Dear Friend,
“The secret of bringing harmony into the outer circumstances of your life,” Sri Daya Mata, beloved late president of SRF/YSS, says in her book Enter the Quiet Heart, “is to establish an inner harmony with your soul and with God.”
In this month’s SRF Newsletter, we share wisdom from Paramahansa Yogananda on how to live more in harmony with the soul, so we will be able to perceive and draw from the divine harmony that is all around us.
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From the talks and writings of Paramahansa Yogananda:
When you know God as peace within, you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.
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Meditation opens wide all the closed inner doors of your body, mind, and soul to admit the surge of God’s power. Your whole body and entire being changes when you practice meditation regularly. When you really contact God, all things become harmonious; all things melt into an ocean of peace. But you have to practice meditation earnestly, consistently, and continually, in order to have the full consciousness of that supreme force. |
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Through meditation, and acting in harmony with divine law, you link your individuality to Cosmic Intelligence, and become one with that Intelligence in the tiniest atom and the farthest star — and in Infinitude, whence universes come and whither they return. |
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God is not partial. His spirit is as fully within you as it was in Jesus and the great Masters. Find it by making your mind more transparent, more receptive. The more you meditate and remember that image of God, the more you will feel God’s harmony uniting all things. Meditation and holding on to God’s presence in that inner calmness all day long is what is necessary. |
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Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Live a godly life yourself and everyone who crosses your path will be helped just by being with you. |
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Let us live as a great divine family in a United World of Oneness, knowing within and without the harmony and bliss of Spirit. |
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If you haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, we encourage you to view the recent talk by SRF/YSS President Brother Chidananda that was released as part of our weekly online inspirational service series: “Attuning Our Lives With God’s Plan.” In that talk, recorded at the 2009 SRF World Convocation, Brother Chidananda delves deeply into Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings on identifying with our soul-nature in order to bring harmony into our lives, surmount the difficulties of the world, and be able to realize for ourselves that, as Paramahansaji relates in Autobiography of a Yogi, “a divine universal plan exists and…it is beautiful and full of joy.”
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2022 SRF World Convocation
Registration Now Open!
August 14 – 20 (Online and In-Person)
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Join us — online or in-person in Los Angeles — for a week of spiritual renewal and recharging! Experience this unique program of classes on Paramahansa Yogananda’s “how-to-live” teachings and meditation techniques, guided group meditations and kirtans (devotional chanting), pilgrimage tours to the ashrams where the great guru lived and communed with God, and more.
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One-Day Online Retreat Led by an SRF Monastic
This Saturday: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (PDT)
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Join us for “Finding Spiritual Balance in Your Life,” a livestreamed retreat conducted in English this Saturday, June 4. This retreat will include group practice of the SRF Energization Exercises, periods of silent meditation, kirtan devotional chanting, and an inspirational workshop on the retreat’s theme. If you are not able to join us for the livestream, the video of the retreat will be available on our website until Monday, June 6 at 10:00 p.m. (PDT).
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2022 International Day of Yoga
Livestream event on June 17
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For the eighth annual International Day of Yoga, we will be livestreaming a special program led by an SRF monastic on Friday, June 17. This event will focus on putting the science of meditation, which is at the heart of yoga, into practice. You will be able to experience wisdom from Paramahansa Yogananda through a guided meditation that includes affirmation, visualization, and praying for others and harmony in the world.
Please check our website a few days before the event for more information about this livestream.
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May you increasingly feel the divine harmony manifesting in life as you experience calmness and peace within yourself.
In divine friendship,
Self-Realization Fellowship
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