A Message From Brother Chidananda President of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India Speaking to the current situation in America and around the world, Brother Chidananda discusses the serious problem of racial injustice and divisiveness, and the way Read more »
A Message of Spiritual Assurance
A special meditation service led by SRF/YSS President Brother Chidananda, including a message of spiritual assurance on how to deal with the challenging times we are now facing. As part of the meditation, Brother Chidananda conducts a healing service to help SRF/YSS members and Read more »
Weekly Inspirational Services
Currently Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) is offering a new online inspirational service each week, led by an SRF or YSS monastic. These programs include meditation, chanting, and a talk on Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings. Through the services presented here, you can join Read more »
The Five States of the Human Heart
The five states of the heart in the spiritual ascent towards attaining the divine. My revered guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, one of the first in modern times to reveal the unity of Christ's teachings with India's Sanatana Dharma, wrote profoundly about how man's spiritual evolution Read more »
Deeper Meditations Through Inner Renunciation
EXCERPTS FROM A CLASS AT A RECENT SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP WORLD CONVOCATION When we take a spiritual retreat or come here [on pilgrimage] we separate ourselves from the drama of our daily lives. Our desire for God comes alive; the influence of the world is much less; the Read more »
The Tycoon who became a Saint
Kansas City is the home base for several big religious groups, like the Church of the Nazarene and the Community of Christ Latter Day Saints Church. But our city can also boast being the hometown of a saint. The Self-Realization Fellowship, an international meditation group Read more »
How to Attain Stillness
How to attain stillness/breathlessness after practicing meditation techniques: notes taken during a talk by Brother Bhaktananda Be aware of spiritual eye alone; Push out any thoughts that come; No chanting, praying, thinking; No techniques, no devotion; Utterly surrender Read more »
Healing Service
from a newspaper article written in 1927. On January 16th, Swami Paramahansa Yogananda conducted the Healing Service that has healed so many hundreds throughout the country at various times. The Washington Post for January 17th reported the event as follows: "More than 5,000 Read more »