Our Devotee2Devotee Facebook Group is hosting a group reading of “Mejda – The Family and the Early Life of Paramahansa Yogananda” by Sananda Lal Ghosh. Our event will begin on Thursday, October 1st and end on Friday, October 23rd. Please follow the reading schedule listed on the event page.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1546420498878844
We invite you to post short quotes (2-3 sentences) from the text as well as add photos of India and Master’s family, friends, and teachers. Please keep ALL posts positive and uplifting — and directly pertaining to the “Mejda” material.
Please identify the section/chapter, page number, and the date on your posts. Soon after our “Mejda” reading, we will begin our annual reading of The Autobiography of a Yogi, so our discussion of Paramahansa Yogananda’s life will continue into early 2021.
It is very important that we keep to the reading schedule that is posted at the end of this post — and that is listed in this event description. In order to keep organized and to maintain order, we ask that you please only post quotes related to that day’s reading. It’s also important for readers to view the daily quotes on the event wall before adding a new quote – this way, we can avoid duplicate quotes and photos.
You may purchase a copy of Mejda from the SRF Online Bookstore: https://bookstore.yogananda-srf.org/product/mejda/
You may purchase a copy of Mejda from the YSS Online Bookstore:
https://bookstore.yssofindia.org/product/mejda
Our group readings have been a blessing for many. Master is joyfully with us — guiding and blessing us! All sincere devotees of our Guru are welcome to join us.
We hope you enjoy our group reading event and pray that it inspires and blesses you! Jai Guru, dear friends!
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Mejda – Reading Schedule – Join Us When You Can!
Day 1 – October 1st : Foreword, Publisher’s Note, Introduction
Day 2 – October 2nd: Father’s Humble Beginnings
Day 3 – October 3rd : Mejda’s Birth and Boyhood in Gorakhpur
Day 4 – October 4th: Mejda at Lahore
Day 5 – October 5th: Our Mother
Day 6 – October 6th: Family Life after Mother’s Death
Day 7 – October 7th: Our Days in Bareilly
Day 8 – October 8th: Chittagong
Day 9 – October 9th: Early Years in Calcutta
Day 10 – October 10th: Mejda Explores the Realms of Mind and Spirit (up to The Nonchalant Naga Sadhu)
Day 11 – October 11th: Mejda Explores the Realms of Mind and Spirit (from A vision of Lord Krishna)
Day 12 – October 12th: Mejda’s Guru and College Years (up to In the valley of the shadow of death)
Day 13 – October 13th: Mejda’s Guru and College Years (from Mejda demonstrates the state of Samadhi)
Day 14 – October 14th: Sannyas and a Worldwide Mission
Day 15 – October 15th: Return to India in 1935 (up to Richard Wright)
Day 16 – October 16th: Return to India in 1935 (from Kriya initiation in Calcutta)
Day 17 – October 17th: The Last Years and an Ongoing Mission
Day 18 – October 18th: Addenda ~ Biographical Notes About Mejda’s Brothers and Sisters
Day 19 – October 19th: Addenda ~ Anecdotes About Mejda from Family Diaries
Day 20 – October 20th: Addenda ~ Letters to the Author from Paramahansa Yogananda
Day 21– October 21st: Addenda ~ Notes from Paramahansa Yogananda’s Discourses (up to Manas)
Day 22– October 22nd: Addenda ~ Notes from Paramahansa Yogananda’s Discourses (from Kutastha)
Day 23 – October 23rd: Addenda ~ Paramahansaji’s Answers to Questions & Addenda ~ Genealogical Chart