Paramahansa Yogananda Mahasamadhi Commemoration

You are invited to join Song of the Morning’s Clear Light Community, staff and friends as our friend, Naren Schreiner, facilitates a love gathering of devotional worship in honor of Paramahansa Yogananda.

Sri Daya Mata wrote about her last walk with Yogananda-ji where he told her he would be leaving this earth:

“Earlier I had cried to him, ‘Master, you are the diamond in the ring of our hearts, and of your society. How can we carry on without you?’

With such sweet love and compassion, his eyes like soft pools of divine bliss, he answered: ‘When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be so drunk with the love of God that you will know nothing but God; and give that love to all.’”

He was giving a speech at a banquet when he consciously left his physical body.

Sri Daya Mata wrote:

“As Guruji rose from his chair, my heart skipped a beat and I thought, ‘Oh, this is that moment!,

“When he began speaking, with such love for God, the whole audience was like one person; no one stirred. They were transfixed by the tremendous force of love that he was pouring from his heart upon all of them.

Many lives were changed that night–including some who later entered the ashram as monastics and many others who became members of the society — because of that divine experience. His last words were of the India he loved so much:

‘Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God– I am hallowed; my body touched that sod.’

As he uttered these words, he lifted his eyes to the Kutastha center [third eye, between the eyebrows], and his body slumped to the floor,”.

Please see the full schedule below:

• 12:00-1:30pm – Recording of Gurudeva and Kirtan
• 2:00-5:00pm – Open time for seva (altar set-up, cooking)
• 5:00pm – Special Dinner Honoring the Guru
• 6:30-7:30pm – The Life of Paramahansa Yogananda – community can share quotes  or stories about Master
• 7:30-9:00pm – Devotional Service and Meditation followed by Arati
• 9:00pm – Prasad (enjoying dessert with Master)