May 2025 Newsletter

Dear Friend,

Have you ever found that maintaining harmony in relationships is a true art — one that needs to be developed and practiced?

Paramahansa Yogananda pointed out that indeed “the art of getting along with others is one of the greatest arts in life. It is not only a practical necessity for a successful existence, but an essential part of soul awakening and progress.”

In this Newsletter, we share wisdom-guidance from Paramahansaji on ways we can cultivate greater harmony in our relationships — by tapping into and expressing the divine love, understanding, and higher potential of our souls.

From the talks and writings of Paramahansa Yogananda:

In your relationships with others, it is extremely necessary to recognize and appreciate the characteristics that they have chiseled out in themselves. If you study people with an open mind, you will better understand them and be able to get along with them.

Practice consideration and goodness until you are like a beautiful flower that everyone loves to see. Be the beauty that is in a flower, and the attractiveness that is in a pure mind. When you are attractive in that way, you will always have true friends. 

Carry into your daily activities the calmness you feel in meditation; it will help you to bring harmony and happiness into every aspect of your life.  

If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful of everyone, both young and old. If you want a display of peace from others, you must be peaceful yourself. If you want others to be religious, start being spiritual yourself. Remember, whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself, then you will find others responding in like manner to you. 

[Affirm:] “As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God’s love to come to me. Divine love is the magnet that draws to me all good.” 

“The Scientific Highway That Leads to God” by Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda explains, in this new excerpt from the forthcoming anthology Solving the Mystery of Life, how practicing with devotion the step-by-step science of meditation and making positive changes in our consciousness will lead us to the greatness harmony and happiness in life.

“True Meditation and the Hope for Humanity” by Brother Chidananda

In this excerpt from a 2019 talk given by Brother Chidananda in Mumbai, India, the SRF/YSS President discusses how meditation helps us form deep spiritual relationships with others — creating a real source of hope for a more peaceful and united world.

Inspirational Services on Cultivating Harmony in Our Relationships

In our online Teachings Library you will find the following two talks that dive deeply into how we can apply the practical tools of yoga to build greater harmony with others:

• “The Art of Getting Along With Others” by Brother Anandamoy
• “Spiritualizing Family Life” by Sister Ranjana 

SRF Lake Shrine Receives Los Angeles Conservancy Award

On April 23, the Los Angeles Conservancy presented its 2025 Chair’s Preservation Award in honor of the SRF Lake Shrine, for “extraordinary stewardship and dedication to preserving this historic and sacred space.” The special video about Lake Shrine shown at the award ceremony can be viewed on our blog post about this event. 

One-Day Online Retreat: “Practicing the Presence of God”

May 31, 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (PDT) 

We invite you to attend a one-day retreat led by SRF/YSS members — to explore practical wisdom from Paramahansa Yogananda’s on experiencing the living presence of the Divine in your meditations and in your daily life.

The 2025 SRF World Convocation — A Week of Spiritual Recharging!

Join us June 22 – 28 for a transformative weeklong program on the Kriya Yoga teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, offered free of charge. Gather with thousands of spiritual seekers in person in Los Angeles or online for a week of classes from SRF monks and nuns, guided group meditations and kirtans (devotional chanting), pilgrimage tours to ashrams where the great Guru lived and communed with the Divine, and more.

Thank you for receiving the SRF Newsletter. May you more and more experience the great happiness of establishing divine harmony in your relationships with others, as an expression of the perfect love and understanding of the soul.

In divine friendship,  



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