Paramahansa Yogananda on Harmonizing Your Life With the Divine

June 2022 Newsletter

Dear Divine Atman,

“The secret of bringing harmony into the outer circumstances of your life,” Sri Sri Daya Mata, beloved late president of YSS/SRF, says in her book Enter the Quiet Heart, “is to establish an inner harmony with your soul and with God.”

In this month’s YSS Newsletter, we share wisdom from Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda on how to live more in harmony with the soul, so we will be able to perceive and draw from the divine harmony that is all around us.

From the talks and writings of Paramahansa Yogananda…

When you know God as peace within, you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.

Meditation opens wide all the closed inner doors of your body, mind, and soul to admit the surge of God’s power. Your whole body and entire being changes when you practise meditation regularly. When you really contact God, all things become harmonious; all things melt into an ocean of peace. But you have to practise meditation earnestly, consistently, and continually, in order to have the full consciousness of that supreme force.

Through meditation, and acting in harmony with divine law, you link your individuality to Cosmic Intelligence, and become one with that Intelligence in the tiniest atom and the farthest star — and in Infinitude, whence universes come and whither they return.

God is not partial. His spirit is as fully within you as it was in Jesus and the great Masters. Find it by making your mind more transparent, more receptive. The more you meditate and remember that image of God, the more you will feel God’s harmony uniting all things. Meditation and holding on to God’s presence in that inner calmness all day long is what is necessary.

Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Live a godly life yourself and everyone who crosses your path will be helped just by being with you.

Let us live as a great divine family in a United World of Oneness, knowing within and without the harmony and bliss of Spirit.

If you haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, we encourage you to view the recent talk by YSS/SRF President Sri Sri Swami Chidananda Giri that was released as part of our weekly online inspirational talk series: “Attuning Our Lives With God’s Plan.” In that talk, recorded at the 2009 SRF World Convocation, Swami Chidanandaji delves deeply into Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings on identifying with our soul-nature in order to bring harmony into our lives, surmount the difficulties of the world, and be able to realize for ourselves that, as Paramahansaji relates in Autobiography of a Yogi, “a divine universal plan exists and…it is beautiful and full of joy.”

Watch inspirational talk

International Day of Yoga Programmes

For the eighth annual International Day of Yoga, we will be live-streaming two events on our online platform. These events introduce newcomers to the basics of meditation such as correct posture, breathing exercises, visualization, and affirmation. A YSS sannyasi will first explain how to cultivate peace within ourselves by the practice of yoga-meditation and then lead the participants through successive steps in a guided meditation.

“Experience Peace Through Yoga-Meditation”
(Includes a guided meditation session)

Saturday, June 18
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (IST)

in Hindi

Sunday, June 19
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (IST)

In English

As these events are an introduction to yoga-meditation, we encourage you to invite friends and all those interested to join these events.

Dedication of a New Dhyana Mandir at Yogoda Satsanga Sakha Ashram – Noida

On Sunday, May 29, 2022, more than 850 devotees gathered at the YSS Noida ashram for a new Dhyana Mandir dedication function. The programme started at 10 a.m. with a sankirtan led by Swami Vasudevananda. With the blowing of the conch, Swamis Vishwananda and Smaranananda entered the Dhyana Mandir followed by monks and devotees. Swami Vishwananda performed the arati and led everyone into prayer.

Learn more

2022 SRF World Convocation

Registration Now Open!
August 14 – 20 (Online and In-Person)

Join the SRF World Convocation — online or in-person in Los Angeles — for a week of spiritual renewal and recharging! Experience this unique programme of classes on Paramahansa Yogananda’s “how-to-live” teachings and meditation techniques, guided group meditations and kirtans (devotional chanting), pilgrimage tours to the ashrams where the great guru lived and communed with God, and more.

See schedule and register

Divya Prem-Lila

(The Divine Romance in Hindi)

Coming Soon…

We are happy to inform you that Divya Prem-Lila — the Hindi translation of Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda’s book The Divine Romance, which is the second in the series of his anthologies — will be released in the coming weeks.