Mission


“Living Wisdom is aligned with universal truth, it expresses itself in daily life and transcends empirical knowledge.”

Inspired by the Wisdom Traditions of the world, Ananda College of Living Wisdom is a non-profit educational institution providing a distinctive, student-centered liberal arts academic environment that encourages and supports spiritual growth and inquiry.

Students earn their degrees while living in an ashram community that offers opportunities to experience yogic living, healthy vegetarian meals, daily meditation and yoga. Students experience sustainable and simple living in a remote off-the-grid campus located in a natural setting surrounded by the ‘Inimin Forest.

Founded in 2003, the college offers several elements of a balanced academic and life education: a well-developed four-year curriculum with an individualized approach to teaching; inspirational support for the students’ spiritual and intellectual development; natural, serene grounds that provide beautiful learning environments; and work-study programs that focus on skill and career development. These elements provide the cornerstone for all educational aspects of the college. Our Bachelor and Associate degree programs, and our certificate programs, align their courses with this unifying perspective.

The core purpose of Ananda College of Living Wisdom is to provide a transformational learning environment where each student develops the intellectual acuity and life skills to express their unique dharma. We also provide students with many tools to examine their inner lives with clarity and honesty as a basis for finding fulfillment in life. As well as our academic focus, a few of the main core values the college also teaches includes:

  1. Courage—standing up for one’s highest values in difficult circumstances
  2. Joy—expressing a level of happiness that transcends personality
  3. Discernment—the ability to know and appreciate truth
  4. Creativity—development of the will, sensitivity, and vision to help manifest a world of higher consciousness
  5. Service—selflessly attending to one another’s needs in daily life and finding opportunities as a college to reach out to communities around the world

Pioneers in Higher Education

Traditional educational models are sorely limited by their exclusion of spiritual principles and the underlying supposition that material success, by itself, can produce happiness. Ananda College of Living Wisdom provides an alternative to these sincere, yet misguided efforts by showing how everyday life may be incorporated into the educational experience.

Since its inception, the college faculty have pioneered the synthesis of non-sectarian spiritual values into the everyday learning environment. From Physics and Psychology to alternative views of World History and new modalities in healing arts and education, our faculty is skilled in using innovative strategies to resolve many problems that currently exist in higher education.

Choosing Ananda College of Living Wisdom

The Ananda College of Living Wisdom seeks students who want to learn not only how to build a career, but how to live, how to achieve true happiness, and how to be responsible adults. We are seeking students with a keen interest in universal spiritual values and those seeking to develop careers in new, alternative ways of living that serve the highest in mankind.

The college offers a distinctive liberal arts education, a highly-focused student-centered curriculum and a strong faculty with a broad range of academic experience in consciousness studies. You will find here a community of people with the sincere desire to help students achieve their highest potential in both career and life.

Parents & Friends

Parents and friends are encouraged to tour our campus and experience first-hand our unique approach to higher education for higher consciousness. For more information about these opportunities please contact us at registrar@anandauniversity.org or call our main office (530) 292-3024.

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