At this Maha Kumbha Mela dipping in the mystical confluence of three rivers will save us and our ancestors from our karma.. I'm more interested in the endeavour and ardour of devotees!
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Our podcast series covers an in depth study of the Autobiography of a Yogi - Line by Line! Join the discussion on youtube.com/@yoganandapodcast
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A list of tasks for 7 days (Dec 30 to Jan 5). Save the reel. Let’s attune ourselves to the Highest intentions and vibrations. In Divine Friendship🙏🏻
Join us in Birthday celebration of Divine Gurudeva, Sri Paramhansa Yogananda. Next post explains tasks for next 7 days (Dec 30 to Jan 5). We invite everyone. In Divine Friendship✨🙏🏻
Chris gets married in Brazil 😍, Mike and Priyank make a last minute effort to join the party 🥳. Inspired by #ParamahansaYogananda
SRF Convocation 2024 reflections... Monks and Nuns.. what is the difference?
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Meditating in Babaji's cave...
‘Lahiri, surely this cave seems familiar to you?’
“As I maintained a bewildered silence, the saint approached and struck me gently on the forehead. A wondrous current swept through my brain, releasing the sweet seed-memories of my previous life.
“‘I remember!’ My voice was half choked with joyous sobs. ‘You are my guru Babaji, who has belonged to me always!" I tearfully embraced my master’s feet.
“‘For more than three decades I have waited for you to return to me.’ Babaji’s voice rang with celestial love.
"Here is your hallowed asana-blanket, where daily you sat to fill your expanding heart with God. Here is your bowl, from which you often drank the nectar prepared by me. See how I have kept the brass cup brightly polished, that someday you might drink again from it. My own, do you now understand?’
“‘My guru, what can I say?’ I murmured brokenly. ‘Where has one ever heard of such deathless love?’ I gazed long and ecstatically at my eternal treasure, my guru in life and death.
Paramahansa Yogananda- AoY
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The devotee should choose for his meditation a quiet place. Noise is distracting. Only a yogi who can go into ecstasy at will can meditate in both quiet and noisy places. The devotee should begin his meditation with the practice of the techniques of Kriya Yoga, by which he can disconnect his mind from the outer sensory world.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Tell us about the meditation space you use...
Lahiri Mahasaya's blessed home...
When I got to Lahiri Mahasaya's former residence there was devotee from Kolkota and a family from Chile reading aloud the Bhagavad Gita in Spanish. Virtually every passer by stopped at the door, removes their footwear and respectfully offered their pronams at the famous set of double doors.
Inside is a small courtyard, to the right of which is a Shiva (Linga) temple and the main residence directly in front enclosed by another set of doors. It is in this downstairs room that our param param Guruji gave darshan and satsang to all of those seekers. The original wooden platform in which he sat while offering darshan is still present.
When it is open once a year (during Guru Purnima) the queue extends right out through the whole street, some devotees waiting the whole night to make the most of this rare opportunity.
A few doors down is an equally famous (among locals) space: a Durga Temple. Its miraculous story is as follows. In the year 1767, after a Durga model was moulded by the Mukerjee family for the Durga Puja festival, it was arranged to be submerged in the nearby Ganges Chousatti Ghat. The idol however refused to budge even though it was quite light. Several local men were enlisted to support but it would not budge, even with force. That night the head of the household had a dream in which Durga Maa appeared and instructed him not to move the form, and that it was her wish to be there for the devotees of Kashi.
It is amazing to be on this sacred soil where all of our Gurus once walked and had their being, it is easy to imagine Lahiri Mahasaya walking through those doors and toward the Ganges every morning for his daily bath.
I purchased a new harmonium and decided to play its first chant at the door step of this great place, Chants played were:
1. Brahma Guru Jai
2. Om Lahiri Mahasaya
3. I will sing thy name
4. Shiva Manta
5. Guru Mantra
6. Om Chant
7. Namo Nameste
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What are the benefits of wearing astral bangles, rudraksh and the navratna?
Sri Yukteswar tells us in the Autobiography of a Yogi:
Just as a house can be fitted with a copper rod to absorb the shock of lightning, so the bodily temple can be benefited by various protective measures. Ages ago our yogis discovered that pure metals emit an astral light which is powerfully counteractive to negative pulls of the planets. Subtle electrical and magnetic radiations are constantly circulating in the universe; when a man's body is being aided, he does not know it; when it is being disintegrated, he is still in ignorance. Can he do anything about it?
Watch the full discussion on Chapter 3 part 5. Join the discussion on our Yogananda Poscast YouTube channel-
https://youtu.be/-chEH3TTA2c?si=c6LKlv2kt_6Ao0Uy
Exciting news from Swami Sri Yukteswar's Smriti Mandir (and ashram) in Serempore.
Excuse the video quality.. I had to record it over zoom to suppress the noisy road and construction.
Chapter 1 Part 1 - The Disciple-Guru Relationship:
https://youtu.be/4M-XMCx1_ZQ
Treading the same magical soil that Swami Sri Yukteswar had once sanctified with his holy feet! Swami Sri Yukteswar's ashram in Puri.
Musings on spending Christmas in Paramahansa Yogananda's YSS Ranchi Ashram...
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