First Spiritual Experience Of Temporary Enlightenment

1. This Temple is a branch of Self-Realization Fellowship, founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920 to disseminate the scientific method of Kriya Yoga Meditation. Everyone is welcome to attend our weekly public lectures, meditations, Sunday School classes for children, and other events aimed to disseminate the timeless teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and help us create spiritually harmonious lives and a more compassionate and peaceful world. Through its worldwide service and teachings, Self-Realization Fellowship seeks to awaken greater understanding of the harmony underlying all true Brahman religions, and a fuller expression in this world of the love that unites all people when they realize their oneness in God. These can be grouped broadly into two types: (1) the ‘collectivist', in which the self-realizing lifestyle, being either the same for all or specific to a person or subgroup of people, is ultimately definable only in the context, and perhaps with reference to the common purposes, of a collective social body; (2) the ‘individualist', in which a person's self-realization has no necessary connection with the ends of a particular community. Self-realization is a term used in Eastern religions, yoga philosophy, psychological theories and other spiritual schools of thought. The term "self-realization" is a translation of the Sanskrit expression atma jnana (knowledge of the self or atma). Mindfulness meditation means to allow everything to come and go while remaining resting in the present moment. The development of self-realization is much similar because one or two senses will only expose the essence of the true self. In the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, we find that this whole universe is one of ongoing spiritual evolution in which Spirit freezes itself into solid matter, and gradually evolves itself back into Spirit, and this is going on all the time. Just by sitting in Ramana Maharshi's presence, people would effortlessly experience deep states of bliss and self realization, without having to practice any meditation technique. You begin to experience a spiritual energy within you, vibrating and moving through your body, awakening you to deep states of meditation and unconditional peace. Given this broad and generic nature of significance as an overall evaluation of the value of work, we want to argue that we should see a broader purpose and self-realization as a way to break significance into two dimensions: One being more about the intrinsic value of work beyond the person in question, and the other being about the intrinsic value of work for the person in question.