self-realization fellowship @ lj

srflj @ 2008-06-27T16:37:00

2008-06-27T20:48:19Z

Oh hooray! I've been looking for this community for a long time! I'm so excited to find the Self-Realization Fellowship on Livejournal; there's no temples in my immediate area. I've only been doing the SRF Lessons for about two months, but already I feel enriched!

Last year, I contracted Lyme Disease, and I've slowly been doing less and less physical exercise. As a result of the disease and decreased activity, I've been more and more fatigued, but as I'm now starting to learn the Energization Exercises, I feel much more myself. But I guess that's only really a small, superficial change compared to the internal changes that I'm experiencing. I have such a deep, burning desire to experience and know God. I want to overcome the ego, and to see myself as one with God, one with my fellow man, and one with reality.

The Self-Realization Fellowship, and Yoganandaji's writings helped me out of a severe spiritual slump; I had given up on religion, and on the religion of my parents. I'd given up on God, and essentially given up on myself. I thought that all I could do was to seek personal power and pleasure... that idea never seemed to mesh well with me.

But I still am struggling with some concepts... I still cannot overcome the mentality that sexuality, used not for procreation but for spiritual union, is wrong. I am a gay man, and my partner and I are extremely committed. We do not overindulge in sex, but it serves to inspire and bring us closer together; there are no physical offspring, but there is emotional and creative "intellectual offspring" that we share... If we are not the body, if we are spirit and consciousness projected into reality, than what does a gross external characteristic like gender have to do with love? I'm sorry to be so forward, but it is an object of consternation for me at this present time.

Whatever my path, though, I have faith in God, faith in the SRF Line of Gurus, faith in the Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, and faith in the Peace that now pervades my life.

Intimacy? Or "In-to-me-I-see?"

2008-06-26T20:36:46Z

Just a little tid-bit. "The Love Guru" features Self-Realization Fellowship: Lake Shrine Temple as the exterior of Guru Pitka's Ashram. Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order: SVU also has a cameo in it. It's a small part, but it's pretty memorable, and she looks so stoked to be there! She also mentioned throughout the movie - in fact, they use her name as a kind of running gag (in a good way). Cracked me up every time! And Stephen Colbert makes an awesome, cracked-out hockey commentator.

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cross-posted to satsanga & srflj

hello?

2008-06-05T00:06:44Z

Is anyone still around? Hellooooo? :)

Confusion in Life Path

2006-12-13T02:44:36Z

Right now my goal is to learn Kriya Yoga in an attempt to liberate my Soul from the clutches of maya. I feel that this is the greatest thing that my heart tells me to do. Other than that, I am at a loss as far as what I should do in the world career wise. I would really like to get on my way with some kind of career. I'm not a big fan of school but I feel that going to a university would be best. I just don't know what to focus on or major in. Maybe it doesn't matter. It would be nice if there was an institute for integrating spirituality with education.

Community-related post

2006-05-15T16:38:55Z

Hey all. So, a while ago, we realized that our mod was no longer with us. So I thought I'd tell you that I was going through LJ's faq on the subject of being a mod/maintainer, and noticed a little section all about how to become a mod once the comm has been abandoned. I myself don't have time to do it, but I figured if anyone else did, I should let you all know.

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Happiness

2006-04-26T00:27:06Z

You have the power to hurt yourself or to benefit yourself . . . . If you do not choose to be happy no one can make you happy. Do not blame God for that! And if you choose to be happy, no one can make you unhappy. . . . It is we who make of life what it is. -- Paramahansa Yogananda, SRF Lessons

Ascension

2006-04-17T02:56:33Z

While today, Christians throughout the world celebrate the Resurrection of a great Master, and rightly so, it is important to remember that this feat was not unique. There have been other great Beings, versed in the occult sciences, who had brought about the same condition as did Jesus after the crucifixion.

It is true to say that throughout the centuries, the human race could not have continued in the way that it has without some great Entities holding a certain balance on its behalf.

Great Spiritual Beings, like Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, Patanjali, Lao Tzu and Others, had not only given glorious and sublime Teachings to a race which, for the most part, would reject them, but also performed great manipulations, holding in abeyance certain inevitable results due to the fall of man.

The very presence of Beings like this on Earth would guarantee the continuance of the race without gross interference by some terrible catastrophe.

Even in modern times, up to the present day, mankind is dependant upon highly evolved Entities whose presence alone preserves some semblance of “order” to prevailing conditions, which would otherwise deteriorate into utter chaos.

On Earth, we have The Spiritual Hierarchy, which has been in existence for hundreds of thousands of years and is comprised of Ascended Masters, People who have, through Spiritual Knowledge and Evolution, been able to break away from the wheel of death and rebirth and have attained immortality in much the same way that Jesus demonstrated this great feat through His own Resurrection.

These great Masters have, for the most part, worked behinds the scenes living in secret retreats in the East. But there have been some who have worked more in the open, so to speak.

An outstanding example of this in the West is Count Saint Germain, who continues to baffle French historians because he crops up through French history for a period of at least 200 years.

Saint Germain was seen at the court of Louis XV and much later at the court of Louis XVI. And there are many stories connected with this Man.

One such story is of a conversation that Saint Germain had with a prominent woman in France. The woman met Saint Germain again 50 years after this conversation and said, “I knew your father.” And Saint Germain said, “That wasn’t my father, that was me. I remember the conversation.”

Saint Germain never appeared to be over the age of 45 in the centuries that He made Himself known as the Ascended body does not age as such.

And of course, at the head of The Spiritual Hierarchy is the Holiest of Holy Masters, the Great and Illustrious Lord Babaji, who is not even of this Earth. Lord Babaji came to this Earth at least 18,000,000 years ago and still resides in India in the same physical body.

Again, the human race continues by the Grace of the Great Ones. And this is so, and always has been so.

Cross posted to aetherius_path

Unconditional Love

2006-04-03T18:03:39Z

"May all...who have been nurtured
by a mother’s love be themselves filled
with a mother’s affection, which is
unconditional love, and express it
toward others."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Maintainer

2005-12-14T19:25:40Z

So, if the Maintainer of this community doesn't have a livejournal anymore, what does that mean for the community?

Just wondering.

Why can't we all love one another?

2005-08-09T18:50:13Z

Jesus: A Christ of East and West- excerpt from Man's Eternal Quest- Paramahansa Yogananda (this was written in 1938 and another bit in 1945)

"Jesus Christ is a liaison between East and West. That great master stands before my eyes, telling Orient and Occident: 'Come together! My body was born in the East; my spirit and message traveled to the West.' In Christ's birth as an Asiatic and his acceptance by Western peoples as their guru, is a divine implication that East and West should unite by exchanging their finest distinctive features. It is part of the drama of God that the West was meant to have material power, and the East spiritual power, so that amity might come through an interchange of their characteristic qualities. The spiritual freedom of the East overrides material suffering. The West needs that kind of spiritual freedom; God's Western children, being more fortunate physically and materially, need to develop spiritually and to receive the spiritual illumination of the East. And the East needs Western material development; God's Eastern children should welcome the help of the West, that they may industrialize Asia, and thus enable her to develop and use her resources to the fullest advantage.
The American way of living progressively, plus the spirituality of India--you cannot beat that combination. India is the melting pot of religions; America, the melting pot of nations. America became great because of her love of liberty and because she welcomed all nations to her shores--she absorbed the best of all nations. No other country was founded on and has grown on such wonderful ideals; the freedom and exceptional way of life that have been created in America by these ideals must never be lost.
Many in the West believe that Easterners are materially poor because they are spiritually wealthy. This is not true. And many Easterners believe that Westerners are spiritually poor because they are materially rich. This is not the case either. The truth is that we human beings become too one-sided; we need to seek a balance by drawing the best from one another.

Jesus is a divine colossus standing between Orient and Occident, telling East and West to exchange their better qualities. Can you see him there? I see him. He urges the West to spiritualize itself and the East to industrialize itself--the East to accept Western missionaries of science and industry and the West to accept the Eastern missionaries of the Spirit. To the West he says: 'Love you Eastern brothers. I came from the Orient.' To the East he pleads: 'Love your Western brothers; they have received and loved me, an Oriental.' Isn't that a beautiful thought? It would make a magnificent picture.

Christ is not the property of either East of West--an East-West bond is manifested in his life. He belongs to both and to all the world. His universality is what makes him so wonderful. Jesus took the body of an Oriental so that in being accepted as guru by the Occidental he would thereby symbolically draw East and West together. Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world.
God does not prefer Orientals or Occidentals. He loves those who manifest His spiritual qualities. Why, then, was it ordained by God that Christ, a great savior of mankind, came out of the East? God wanted to come with the downtrodden, to show the transcendence of the Spirit over matter. We should not conclude that it is necessary to be poor to be Christlike; if Jesus had come in a prosperous country, it would be equally foolish to reason that Christ Consciousness can be attained through material things, or that God favours the materially rich. A balance between spirituality and material development is necessary.
The ideals of Christ are the ideals of the scriptures of India. The precepts of Jesus are analogous to the highest Vedic teachings, which were in existence long before the advent of Jesus. This does not take away from the greatness of Christ; it shows the eternal nature of truth, and that Jesus incarnated on earth to give the world a new expression of Sanatan Dharma (eternal religion, the eternal principles of righteousness). In the Book of Genesis we find an exact parallel of the other Hindu concept of genesis of our universe. The Ten Commandments of Moses, many of the Biblical legends and figures and rituals, the miracles performed by Christ, the very basics of Christian doctrine, all have concomitance with the earlier Vedic literature of India. The Teachings of Christ in the New Testament and of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita have an exact correspondence.

The parallelisms of Christ's teachings with Yoga-Vedanta doctrines strongly support of the records know to exist in India, which state that Jesus lived and studied there during fifteen of the unaccounted for years of his life--no mention is made of him in the New Testament from his twelfth to thirtieth year. Jesus journeyed to India to return the visit of the three "wise men from the east" who came to pay homage to him at his birth. They were guided to the Christ Child by the divine light of a star--not a physical luminary, but the star of the omniscient spiritual eye. This 'third eye' can be seen within the forehead, between the eyebrows, by the deeply meditating devotee. The spiritual eye is a metaphysical telescope through which one can see to infinity in all directions simultaneously beholding with omnipresent spherical vision whatever is happening in any point in creation. The spiritual eye has been mention in the teachings of India, and Jesus referred to it too: ' The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.' (Matthew 6:22). Brought thus to the stable in Bethlehem by the guiding light of the spiritual eye, the Wise Men recognized and honored the infant Christ or the great soul and divine incarnation that he was. During the unknown period of his life Jesus repaid their visit.

Even in the name and title of Jesus we find Sanskrit words with a corresponding sound and meaning. The words Jesus and Isa (pronounced 'Isha') are substantially the same. Is, Isa, and Iswara all refer to the Lord, or Supreme Being. 'Jesus derives from the Greek form of the name Joshua or Jeshua, a contraction of Jehoshua, 'help of Jehovah' or 'Savior'
The title of 'Christ' is also found in India--it was perhaps given to Jesus there in the word 'Krishna', which sometimes is purposely spelled 'Christna' to show the correlation. There are many derivations given tot he word 'Krishna', the most common of which is 'dark', referring to the hue of Krishna's complexion. (He is often shown as dark blue to connote divinity. Blue is also the color of the Christ Consciousness when epitomized in the spiritual eye as a circle of dark blue light surrounding the star mentioned earlier .) According to Sridatta Sarma, of the various other meanings given to the word 'Krishna', several are found in the Brahmavaivarta Purana. He states that according to one of these derivations, 'Krishna means the universal Spirit. Krsi denotes a generic term, while na conveys the idea of the self, thus bringing forth the meaning of "Omniscient Spirit"' In this we find a parallel in the Christ Consciousness as the Intelligence of God omnipresent in creation. It is of interest that a colloquial Bengali rendering of 'Krishna' is 'Krista' (cf. Greek Christos and Spanish Chisto). 'Christ' and 'Krishna' are titles signifying divinity, meaning that these two avatars were one with God. While residing in physical form their consciousness expressed the one ness with the Christ Consciousness (Sanskrit: Kutastha Chaitanya), the Intelligence of God omnipresent in creation. This consciousness is also called the 'only begotten son of God' because it is the sole perfect reflection in creation of the Uncreated Infinite.

To understand what Christ Consciousness means, consider the contrast between your consciousness nad that of a little ant. The ant's awareness is limited by the minuscule size of his body; your consciousness resides throughout your relatively capacious form. If anyone touches any part of your body you are aware of it. Creation is the body of God, and His consciousness omnipresent therein in called Christ Consciousness. He is aware of whatever we do within His universal form, just as we are conscious of our little selves. Through oneness with that Christ Consciousness Jesus was able to know without being told, that Lazarus was dead.
The wonders of God's creation cannot be discovered by a cow; it is the unique potential of human beings to attain the omniscience of oneness with Christ Consciousness. I ask those who do not believe in God: 'Whence came the intelligence in man and the universe, if it is not produced in some divine "Factory" hidden behind the ether?' Such mysteries prompted Einstein to say that space looks very suspicious. Space is concealing God; His Intelligence is hidden there, for out of the 'nothingness' of space comes everything.
Being one with this Intelligence, which guides ever atom in creations, Jesus could materialize his form anywhere he wished. And he can still do so, just as he used to appear every night to St. Francis of Assisi. Jesus was conscious not only of his microcosmic physical form, but also of all creation as his macrocosmic body; he could truthfully say: 'I and my Father are one' (John 10:30). He experienced his presence in all atoms, even as does his Father. Jesus alluded to the omnipresent Christ Consciousness when he said, ' Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without [the sight of] your Father' (Matthew 10:29).
Christ came at a critical time in history, when the world was sorely in need of spiritual hope and regeneration (In the Bhagavad Gita the Lord says: 'O Bharata (Arjuna)! whenever virtue (dharma) declines and vice (adharma) predominates, I incarnate as an Avatar. In visible form I appear from age to age to protect the virtuous and to destroy evildoing in order to reestablish righteousness'- IV: 7-8) . His message was not intended to foster multifarious sects, east claiming him as their own. His was a universal message of unity, one of the grandest ever given. He reminded mankind that it is written in the scriptures, ' Ye all are gods' (John 10:34); and St. John voiced the inspiration and spirit of Christ's teaching when he said, 'But as many as received him [the Christ Consciousness manifested in Jesus and all creation], to them he gave power to become the sons of God' (John 1:12) Was there ever a greater message? Jesus assured the downtrodden, the white and the dark man, the Oriental and the Occidental, that they are all children of God; whoever is pure in heart, no matter what his race or color, can receive the Lord.
The charcoal and the diamond receive the same rays of the sun, but the diamond reflects their radiance. So, both in the Orient and the Occident, those who have diamond mentalities shall reflect God and be called sons of God, and those who keep themselves dark with evil qualities shall not be able to reflect His light.

All mankind should open its heart of Jesus' great message. '[God] hath made of one blood all nations of men' (John 1:12). That is the Christ inspiration I love so much. I want to make that message a living reality, to give it a practical application. Color prejudice is the most foolish of all man's displays of ignorance. Color is only skin deep. God gave darker skin pigment to races that originally lived under climatic conditions requiring greater protection from the sun, a purely practical measure; therefore white, yellow, red, or black skin is nothing to be particularly proud of. After all, the soul wears a bodily overcoat of one color in one lifetime and other hues in other incarnations. So the color of one's complexion is a very superficial thing. To have any color prejudice is to discriminate against God, who is sitting in the hearts of all red, white, yellow, olive, and black peoples of the world. Besides, it is well to remember that whoever hates any race will surely reincarnate in that bodily form; thus does the karmic law force man to overcome his soul-stifling prejudices. Train your heart to feel the brotherhood of man--that is most important.
Although Jesus' teachings were preordained to establish their strongest foundation in the West, he chose an incarnation in an Oriental body, and in the Jewish race, which has had a long history of persecution, because he wanted to demonstrate the folly ofjudging others according to distinctions of race and color. True Christianity must be lived; racial divisions must be banished. Prejudices and lack of real brotherhood are causes of war and disunion among God's Children. We must work at eradicating all incitements to war; in hate and prejudice lie bombs nad misery. Jesus warned: '...for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.' (Matthew 26:52) It is not the sword, but the practice of Christ principles that shall ultimately free the world. In the highest sense, God alone protects you. You can best help this world by ideal living, as taught by Christ adn all spiritually enlightened ones. Above all else, love God; don't you see the whole answer is in His hands? When He will push aside the screen of mystery, you will see the answer to all that was theretofore obscure and unfathomable.

Some Westerners consider Hindus heathens; they don't know that many Hindus consider Westerners heathens also--ignorance if fifty-fifty everywhere. I am sometimes asked if I believe in Jesus. I reply: 'Why such a question? We in India revere Jesus and his teachings, perhaps more than you do.'
In order to love Christ you must live what he taught, you must follow the example of his life. Jesus said: '...whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.' (Matthew 5:39). India has practiced this teaching more than any other nation. Many who call themselves Christians do not even apply it; they say that it is a beautiful philosophy, but if you were to slap them they would return twelve slaps, a kick and maybe a bullet! Anyone who retaliates is not a true Christian, or lover of Christ, for that is not the spirit of the all-forgiving Jesus.

Every time you see the symbol of the Cross it should remind you of what it stands for--that you must bear your crosses with right attitude, even as Jesus did. When you mean well and still you are misunderstood or mistreated, instead of being angry you should say as Christ did: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature--you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.

Those eternal principles of truth and righteousness taught by Jesus we take very seriously in India--we take them literally, without rationalizing them to suit our purposes. Jesus said : And everyone that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.' That spirit of renunciation for God is all pervasive in India. Especially in olden days it was the ideal of every man to give at least one part of his lifetime to God alone.........The message of Christ is one of compassion and forgiveness, renunciation (in spirit if one cannot of it in actuality), morality, brotherly love and unity and equality, and supreme love for God. Remember Jesus' admonition: 'And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?' ( Luke 6:46). The authenticity of the life of Christ had been questioned by many agnostics. Some have propounded the theory that Jesus was a legendary, his life a mere fictitious drama. I know that Christ was real, for I have seen him many times. Jesus was not fair complexioned as most of you in the West. He had dark skin. And his eyes were not pale blue, as many artist paint them; they were dark. Nor was his hair blond; it also was dark.....

Jesus promised to send the Holy Ghost, the Great Comforter (John 14:16,26; 15:26)...Through practice of the Self Realization techniques of meditation, the faithful student is able to realize the fulfillment of that promise. Worshiping Jesus is not truly meaningful until one can expand his consciousness to receive within himself the Christ consciousness. That is the second coming of Christ. Unless you do your part, a thousand Christs come on earth would not be able to save you. You have to work for your own salvation. Then Christ can help you.

The First two lines of Rudyard Kipling's poem became famous: 'East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet...' But just because I eat curry and you eat apple pie, why should there be division between us? Division is imaginary lines drawn by small minds. It is the result of superiority complexes, and it is the cause of wars and pernicious troubles. We must destroy division. Look to the example of the great Christ who came in the East and stands as a lofty ideal before East and West, telling them, 'Here am I in the midst of you; learn from one another, balance your spirituality and material development.' There he stands--a Christ of East and West--linking the two hemispheres with his message of unity. Can you not see him?"

(x-posted in interspiritual and satsanga)

Something very beautiful that a friend shared with me...

2005-06-18T15:26:48Z

Beautiful! :) May we always remember this:

From: ‘Yogi Sri Krishnaprem’ by Dilip Kumar Roy

“You say you find it hard to go on. That is a good sign. This path is the hardest in the world and as long as we find it easy we may be sure we are not getting very far but just free-wheeling easily along a level road. Oh yes, we may be happy and peaceful for a time but that happiness or peace is illusory; anything can disturb it and we achieve nothing. His peace is something quite different, something that has its being in the very heart of tremendous winds. Winds which would shatter us to atoms. It is only when the strain begins to tell on us, when the breath comes short, that we can know we are really climbing. Till then, all that we have done at most is to go over rapidly the ground we covered in a previous life. This life begins when the strain comes on – scarcely before. There is no attainment of Him until the egg-shell of self is broken. Why then should we complain when the breaking-strain begins to come on? With pain we are born both physically and spiritually, but it is the inner life we seek and not the self-enwrapped bliss of uterine existence.

Fill yourself with Krishna, occupy your thoughts with Him, and let all your actions be for Him. Surely you will find Him……………………..

…..Why worry over what your fellows around you say or do? Each of us has his or her own egg-shell cracked. Some are cracked in one way, some in another, but all are broken in the end…….

…………..See Krishna, think of Krishna, act for Krishna and, if you believe me, you will find Krishna with the uttermost certainty though the world should crack and open up beneath your feet. This is the truth. All else but Him is nothing, absolutely nothing”.

For Krishna...substitute any name of God (or an Avatar) you like. :)

(x-posted in _art_of_dying, hindus,satsanga, interspiritual, and earthreflections)

srflj @ 2005-06-02T13:19:00

2005-06-02T20:20:41Z

I'm so glad I found this place! I've been studying and following the teachings of Yogananda, and Kriyananda for a number of months now, and feeling more spiritually fulfilled by it that ever before. I took a break from it for a couple weeks though, to study Christianity, and started attending a church near my house, but didn't find the same life and energy there that I did at the mandir, so I plan on starting to attend the mandir again. I'm not really sure what else to say, seeing as my spiritual developement is really just about the only thing in my life I really care about, other than studying philosophy and history.

A quote I like...

2005-06-01T19:40:29Z

“Even while striving to improve yourself, learn to stand alone, secure in your own virtues and self-worth. If you want others to believe in you, remember, it isn’t only your words that have an effect, but what you are and what you feel within—what is in your soul. Always strive to be an angel within, no matter how others behave. Be sincere, kind, loving, and understanding.”- Paramahansa Yogananda
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So beautiful. :)

150th Anniversary of the birth of Sri Yukteswar

2005-05-11T02:01:46Z

This was on the SRF website...(hidden!)...and I thought worth interesting since today is in fact the 150th Birthday of Swami Sri Yukteswar...Paramahansa Yogananda's guru (and one of the best translaters of the Bible IMHO--he does it in AoY...and its absolutely amazing)...

http://www.yogananda-srf.org/special_ancmnts/150annv_sy/150anv_e.html

Happy Birthday Swamiji! :)

"Door of My Heart" or "Heart Song"

2005-05-10T00:42:09Z

I keeping with svggrdnbeauty's poetry kick, here's two of my favourite chants that I still remember from SRF:

Door Of My Heart

Door of my heart
Open wide I keep for thee
Wilt Thou come
Wilt Thou come
Just for once
Come to me
Will my days
Fly away
Without seeing
Thee, my Lord
Night and Day
Night and Day
I look for Thee
Night and Day

And you can keep repeating various parts of it over and over and mixing it up. Dad used to sing it to my brother and I sometimes before going to bed.

Heart Song
Listen, listen, listen
To my heart song
Listen, listen, listen
To my heart song
I will never forget Thee
I will never forsake Thee
I will never forget Thee
I will never forsake Thee

And you just keep repeating it over and over.

Beautiful stuff. Sometimes, I like to mix the two of them together.

"missy42"

A poem...

2005-05-09T22:34:25Z

You have no idea (unless you read my journal...) how much poetry I've been reading/writing...but for you guys (and to kick off this community)...ta da:

One Friend

Many clouds do race to hide Thee –
Of friends and wealth and fame –
And yet through mist of tears I see
Appear Thy Golden Name.
Each time my father, mother, friends
Do loudly claim they did me tend,
I wake from sleep to sweetly hear
That Thou alone didst help me here.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

Can you believe...

2005-05-07T04:48:45Z

I was actually going to start one of these communities...and you guys beat me too it...lol. So, well thanks. Not much to say...love the teachings of SRF...love Paramahansa Yogananda...thinking about starting the lessons... that's about all. So, "hi" all and thanks Missy for posting in the Satsanga community in which I followed the link to your profile and found this community...lol. :):)

*Peace and Love*
Nicole

srflj @ 2005-05-06T19:45:00

2005-05-07T02:42:34Z

So just joined. Looks like it's just me and bigblackcloud for now.

Well, my parents (a couple of great old hippies) have been bringing me to SRF Lake Shrine since before I can remember. I'm off at college in Tacoma now, so I don't go the services very much any more, but I still love the teachings of SRF and Paramahansa Yogananda, and still practice the breathing techniques and all.

Hope this place starts to pick up soon.

"missy42"