Never before in human history has there been left to mankind such a greatly detailed complete and verifiable record of the life and works of a prophet of this stature – an ever living Paramahansa. Although his message initially came in the worlds most widely spoken language [English], His most acclaimed and read work -Autobiography of a Yogi -can now be read by over 90% of the worlds inhabitants in their own language.
This modern day Paramahansa is truly a living prophet who is changing the lives of millions of seeking devotees.
In this auspicious year -2025, we gratefully celebrate the 132nd year of Paramahansa Yogananda’s divine birth.
This yoga master, known as “the Father of Yoga in the West” is one of the greatest of 20th century educators and the founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Sat Sangha, a world wide New Religious Movement. Which operates many charitable dispensaries and schools world wide. Yogananda was without doubt the world’s most significant spiritual prophet/luminary of the 20th and 21st centuries to date. Leaving behind an impeccable spiritual life and literary legacy that is revolutionizing the spiritual life, outlook, and consciousness of millions of seekers in today’s world. Although this reinventing of the truly scientific spiritual approach is most widespread in Hindustan and the Caucasian worlds, and various Dharmic faiths, many other cultures and faiths are slowly discovering the uplifting transformational message and living presence of this world teacher/prophet.
Acclaimed by both those who intimately follow Him as their Guru/Avatar/Savior/mentor, and those who have just become aware of His inspiring life and Legacy for all mankind.
He was a modern outstanding real life example of the truth of much of the worlds greater spiritual literature as were originally intended. As for the popular beliefs of the masses, he approached those many misunderstandings with compassion and profoundly clear and simple clarifications that appeal to common sense.
As a living demonstration of the divine love, light, peace, wisdom, and joy that we read about in sacred writings (eg the Holy Bible and the Holy Bhagavad Gita.) His strongest witness as a modern living prophet is in that divine life record he left us. Yogananda’s real life drama has transformed the myth of ancient scripture into the clarity of scientific expression. There’s no more denying then! Academic in harmonies just fade away for those who know how to read and are willing to test His life saving teachings.
It takes considerable research, time, and faithful practice to
to fully appreciate and understand the extensive practical blessings that this humble Master bequeathed to the world during His short life of 59 yrs. I suggest starting with His “Autobiography of a Yogi” and other works that are still in publication by Self-Realization Publishers LA USA. There are also various videos and doc films available on the net (see image sidebar) and search on YouTube under Self-Realization Fellowship -or Paramahansa Yogananda, or Self-Realization Fellowship/ Yogoda Sat Sangha in India.
Only Yogananda’s books from this publisher (SRF) are most reliable, accurate, and up to date. The work of SRF Publishers do accurately reflect the Masters true legacy. As a simple test of the importance of Yogananda’s work I would suggest that one could compare it to the life and revelation of the gospels of Jesus. Excepting the fact that because this Guru’s life and work all took place within the last century or so, with many witnesses of both devotees and non devotees this remarkable example of the advanced yogic spiritual life for all religions is very reliable and noteworthy. His unity with the infinite was clear.
During His sojourn and ministry in the last century He was able to answer and put to rest most of the problems of modern popular religionists who have long since given up on institutional religion. The now commonly used term of “Spirituality” was given much strength and credibility with the advent of Yogananda’s work and life! He is a true leader and peaceful revolutionary in religion, spirituality, mind awareness, meditation, psychology, social engineering, education, healing, health and balanced living etc.
He also published all of his writings in English [now the worlds most commonly spoken language.] A language that He had mastered as if it were His mother tongue.
This unique situation will, in future years remove much of the problem that followed so many revelations of all faiths that suffer from political, language, and ancient messed up historical confusions. Political misdirections and linguistic translations during the evolution of languages in all
cultures being some of the most problematic sources of misunderstanding. All this aside, one needs to experience the living presence of His intimate omnipresence to truly know what He is doing for humanity in education, spirituality, charity, and the well-being of society. What was so unique or outstanding about the life, Legacy, and SRF/YSS society established by Paramahansa Yogananda?
Instead of deliberately starting a new “religion,” He clarified for humanity the scientific essence Kriya Yoga that will harmonize all true historical paths together at a lofty effective spiritual level. This is the only true “unity in diversity” as it does not require others to deny or leave their family’s faiths. It does not falsely tell others they must change. Other prophets followers have used that lofty slogan of “Unity in Diversity,” but upon closer scrutiny their claims do not hold true.
Those others really want you to deny the validity all other faiths and unite under their own new banner. Persons joining those new movements are not usually initially told about their way of eradication/demeaning previous faiths. They often don’t even fully understand the flaws of their own dark history. Those who do this don’t properly understand such terms as “unity in diversity” and “Progressive Revelation.”
Where then does the new society known as “Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Sat Sangha” truly stand in all of this? My take on it below! Yogananda set this org up not with the intent of creating a new religion, but as a reliable and leading spiritual center for the preservation and dissemination of the Kriya Yoga revelation which He was introducing to the modern and post modern world. To be a promoter of religious harmony and peace among all faiths, not by conversion but by emphasizing the principle unifying goals of all faiths. Some special qualities made Him the ideal interface with humanity for this great mandate. His ability as a articulate natural teacher and His ultra high mastery of His consciousness at all significant levels.
Being fully unified with the Infinite Consciousness (Reality), and awakened from the mayic dream of Relativity, He was fully qualified to lead others on life’s most challenging and rewarding quest – that of Self-Realization.
Those who have become a serious part of this new teaching and lifestyle could be said in modern terminology to be members of a new church. Yogananda has now many millions of devotees and helpers. God bless them all! Continue to live/grow in “Mind-Awareness.”
This Master says very clearly that if you add the science of Kriya Yoga and a few principles of love and peace to your present religious/spiritual practice, you do not have to reject/ deny the religions of your families and cultures. But you will have to learn what is true and false about what you have been taught by those blind leaders of so many varied sects, and you have to practice the raising of your consciousness with higher yoga science of life transforming meditation that the prophet Yogananda gives us.
Yogananda came to the West at a time when modern technology was distracting most men from two things. The higher teaching of Yoga- the mystical enhance- ment of consciousness, and the reality within. The more attention we give only to the outward physical sciences at the neglect of the inner spiritual sciences will simply further enslave our consciousness to the world of relativity and the senses! Are the machines taking over yet – it is getting closer all the time!
He left us a vast comprehensive life example and library of clear instruction and inspiration plus his ever living omnipresence. He is not dead, He lives and works through and with His true devotees. History proclaims it! I also recommend seeing the documentary “Awake;The Life of Yogananda” a remarkable biopic film released in 2014. Read about Him in the enlightening book “Autobiography of a Yogi, and test His SRF Lessons course and the results will tell the rest. from the address below.
It was in the dark years preceding and during World War II that the Guru turned his mind to the creation of Self-Realization Fellowship “Churches of All Religions”*–speaking with greater urgency than before about the need to “establish unity and brotherhood among religionists of all races.”
“The true basis of religion,” Paramahansaji said, “should be a science. The practice of a ‘science of religion’ is imperative. Different dogmatic ‘isms’ have kept mankind divided…
“We should begin to build world unity with the idea that has been initiated by Self-Realization Fellowship: a ‘Church of All Religions’; not eclecticism, but respect for all religions as constituting various paths to God…Attaining Self-realization through Yoga, men will come to know that they are all children of the one Father.”
…In dedicating the new [San Diego] temple [Paramahansaji] expressed his wish that within its walls many seekers would attain the true realization of the fundamental truths inherent in all great religions.
“I welcome you today to this new Self-Realization Fellowship Church of All Religions,” he said. May you realize the spirit of unity and oneness which we represent, in the realization of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
I dedicate this church in the name of our one Father God, our common parents Adam and Eve, and the great ones of God—Jesus Christ, Bhagavan Krishna, Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswarji, Guru-Preceptor, and saints of all religions. May we all realize the unity of man in the foundation of our existence in God. May this church, which represents this unity, help to dispel the clouds of war and suffering and bring happiness unto all…
…“We should go to church for one purpose only: God-communion. This is why you come here. If you will grow used to quiet, deep meditation at home and in church, you will someday realize what it has done for your life. You need quiet places for communion with God. This is the real purpose of churches and temples.”
A FARSIGHTED CONCEPT OF TRUE UNITY IN DIVERSITY
Paramahansa Yogananda envisioned Self-Realization Fellowship temples as sanctuaries for the perpetuation of the ideals of actual God-communion and a common spiritual brotherhood. These ideals were reflected in the very name he gave to the work he had been sent to the West to establish. “Self-Realization Fellowship,” the Guru explained, “signifies fellowship with God through Self-realization, and friendship with all Truth-seeking souls.” Expressing spiritual goodwill to all, Paramahansaji included in his prayer invocations not only God and the Gurus of the SRF path, but also “saints of all religions.” In this same spirit, when he founded his Self-Realization temples in Hollywood and San Diego in the early 1940’s, he referred to each of them as a “Church of All Religions.”
…[Parmahansaji] was not advocating…the merging of various beliefs and practices from different religions…He explained that in view of the vast cultural and psychological diversity of the human race this would be a highly illogical goal and an unnecessary one. Indeed, each expression has its place, even as he defined his work of Self-Realization Fellowship as a ‘special dispensation.’ He declared that what humanity needs is an understanding of the ‘science’ of religion; and in his book by that name he explained what he meant in referring to “the unity of all religions”:
“If by religion we understand only practices, particular tenets, dogmas, customs and conventions, then there may be grounds for the existence of so many religions. But if religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God. The different customs, forms of worship, tenets, and conventions may be held to form the grounds for the origins of different denominations and sects included under that one religion. If religion is understood in this way, then and then only may its universality be maintained; because we cannot possibly universalize different customs and conventions. Only the element common to all religions may be universalized; we may ask everyone to follow and obey it.”
Paramahansa Yogananda, “The Science of Religion”
excerpts from “TOWARD WORLD UNITY THROUGH COMMUNION WITH GOD”
Self-Realization magazine, Fall 1993
***[Gurudeva] chose for the name of his organization in the West (his international society) a distinctive translation of the name he had given to the society in India—Yogoda Satsanga. “Yogoda” (a word he himself had coined) means “that which the science of yoga imparts,” and “Satsanga” means “association with God, with Truth, with good people.” He translated this name as “Self-Realization Fellowship,” and explained: “Through Self-realization we have fellowship with God, and in that fellowship, we give divine friendship to truth-seekers in all religions.” From~ SRF Mother Center
Essentially Paramahansa Yogananda’s Mandate was threefold.
1. To show the unifying elements in mankind’s great faiths and show them how to achieve unity not by everyone converting to another religion, but to know that unity through oneness with the infinite by communing with God.
2. To bring to the world the detailed scientific Yoga meditation that makes that communion a reality. He brought us the great how to live teachings.
3. To clarify and correct the many misconceptions about our understanding of what the great ones were really teaching. Break through the barriers of your dark programming!
He succeeded in fully and effectively doing all this and it is available for those who
willing to listen, learn, and work at it.
The great barriers to the evolution of consciousness.
Humans are so gregarious, community health and participation is as much as part of our nature as is the protection of our individuality and freedom. A serious problem arises however, when we allow emotion and insecurity to trump intelligence/wisdom.
The majority of followers of most religious paths are very concerned about their standing in the community and not so much about the all important quest for truth and justice. Thus we have have the old trap of “blind leading the blind.” This goes on in all cultures, and is clearly described in the Gospels of Jesus and the Bhagavad Gita of Lord Krishna.
If you want your life to mean something – especially to your Self, it is imperative that you make some effort by inner searching and prayer, and study, to understand what these all important matters are all about. You must apply these new truths by practices with which you can change yourself. Only then will you find real purpose, peace, and understanding that goes beyond the masses of sheep in your own group. Only then will you be in a position to share your mind awareness and love with suffering humanity.
No matter what path/culture you were born into – it is not and never was some “god’s only way,” and your race and culture is not some god’s greatest expression of humanity.
it is ok to be proud of your origins, if you can do this without the egotism of vain superiority. If, like many of us you were told such things, you have been lied to by your teachers most of your life. Exclusivism is not needed to support ones self-esteem.
The courageous relinquishing of these and many other false ideas [exclusivism] are the only gateway to enhance your evolution. Shouting slogans and blindly clinging to the ways you really know little about is not the road to peace and progress. It is to serve the locked in programming of darkness. Look around and you will see that the message is clear! That simple message is “Change Yourself.”
As long as you still also believe that this relative world of the senses is reality, you will not know real joy , peace, or purpose in your life.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA – Who is He ? See Part TWO = posted on October 12, 2016
We are so fortunate that His history is so recent, mostly within the last 100+ years. We have clear records of His life from His own writings and those of so many witnesses who personally knew Him very well. There are some who wrote of amazing incidents/encounters with the Master who were not always devotees of His. In fact, I myself have had the good fortune of hearing many first hand facts about the Master from those who knew Him well. They that had lived and worked with Him. Those who really understood his mission and legacy wisely remained at Self-Realization Fellowship to continue His great work of restoring the higher spiritual teachings of East and West. Their loyalty and wisdom has left the world its latest greatest scriptures and biography [and “Autobiography of a Yogi” ] of a living Christ.
And more will come to SRF to serve the devotees of these great souls. As for many of those who left – they still had their own egos to struggle with for many many years. What a sad story that was. Yoganandaji did so many things right, with a balanced approach. Being so far ahead of His time on all things spiritual, psychological, and health-wise. For those of you who have experienced some of the life enhancing blessings or yoga practice, please also take that greater step into the science of Raja Yoga, known on this path as Kriya Yoga which is supported by the founders of SRF. This community [SRF/YSS] is the channel through which the great ones now work with all who are loyal and attuned.
Anyone who is wise enough to take and faithfully regularly practice the SRF Lessons course will have a much better life. Yogananda is the premier life coach par excellence! My own life has been immeasurably enriched by SRF Lessons. His attunement to the English language just added a great deal more to all that He teaches in the world’s most widely understood language. This is a first for a new
divine dispensation and NRM.
There are still various small minded persons/orgs who hardly understand what Yoga is about and would desperately like to shut down this great work. But if you’ve seen that wonderful doc film “Awake The Life of Yogananda” it is evident that this divine dispensation with its new world scriptures is advancing religious thinking world wide to a major degree. So advanced and scientifically essential is this Guru’s wisdom that it will not be surpassed for millenniums.
Yogananda is the man they couldn’t shut down! There were a few betrayals while the master was building this Church of all Religions, and there have been some after His demise. There is no shortage either of ambitious persons who have copied the masters works and/or ideas and want their own followers. This is where devotees often are misled into mistakenly believing that every impressive talker is a real Guru. It is seldom so, especially when still in the body.
This is the divine Fellowship of “the few”, in reference to when Jesus speaks about the way of the many and the way of the few. Although, like all religious movements it contains a mixture of persons who are at very different levels of understanding along this path. Yet the results in SRF/YSS short history is very impressive and speaks volumes about the Masters and wisdom of this path! This masterwork on Yoga as the scientific approach to the Spiritual life and awakening of human consciousness is now available in over 50 languages, and is revolutionizing religion, psychology, and philosophy world wide.
The only edition published according to Yogananda’s wishes and plans is the one shown above! The author Himself began this revising of the
original 1946 edition shortly after the first edition.
Long before Paramahansa Yogananda was reborn as Mukunda Lal Ghosh, before He came to America, even before He reconnected with His illustrious Guru Swami Sri Yukteswar, this yogi was already a great saint. This lifetime as we knew Him as PY was final debut as the Avatar of this noble Kriya Yoga path. This lifetime was also our great blessing and lifesaving opportunity. Many time He suggests to us “don’t waste this great opportunity.”
I know it is the simple habit of devotees of so many paths to imagine that “their teacher ” is a Guru or an avatar. For the most part they do not even really know what these things mean! They just like to imagine that the choices they made in life are the ultimate ones! Time, practice, attunement, devotion, and spiritual growth of ones consciousness eventually clarifies this matter. It all takes a lot of time and dedicated practice.
Why was Paramahansa Yogananda chosen as the interface and inspiration to share the science of Yoga with the world? He was by nature a born educator and master teacher. This is very evident in His compassionate guidance to all devotees and His eloquently poetic wisdom books. His first efforts to serve His fellow man/woman was to set up a successful new education system in eastern India.
While this project was just taking off – Divine Mother [via the Gurus of this path] sends Him to America in 1920. What a shocker! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Discussing a”Second Coming of Christ” review by a Christian about Yogananda’s concepts/interpretations;
1.0 out of 5 stars Reviewer says.………………………..
Author attempts to misleadingly fit Bible teachings into his Hindu beliefs ByreThinkon March 5, 2016
Format: Paperback of The Second Coming of Christ;Resurrecting /////////
This book is an interpretation of Biblical teachings completely fabricated by Yogananda based on his Hindu background.
This is a man who is delusional about his yogic accomplishments calling himself a master and dared to interpret Christian scriptures so flagrantly and misleadingly for truth-seekers.
PYislove replies —————————— March 17, 2016
Yogananda was not in the habit of calling Himself a Master, although He was one in every sense…He is another Living Christ……………..
“The author, Paramahansa Yogananda, does never attempt to mislead anyone about the teachings of Jesus a Christ !
I have deeply studied both the bible and the Hindu scriptures, and like millions of others have found those teachings to be the same, only those of “the many” who are still bound up in the churchianity programming will be unable to see the harmony and unity of these teachings.
The reviewer must understand that even in his own circles [or church] many persons will have their own unique interpretations of these teachings – it does not mean they are misleading anyone.
Hint- Consider the source and the level of consciousness of that source – it makes all the difference!
Yogananda does in fact supply ample evidence in writing and by His life’s examples of the efficacy and truth of His presentation of the teachings of Jesus as we have from scriptural records both in and out of the biblical canon.
What we have in Yogananda’s “The Second Coming of Christ ” commentaries and lectures are no less that a new world scripture that will stand the test of scholars and time. I highly recommend comparative religion students and seekers of truth to make use of these writings for the bigger picture of the value of the Sacred. Yogananda’s work on scriptural interpretation and teachings are the very best I have found in the world. Comparative religion is my field of study for a lifetime. He is possibly the greatest Avatar since Sankara and Jesus…..and the upline of His Gurus as described in the recent spiritual classic from Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers “The Autobiography of a Yogi” (Orange Cover only is up to date and complete.) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Just a note of mention; Great Avatars (Christs) never return for second coming public debuts, they only return individually to advanced spiritual devotees. Heed what the masters say about “the few and the many”! by pyislove………….just a note. You will see various comments by persons not fully understanding Yogananda’s work who use similar comments to attempt to discredit Him. I like to respond at times. …..end of review response.
PART TWO; >PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA as a Jagadguru…. Jagadaguru = means a world teacher. This term represents a great souls who fulfilled a Global Mission considerably beyond the scope of most saints. His mission to spread India’s highest Yoga,”Kriya Yoga” in the West was only an area of initial introduction of this most complete spiritual science to the world a large. The stage for Yoganandaji’s great mission was already set by another great Yogi many years earlier, and by the arrival of many copies of the Holy Bhagavad Gita[Sir Edwin Arnold’s translation] about a hundred years before the Master’s arrival in America in 1920.
Yogananda’s personal skill was that of a natural born teacher, and a fully divinely Self-Realized Yogi. Whose consciousness was one with the Infinite Reality. He left a vast legacy of His saintly life example, and many volumes of spiritual directions for future generations for all time. In His effort to show the mutual harmony of the essence of all religion beyond local cultural differences, He was able to write a remarkable commentary on the NT Gospels for the Caucasian world that will stand as a corrective and enlightening balanced guide for the Christian world for millennia. For the Orientals from India eastward He left us a commentary on the worlds most precise and beloved scripture “The Bhagavad Gita”.
A remarkable work by any standard on the Science of God Realization . And for the Arabic [Islamic] World He left us a beautiful commentary on the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam called “Wine of the Mystic”. This generally covers the needs of most of humanity.
Thus arises an interesting question! Why did Paramahansa Yogananda not make a commentary on the Koran for the Arabic world? Even though the Master did praise the initial work of Muhammad and the Koran, it is not in the same class of scripture was were the Gita and The Gospels. Do your research and discover the surprises! Not to lessen the stature of that Prophet, but the role He was to play was to take place among a hoard of socially primitive, unorganized, peoples. The level of their message was roughly equivalent to what Moses brought to the Hebrews 2 millennia earlier. Whereas the level of teaching brought by Jesus, Krishna, and Omar Khayyam was of a more advanced mystical level than one finds in predominantly sociological dispensations. Which lacked the self-realization science details and sophistication of the interior life, and the consciousness changing understandings, terms, and techniques. These methods are uniquely from the Yogis of India!
Religious dispensations can be progressive, but sometimes mainly for the specific cultures to which they are introduced. eg- the message of Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita in circa 6000 BC was far more advanced than what Moses brought the Hebrews in 1500 BC, or what Muhammad brought the Arabs in the 7th century AD.
It is essentially a pipe dream of so many religionists wherein they like to imagine that “their holy book” is the greatest one in the worlds history. It just ain’t so….!
Perhaps such claims are a promotional gimmick. That is why it is so important to change yourself before you travel across land and sea to convert the world to your blind way.
Jesus advises on this matter as follows -“first remove the beam of wood from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” thus said JC…. “Progressive revelation” may not always apply on a global scale, so much as to the specific cultures for which it was intended.
Even the type of “God ” portrayed in dispensations of these different levels of religious teachings varies greatly, as does the understanding of this term. And the clarity of the mysteries of life and death.
So it is with this vast and all encompassing legacy left by Yogananda and supremely edited by His spiritually advanced apostles [helpers], that these very advanced teachings of Yogic sciences for accelerating human evolution are transforming the lives of millions of devotees in all the worlds cultures and faith traditions around this beautiful planet.
If you have seen the film “Awake – The Life of Yogananda” biopic, that short documentary film barely touches the surface of this Yogis transforming influences on religion for the 3rd millennium. Future films and publications will more fully reveal to the world the true genius and blessings left by this “world teacher.” A true Jagadguru.
Group meditations enhance ones consciousness and well-being!
Our London SRF Meditation Circle still meets weekly on Saturday Mornings.
You will take away many goods things to enhance your life!
This is essentially a non-sectarian Meditation circle for all religions,
or no religion, but is directed by Self-Realization Fellowship.
Concepts and practices based on the wisdom of Paramahansa Yogananda {founder}.
Please call Federico at 226-977-3008 for time and directions………
WHO REALLY NEEDS A GURU?
Those who imagined they could make it on their own never went very far it seems…..my own observations over a lifetime!
There is more to a Guru than a claim!
The True Guru is far more than a teacher !
The True Guru is far more than an expert !
Thus Paramahansa Yogananda tells us from His own experience that–
“Ignorance is the archenemy of man.
Therefore, to guide yourself and others by wisdom is the greatest wisdom.
To all those who are around me, I speak without weighing my words.
If I see error in their ways, I tell them so.
But I never try in any way to muffle anyone’s reason.
Obedience to the Guru is the surest way when one is seeking God.
Master [Swami Sri Yukteswar] first told me what to do, and afterwards gave me the reasons. I found him unerring in his wisdom.
By listening to him, I saved myself from many incarnations of roaming and trying to find the truth by myself. Guru is He who has experienced truth. He serves as a guide in the dark forest of life. If you follow him, he will lead you out of the darkness.
If you try to find the way alone, you may needlessly lose yourself in the forest for many incarnations. So follow the Guru, and he will take you through safely.
Forms and dogma should not control religion. Religion must be based on reason, and that reason is supplied by the Sankya philosophy.”
PART 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Paramahansa Yogananda’s Divine Teachings –
SRF 27 January at 16:54 · [below]
(Paramahansa Yogananda –
Excerpt from lecture “Self-Realization: The Inner And Outer Path” delivered at Self-Realization Fellowship’s International Headquarters on Christmas Day, 1950) (For this special lecture Master had a microphone set up in His upstairs room at Mother Center where He spoke in seclusion to everyone over the speakers-
( See Below) CD available at www.yogananda-srf.org
“So am I happy even though my physical body is not there [at the service], my Spirit is ever with you and my voice is with you now–talking to you from my Heart, my Soul, my Spirit.
I was very happy to feel how the wonderful celebration of the Spiritual Birthday of Christ–was carried on by Saint Lynn with the assistance of Doctor Lewis and I’m glad all of you joined in One Spirit. As I meditated with you it seemed like 3 minutes to me. I have been very very happy, the Heavenly Father has fulfilled all my wishes for the organization.
Personal wishes, I had none, I had finished them long ago–many incarnations ago.
I only prize above all possessions the bouquet of Souls. I do not care who comes and go.
As Jesus said, “He that follows me, he follows not me, but Him that sent me.”
He who shall honor the ego–shall lose God. He who always remembers as Saint Lynn ever does and True Disciples of the order–that behind Him is the link of the Gurus, Christ and God. Such Souls like Saint Lynn and others who will be like him—will feel the connection of the Gurus. Spirituality cannot be bought in a market place.
When you all are little desirous of God—God sends you books and teachers. When you are very desirous—God sends you a Guru. And these link of Gurus, you must regard–if you want to get There.
Jesus said, “Who is my Brother, Father, and Sister, but those who loves God.” I recognized no one–I recognized, yes in the Metaphysical way that all are Brothers. But those who love God–I know they are my Brothers and Sisters. I am not interested in those who come here for a little glamour–then go. I am interested in those that will not go half way, but all the way–and right through the door of God’s Silence. That’s why God doesn’t talk and God will not talk for years and years if you faithfully follow Him.
He may, but only when He’s convinced that you do not seek Him for glamour and glory. But that you seek Him Forever!!! Then He will open the door.
And no one can tell when He will open the door. Even Jesus Christ said, “What my Father knows–I know not.” Steadfastly you must follow the path of Self-Realization–the Greatest Order of Wisdom and Realization that was ever sent in the world. It has the Highest Principles of Meditation balanced with activity.
God has given you hunger–you cannot be idle. Those who think they come here only to Meditate–the are mistaken because God wouldn’t have given them Hunger to work for. Everywhere people are working, but they forget God. We work in ideal environment in our Centers–with God-Consciousness in our bosom. Only work for God and work the body until you are a Master. And then when you will Meditate, you will not nod–if you Master your body by Yoga practice and Kriya Yoga–then your body will be steady and a fit Temple of God. And remember, even if God doesn’t answer–He’s always behind your consciousness.”
verbatim talk by Paramahansa Yogananda talks, SRF Publishers LA USA…..
These are the spirit saturated words of our 21st century Avatar from India -the holy land!
We witnessed this living Christ on the streets and auditoriums of America and India for
for nearly 30 years.
There has never been such a complete and verifiable record of an Avatar of this stature
in recorded history of the human race.
Paramahansa Yogananda was a purified and perfected transmitter of the wisdom of the
ages of this creation and beyond,
The teachings he left were not in the new age or psychic spiritualist categories, they are a modern unblemished perennial expression of the “Sanatana Dharma.” …..[Hinduism]
This revelation for the 3rd millennium came to the contemporary modern world via several
processes, namely by His writings of prose and poems, His direct transmission of wisdom from spirit while in a state of Samadhi, and by the recordings – both in sound and pictures (video or films) while either giving public talks of personal counselling’s.
Then there are also (within the last hundred years or so) of the many commentaries and documentary and pod castings that are still being produced by persons of all faiths.
He is clearly the most Universal non-sectarian Avatar clearly recorded in Human history!
The demand for books , recordings and talks of His great works are constantly in great demand
world-wide with millions of seekers finding inspiration guidance and unlimited healings
for all sorts of human maladies from physical, mental, and spiritual maladies.
The following letter from Mother Center of Self-Realization fellowship in 1995 fully explains all that went on according to the Masters’ wishes for all His writings including the final editions of “Autobiography of a Yogi.”
SRF has done a wonderful work in the final editions of Yogananda’s publications which will inspire millions for the next few millenniums.
Paramahansa Yogananda rediscovered, .................Kriya Yoga & Self-Realization Works Wonders for life ! 
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