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17/06/2021

Each one of us has our particular cross to bear, our own karmic burden. We must not bemoan this. It is false notion that because one is a devotee of God, he or she is entitled to a life that is untouched, unruffled, by any difficulties----that we can require of Him that our days be calm and our workload be "not too much, Lord; just what I can carry evenly so that I do not get upset." That is not a realistic expectation. If we tell God, "I am devoting myself to You; therefore it is Your duty to see that my life is happy and that nobody troubles me," we can know for certain that His response will be, "My child, you have much yet to learn. If you are My own, then you have given Me the right to permit whatever is best for you."

Devotees who do so are like the little kitten: The mother cats picks it up and carries it around; she puts it here or puts it there. Whether she places it on a soft cushion or a cold hard surface, the kitten does not cry or whine. The mother is there, so the kitten is content. The Divine Mother of the universe is looking after each one of us in this way. When the devotee says, "Well, Mother, You know best," and has a sweet sense of surrender and trust in Her, he or she is expressing the attitude of a real disciple on the path.

~ Sri Daya Mata
Self-Realization Magazine

17/06/2021

Fearlessly Facing the current challenges with Yoga Meditation

🌼Online Yoga Meditation Program conducted by Sannyasis of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India 🌼

Date : 19 June , 2021 (English)
Time : 6.30 pm - 7.30 pm

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These secular meditation sessions include correct posture, practice of preliminary breathing exercises, affirmations, and Guided Meditation.

We warmly welcome you to join these sessions using the above given links and benefit from the same.

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16/06/2021

Never one to be balked by outer hindrances, the Guru undertook to materialize his plans for a temple in Hollywood during the dark years of World War II. In the course of several talks Paramahansaji recounted part of the story:

“Some money had been given, and I wanted to use it to build a church here in Hollywood. But I saw that it would be very difficult to build one during these hard times. I prayed: 'Lord, You have to show me to some church that I can move to this property on Sunset Boulevard.'

“Soon after, I was sitting on the sunporch of the headquarters at Mt. Washington, when I saw a little plaster fall off the building. I said to myself, ‘I shall fix it up,’ but suddenly I saw in my mind’s eye termites everywhere. I couldn’t believe it; and I said, ‘Lord, how cruel! All the money I have saved for a church in Hollywood will have to be spent to rid Mt. Washington of termites!’ The Lord made no reply.

“But later, who calls me up on the phone but one of my friends who is a lawyer. ‘Have you any use for a church?’ he asked. ‘One of my clients has bought an estate and there's a small church on it.’

“So it was the Lord who saw to it that we got a temple here in Hollywood. I had no money to build with; it was used in repairing Mt. Washington. But we were able to get this little church for very little money, and now you see how beautiful it is.”

(To learn more about the teachings of our beloved Gurudev Paramahansa Yogananda please visit Self-Realization Fellowship’s Mother Center website at www.Yogananda.org.)

15/06/2021

Posted • The Hollywood Temple has served and will continue to serve as an example for countless SRF centers all over the world, striving to embody the ideals the Guru expressed when he said:

"The true basis of religion should be a science that all devotees may apply in order to reach our one Father-God. Yoga is that science. The practice of a science of religion is imperative."

To learn more about the teachings of our beloved Gurudev Paramahansa Yogananda please visit Self-Realization Fellowship’s Mother Center website at www.Yogananda.org.

15/06/2021

15/06/2021

13/06/2021

Posted • The SRF Hollywood Temple is the oldest existing Self-Realization Fellowship temple in the US.

It was in the late 1930s that Paramahansa Yogananda became interested in a parcel of vacant land on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Since coming to America in 1920, he had completed fifteen years of nearly ceaseless travel, conducting lectures and class series on yoga for hundreds of thousands in America’s largest cities. Now he was concentrating his time on his writings and on classes for serious students of his teachings.

“I am not interested in building huge edifices of stone wherein God is absent,” he said. “We should have many small temples filled with a true spirit of devotion for God and of united seeking of God.”

With generous donations from devoted followers, he was able to purchase the Hollywood property for development as a spiritual center.

We are blessed that in the years following Hollywood Temple's dedication on August 30, 1942, Paramahansa Yoganandaji regularly conducted Sunday services every other week (alternating with the San Diego Temple he established in 1943).

To learn more please visit the SRF Hollywood Temple website at;

www.hollywoodtemple.org/temple-history.html (link in bio)

12/06/2021

After we find our spiritual path and start walking it, we feel exuberant, lighthearted, relieved to finally home. But after a mile or two we may get tired or discouraged. We look around us, and it seems that the landscape has not changed; we are still the same unimproved, uninspired person we always were. And we wonder, "What am I doing? Why have I not gotten closer to my spiritual goal than this?"

The great guru knew that such letdowns would come from time to time overcome the students of his teachings.......Even when it seems that life's countless difficulties are conspiring nonstop to hold us back, still, he insisted, the soul is on its way to God.

One such reminder is the poem from Songs Of The Soul entitled "My Soul Is Marching On"...

The metaphor of time as a "grinding wheel" dramatizes the act of life fading from planets and even lives of people. Flowers bloom and die; trees grow stately then are toppled; heroic figures are triumphant but for a short while. Time flies by, and each person's life energies fade.

Yet as all of these dualities are in motion, because we exist in physical and mental bodies we falsely identify with the dying. The purpose of the spiritual path is to correct our vision to help us understand that only on the physical level are these life-fading events occurring.

The soul is not affected by any of these changes: not the stars, the moon.... the demise of heroic men, nor the passing of axons of time....

It is always so uplifting to remember that the soul is ever new joy, ever new bliss, ever one with the Divine Belived. After a dip in that memory, we look around and start walking on our path again knowing we are, in fact, headed home. And once again we feel exuberant, lighthearted, and relieved to be on the path.

~ extract from the article published in Self-Realization Magazine (2005)

10/06/2021