WELCOME TO THE January edition of the Yogoda Satsanga Society
of India eNewsletter.
Begin this year with inspirational thoughts from Paramahansa Yogananda on introspection and your personal growth.
Inspiration and Counsel from Paramahansa Yogananda
This month's inspiration from Paramahansa Yogananda is on the topic of introspection and personal growth. We recommend that you take a few moments to reflect on these words of spiritual guidance in the morning before you start
the day and again in the evening before you retire.
Every day look at yourself in the mirror of introspection. That is a much clearer mirror than the one before which you groom yourself every morning. Not a day passes that I don't look in my own mental mirror. And I don't spare myself. If there is anything reflected there that I have done which is not up to my standard, I admonish myself severely. That is the way you can become flawless in the spiritual mirror of your soul, a living asset in the kingdom of God.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Think and plan your life, and see how you will change. Try constantly to improve yourself. Seek out good company, company that reminds you of God and of the noble things in life. Be conscious every day of how you are going to change your bad habits; how you are going to schedule your day; how you are going to hold your calmness. And every so often inwardly ask, "Lord, am I wasting my time? How can I get a little free time every day just to be with You?" All the time I say that. And He responds, "You are with Me, for you are thinking of Me."
Start the morning in meditation and praying deeply to God; and after you have meditated, ask God to guide your life and all your noble efforts: "Lord, I will reason, I will will, I will act; but guide Thou my reason, will, and activity to the right thing I should do in everything." Determine to be better in every way that day. If you start in the morning and keep on working at trying to hold on to your calmness, or trying to put into effect some good habit that you want to acquire, thinking of God all the time, then when night comes you can go to sleep knowing that you have put the day to good use. You will know you are making progress.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Affirmation Technique to Change Our Habits
Every time you meditate deeply on God, beneficial changes take place in the patterns of your brain. Suppose you are a financial failure or a moral failure or a spiritual failure. Through deep meditation, affirming, "I and my Father are one," you will know that you are the child of God. Hold on to that ideal. Meditate until you feel a great joy. When joy strikes your heart, God has answered your broadcast to Him; He is responding to your prayers and positive thinking.
This is a distinct and definite method
First, meditate upon the thought, "I and my Father are one," trying to feel a great peace, and then a great joy in your heart. When that joy comes, say, "Father, Thou art with me. I command Thy power within me to cauterize my brain cells of wrong habits and past seed tendencies." The power of God in meditation will do it. Rid yourself of the limiting consciousness that you are a man or a woman; know that you are the child of God. Then mentally affirm and pray to God:
"I command my brain cells to change, to destroy the grooves of bad habits that have made a puppet out of me. Lord, burn them up in Thy divine light."
And when you will practice the Yogoda Satsanga/Self-Realization techniques of meditation, especially Kriya Yoga, you will actually see that light of God baptizing you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Dear Members and Friends,
Before the passing of our beloved President and Sanghamata Sri Daya Mataji, she had prepared the message she sends to our spiritual family and friends at the beginning of each new year. Her help and blessings are with us still, and we thought you would like to have this letter as a reminder of her deep caring for you and for all souls who are earnestly seeking a deeper relationship with God. Through her words may you feel her presence and encouragement, and be uplifted by her divine love.
For the Board of Directors of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship
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Sri Sri Mrinalini Mata Elected President and Spiritual Head of YSS/SRF
The Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship Board of Directors is happy to announce that Sri Mrinalini Mata has been elected President of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship - to succeed the late revered Sri Daya Mata as the spiritual leader of Paramahansa Yogananda's worldwide work. Her appointment was made by a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors on Friday, January 7, 2011. Read More
We are happy to share with you some of our activities during the past year spreading in Paramahansa Yogananda's soul- liberating teachings to an ever-growing community of spiritual seekers.
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Monastic Tour to Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh February 11 – 13, 2011.
Monastic Tour to Bangalore, Karnataka February 18 – 20, 2011.
Monastic Tour to Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh February 20 – 22, 2011.
Monastic Tour to Indore, Madhya Pradesh February 25 – 27, 2011.
Monastic Tour to Salem, Tamil Nadu February 25 – 27, 2011.
We hope you enjoyed this edition of the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India eNewsletter. Check your inbox each month for more inspiration and wisdom from the teachings of Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.
In divine friendship,
Yogoda Satsanga Society of India
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