Dear Devotees,
We have just uploaded several new PDFs to our Downloads page! Click below for articles on Paramahansa Yogananda, Rajarsi Janakananda, Dr. Lewis, Sri Daya Mata and Elvis, Durga Mata, and Tara Mata!
Jai Guru!
https://devotee2devotee.com/wordpress/index.php/devotee-free-downloads/
Dear Devotees,
We have just uploaded a new lecture to our YSS Lecture Note collection, thanks to a very generous and devoted devotee attending the Public Satsanga at YSS Sadhana Sangam, January 26, 2018.
Sw.-Smarananda-Yoga-Meditation-Antidote-for-Stress-Anxiety-and-Worry.pdf
Enjoy the inspiration!
Jai Guru!
Please join our Devotee2Devotee Group for a celebration of the birth anniversary of our beloved Sri Daya Mata ~ January 31, 1914 – November 30, 2010. We invite you to share your treasured photos, quotes, and uplifting memories. Ma, you are in our hearts forever! ♥
https://www.facebook.com/events/146743819369671/
Dear Friends,
Please join our Devotee2Devotee group in commemorating the 125th Birth Anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda. We are honoring our beloved Guru by posting our devotional thoughts, favorite photos, and inspirational quotes from the Self-Realization / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India publications and talks.
Public Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1648460781868267/
For a detailed biography of Paramahansa Yogananda, and excerpts from his writings, please visit the official SRF website: http://
Jai Guru ♥
Dear Friends,
Here is the 2018 reading schedule for The Divine Romance by Paramahansa Yogananda book event. Click here for the Devotee2Devotee Facebook Reading Event Page.
Enjoy the blessings and spiritual inspiration!
Jai Guru!
Divine Romance Reading Schedule – Join Us When You Can!
Day 1 – January 7th: How to Cultivate Divine Love
Day 2 – January 8th: A New Look at the Origin and Nature of Cosmic Creation
Day 3 – January 9th: Practicing Religion Scientifically
Day 4 – January 10th: Finding the Joy in Life
Day 5 – January 11th: What Is Fate?
Day 6 – January 12th: The End of the World
Day 7 – January 13th: The Why and How of Religion
Day 8 – January 14th: The Spectrum of Spiritual Consciousness
Day 9 – January 15th: The Mind: Repository of Infinite Power
Day 10 – January 16th: Why Evil Is a Part of God’s Creation
Day 11 – January 17th: The Mystery of Mahatma Gandhi
Day 12 – January 18th: Magnetism: The Inherent Power of the Soul
Day 13 – January 19th: Psychological Furniture
Day 14 – January 20th: The Unknown Potential of Memory
Day 15 – January 21st: Harmonizing Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Methods of Healing
Day 16 – January 22nd: Mind Power Can Help You Lose or Gain Weight
Day 17 – January 23rd: How to Work Without Fatigue
Day 18 – January 24th: Ridding the Consciousness of Worry
Day 19 – January 25th: If God Is Free From Karma, Why Aren’t We?
Day 20 – January 26th: The Yoga Art of Overcoming Mortal Consciousness and Death
Day 21 – January 27th: How Feelings Mask the Soul
Day 22 – January 28th: The Yoga Ideal of Renunciation Is For All
Day 23 – January 29th: With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding
Day 24 – January 30th: Criticism
Day 25 – January 31st: Where Is Jesus Now, and What Is He Doing?
Day 26 – February 1st: Do Souls Reincarnate?
Day 27 – February 2nd: Where Are Our Departed Loved Ones?
Day 28 – February 3rd: Reflections on Love
Day 29 – February 4th: The Known and the Unknown
Day 30 – February 5th: Controlling Your Destiny
Day 31 – February 6th: Guests—Good and Bad
Day 32 – February 7th: How to Free Yourself From Bad Habits
Day 33 – February 8th: The Garden of Flowering Qualities
Day 34 – February 9th: Oriental and Occidental Christianity
Day 35 – February 10th: A World Without Boundaries
Day 36 – February 11th: To Know God Is to Love All
Day 37 – February 12th: How You Can Approach God
Day 38 – February 13th: The Cosmic Lover
Day 39 – February 14th: Personal and Impersonal God
Day 40 – February 15th: How to Find a Way to Victory
Day 41 – February 16th: I Am Blessed to Behold Him
Day 42 – February 17th: Take God With You Through Life
Day 43 – February 18th: The Aurora of Bliss
Day 44 – February 19th: Answer the Call of Christ!
Day 45 – February 20th: Divine Communion With God and Christ
Day 46 – February 21st: The Eternal Romance
Day 47 – February 22nd: A Scripture of Love
Dear Friends,
Please join us online on Facebook or offline with an individual or group reading of our 2018 SRF/YSS Book Reading Events. Below are the titles and dates; more specific information on the detailed reading schedule will be posted on this website and on our Facebook page shortly before the start of each event.
Please note that all books are available through the SRF Online Bookstore and the YSS Online Bookstore.
Jai Guru!
Our 2018 Book Selections (SRF Publications)
The Divine Romance ~ Collected Talks & Essays by Paramahansa Yogananda ~ January 7th – February 22nd
The Science of Religion by Paramahansa Yogananda
February 23rd – February 28th
God Talks With Arjuna ~ The Bhagavad Gita by Paramahansa Yogananda ~ March 1st – August 24th
Only Love ~Living the Spiritual Life in a Changing World by Sri Daya Mata ~ August 26th – October 2nd
Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda
October 4th – October 16th
God Alone ~ The Life and Letters of a Saint ~ Sister Gyanamata ~ October 17th – November 15th
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
November 18th – January 5th
Click here for a list of current and archived D2D Reading Events
Dear Friends,
We have just created new webpages for our lay-disciple lecture notes from Atlanta Temple, SRF Retreat at Front Royal (Greenfield), and SRF Retreat at Hidden Valley. You can find the links on our SRF/YSS Lecture Notes page.
If you have notes to share, please respond to this post. Enjoy the inspiration and please share with your friends! Thank you!
Jai Guru,
Pat
Dear Friends,
Our Devotee2Devotee Facebook Group is hosting our annual group reading and online discussion of Autobiography of a Yogi. Please join in as thousands of devotees worldwide partake in the annual tradition of this daily reading. From November 18th through January 5th (Guruji’s Birthday), a chapter a day will be read (49 chapters for 49 days). We will be using the Orange Cover and Complete Version of Autobiography of a Yogi published by Self-Realization Fellowship (copyright 1946-present).
Our group readings have been a blessing for many. Master is joyfully with us — guiding and blessing us! Please join us online on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1036245583183761 OR read on your own or with a group of devotees at home.
For our Facebook event, we ask that you please keep ALL posts positive and uplifting — and directly pertaining to the “AY” material. You may also supplement the event by posting contemporary and historical photos of places in India and America, as well as images of those mentioned in the text.
All sincere devotees of our Guru are welcome to join us!
Please share our reading schedule with your devotee friends and meditation groups! Jai Guru!!!
AY is available in a variety of formats, including paperback from the SRF Online Bookstore, paperback from the YSS Online Bookstore, iTunes in the U.S., Audio CD version (Narrated by Ben Kingsley), Kindle Version (U.S. Amazon), SRF e-book version, and Amazon’s India Online Store.
AY Reading Schedule – Join Us When You Can!
Nov 18th: Chapter 1 – My Parents and Early Life
Nov 19th: Chapter 2 – My Mother’s Death and the Mystic Amulet
Nov 20th: Chapter 3 – The Saint With Two Bodies
Nov 21st: Chapter 4 – My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalayas
Nov 22nd: Chapter 5 – A “Perfume Saint” Displays His Wonders
Nov 23rd: Chapter 6 – The Tiger Swami
Nov 24th: Chapter 7 – The Levitating Saint
Nov 25th: Chapter 8 – India’s Great Scientist, J. C. Bose
Nov 26th: Chapter 9 – The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance
Nov 27th: Chapter 10 – I Meet My Master, Sri Yukteswar
Nov 28th: Chapter 11 – Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
Nov 29th: Chapter 12 – Years in My Master’s Hermitage
Nov 30th: Chapter 13 – The Sleepless Saint
Dec 1st: Chapter 14 – An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
Dec 2nd: Chapter 15 – The Cauliflower Robbery
Dec 3rd: Chapter 16 – Outwitting the Stars
Dec 4th: Chapter 17 – Sasi and the Three Sapphires
Dec 5th: Chapter 18 – A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker
Dec 6th: Chapter 19 – My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Serampore
Dec 7th: Chapter 20 – We Do Not Visit Kashmir
Dec 8th: Chapter 21 – We Visit Kashmir
Dec 9th: Chapter 22 – The Heart of a Stone Image
Dec 10th: Chapter 23 – I Receive My University Degree
Dec 11th: Chapter 24 – I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
Dec 12th: Chapter 25 – Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
Dec 13th: Chapter 26 – The Science of Kriya Yoga
Dec 14th: Chapter 27 – Founding a Yoga School in Ranchi
Dec 15th: Chapter 28 – Kashi, Reborn and Discovered
Dec 16th: Chapter 29 – Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
Dec 17th: Chapter 30 – The Law of Miracles
Dec 18th: Chapter 31 – An Interview With the Sacred Mother
Dec 19th: Chapter 32 – Rama Is Raised From the Dead
Dec 20th: Chapter 33 – Babaji, Yogi-Christ of Modern India
Dec 21st: Chapter 34 – Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
Dec 22nd: Chapter 35 – The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
Dec 23rd: Chapter 36 – Babaji’s Interest in the West
Dec 24th: Chapter 37 – I Go to America
Dec 25th: Chapter 38 – Luther Burbank — A Saint Amid the Roses
Dec 26th: Chapter 39 – Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist
Dec 27th: Chapter 40 – I Return to India
Dec 28th: Chapter 41 – An Idyl in South India
Dec 29th: Chapter 42 – Last Days With My Guru
Dec 30th: Chapter 43 – The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
Dec 31st: Chapter 44 – With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
Jan 1st: Chapter 45 – The Bengali “Joy-Permeated Mother”
Jan 2nd: Chapter 46 – The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
Jan 3rd: Chapter 47 – I Return to the West
Jan 4th: Chapter 48 – At Encinitas in California
Jan 5th: Chapter 49 – The Years 1940– 1951
Dear Friends,
Here is a link to a new drone video over the Encinitas Hermitage! Enjoy the beauty from overhead!
Jai Guru,
Pat
Dear Friends,
Our Devotee2Devotee Facebook Group is hosting our second group reading of “Mejda – The Family and the Early Life of Paramahansa Yogananda” by Sananda Lal Ghosh. From October 20th through November 11th, approximately one chapter a day will be read (22 chapters over 23 days). Please join us online on Facebook OR read on your own or with a group of devotees at home.
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.
Mejda is available at the SRF Online Bookstore and the YSS Online Bookstore – and in Espanol: Cartone format and Rústica format.
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 2018.
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! 🙂
Mejda – Reading Schedule – Join Us When You Can!
Day 1 – October20th: Foreword, Publisher’s Note, Introduction
Day 2 – October 21st: Father’s Humble Beginnings
Day 3 – October 22nd: Mejda’s Birth and Boyhood in Gorakhpur
Day 4 – October 23rd: Mejda at Lahore
Day 5 – October 24th: Our Mother
Day 6 – October 25th: Family Life after Mother’s Death
Day 7 – October 26th: Our Days in Bareilly
Day 8 – October 27th: Chittagong
Day 9 – October 28th: Early Years in Calcutta
Day 10 – October 29th: Mejda Explores the Realms of Mind and Spirit (up to The Nonchalant Naga Sadhu)
Day 11 – October 30th: Mejda Explores the Realms of Mind and Spirit (from A vision of Lord Krishna)
Day 12 – October 31st: Mejda’s Guru and College Years (up to In the valley of the shadow of death)
Day 13 – November 1st: Mejda’s Guru and College Years (from Mejda demonstrates the state of Samadhi)
Day 14 – November 2nd: Sannyas and a WorldwideMission
Day 15 – November 3rd: Return to India in 1935 (up to Richard Wright)
Day 16 – November 4th: Return to India in 1935 (from Kriya initiation in Calcutta)
Day 17 – November 5th: The Last Years and an Ongoing Mission
Day 18 – November 6th: Addenda ~ Biographical Notes About Mejda’s Brothers and Sisters
Day 19 – November 7th: Addenda ~ Anecdotes About Mejda from Family Diaries
Day 20 – November 8th: Addenda ~ Letters to the Author from Paramahansa Yogananda
Day 21– November 9th: Addenda ~ Notes from Paramahansa Yogananda’s Discourses (up to Manas)
Day 22– November 10th: Addenda ~ Notes from Paramahansa Yogananda’s Discourses (from Kutastha)
Day 23 – November 11th: Addenda ~ Paramahansaji’s Answers to Questions & Addenda ~ Genealogical Chart
