Dear Divine Atman,

In this month’s newsletter we share wisdom from Paramahansa Yogananda on how to transform human love into divine love. And we invite you to enjoy a guided meditation by an SRF sannyasi to put these truths into practice. 

From the talks and writings of Paramahansa Yogananda:

God is playing hide-and-seek through human hearts, so that ultimately you will understand that it is His love you are seeking in your human loves. If you omit God from your human loves, love fades away. But by bringing God into your daily life, ordinary human love changes into divine love, manifested from the image of God within you.

It is not necessary to know and love all human beings and other creatures personally and individually. All you need to do is to be ready at all times to shed the light of friendly service over all living creatures whom you happen to meet. This attitude requires constant mental effort and preparedness; in other words, unselfishness.

If we understand the spiritual purpose of relationships — to teach the expansion of self-love in ever-widening circles of love for others — then through the gates of friendship, conjugal affection, parental love, and love of all fellow beings and all animate creatures we can enter into the kingdom of almighty, super-, or Divine Love.

No love is real love until it is one with God’s love; for all true love comes from God alone. Human love, to be divine, must be deep and selfless. Purify the heart’s love until it becomes divine.

An affirmation to practise: “As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God’s love to come to me. Divine love is the magnet that draws to me all good.”

At the link below you will find more profound inspiration and guidance from Paramahansaji on the nature of divine love, and how to experience and express it in your life.

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Guided Meditation on Expanding Love

Join SRF sannyasi Swami Govindananda Giri for a guided meditation on “Expanding Love,” a meditation given by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Metaphysical Meditations. (This guided experience was first streamed as part of the 2021 SRF World Convocation.)

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Discussing the Legacy of Autobiography of a Yogi

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi, Princeton University’s Hindu Life Programme interviewed SRF sannyasi Swami Kamalananda Giri and author Philip Goldberg on the enduring influence of Paramahansaji’s teachings. The interview, entitled “Autobiography of a Yogi: Its Light and Legacy, 75 Years Later,” can be viewed by clicking the button below.

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May you feel an ever increasing awareness of the Divine Love that is within you and all those whom you meet.

In divine friendship,

Yogoda Satsanga Society of India