How to Be a Friend to All | How-to-Live Talk With Meditation
Would you like to know how to build friendships that are deeply fulfilling and uplifting? In this video, Self-Realization Fellowship monk Brother Prafullananda shares wisdom from Paramahansa Yogananda on the power of friendship to transform our lives.
True friendship is unconditional and all-inclusive. By striving to express kindness, love, and understanding to all, we can deepen our close relationships and also broaden the reach of our friendship to include everyone around us. And by offering unconditional love to the Divine in meditation we can draw ever closer to the ultimate goal of life — oneness with God.
This talk, which includes a period of meditation, was given at the SRF temple in Fullerton, California, in March 2023.
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During his talk, Brother Prafullananda refers to the following book published by Self-Realization Fellowship:
“God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita,” Yogananda’s translation and commentary on the teachings of Krishna, available at https://bookstore.yogananda-srf.org/product/god-talks-with-arjuna-the-bhagavad-gita-ebook/
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Well good morning, and welcome to our Fullerton Temple
of Self-Realization Fellowship. Let's please rise
for our opening prayer. As we pray, let’s focus the gaze of the two eyes
at that point between the eyebrows, the Christ consciousness center, and feel that God is present right at that point. So now let us pray: Heavenly Father, Mother, Friend, Beloved God, Jesus Christ, Bhagavan Krishna, Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Swami Sri Yukteswar, and our guru, Paramahansa Yogananda, saints of all religions, we bow before Thee. O Heavenly Father, teach us to feel for others, even as we feel for ourselves, that we may work out
our own salvation by serving our fellow man. Aum. Peace. Amen. Please be seated. So again, welcome and a special welcome to
anyone who may be visiting Fullerton Temple
for the first time or who may be new to these teachings
of Self-Realization Fellowship. And, we always begin our services
with a period of meditation, but I like to explain
why we meditate first so we can put it into context. There's a reason we start
our services with meditation, because through yoga meditation, and especially
Kriya Yoga meditation, we have a means to discover, to realize who and what
we really are — the essential aspect of our
deepest selves, which is the soul, which is omnipresent,
omniscient, immortal, and it's that aspect
of our inmost beings that we kind of wish we knew, but it's screened off. We're never really sure about it, at least not sure
the way we are sure that we're these physical bodies. Right. Nobody has to convince you
that you're a physical body. I mean, you know it
when something gives you a pain in the toe, or in the ankle, or in the ear,
or any other place of your body. We know we have
these physical forms. But, we don't share
that same conviction with what the scriptures tell us, that we are essentially
made in the image of God. The image of God is within us, and essentially
that we are incorporeal beings of light and consciousness....
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