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Tales of the miraculous have always encircled the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine. The story of its 1950 founding goes that the spiritual guru Paramahansa Yogananda purchased the 10-acre ...
Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) is a worldwide religious organization founded in 1920 by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian guru who authored Autobiography of a Yogi. Before moving to the United States, Yogananda began his spiritual work in India in 1917 and named it Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS).
YSSI Headquarters, Dakshineswar, India Yogoda Satsanga Sakha Math, Ranchi, India Temple at Yogoda Satsanga Sakha Math, Dwarahat, India. Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS) is a non-profit, nonsectarian [6] spiritual organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1917 and is a part of the Self-Realization Fellowship which was founded in 1920 to care for and disseminate his teachings.
Sunburst, also known as Brotherhood of the Sun, [1] is an intentional community founded in 1969 by Norman Paulsen in Santa Barbara, California. [1] Sunburst began in the late 1960s, inspired by an idea for self-sustaining World Brotherhood Colonies envisioned by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi and author of the 1946 book Autobiography of a Yogi and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship.
The memorial service for Lux Interior, lead singer of the Cramps, was held on February 21, 2009, at the Windmill Chapel. Dennis Weaver was a member of the Self-Realization Fellowship [29] and spoke once a month at the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine for seventeen years, [30] while Gerry, his wife, played the organ. He said, "We called ...
The "Energization Exercises", a vital part of Ananda Yoga, are Yogananda's contribution to yoga. He first developed them in 1916, within his organization then called Yogoda, which he changed to Self-Realization Fellowship / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in the 1930s. [15] He eventually expanded them into a set of 39 exercises.
In 1920, Yogananda migrated from India to the United States, where he founded Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). During the Great Depression, Yogananda argued that the permanent solution to the Depression was for individuals to "destroy selfishness" by reducing consumption and greed. [1]
He also gave weekly classes in Boston that would consist of a half-hour exposition of the Bhagavad Gita, a half-hour exposition of the Gospels, and a half-hour discourse demonstrating their unity. [9] [10] A preliminary serialization of Yogananda's talks had started in Self-Realization Fellowship’s magazine in 1932. It was completed during ...