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Self-Realization Fellowship

AIMS AND IDEALS OS SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP

As set forth by Paramahansa Yogananda, Founder

Sri Mrinalini Mata, President

To disseminate among the nations a knowledge of definite scientific techniques for attaining direct personal experience of God.
To teach that the purpose of life is the evolution, through self-effort, of man’s limited mortal consciousness into God Consciousness; and to this end to establish Self-Realization Fellowship temples for God-communion throughout the world, and to encourage the establishment of individual temples of God in the homes and in the hearts of men.
To reveal the complete harmony and basic oneness of original Christianity as taught by Jesus Christ and original Yoga as taught by Bhagavan Krishna; and to show that these principles of truth are the common scientific foundation of all true religions.
To point out the one divine highway to which all paths of true religious beliefs eventually lead: the highway of daily, scientific, devotional meditation on God.
To liberate man from his threefold suffering: physical disease, mental inharmonies, and spiritual ignorance
To encourage “plain living and high thinking”; and to spread a spirit of brotherhood among all peoples by teaching the eternal basis of their unity: kinship with God
To demonstrate the superiority of mind over body, of soul over mind
To overcome evil by good, sorrow by joy, cruelty by kindness, ignorance by wisdom
To unite science and religion through realization of the unity of their underlying principles
To advocate cultural and spiritual understanding between East and West, and the exchange of their finest distinctive features
To serve mankind as one’s larger Self