Portland Center of Self-Realization Fellowship

09/30/2025

Birthday of Sri Sri Lahiri Mahasaya

I am ever with those who practise Kriya. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your ever enlarging spiritual perceptions.

- Sri Sri Lahiri Mahasaya
“Autobiography of a Yogi”
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09/29/2025

Sri Lahiri Mahasaya Special Service at Portland Center (September 2025)
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09/26/2025

Lahiri Mahasaya was no bookish interpreter of the scriptures. Effortlessly he dipped into the ‘divine library.’ Foam of words and spray of thoughts gushed from the fountain of his omniscience. He had the wondrous clavis that unlocked the profound philosophical science hidden ages ago in the Vedas. If asked to explain the different planes of consciousness mentioned in the ancient texts, he would smilingly assent.

‘I will undergo those states, and presently tell you what I perceive.’ He was thus diametrically unlike the teachers who commit scripture to memory and then give forth unrealized abstractions.

‘Please expound the holy stanzas as the meaning occurs to you.’ The taciturn guru often gave this instruction to a nearby disciple. ‘I will guide your thoughts, that the right interpretation be uttered.’ In this way many of Lahiri Mahasaya’s perceptions came to be recorded, with voluminous commentaries by various students.

- Paramahansa Yogananda
Autobiography of a Yogi
(Swami Kebalanandaji), “Chapter 4 :
My uninterrupted flight towards the Himalayas”

09/26/2025

SEPTEMBER 26 - PERFECTION
MAHASAMADHI OF SRI LAHIRI MAHASAYA

“At the morning hour of ten, one day after the body of Lahiri Mahasaya had been consigned to the flames, the resurrected master, in a real but transfigured body, appeared before three disciples, each of whom was in a different city.
‘So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?’ (I Corinthians 15:54-55, Bible).”

- PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

09/25/2025

“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda
SRF YSS Monks Kriya Yoga Meditation

09/22/2025

Happy international day of peace ☮️🙏🏽♥️

Would you like to know how you can help establish peace in our world? In this video, Self-Realization Fellowship monk Brother Satyananda shares wisdom from P...

09/01/2025

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Would you like to learn how to live beyond worries and fears? In this video, Self-Realization Fellowship monk Brother Kamalananda shares wisdom from Paramaha...

09/01/2025

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“Empty the heart of wrong feelings; let it be loving and forgiving....Never allow the ill feelings or actions of others to embitter you. If you do, then you are lost. You will not be able to help yourself or them. Keep your heart free of malice, no matter how anyone treats you, no matter what others do. If you give love, you will have peace in your soul.” — Sri Daya Mata

08/17/2025

Summer blooms at the meditation garden at the Portland Center
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08/17/2025

Sri Krishna Janmashatami Celebration at the Portland Center (August 17 2025)
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07/28/2025

Mahavatar Babaji Commemoration Special Service at Portland Center (July 27, 2025)
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07/10/2025

“It is the mercy of my true Guru that has made me to know the unknown;
I have learned from Him how to walk without feet, to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to drink without mouth, to fly without wings;
I have brought my love and my meditation into the land where there is no sun and moon, nor day and night.
Without eating, I have tasted of the sweetness of nectar; and without water, I have quenched my thirst.
Where there is the response of delight, there is the fullness of joy. Before whom can that joy be uttered?
Kabir says: “ The Guru is great beyond words, and great is the good fortune of the disciple. “”

- Songs of Kabir (Translated by Ravindranath Tagore, mentioned in Swami Bhavananda’s SRF talk titled- The good fortune of the disciple)
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