘SWAMI’ — a title that asserts celibacy — while having had sexual relationships with several women across Ananda’s thirty-year history. THE CHURCH ITSELF IS FOUND LIABLE FOR NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION, with a finding of MALICE AND FRAUD against the institution, not merely the man.
- AFTER THE VERDICT Under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Ananda settles for 1.8 MILLION DOLLARS, paid over five years, in return for an end to further suits.
- 21 APRIL 2013 Kriyananda dies at the Assisi community. His will names NAYASWAMI JYOTISH as spiritual successor.
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