good evening everyone it's a joyous
occasion and at the same time a little
heart-tugging because I would much
rather have come up on that side of the
stage up the lift with our beloved
Marilla NEMA to bring to all of you as
in years past but the purpose of the
presentation that we're gonna share with
you now is is that a special request
from her and she knew that she was not
going to be able to come to convocation
this year but she very much wanted to
share with all of you some very special
news and this has to do with a a
monumental project no exaggeration a
monumental project that was assigned
personally to Marilla Nima
by our guru par Monte Yogananda project
that she worked on for decades and to
which she devoted a huge huge amount of
her available time and energy during the
last years of her life and the project
is a comprehensive enlargement
enhancement and expansion of the
self-realization fellowship lessons
the revised edition of the lessons was
something that was actually begun by
gorgey by Parma Yogananda in the final
years of his life and now they're being
completed according to his instructions
to her for publication and distribution
to the entire world he assigned that
project as brother Jai ananda just
mentioned he assigned this to her when
she was just a young disciple many years
ago and he said to her the lessons will
be your life's work he was very
foresighted
and she actually finished her work on
them literally just a few weeks before
she left her body she said it's so right
and proper that that the new addition of
gorgeous lessons be announced and shared
with the devotees during this very
special centennial year marking the
hundredth year of his organizational
work as you all know it was in 1917 100
years ago that he began his
organizational work in India the
founding of yoga - satsangha society and
that anniversary is being of course
celebrated by many wonderful events and
she wanted this to be one of them this
new edition of the lessons it's going to
contain a wealth of new material from
masters writings and talks that wasn't
available when the current edition of
the lessons were originally created back
in the 1930s and it will include clearer
and more detailed instruction on the srf
meditation techniques and Kriya yoga and
a whole host of other subjects and there
they combined all of the material
authored by gorgey for the lessons for
every earlier edition of the lessons
going back all the way to the 1920s as
well as a great deal of previously
unpublished material by master and I
think it's very safe to say that this
new edition of the lessons will be the
most comprehensive ever offered the srf
lessons were envisioned by master by the
Guru as the primary vehicle for
accomplishing the sacred mission that
was given to him by Baba ji and Sri
Yukteswar
and that was the worldwide dissemination
of India's ancient Kriya yoga science of
spirituality for the upliftment not just
of a few but the world at large and the
lessons as we as we all know the lessons
are unique master has so many different
books so many different talks and
writings and and essays and so on but
the lessons the lessons are unique
because they have the in-depth
instruction in the actual techniques the
Yoga Kriya yoga path and the techniques
that lead to actual God realization
needless to say this is going to be a
major milestone in the history of
self-realization fellowship you'll go to
such anchor Society of India and gorges
worldwide work and in the coming months
we're looking forward to sharing you
updates of the as we cross each each
individual milestone again the hope is
that at some time in 2018 we will be
able to to see each of you holding
copies in your own hands and hopefully
many new people who aren't sitting here
tonight will also be holding them in in
their hands we look forward to to
keeping you abreast of the development
and the progress you you can check on
our srf website in fact after tonight
sometime late tonight or early tomorrow
morning this announcement will be
published on our website with most of
the information that I'm sharing with
you but you got to hear it first so
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