2021 Paramahansa Yogananda Birthday Commemoration With Brother Chidananda

Brother Chidananda, president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, leads an inspirational service on January 5, 2021, to commemorate the birth anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship observes a number of anniversaries each year with special commemorative ceremonies at our temples, centers, groups, and circles worldwide.

Learn more about the “Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons,” Paramahansa Yogananda’s home-study course on the science of meditation and art of balanced spiritual living: https://yogananda.org/lessons

0:00 Introduction
0:52 Welcome to Paramahansa Yogananda’s Worldwide Spiritual Family
2:00 Joining in the consciousness of “Darshan” — reverent communion
4:08 Opening Prayer
6:42 Symbolic meaning and conducting of the “Arati” ceremony
15:36 Devotional Chanting—“Deliver Us From Delusion”
24:33 Meditation with the guru is the real “spiritual banquet”
26:16 Affirmation for spiritual attunement
30:52 Looking back on the 2020 SRF Centennial Anniversary
35:08 The Guru-disciple relationship—the guiding light that takes us through all difficulties
38:18 “God’s Boatman” (excerpt from a poem by Yogananda)
39:21 “He came for me”—personalizing the thought of the guru
42:34 “Be that transparent jewel through which God can shine to others.”
44:21 An opportunity to charge ourselves with that divine light of Christ Consciousness and with the powerful enthusiasm of the New Year consciousness…
45:59 Awaken to the devotional experience: “Rise sleeping world, awake!”
46:53 Urgent “prods” to a deeper connection with the Eternal laws of Truth
48:44 India’s ancient science of neuroplasticity—the yoga science of meditation
50:26 The most effective methods of neuroscientific transformation are embodied in the guru-disciple relationship
54:22 Make the SRF/YSS Lessons a regular part of your daily routine
56:01 To disciples who are mentally attuned with him, the guru transmits the light of God that flows through him.
58:44 Making a personal offering to the Guru to remold our consciousness
1:01:18 Chant: “Sri Guru Sharanam”—Taking refuge at the feet of the guru
1:11:29 “Those who will come to this work will feel my vibrations”
1:13:24 Closing Prayer

To learn more about how to participate in SRF online group meditations and see the full calendar of events for the SRF Online Meditation Center: https://srfonlinemeditation.org/

To read Paramahansa Yogananda’s “Autobiography of a Yogi”: https://bookstore.yogananda-srf.org/p...

SRF offers weekly online inspirational services from monastics, which include guided meditation and a talk on the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. The talk for New Year’s weekend will be “Guru and Disciple: An Eternal Covenant of Love” by Brother Bhaktananda, a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda. To watch all the inspirational services: https://yogananda.org/weekly-and-spec...

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