yogananda

Yipee - our first set of lessons from the Self-Realisation Fellowship (SRF) just arrived. We are going to be able to continue our spiritual journey under Paramahansa Yogananda's guidance. Most of you probably don't know much about this (I've put a link to the SRF at the side) but he is a great, inspirational yoga teacher. His books are wonderful and the SRF allows us to subscribe to the lessons that he taught when he was alive, so we can follow his ideas and teachings with a posting once a fortnight.

Meanwhile I've been reading bits from "Where There is Light" which is full of snippets taken from his other books of lectures etc.

Here are a couple of points on friendship - since I've never been so aware of the love of my wonderful friends as I am just now:

• Friendship is the purest form of God's love because it is born of the heart's free choice and is not imposed on us by familial instinct. Ideal friends never part, nothing can sever their fraternal relationship.

• When perfect friendship exists between two hearts or within a group of hearts in a spiritual relationship,such friendship perfects each individual.
  
• The treasure of friendship is your richest possession, because it goes with you beyond this life. All the true friends you have made you will meet again in the home of the Father, for real love is never lost.