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Date Posted: 02:13:08 09/20/03 Sat
Author: Anonymous - 4 July 2003
Subject: Yogananda loved his Kriyananda
In reply to: nojdw - 2 July 2003 's message, "Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings" on 02:05:13 09/20/03 Sat

Here is a couple of examples of posts with real evidence.

NEWS OF SRF CENTERS

Los Angeles, California
SRF Vice-President Elected

On May 9, 1960, the Board of Directors unanimously elected a monk of the Self-Realization Order, Sri Kriyananda, as vice-president of Self-Realization Fellowship and as a member of the SRF Board of Directors.

Kriyananda (formerly Donald Walters) was educated at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and Brown University in Rhode Island. Immediately after reading Autobiography of a Yogi, he came to Los Angeles to meet Paramahansa Yogananda. The young man joined the residents of Mt. Washington Center in September 1948. Later he served as a minister in many of our SRF Churches. HE WAS VERY CLOSE TO YOGANANDAJI, WHO SHOWERED MUCH LOVE ON HIM.

Kriyananda is the author of Stories of Mukunda, fourteen anecdotes of Master´s boyhood. A melodious singer, Kriyananda has recorded for SRF the Sanskrit temple song, Hymn to Spirit, which has an organ accompaniment by Dr. M. W. Lewis. (Dr. Lewis´s organ rendition of Thou Art My Life is on the other side of the record.)

Kriyananda recently returned to Los Angeles from a two-year speaking tour. His travels took him to the Fiji Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, and many parts of India.

In India the traveling minister visited several Yogoda Sat-Sanga (SRF) Centers to assist in organizing and expanding their activities. He also lectured before large audiences and conducted yoga classes in the northern half of India. He will return to India later this year.

-- Self-Realization Magazine, JULY-AUG. 1960, page 33.

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Kriyananda Visits Europe and the Holy Land

Sri Kriyananda, SRF vice-president, completed in October a lecture tour of European SRF Centers. He spoke on Self-Realization teachings in London, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Florence, Rome, and Catania (Sicily). He also conducted Kriya Yoga initiations in most of these cities. His visit to Europe was very much appreciated. Some extracts from students´letters follow:

"Great was our joy to have Sri Kriynanda in our midst. With his Indian songs he chanted us ibto heaven. Iy was tremendously uplifting for all of us." - A.H., Geneva.

"We were very pleased by our visit to Geneva and by the brotherly welcome we received there from Sri Kriyananda." - J.C., Le Poujol-sur-Orb.

"Since the meeting with Sri Kriyananda in Paris we have all been in a state of great inner joy." - E.L., Le Houlme.

"These were wonderful, unforgettable days with Sri Kriyananda. We have seen a living example of Self-realization. His presence lifted us into such a beautiful state of consciousness that we lived as if in another world. He emanated great love, great strength." - E.V., Catania.

"I felt ummensely blessed by the presence of Sri Kriyananda in London. His eyes were filled with eternal love and peace. He was like an immense serene lake reflecting the perfect moon of the One that for a moment I had the happiness of glimpsing." - D.Y., London.

Kriyananda left Europe for India early in November. There he will remain for a time to assist with the work of Yogoda Sat-Sanga Society (SRF) in Dakshineswar, West Bengal.

Kriyananda visited Lower Galilee in the Holy Land. On November 10th he wrote Self-Realization Fellowship as follows:

"Toward evening, we had a wonderful experience. As we rounded a corner, the guide pointed out in the distance Mt. Tabor, where Jesus had been transfigured before the gaze of three of his disciples. Clouds covered the sky, but as we looked at the mountain we saw directly over it an opening of golden sunlight. From that opening, shafts of light streamed down gloriously onto the mountaintop. Our breaths were stilled in awe. A man behind me, an engineer from Boston who had no interest in spiritual matters, exclaimed, 'Well, I´ll be! It couldn´t be more appropriate. Maybe there´s something to this religion stuff after all.´

"I felt that it was a special blessing from Christ. It was a sort of grand finale to a deeply impressive pilgrimage. I gazed long at the phenomenon. The rays never shifted their position. Even when we came around to the side of the mountain, they were still shining down onto the top. Then, as we moved on past, the shafts of light disappeared, leaving in my mind a lasting joy and inspiration."

-- Self-Realization magazine, NOV.-DEC 1960, pages 36-38.

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And then, nojdw?

I´m sorry if you will have nightmares tonight.

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Replies:

Re: Yogananda loved his Kriyananda -- nojdw - 4 July 2003, 02:13:55 09/20/03 Sat
- Re: Yogananda loved his Kriyananda -- anonymous - 5 July 2003, 02:14:30 09/20/03 Sat
  - Re: Yogananda loved his Kriyananda -- Anonymous - 5 July 2003, 02:15:05 09/20/03 Sat
    - Re: Yogananda loved his Kriyananda -- nojdw - 5 July 2003, 02:15:42 09/20/03 Sat
      - Re: Yogananda loved his Kriyananda -- Anonymous - 5 July 2003, 02:16:18 09/20/03 Sat
        Yogananda loved his Kriyananda - Just as Jesus loved his Judas -- ketch - 7 July 2003, 02:17:03 09/20/03 Sat
        Re: Yogananda loved his Kriyananda - Just as Jesus loved his Judas -- Anonymous - 8 July 2003, 02:17:52 09/20/03 Sat
        Re: Yogananda loved his Kriyananda - Just as Jesus loved his Judas -- ketch - 8 July 2003, 02:18:32 09/20/03 Sat
        Re: Yogananda loved his Kriyananda - Just as Jesus loved his Judas -- Anonymous - 8 July 2003, 02:19:03 09/20/03 Sat
Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- nojdw - 4 July 2003, 04:27:31 09/21/03 Sun
- Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Anonymous - 4 Jul 2003, 04:28:09 09/21/03 Sun
  - Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- nojdw - 4 Jul 2003, 04:28:39 09/21/03 Sun
    - Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Anonymous - 5 Jul 2003, 04:29:12 09/21/03 Sun
      - Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- nojdw - 5 Jul 2003, 04:29:49 09/21/03 Sun
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Anonymous - 6 July 2003, 04:30:32 09/21/03 Sun
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- ketch - 7 July 2003, 04:31:38 09/21/03 Sun
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Chandi - 7 July 2003, 04:32:31 09/21/03 Sun
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- ketch - 8 July 2003, 04:33:07 09/21/03 Sun
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Chandi - 8 July 2003, 04:34:16 09/21/03 Sun
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- ketch - 8 July 2003, 04:34:58 09/21/03 Sun
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Anonymous - 9 July 2003, 04:35:32 09/21/03 Sun
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Shivanath - 7 July 2003, 04:36:48 09/21/03 Sun
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Chandi - 7 Jul 2003, 03:00:35 09/27/03 Sat
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Anonymous, 03:01:18 09/27/03 Sat
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Chandi - 7 Jul 2003, 03:02:16 09/27/03 Sat
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- ketch - 8 Jul 2003, 03:02:58 09/27/03 Sat
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Jaime - 8 Jul 2003, 03:03:33 09/27/03 Sat
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Chandi - 9 Jul 2003, 03:04:06 09/27/03 Sat
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- nojdw - 8 Jul 2003, 03:06:16 09/27/03 Sat
        Re: Yogananda knew Walters would dilute the teachings -- Anonymous - 8 July 2003, 03:06:58 09/27/03 Sat
        Protecting a Spiritual Legacy -- Anonymous - 8 July 2003, 03:07:53 09/27/03 Sat

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