JANMOTSAV 2019 BULLETIN
YEAR-END PROGRAMME 2018
Occasion | Date | Time | Programme |
Christmas Long Meditation | December 22 – 23, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Long Meditation |
Christmas | December 25, 2018 | 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. | Children’s Programme at Dakshineswar Ashram |
December 25, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. | Satsanga at Garpar Kendra and at Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri Smriti Mandir, Serampore | |
5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | Commemoration at Dakshineswar Ashram | ||
December 31, 2018 | 10:00 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. | New Year Eve Meditation |
JANMOTSAV PROGRAMME 2019
Venue | Date | Time | Programme |
Yogoda Satsanga Math | January 1, 2019 | 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. | Opening Satsanga |
January 2, 2019 | 7:00 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. | Energization Exercises and Meditation | |
January 3, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Long Meditation | |
January 4, 2019 | 8:30 a.m. | Kriya Yoga Diksha | |
January 5, 2019 | 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. | Prabhat Feri | |
Yogoda Satsanga Dhyana Kendra—Dihika, | January 6, 2019 | 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. | Prabhat Feri |
Yogoda Satsanga Sakha Kendra—Garpar | January 12, 2019 | 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. | Prabhat Feri |
Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri Smriti Mandir | January 13, 2019 | 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. | Prabhat Feri |
Yogoda Satsanga Math, Dakshineswar | January 19, 2019 | 8:00 a.m. onwards | Medical Champ |
Yogoda Satsanga Dhyana Kendra—Telary | January 18, 2019 | 8:00 a.m. onwards | Medical & Eye Champ |
January 19, 2019 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Energization Exercises review | |
January 20, 2019 | 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. | Prabhat Feri | |
Paramahansa Yogananda Dhyana Mandir, Payradanga, P. O. Priti Nagar, Dist. Nadia | January 27, 2019 | 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. | Prabhat Feri |
SPECIAL DAYS OF COMMEMORATION
The programme on these occasions will comprise of meditation, satsanga, pushpanjali, and prasad
Commemoration of | Date | Time | Place & Address |
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoganandaji’s Mahasamadhi Divas | March 7, 2019 | 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | YOGODA SATSANGA MATH |
Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri’s Mahasamadhi Divas | March 9, 2019 | 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | |
Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri’s | May 10, 2019 | 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | |
Mahasamadhi Divas of Gurudeva and Parama Gurudeva | March 10, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon | Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri Smriti Mandir |
Please Note: Similar programmes will be conducted at the Garpar, Dihika, and Telary Kendras on these commemoration days too. Please contact Dakshineswar Ashram for details of programmes.
WEEKEND SPIRITUAL RETREAT
At Yogoda Satsanga Math, Dakshineswar
“Be with people in silence; don’t spend precious time and energy in idle talk. Eat in silence; work in silence. God loves silence.”
— Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.
Retreat at | Day & Date | Place & Address |
Telary | Friday to Sunday | Yogoda Satsanga Dhyana Kendra—Telary |
Dakshineswar | Friday to Sunday | YOGODA SATSANGA MATH |
These retreats include group meditations, satsanga, review of meditation techniques by YSS sannyasis. The participants are requested to maintain silence during the retreat to deepen their attunement with God and Gurus and to build their inner environment.
If you are interested in participating in any of these retreat programmes, please register at least one week in advance at the Ashram Reception Office, giving your full name, address, Lesson Registration Number, age, phone no(s) and arrival and departure date and time. For the retreat at Telary participants have to reach directly at our Telary ashram on the evening before the starting date.
We would like to inform devotees that the retreat centres at Dihika, Telary and Serampore are available round the year. As we know, Dihika is the site where Gurudeva sowed the seeds of his sacred worldwide mission.
LONG MEDITATION PROGRAMMES
At Yogoda Satsanga Math, Dakshineswar
“Remember that the longer you practice meditation with intensity, the nearer you will be to joyous contact with the silent God. Intensity consists in making every today’s meditation deeper than yesterday’s and every tomorrow’s meditation deeper than today’s.”
— Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.
Note: The programmes will comprise of prayer, reading, chanting, and meditation. There will be a break of half-an-hour in between.
Devotees with cough and cold are requested to please abstain from attending the long meditation.
It is extremely important that during the entire session, each devotee makes an extra effort to sit completely still. In this group endeavour, restless movements and any sound could disturb the devotees present.
If you are interested in participating in these programmes, you are requested to please register at least one week in advance at the Ashram Reception Office, giving your full name, address, Lesson Registration No., age, phone no(s), and specifying the date of your attendance.
Date | Duration | Time |
February 23, 2019 | 6 hours | 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
March 30, 2019 | 6 hours | 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
April 27, 2019 | 6 hours | 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
May 25, 2019 | 6 hours | 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
June 29, 2018 | 6 hours | 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
Please also note that, with a view to make Gurudeva’s life-transforming teachings available to the interested souls YSS will be participating, as in the years past, in the forthcoming Kolkata Book Fair to be held from January 30 to February 10, 2019.
