Subject: DFW-SRF eNewsletter February 2023

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     Dallas-Fort Worth Meditation Group eNewsletter February 2023
Divine Love is the Only Perfect Love

"It is God who is playing hide and seek in the corridors of hearts, that perchance behind lesser human loves you may find His all-satisfying love. Therefore love God, not for His gifts, but because He is your own, and because He made you in His image and you will find Him. If you meditate deeply, a love will come over you such as no human tongue can describe; you will know His divine love, and you will be able to give that pure love to others."

~Paramahansa Yogananda 
How to Cultivate Divine Love
How to Live Booklet, pages 37-38
 Love God Supremely and Love all Souls as a Part of Him

Every good thought and selfless act brings a special measure of God's grace and enlarges the scope of our sympathy and understanding.

As Gurudeva told us, "To serve all means to be conscious that you are in everybody, not just in the one little body you call your own- for all souls are made of the same omnipresent consciousness of God."
~Sri Daya Mata
December 2006 Letter 
SRF Center Visit to Dallas-Fort Worth Meditation Group
Thursday, March 16th - Sunday, March 19th

The ministers we will be hosting are;
 
Brother Padmananda (formerly Br. Lynn)  
Brother Bhimananda (formerly Br. Jason).

We are pleased to inform you that we now have the schedule for the SRF Center visit.

Group Activities and Meditations
All Activities at 2011 N. Britain Road, Irving, TX, 75017
Unless Otherwise Noted

Thursday, March 16th

6:00 pm  Group Meditation
7:00 pm Satsanga with the Ministers
8:00 pm Social-Light Refreshments

Friday, March 17th

10:00 am - 3:00 pm Outing with Ministers-- Venue To Be Determined

Saturday, March 18th

10:00 am Center Dept. Workshop-Serving Together in Happiness and Harmony
12:00 pm Vegetarian Lunch- Provided
  1:00 pm Workshop Part 2
  2:00 pm Break
  2:15 DVD- Sri Daya Mata Satsanga with Center Leaders - SRF Aims and Ideals

  3:15 pm End of Day

Sunday, March 19th

  9:30 am - 10:45 am EE's and Meditation
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Chapel-----Lecture Service with Bro Padmananda
11:00 am - 12:00 pm India Hall--Sunday School with Bro. Bhimananda
12:00 -------Group Photo
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Pot Luck Social
  1:30 pm - 3:00 pm DVD- Glimpses of a Life Divine

End of Group Activities

Saturday 3-Hour Meditation Service
9 am to 12 pm Noon

This service will begin with a prayer, inspirational reading and a chant. Periods of meditation will be broken on the hour with chanting. We will be practicing the SRF Healing Technique at the end of the service.

We have initiated a security measure of locking the front door at 15 minutes after the top of the hour. So each hour the front door will be unlocked for 15 minutes beginning at the top of the hour.

There will be a sign on the front door announcing this.

Please enter and exit, and use the rest rooms on the hour during chants so as not to disturb others.
Online Zoom Group Meditation

Please join our Dallas Fort Worth SRF Meditation group online on Wednesday evenings for Zoom Group Meditation and Energization Exercises.

Time: 7pm - 8.30pm.

7pm - 7.15 pm Energization Exercises
7.20pm -8.30 Group Meditation with Inspirational-reading, Chants , Meditation and Healing Service .

Zoom Link to Join :

Meeting ID: 731 6530 6898
Passcode: 917834

Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism.
                                                                                     - Paramahansa Yogananda
Dallas Ft. Worth Building Fund

We are pleased to report that due to your generosity the Dallas Ft. Worth Building Fund total is $691,027 -- As of December 31st, 2022.

The building fund exists for the purpose of allowing our group to have a permanent Chapel when the time is right. We would like to encourage those who can contribute comfortably to our building fund to do so. 

A donation of any amount will be gratefully accepted.

Our building fund donations are held in an account overseen by Self-Realization Fellowship. Please know that your gifts to this fund are tax exempt. 


Thank you all for your continued generosity and sponsorship of the Dallas Fort Worth Group’s Chapel Project.

In divine friendship,

Managing Council, 
DFW Meditation Group 
Self-Realization Fellowship
Online 2022 Convocation is Still Available for Viewing 
and 
The 2020 and 2021 Convocations are also still available.

Through the Convocation app or the event portal, you can keep diving back into Convocation — the meditations, kirtans, classes, virtual pilgrimages — or experience it for the first time.

If you have not yet registered, you can do so for free at the link below. Then download the Convocation app for Android or iOS.


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DFW Group Sunday 11:00am Readings Service Topics 


February   5-- Lord, Possess Us with Thy Love
February 12-- The Science of Affirmation
February 19-- The Dream Nature of the World
February 26-- Secrets of Success
 
March   5-- Follow the Path of the Great Ones
March 12-- Seek God Through Kriya Yoga
March 19-- Monastic Visit--See Above Schedule
March 26-- How to Get Along with Others

Our online calendar will reflect our service schedule.

Current Dallas Fort Worth Meditation Group Services and Times

Saturday 3-hour Meditation Service 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Sunday morning Meditation Service 10:00 am - 10:45 am

Sunday morning Reading Service 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Sunday School for children ages 5 to 12 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm.

Sunday School for Teens. The 1st Sunday of every month at 11:00 am. 

As the official branch of SRF in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, our meditation group has been meeting continuously since 1972. Our History.

Email: connect@srfdallasfortworth.org
Phone: (972) 294-7161

For those who are new to Self-Realization Fellowship

Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) has more than 500 temples, retreats, ashrams and meditation centers around the world offering all interested seekers the opportunity to come together to experience the power of group meditations.
Additional information about meditation with videos and the world wide work of SRF can be found on the international web site; Self-Realization Fellowship
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