Brother Keshavananda, one of the visiting SRF monastics to Los Gatos Center delivering a lecture during India Night 2005.


"By the practice of meditation you will find that you are carrying within
 your heart a portable paradise." -Paramahansa Yogananda

Los Gatos Center holds regular meditation and reading services 3 days of the week and Sunday school activities for children ages 3 and up. All our meditation and lecture services are open to the public. All sincere seekers are invited to attend the services and special events and to bring their children to the Center's Sunday School program. Services comprise periods of silent meditation, devotional chanting and inspirational reading.

Paramahansa Yogananda insisted on group meditation and said "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."



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Weekly schedule of services

Please refer to the Events Calendar for information on specific dates.

Sunday
09:00 - 09:45 a.m. Bhagavad Gita Study Group. Skipped on monastic visits.
10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Meditation Service
11:00 - 12.00 noon Reading Service
11:00 - 12.00 noon Sunday School
02:00 - 02:15 p.m. Group Energization Exercises
02:20 - 08:00 p.m. 6-hour Meditation Service. 3 Sundays only. Check the Events Calendar for dates.
Tuesday
07:00 - 07:15 p.m. Group Energization Exercises
07:15 - 10:00 p.m. Meditation Service
Thursday
07:30 - 08:30 p.m. Inspirational Service
08:30 - 09:30 p.m. Meditation And Healing Service
07:30 - 09:30 p.m. Kirtan - Replaces regular service on 2nd Thursday of the month.

Note: Parents with children under 3 can watch and listen to the services in the Family Room.

Sunday Reading Service Topics for April to June 2008.
Date Reading
April  6
How to Get Along with Others
  13
In God is All Happiness
  20
Life Energy: The Power that Heals
  27
The Balanced Life
May  4
Increasing the Power of Initiative
  11
Mothers: Manifestations of God’s Love
  18
The Dream Fabric of Life
  25
The Oneness of Religion
June  1
Eliminating Fear
   8
Self-Analysis: Key to Mastery of Life
  15
God’s Nature in the Father
  22
Four Fundamental Ways to Realize God
  29
Spiritual Marriage
Commemorative Services

Los Gatos Center observes the following commemorative services on the dates listed below, preceded by a meditation service. The commemorative service usually starts at 8:00 PM preceded by a meditation service that starts at 7:00 PM. There's also a conducted long meditation on the closest Saturday on each of these special days.

Date
January  5
Birthday of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893)
March  7
Mahasamadhi of Paramahansa Yogananda (1952)
March  9
Mahasamadhi of Sri Yukteswar (1936)
May 10
Birthday of Sri Yukteswar (1855)
July 25
Mahavatar Babaji Commemoration day
August 27
Janmashtami (birth of Bhagavan Krishna)
September 26
Mahasamadhi of Lahiri Mahasaya (1895)
September 30
Birthday of Lahiri Mahasaya (1828)
Special Services

Los Gatos Center observes the following special services. Please refer to the Events Calendar for information on specific date and time of these services.

Special Services
March/April Easter Sunday Morning Service
Mid December All day Christmas Meditation
December 24th Christmas Eve Meditation
December 31st New Year's Eve Meditation

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