Newsletter For Oct- Nov - Dec 2018

Newsletter for Oct- Nov - Dec 2018SchedulesSunday MorningsEnergization Exercises 9am 9:15Personal Meditation 9 - 9:30Meditation Service 9:30 - 10:15Reading Service 10:30 - 11:30Sunday School 10:30 - 11:30amWednesday EveningsLessons Study Group 7:30pm 8:30pm (for lesson students only)Saturday Mornings5-hour Meditation 7am - NoonGroup practice of EnergizationExercises 7:00am & 9:30amFirst Saturday of month - GuidedMeditation 10am-NoonLast Saturday of month - Kirtan10am - NoonSocial GatheringsVegetarian Potluck after SundayReading Service the first Sundayof every month.Sunday ReadingsScheduleOctober7 Loyalty: Highest Law ofSpiritual Success14 What Is Truth?21 Ways to Conquer Fear28 What Is the Soul?NovemberSpecial ServicesOur Guru Paramahansa Y ogananda said, "Celebration of thebirthday of a God-realized soul should not be belittled as amerely social ceremony. It is a deeply spiritual occasion onw hich the vibrations of blessing from an illumined masterare stronger than on other days of the year, because in theastral w orld, also, a celebration is taking place. Devoteesw ho attend these birthday ceremonies w ith the rightattitude w ill reap spiritual benefits and w ill find their highresolutions strengthened."There are two Special Serv ices during the 4th quarter of201 8 and one during the 1 st quarter of 201 9.Saturday Dec 1 5, 201 8: 9A M-4PM - A ll Day ChristmasMeditationSunday Dec 31 , 201 8: 1 1 PM-1 2:30A M - New Y ear'sEv e MeditationSaturday Jan 5, 201 9: 7 :30PM-8:30PM Paramahansa Y ogananda's Birthday Commemorativ eServ iceSaturday Jan 1 2, 201 9: 9A M-4PM - A ll DayMeditation for Paramahansa Y ogananda's Birthday .The chapel is generally open half an hour before eachserv ice. For each commemorativ e serv ice, please bring aflower to be offered as an ex pression of dev otion to God andthe SRF Gurus and a monetary offering, if y ou wish, in anenv elope as a sy mbol of loy alty and faithfulness to the causeof SRF. Checks for the commemorativ e offerings should bemade out to Self-Realization Fellowship.News From MMG

4 Overcoming Nervousness11 A Spiritual Approach to WorldPeace18 Habit: Your Master or YourSlave?25 Giving Thanks for Life'sBlessingsDecember2 The Purpose of Life9 How to Find Lasting Joy16 The Divine Nature of Christ23 Celebrating Christmas in theTemple of the Soul30 Make Yourself What YouWant to BeQuote From MasterWe held a general meeting of the group on Sept 1 6th,201 8 and celebrated pay ing off the loan on ourChurch building. We offer heartfelt thanks to all thedev otees who hav e contributed to the building fundov er the last twelv e y ears. We sincerely appreciatey our generosity . Brother Dev ananda also sent amessage to our group to congratulate us on pay ing offthe loan on the building. To read Brother's message,check the bulletin board downstairs in the church.On A ugust 1 st, 201 8, Mother Center confirmed theresults of our recent elections, including A tul Dear astreasurer, Sarah Clowes as secretary , and LilianaTobon as council member at large. The letterconfirming the election from Center Department canbe accessed here.To be responsive to the healingpower of God, the mind must betrained to believe in divine aid.Out of that Great Power allatomic energy isthrobbing, manifesting andsustaining every cell of thephysical universe. As movingpictures are sustained by a beamof light coming from theprojection booth of a moviehouse, so are all of us sustainedby the Cosmic Beam, the DivineLight pouring from the projectionbooth of Eternity. When you lookto, and find that Beam, you willbehold Its unlimited power torebuild the atoms and electronsand lifetrons in all body cells thatmay be "out of order." Communewith the Great Healer!- Paramahansa Yogananda Healing by God's UnlimitedPower, Man's Eternal QuestionPage 90.Minneapolis Meditation Group rev amped its website.Please see our new lookhere: http://srfminneapolis.org/MMG Facebook PageThe Minneapolis Meditation Group now has a Facebookpage.Y ou can sign up here https://www.facebook.com/mmgsrf/If y ou are interested in spiritualizing y our Facebook timeand would like to assist, please contact V iv ek Goel or acouncil member by emailing tocouncil@srfminneapolis.org.MMG Upcoming EventsMov ie Night will be held on Saturday October 20,201 8. Check our weekly announcements for detailscloser to the date.India Day Celebration: A fter huge success of our 201 7India Day celebrations, an India Day potluck hasbeen scheduled for Nov ember 4th, 201 8.Retreat: We are happy to announce that in 201 9 ourgroup will sponsor a SRF monastic lead retreat in the

spring of 201 9. Details on this retreat will be av ailablein late 201 8 or early 201 9.Sunday SchoolNote that Sunday School has started again this Fall and thatthere will be no Sunday School on 1 2/30/201 8 due toChristmas break and in entire month of January . Nex t y ear,Sunday School would resume on Feb 3rd 201 9 and endsJune 2nd 201 9.World Convocation 2018The 201 8 World Conv ocation was held from A ugust 5 - 1 1 ,201 8. Brother Chidananda, president and spiritual head ofSelf-Realization Fellowship, deliv ered a deeply inspiringsatsanga on the teachings of Paramahansa Y ogananda at the201 8 SRF World Conv ocation in Los A ngeles. A link to thev ideo recording is posted below. This was originally liv estreamed from the Westin Bonav enture Hotel on A ugust 1 0,201 8.Satsanga With Brother Chidananda-201 8 SRF WorldConv ocationSev eral members of our group attended theconv ocation. Bro. Dev ananda met with dev otees from ourgroup. A lso, a group of conv ocation attendees associatedwith the Minneapolis Meditation Group gathered for dinnerthe Wednesday ev ening of Conv ocation for a wonderful timeof fellowship. Few pictures from the dinner are below.

MMG Events ParticipationWe set up a booth at India Festiv al during the IndiaIndependence Day celebration on Saturday , A ugust 1 8,201 8Some pictures are below.We also participated in Nicollet A v enue Open Streets fairand had a table at the ev ent.Thank y ou to ev ery one who v olunteered at these ev ents.

News From Mother CenterThe fourth annual Self-Realization Fellowship How-toLiv e Summer Day Program for children and teens was heldat the Encinitas Country Day School, a 20-acre schoolcampus in Encinitas, California, located near the SRFEncinitas A shram Center. Separate weeklong sessions forgirls and boy s took place, respectiv ely , June 25-29 and July2-6. Read more here.On July 3, 201 8, SRF took another step towards the releaseof the new ex panded and enhanced edition of the SelfRealization Fellowship Lessons with the dedication of majornew equipment at its main printing facility . Details are here.A ddressing monastics and employ ees, and accompanied by

members of the SRF and Y SS Boards of Directors, BrotherChidananda offered deepest gratitude for all those who madepossible this milestone in Paramahansa Y ogananda's worldmission. A recording of this dedication is below.In Heartfelt Gratitude: Supporting the Guru's MissionTogetherMinneapolis Meditation Group Book RoomY ou are welcome to v isit our book room where there arebooks and audio CDs by Paramahansa Y ogananda as well asother CDs, DV Ds and other items for purchase.In the book room, there is also a lending library where one isfree to borrow books and media.MMG Severe Weather PolicyPlease be adv ised that Minneapolis Meditation Groupserv ices will be cancelled if a sev ere weather warning isissued by the National Weather Serv ice that includes ourchurch area (the city of Minneapolis or Hennepin County ),within a window of two hours prior to a scheduled serv ice totwo hours after a scheduled serv ice. It will be theresponsibility of each member to be aware of any sev ereweather warnings prior to a scheduled serv ice. This includessev ere thunderstorm warnings, tornado warnings andwinter storm warnings.Y ou can find more details on the policy on our web site athttp://srfminneapolis.org/contact/sev ere-weather-policy /Donations InformationIf y ou write a check to the group, please know that checkspay able to "Minneapolis Meditation Group" will be depositedlocally and used to support the group's activ ities, pay utilitybills and so on. Checks pay able to "Self RealizationFellowship" are sent to SRF's world headquarters in LosA ngeles and are used by them to support SRF's work. It iscustomary when writing checks during special serv ices suchas commemorativ e serv ices to make the check pay able toSRF. If y ou wish to specifically help the group with re-pay ingthe building loan, and/or for operations and maintenanceMMG building, please make y our check pay able to "SelfRealization Fellowship" and write "MMG Building Fund" inthe memo section of the check. Thank y ou for y our support

of our group.Electronic Payments ServiceNow y ou can make electronic pay ments for v arious itemssuch as retreats, books or donations to MinneapolisMeditation Group using pay pal. Please use the following linkto make electronic pay ments.https://www.pay pal.me/srfminneapolisPlease note that it's free within the U.S. to send money to uswith pay pal when y ou use only y our Pay Pal balance or bankaccount, or a combination of y our Pay Pal balance and bankaccount. It is ex pected that there would be a fee to sendmoney as a personal pay ment using a debit card or creditcard. The fee in the U.S. is 2.9% plus 0.30 USD of theamount y ou send. For ex ample, if y ou send 1 7 5.00 USD bycredit card, the fee would be 5.38 USD. Please check thepay pal website to get an up to date information. Should y oudecide to send a pay ment using pay pal, please include y ourfull name, phone number and the details of what thepay ment is for.SRF Mother Center eNewsWe would like to take this opportunity to encourage y ou tosign up for the SRF eNews by clicking here. Y ou may chooseto receiv e:- Monthly eNewsletters with inspirational quotes, articlesand tips for daily spiritual liv ing;- News about SRF ev ents in y our area;- SRF Students communications, like subscription renewalnotices, inv itations to Kriy a Y oga initiations, and v ariousother items mailed to SRF students. (y ou will need y ourreference number to sign up for this option);- Publication news, containing announcements of the latestSRF books, CDs, DV Ds, promotions, etc.By signing up now, y ou will help us serv e y ou moreefficiently , and sav e printing and mailing costs.Council MembersMr. Terry Schwab - Council CoordinatorMs. Sarah Clowes - SecretaryMr. A tul Dear - TreasurerMrs. Liliana Tobon-Gomez - Member at LargeMr. V iv ek Goel - Member at LargePlease feel free to contact the council with y our concerns orsuggestions at council@srfminneapolis.org.

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spring of 2019. Details on this retreat will be available in late 2018 or early 2019. Sunday School Note that Sunday School has started again this Fall and that there will be no Sunday School on 12/30/2018 due to Christmas break and in entire month of January. Next year, Sunday School would resume on Feb 3rd 2019 and ends June 2nd 2019.