Perth Meditation Group of Self-Realization Fellowship

24/06/2025

This is just a reminder that we are running a daily program of Convocation at the Temple from Monday 23rd - Saturday 28th June.

As you will see, the program includes a one-hour talk by a Monastic from 10.30-11.30am, followed by a one-hour Monastic led meditation each day from 12 - 1pm.

On Saturday 28th June there will be a shared lunch after the program, so please bring vegetarian food and/or a drink.

Our usual services during next week will also feature screenings from Convocation -

Tuesday 24th 7-8.10pm - One-hour Monastic led meditation followed by the Healing Service
Friday 27th 6-9pm - 3 hour meditation with SRF Monks and Kirtan
Sunday 29th 8-11am - the screening service will be Satsanga (Q & A) with a Monastic

Also Sunday 6th July 8-11am - 3 hour meditation with Brother Chidananda

We do hope you will join us and attend some or all of the sessions.

Many thanks and we wish you all a blessed Convocation

08/04/2025

Our first rented space for meditation (1959 to 1975)

For reasons not specified, the devotees find meeting in private homes unsatisfactory.They begin looking for premises that might be suitable as a chapel.

A friend of Walter’s, has the management of a two level office in Hay St, opposite Mercedes College.Walter is shown a suite of three rooms in the upper level, just off the wooden landing.He is delighted and takes the rooms for $6 a week.

The relationship with the management is so amiable, that as the rent rises over the years for the other tenants, it stays fixed for The First Hay St Chapel. It is the beginning of a number of Guruji touches on finances.The first room is adapted as a joint reception room, library and bookshop.The largest middle room becomes the Chapel and the third small room, off the Chapel triples as a meeting room, kitchen and party room and preparation space.The suite of rooms is decorated and furnished in the colours of the spiritual eye.

The ceilings are white, the walls are sky blue as well as the drapes hanging behind the altar and the cushions on the chairs are fashioned from a golden hued fabric. The floor coverings are in tones of blue.Walter has an altar and lectern built and lovingly carves candleholders by hand.

The altar is against the eastern wall, so the congregation looks to the east as they meditate.There is seating for about a dozen devotees.The First Hay St Chapel is the centre of Self-Realization Fellowship devotion for about sixteen years, from 1959 to 1975.It is here that the devotees receive the first Mother Centre monastic to visit Perth. In 1966 Brother Mokshananda visits the Group

Text by Murrie Jupp.

01/03/2025

SRF Perth History.

Pictured here is Brother Mokshananda with our group founder Walter Dawson and other devotees in 1966. Brother was the last monastic to enter the Self Realization Fellowship ashram whilst the Guru was still alive.

You can hear some excerpts from a talk he gave here

https://yogananda.org/brother-mokshananda-on-paramahansa-yogananda

22/02/2025

Paramahansa Yogananda said, “Every person needs a retreat, a dynamo of silence where he may go for the exclusive purpose of being recharged by the Infinite.”

Perth devotees have been using the beautiful Nathanael's Retreat in Mundaring to enjoy weekend silent retreats in where they can gather to practise the teachings of the Guru and enjoy fellowship in nature.

Pictured here is the group from February's retreat.

16/02/2025

Remember to check out our webpage at https://srf-perthgroup.com/index.php for more information. Below is a list of our current services, all are welcome.

14/02/2025

Some of our Perth Devotees had the blessed experience of travelling to Sydney for Satsang with our Beloved President Brother Chidananda on January the 26th. Brother was making his way to India and was adamant that he wanted to visit Australia. This historic event marked the first time an SRF President has visited Australia. By all accounts it was a very uplifting experience as devotees travelled from all over the country to share in this sacred occasion.

10/05/2024

Conserve your powers. Be like the capricious ocean, absorbing quietly all the tributary rivers of the senses. Daily renewed sense yearnings sap your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that permit vital waters to be wasted in the desert soil of materialism. The forceful, activating impulse of wrong desire is the greatest enemy to the happiness of man. Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; don't let the frogs of sense weakness kick you around.

-- Autobiography of a Yogi

29/03/2024

The Crucifixion

And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him….
Then said Jesus, “ Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
--Luke 23:33-34

Of all the miracles performed by Jesus, none was equal to that mightiest miracle of the spiritual victory of divine love over evil: " Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." These words have created in human hearts an everlasting monument to Christ-love......

His act of forgiveness on the cross was the utterance of a divinely human Jesus who had attained final victory over flesh and cosmic delusion and passed the greatest test to which the flesh can be subjected. Even while the dearest thing in life, the human body, was suffering the pangs of torment and imminent death, Jesus did not falter in manifesting his divine nature….He gave his body but never yielded his spirit.

--Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ, The Resurrection of Christ Within You

07/03/2024

05/01/2024

Celebrating Guru Paramahansa Yoganandaji's birthday today was a truly divine experience! 🙏✨ Meditated, prayed, chanted, and shared joy with fellow devotees. Cutting the cake was a sweet culmination of spiritual bliss. Grateful for the teachings and inspiration!

05/01/2024

Without a guru the average devotee cannot find God. It requires 25% devoted practice of meditation techniques; 25% blessings of the guru; and 50% grace of God. If you remain steadfast in your efforts to the end, He will appear before you.

01/01/2024

Choose which habits you are going to destroy in the New Year. Make up your mind about them and stick to your decision. Resolve to give more time to God: to meditate regularly every day, and on one night each week to meditate several hours, so that you can feel your spiritual progress in God. Resolve that you are going to practice Kriya Yoga regularly and that you are going to control your appetites and emotions. Be a master! Make up your mind strongly now.
Think of the good resolutions you have made in the past- that you were not going to be dictated to by your old habits and thoughts. But have you kept them? It is an insult to your soul and to God to give in to your weaknesses. Be master of yourself, captain of your destiny. Danger and you were born together, and you are the elder brother, more dangerous than danger! Do not lose the courage and determination that you feel as you listen to me now. Pray with me:
"Heavenly Father, give us the strength to carry out all our good resolutions in the New Year. May we always please Thee by our actions. Our spirits are willing. Help us to materialize all our worthy wishes in the New Year. We will reason, we will will, we will act; but guide Thou our reason, will, and activity to the right thing that we should do in everything.
Aum. Peace. Amen.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.
Man's Eternal Quest. P.191.
[Controlling your new year's destiny]