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Join a Three-Hour Meditation With SRF/YSS President Brother Chidananda to honor Bhagavan Krishna on this auspicious occasion.
Join a Monastic-led Retreat on the topic of “How to Live a Balanced Life in Today’s World.”
Continue to Experience the Inspiration of the 2025 SRF World Convocation!
Join a one-day retreat themed Solving the Mystery of Life
Join a three-hour meditation in honor of Paramahansa Yogananda's birth anniversary
Solving the Mystery of Life is the highly anticipated fourth volume in Paramahansa Yogananda’s acclaimed anthology series, Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life. With personal counsel and profound insights delivered extemporaneously, Yogananda illuminates the universal path of yoga and shows how to live with wisdom, resilience, and joy in daily life — much needed in our rapidly changing world.
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Paramahansa Yogananda is a world-renowned spiritual master and the author of the bestseller Autobiography of a Yogi. Yogananda is recognized as one of the greatest emissaries to the world of India's ancient wisdom and science of meditation. His life and Kriya Yoga teachings continue to be a source of light and inspiration to people of all races, cultures, and creeds. Solving the Mystery of Life reflects Paramahansa Yogananda's unique ability to blend profound wisdom with practical insight.
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Few books can claim to hold the answers to life’s greatest questions. In Solving the Mystery of Life, Paramahansa Yogananda not only reveals the meaning and purpose of life, but also clearly explains the spiritual laws by which yogis attain self-mastery, and provides methods and principles to attain true and lasting happiness. From one who solved the mystery of life himself, Yogananda explains the divine laws at work in the universe and how to live in harmony with them.
The book presents Paramahansa Yogananda’s How-to-Live teachings, which offer timeless, practical guidance for living with balance, clarity, and inner peace in today’s fast-paced and uncertain world. Rooted in ancient yogic wisdom, How-to-Live teachings address every aspect of life — body, mind, and soul — helping readers navigate stress, find purpose, and stay connected with their higher selves.
Yogananda’s talks and classes in the earliest years of his mission were recorded only intermittently. When Sri Daya Mata (who later became president of Self-Realization Fellowship) joined his ashram in 1931, she undertook the task of faithfully recording Yogananda’s hundreds of lectures, classes, and informal talks so that his wisdom and inspiration could be preserved in their original power and purity for generations to come.
Many types of inspirational programs are held throughout the year both in person and online. View 2025 dates for:
Brother Chidananda has been the president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India since 2017. These events are a special opportunity to spend time with Brother Chidananda in a spirit of divine fellowship. Dates of events will be added as they are announced throughout the year. Learn more about the in-person events with Brother Chidananda held in India on the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India website.
In Self-Realization Fellowship, commemorative services are conducted throughout the year to honor the enlightened gurus in the SRF lineage. SRF monks and nuns lead these services and meditations online in multiple languages throughout the year, as well as in English in SRF Temples. SRF members also lead services at SRF centers and groups around the world. Please see the featured events at the top of this page for links to join upcoming commemorative services. For information about in-person events, please check with the SRF location nearest you.
SRF monastics regularly travel to cities around the globe to lead weekend retreat programs. SRF monks and nuns and SRF/YSS members also lead one-day online retreat programs in English and other languages throughout the year. As well, SRF centers and groups worldwide hold retreats at local retreat facilities for SRF members and friends. To find out if an SRF center or group near you is planning to offer a retreat program, please contact your nearest SRF location directly.
Self-Realization Fellowship monks and nuns will be conducting public lectures, guided meditations, and inspirational programs for SRF members and friends in the following cities. For more information about program details, please contact the SRF location directly.
The technique of Kriya Yoga is taught in person to eligible SRF Lessons students at sacred initiation ceremonies conducted by authorized ordained Self-Realization Fellowship ministers. It is also sent in a special series of printed Lessons that cover every aspect of the Kriya science. (Learn more about the Kriya Yoga path of meditation.)
For eligible SRF Lessons students who are able, there is great value and inspiration in receiving initiation (diksha) in person. Kriya Yoga initiation ceremonies will be held in the following cities this year:
Each year thousands of spiritual seekers from countries around the world gather for a powerful week of spiritual renewal and rejuvenation at the SRF World Convocation. This immersive program on the “how-to-live” teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda is offered both online and in person. As part of this program, SRF monks and nuns visit cities around the globe and lead Convocation activities.
Paramahansa Yogananda felt deeply for the welfare of youth and took a lifelong interest in their all-around education. Building on the rich, in-person offerings developed for SRF Youth Programs over many decades, SRF online How-to-Live programs teach young people how to lay a spiritual foundation for their lives, one that becomes a sustaining positive influence long after the series of classes. Learn more and register.
During the Holiday Season we will be streaming various events led by SRF monks and nuns. In-person special events will also held at SRF locations during this time — for information about in-person events, please check with the SRF location nearest you. We hope you will be able to join us to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s.
The following events are offered by the SRF Online Meditation Center. Please visit the SRF Online Meditation center website for detailed event information and instructions on how to participate.
Self-Realization Fellowship observes a number of anniversaries each year with special commemorative ceremonies at our temples, centers, groups, and circles worldwide.
Please check your SRF location for the exact times or visit the SRF Online Meditation Center calendar for information on how you can participate online.
January 5 | Birthday of Paramahansa Yogananda |
January 13 | Paramahansa Yogananda Commemorative Meditation |
March 7 | Mahasamadhi of Paramahansa Yogananda |
March 9 | Mahasamadhi of Sri Yukteswar |
March 29 | Good Friday |
March 31 | Easter Sunday |
May 10 | Birthday of Sri Yukteswar |
July 25 | Mahavatar Babaji Commemoration Day |
August 26 | Janmashtami (birth of Bhagavan Krishna) |
September 26 | Mahasamadhi of Lahiri Mahasaya |
September 30 | Birthday of Lahiri Mahasaya |
December 7 | Online Christmas Open House |
December 14 | All-Day Christmas Meditation |
December 31 | New Year's Eve Meditation |
In an era when meditation, self-improvement, and wellness are part of the mainstream, Yogananda offers the tested wisdom of the ages, including endless good advice on how to:
