New York City Center of Self-Realization Fellowship

My interest is in those who seek to be healed of ignorance---man's greatest sickness. """"""""""""'"""""""""""""""""""" My greatest wish is to change souls, to turn them toward God. For this purpose I used to concentrate on healing, but I found that when the body was made well, the student was satisfied and left.My interest is in those who seek to be healed of ignorance -- man's greatest sickness. Those who want God and come to me with receptive hearts shall never be the same... again. They shall realize a great truth: " When this 'I ' shall die, then will I know who am I." In this body it is not Yogananda any more, but He. Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda. The Divine Romance. P.141 [ Magnetism : The inherent power of the soul ] See more

The Searcher of Hearts wants only your sincere love. He is like a little child: someone may offer Him his whole wealth and He doesn't want it; and another cries to Him, "O Lord, I love You!" and into that devotee's heart He comes running. Don't seek God with any ulterior motive, but pray to Him with devotion - unconditional, one-pointed, steady devotion. When your love for Him is as great as your attachment to your mortal body, He will come to you. Paramahansa Yogananda

In this inspirational service, SRF monk Brother Bhumananda shares insights from Paramahansa Yogananda on ways we can develop and express intuition and faith through a deeper experience of the soul, the divine spring from which faith flows. https://youtu.be/IVaQZIue-Pc Other topics include transcending body consciousness through Kriya Yoga, and the importance of adding devotion into our meditation practices. To watch Faith Learning to Express the Unerring Intuition Within Us, please visit: https://bit.ly/3fG5zQY

Heavenly Father, Into your hands I place my worries, cares and troubles. Into your wisdom I place my path, my direction and my goal. Into your love I place my life! Paramahansa Yogananda

Though born a mortal like all others, Sri Yukteswar achieved identity with the Ruler of time and space. Master found no insuperable obstacle to the mergence of human and Divine. No such barrier exists, I came to understand, save in man’s spiritual unadventurousness. Paramahansa Yogananda Today marks the birth anniversary of Swami Sri Yukteswar, the illumined guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, who sent Yogananda as his foremost disciple to the West to disseminate the liberating science of Kriya Yoga. Read more about Swami Sri Yukteswar: https://bit.ly/3aOYSuu

Happy Mother's Day! "Divine Mother is standing behind each one of us, guiding and helping us, trying in every way possible through our conscience to help us make the right decision in the struggle on the psychological battlefield of good and evil. The wonderful blessing is that Divine Mother responds to every little effort, however small, that the devotee makesevery little effort to find God, to feel God, and to be with God. We may not always be conscious of Divine Mother's response; but when we are in the midst of our inner battles, and we turn to Divine Mother for help, Her grace is there to direct our actions, to support our efforts, and to protect us with Her omnipresent love," Sri Daya Mata

Living in the Sacred Presence of the Divine Mother by Brother Chidananda. Brother Chidananda, president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, delivers an uplifting talk on the Divine Mother aspect of God. Speaking in Dakshineswar, India (Kolkata) while visiting India for the centenary celebrations for YSS in 2017, this was Brother Chidananda’s first visit to Paramahansa Yogananda’s beloved motherland after becoming president of ...SRF/YSS. In this inspired talk, Brother Chidananda illuminates the concept of the Divine Mother as taught by Paramahansa Yogananda. Presenting stories from Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi, sharing his own experiences and impressions, and using guided meditation and visualization to help the audience make these truths real for themselves, Brother Chidananda illustrates how every devotee can create a personal and profound relationship with the Divine Mother. #yogananda #selfrealizationfellowship https://youtu.be/c1Tzmwltp_c See more

Two clear teardrops stood in Sri Yukteswar’s eyes. Yogananda, I love you always. <3 ! . Guruji, I am glad to find you alone this morning...... I had just arrived at the Serampore hermitage, carrying a fragrant burden of fruit and roses. Sri Yukteswar glanced at me meekly. .... What is your question?.. Master looked about the room as though he were seeking escape. . Guruji, I came to you as a high-school youth , now I am a grown man, even with a gray hair or two. Though you have showered me with silent affection from the first hour to this, do you realize that once only, on the day of meeting, have you ever said, I love you’? I looked at him pleadingly. . Master lowered his gaze.. ...Yogananda, must I bring out into the cold realms of speech the warm sentiments best guarded by the wordless heart? Guruji, I know you love me, but my mortal ears ache to hear you say so. . Be it as you wish. During my married life I often yearned for a son, to train in the yogic path. But when you came into my life, I was content , in you I have found my son. Two clear teardrops stood in Sri Yukteswar’s eyes. Yogananda, I love you always. . Your answer is my passport to heaven. I felt a weight lift from my heart, dissolved forever at his words. Often had I wondered at his silence. Realizing that he was unemotional and self-contained, yet sometimes I feared I had been unsuccessful in fully satisfying him. His was a strange nature, never utterly to be known, a nature deep and still, unfathomable to the outer world, whose values he had long transcended. . Parmahansa Yogananda ji Last days with my Guru.. See more

This week’s talk: Becoming Humble Bearers of Light

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Brother Bhaktananda's affirmation for overcoming negative thoughts and emotions. Very powerful and sweet! Jai Guru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Help me to clear the subconscious mind of all negative thoughts. Help me to clear the subconscious mind of all negative ideas. Help me to clear the subconscious mind of all negative experiences.... Fill my subconscious mind with positive thoughts. Fill my subconscious mind with positive ideas. Fill my subconscious mind with positive actions. Fill my subconscious mind with spiritual thoughts. Fill my subconscious mind with spiritual ideas. Fill my subconscious mind with spiritual actions & experiences. Thank you Guru for thy help and blessings, and for thy love & joy. And thank you Guru, for purifying my heart & mind." See more

Be true in your heart. Do not make a display of your devotion for God before others. Be sincere. Be concentrated, be admant in your effort in meditation today, for the Almighty is with us.... Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda. Journey To Self-realization. P.359

This week’s talk is now available: Deepen Your MeditationsLet Go of the Drama by Self-Realization Fellowship monk Brother Satyananda, recorded at the SRF Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades, CA. In this presentation on Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings on the science of meditation, Brother Satyananda shares an important key for letting go of any emotional drama that is currently fighting for our attention in meditation.

It is all dream. It will pass. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""' Do not take your earth experiences too seriously. The root cause of sorrow is viewing the passing show with emotional involvement. If you continually think to yourself, "I haven't lived as I ought to have lived," you only make yourself miserable. Rather, do your best to be better; and no matter what difficulties come,, ever affirm, "It is all dream. It will pass" Then no trouble can be a great trial to you. No happiness of this earth can in any way torture you. Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda. Yogada Satsang June 2018

ANANDA MATA: Total dedicationand loveto God, to Guru Ananda Mata left her body on February 5, 2005 BRO. ANANDAMOY (excerpt): Ananda Mata was among the select devotees whom Paramahansaji personally trained to help build the foundation for his worldwide mission and to carry out the blueprint that he set for its future unfoldment. . . she wholly dedicated herself to the love and service of God by absorbing and living Paramahansaji’s teachings and unreservedly serving hi...s sacred cause. She was among the few early disciples to have received sannyas initiation from him into the ancient monastic Swami Order, taking her final vows of lifelong renunciation in 1935. He also appointed her as a member of the Board of Directors of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India. . . . Ananda Ma served faithfully all those many years, working tirelesslyoften day and night. And most of us know how she could sometimes be very strict! But in the last period of her life, when she became ill and was not able to work anymorewhen her mind was no longer occupied with the cares and worries and problems of the organizationa new aspect of her personality manifested: very sweet, very loving. Whenever I saw her, she came to me and took both of my handsdidn’t say a wordand radiated just love, only love. Later on, when I heard that she was getting worse, physically, I was invited to come up to her room to say good-bye. She couldn’t talk anymore. But she talked with her eyes and with her hands. She took both of my hands in hers, and looked at me with utter, utter love. It was an incredible experience. And then, knowing how much she loved Master, I said to her: Master is waiting for you. And in response to that I felt a tremendous wave of love and joyas if she were expressing: I’m going to be with MASTER again! I cannot begin to express what I felt, just overwhelming love and joy. I thought, What a wonderful example, after a lifetime of service, of dedicating herself to God and Guru, now it is finished; and she can say, ‘I am going home.' And I thought: I wish I could go too! READ MORE Paramahansaji's direction to Bro. Anandamoy to follow Ananda Mata and Daya Mata; his story of seeing Ananda Mata tranform in a beautiful divine being, and more. Click here https://yoganandasite.wordpress.com//ananda-mata-stories-/

from East-West magazine (former name of SRF magazine)

A New League of YSS/SRF Kriyabans

Jai Maa Happy birthday Maa

*Brother Balananda talks about stillness & devotion* Wishing you all again an especially joyful and blessed New Year, just bubbling over with the divine blessings of God, Christ, and all the Masters!...Continue reading

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THE GURU'S DISCIPLINE - THE DUNCE CAP STORY ~ Sri Daya Mata ‘Poor child,’ [Paramahansa Yogananda] said, ‘I have been very hard on you in this life. I gave you the same hard discipline that my Guru gave me. I saw that you could take it.' But remember, he scolded me because he loved me. . . . DAYA MATAJI: What a divine relationship! founded upon reverence, respect, justice, and, above all, unconditional love. To me, the relationship between guru and disciple is the sweet...est and most pure that can exist between souls. As the teacher, it is his duty to probe deep within the consciousness of the disciple and remove all tender spots of flaws, so to speak. I’ll give you an example. As a child, I used to be very sensitive, and extremely shy.Guruji saw all of the flaws in his disciples. So, one day, shortly after I had come to the ashram, he was sitting with a group of the devotees. He was toying with a piece of newspaper, and was laughing and chatting with the disciples sitting around him. But I didn’t join in; I always stayed in the background. I saw he was making a hatthey call it a dunce cap in Americaa three-pointed cap. I said to myself, What is he going to do with it? He’s got something in mind. Reason said to me, It’s obvious that he is not going to put that dunce cap on any of these older disciples. He has it in mind to place it on the head of his youngest one; that means Daya Ma. Now I have just finished taking my vows, and I promised unconditional obedience to my guru; but that does not mean I have given him the freedom to make fun of me before all of his disciples. That was my line of reasoning. I thought, This is where I draw the line..... READ the rest of the dunce cap story, the great lesson that Daya Mataji learned and how "the divine doctor removes spiritual and psychological disease through his wisdom and discipline" https://yoganandasite.wordpress.com/.../the-gurus.../ See more

The lack of individual prayer and communion with God has divorced modern Christians and Christian sects from Jesus’ teaching of the real perception of God, as is true also of all religious paths inaugurated by God-sent prophets whose followers drift into byways of dogma and ritual rather than actual God-communion. Those paths that have no esoteric soul-lifting training busy themselves with dogma and building walls to exclude people with different ideas. Divine persons who really perceive God include everybody within the path of their love, not in the concept of an eclectic congregation but in respectful divine friendship toward all true lovers of God and the saints of all religions

We welcome you to continue celebrating SRF’s centennial with us by enjoying a free screening of the documentary The Life of Paramahansa Yogananda: The Early Ye...ars in America (19201928)." This newly remastered HD video with enhanced images includes narration in English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Written and produced by monastics of Self-Realization Fellowship, the documentary follows the great Guru’s footsteps during his early years in America and his pioneering efforts to introduce to the world the timeless science of Kriya Yoga. This video will be streaming for free until October 19. Watch now: https://bit.ly/3ctXkFQ

There's an 11:00 A.M. meditation in English, to commemorate the Mahasamadhi of our param param guru, Sri Sri Lahiri Mahasaya. https://srfonlinemeditation.org/calendar/

Happy Paramahansa Yogananda’s 100 Year Commemorative Day. Lake Shrines decorations honoring our guru. Jai Guru.

We are delighted to invite you to join us for a special livestreamed Centennial Commemoration tomorrow morning, September 19, 7 a.m.-8:30 am (PDT), marking the... actual date when Paramahansa Yogananda first arrived in the West from his native India in 1920. The free event will feature a ceremony held by SRF monks and nuns at Piers Park along Boston Harborwhere Yogananda landedfollowed by a special talk by SRF/YSS President Brother Chidananda from the SRF International Headquarters in Los Angeles. Learn more: https://bit.ly/33F8CTG See more

There is still time to experience this year’s SRF Online World Convocation, which is being offered free of charge. A livestreamed meditation begins at 8 am PDT ...from the international headquarters of Self-Realization Fellowship atop Mount Washington. This evening, SRF monk Brother Vishwananda presents a livestreamed talk, "The Compelling Magnet of Divine Love," from 78 pm PDT. The full list of today’s events are available here: https://bit.ly/30YDDR8 See more

SRF President Brother Chidananda will conduct the closing program of the 2020 SRF Online World Convocation tomorrow morning, addressing thousands of participant...s from around the globe who have come together virtually this week to experience spiritual renewal and to immerse themselves in the Kriya Yoga teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. Register to join us for this free closing program, Saturday, August 15 from 9:3010:30 am PDT at https://bit.ly/2X5302s See more