"Guruji said of Mahatma Gandhi that he didn’t belong to India alone. Here was a simple man — whom Guruji had met and spent some days with — a humble soul who lived in utter simplicity and dressed only in a loincloth...."

Always keep your attention focused on your own plate. Do not be concerned about what is given to others. ~Sri Daya Mata #paramahansayogananda #yogananda #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #sridayamata #dayamata #dayama On X & Bluesky: x.com/yyjmeditation bsky.app/profile/victoriameditationgroup.org

"Be true to yourself and to others, and you will gain the friendship of God. Once you make your love felt in other people, it will expand until it becomes the one Cosmic Love that flows through all hearts." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda #friendship

"Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you. Family love is merely one of the first exercises in the Divine Teacher’s course in friendliness, intended to prepare your heart for all-inclusive divine love." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda #friendship #family

"It is not necessary to know and love all human beings and other creatures personally and individually. All you need do is to be ready at all times to shed the light of friendly service over all living creatures whom you happen to meet." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda #friendship

"Real friendship is a manifestation of God’s love for you, expressed through your friends….The heart purified by friendship provides an open door to unity." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda #friendship

"Friendship is the universal spiritual attraction that unites souls in the bond of divine love." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda #friendship

"In many of Guruji’s letters to devotees throughout the years, he closed with the words, “In divine friendship”; and he chose this phrase as the customary closing for letters from Self-Realization Fellowship to its members." ~ Sri Daya Mata yogananda.org/blog/in-divi...

A guided meditation on Cultivating Peace for Ourselves and the World by Self-Realization Fellowship monk Brother Satyananda. #meditaton #peace

New book: The Spiritual Expression of Friendship by Paramahansa Yogananda, published by Self-Realization Fellowship, will be available in January. It is now available for pre-order. #friendship #yogananda #meditation #booksky

I Will Be Thine Always ~Cosmic Chant #paramahansayogananda #yogananda #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #loyalty #cosmicchants Victoria Meditation Group on IG and X instagram.com/victoriameditationgroup x.com/yyjmeditation

"This world is God’s family. He is trying to improve all nations. He has no preference for one over another." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

"Phenomenal experiences are not necessarily evidence of spiritual progress." ~Sri Daya Mata, Only Love

"All devotion offered the guru by his disciples he gives to the Lord. He directs the devotee’s mind not to himself, but to the Heavenly Father." ~ Sri Daya Mata, Only Love pg. 73

See plans for preserving the Self-Realization Fellowship international headquarters building and property in LA. #yogananda #meditation #losangeles

The All-Sufficient One does not need our thanks, however heartfelt, but when we are grateful to Him, our attention is concentrated, for our highest benefit, upon the Great Source of all supply. ~Paramahansa Yogananda Happy Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. #selfrealizationfellowship #thanksgiving

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Mother Center, following are excerpts from a talk given by Sri Daya Mata in the Mother Center chapel some years ago, in which she reminisces about the early history of this center...~SRF website #selfrealizationfellowship #yogananda #sridayamata #dayamata

"Learn to appreciate and express the divine qualities within yourself, not out of egoistic pride, but because you are dearly cherished by the Eternal Beloved who wants to give something of Himself to this world through you." ~ Sri Daya Mata

"What we strongly think and believe, we draw into our lives. If we establish a joyous attitude of seeing ourselves as souls — having faith in our spiritual potential and our innate goodness, and cultivating these — we manifest more our real Self, the divine atman or soul within us." ~ Sri Daya Mata

No matter how busy we are, we should not forget now and then to free our minds completely from worries and all duties. ~Paramahansa Yogananda #selfrealizationfellowship #paramahansayogananda #yogananda Victoria Meditation Group on IG and X instagram.com/victoriameditationgroup x.com/yyjmeditation

"Learn how to develop the seeds of your innate God-given faculties of the mind….You will be surprised how much it can do if you cast off the limitations you have put on it." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

"Don’t believe you are incapable of doing anything. Often when you can’t succeed at something it is because you have made up your mind that you cannot do it. But when you convince your mind of its accomplishing power, you can do anything!" ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

"Realize that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the spark of your life is the Flame of Infinity; just behind the glimmer of your thoughts is the Great Light of God." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

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"By communing with God you change your status from a mortal being to an immortal being. When you do this, all bonds that limit you will be broken. This is a very great law to remember." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

On this day in 1942, Paramahansa Yogananda dedicated the SRF temple in Hollywood, California, as a “Church of All Religions.” #selfrealizationfellowship #paramahansayogananda #yogananda #srfHollywoodTemple #HollywoodTemple

Reservations for visiting Lake Shrine meditation gardens are now open at lakeshrine.org. #losangeles

No matter how busy we are, we should not forget now and then to free our minds completely from worries and all duties. ~Paramahansa Yogananda #selfrealizationfellowship #paramahansayogananda #yogananda #busy #yyj Victoria Meditation Group on IG instagram.com/victoriameditationgroup

SRF Lake Shrine Meditation Gardens to Reopen August 27. Because of post-fire remediation efforts, they will be opening the outdoor areas first and then opening the other areas as they are able. Reservations will be opening soon at lakeshrine.org. #losangeles #meditation

On Aug 16th at 7:00 AM PDT, Brother Chidananda will be leading a special three-hour meditation in celebration of Janmashtami, the birth anniversary of Bhagavan Krishna.

"Calmness is the altar and sanctuary of the Father. Practice seeking Him in calmness. Meditation is the way... Books and classes and philosophical explanations you can have, but this do not forget: Use all your free moments to meditate and cultivate a friendship with God." ~ PY

"Those who deeply meditate feel a wonderful inner quiet. This stillness within should be maintained even when in the company of other people. What you learn in meditation, practice in activity and conversation; let no one dislodge you from that calm state. Hold on to your peace." ~ PY

"The more you are silent the more happiness you will find. What joy awaits discovery in the silence behind the portals of your mind, no human tongue can tell. But you must convince yourself; you must meditate and create that environment." ~Paramahansa Yogananda

"The spiritually deep individual lives day and night in a calm interior silence into which neither menacing worries nor even the crash of colliding worlds can intrude." ~Paramahansa Yogananda

"Practice the art of silence. When tigers of worries, sickness, and death are chasing you, your only sanctuary is the inner temple of silence." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

"In fearlessness affirm: 'I am castled in God’s presence. No harm can reach me, for in every situation of life — physical, mental, financial, spiritual — I am protected in the fortress of God’s presence.' " ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

"There is happiness in the divine soul-temple within you. There is goodness there; and loyalty, hope, courage, peace, and joy." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

"The temple of God is within your soul. Enter into this quietness, and sit there in meditation with the light of intuition burning on the altar. There is no restlessness, no searching, no striving here." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

"I am not impressed by those who claim to experience 'divine ecstasies,' but are unkind toward others." ~Sri Daya Mata #kindness

"Give love and friendship without expecting or demanding anything in return. Expectation will make you a victim of misery." ~Paramahansa Yogananda

"Please join us in taking a quiet moment to send loving energies to our Lake Shrine swans. Thank you to everyone who shared stories and photos in the Sita Memorial request." ~Lake Shrine website More info in alt text. Sita Memorial Tribute: lakeshrine.org/wp-content/u... #LakeShrine

#SRFLakeShrine #SelfRealizationFellowship

A swan eats only the solid content from the liquid he scoops up in his bill; similarly, we should keep in mind only the lessons we have learned from the past and forget the unnecessary details. This will relieve the mind to a great extent. ~Paramahansa Yogananda #paramahansayogananda #yyj

"The minutes are more important than the years....if you fill the minutes of your life with divine aspirations, automatically the years will be saturated with them." ~Paramahansa Yogananda

"The mind may tell you that you cannot free yourself from a particular habit; but habits are nothing but repetitions of your own thoughts, and these you have the capacity to change." ~Paramahansa Yogananda, Where There Is Light

"The Lord is painting glorious scenery in the ever-changing clouds and sky." ~Paramahansa Yogananda

So do Thou, my Lord: Thou and I, never apart. Wave of the sea, dissolve in the sea! I am the bubble, make me the sea, Make me the sea, oh, make me the sea! ~Cosmic Chants, I Am the Bubble #paramahansayogananda #yogananda #selfrealizationfellowship #cosmicchants

"To a devotee on the right path, spiritual unfoldment is as natural and as unnoticed by him as his breathing." ~Paramahansa Yogananda

"Through use of the Kriya key, persons who cannot bring themselves to believe in the divinity of any man will behold at last the full divinity of their own selves." ~Paramahansa Yogananda

Never be small inside; never be mean and petty. Be big —in understanding, compassion, tolerance. ~Sri Daya Mata #srf #yogananda #sridayamata #understanding #compassion #tolerance #yyj  Victoria Meditation Group on IG & X. instagram.com/victoriameditationgroup x.com/yyjmeditation