Yogoda Satsanga Society of India 21, U. N. Mukherjee Road, Dakshineswar, Kolkata 700 076 JANMOTSAV 2018 BULLETIN YEAR-END PROGRAMME 2017

Occasion Date Time Programme December 23, 2017 Christmas Long Meditation 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Long Meditation (Saturday) December 24, 2017 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Children’s Programme at Dakshineswar (Sunday) Christmas Satsanga at Garpar Kendra and at Sri Sri Sri Yukteswar 10:00 am – 11:30 am December 25, 2017 Giri Smriti Mandir, Serampore (Monday) 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Commemoration at Dakshineswar Ashram

JANMOTSAV PROGRAMME 2018

Venue Date Time Programme 9:30 am – 11:00 am Opening Satsanga 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Energization Exercises review, Part-I December 31, 2017 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Energization Exercises review, Part-II (Sunday) 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Energization Exercises and meditation 10:00 pm – 12:15 am New Year Eve Meditation 10:00 am – 11:00 am Satsanga (English) 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Hong-Sau Technique review January 1, 2018 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Devotees’ Programme (Monday) 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Energization Exercises and meditation 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Video Show 7:00 am – 8:15 am Energization Exercises and meditation Yogoda Satsanga Math 10:00 am – 11:00 am Satsanga (Bengali & English) 21, U. N. Mukherjee Road January 2, 2018 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Aum Technique review (Tuesday) Dakshineswar, Kolkata 700 076 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Question Answer session Phone Nos: 2564-5931, 2564-6208 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Energization Exercises and meditation 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm January 3, 2018 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Long Meditation (Wednesday) 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Video Show 8:30 am Kriya diksha January 4, 2018 10:30 am – 12:00 noon Programme for non-Kriyabans (Thursday) 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Kriya Yoga review 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Energization Exercises and meditation 7:00 am – 9:00 am Prabhat Feri January 5, 2018 9:30 am – 11:30 am Bhajan, satsanga, pushpanjali (Friday) 11:30 am onwards Prasad Bhandara 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Energization Exercises, meditation, pushpanjali Yogoda Satsanga Dhyana Kendra— 7:00 am – 9:00 am Prabhat Feri Dihika, Near Damodar Rail Gate, Damodar, 10:15 am – 11:30 am Satsanga, pushpanjali and prasad January 7, 2018 11:30 am Bhandara Post: Surjanagar 713 361 (Sunday) Dist.: Burdwan, West Bengal 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Bhajan/ Phone Nos: (0341) 2014542, 9163146566 4:00 pm – 7:30 pm Energization Exercises, meditation and pushpanjali

Yogoda Satsanga Sakha Kendra—Garpar 7:30 am – 8:30 am Prabhat Feri January 13, 2018 Satsanga 17/1, Pitambar, Bhattacharjee Lane, 9:30 am – 11:00 am (Saturday) 4:00 pm – 7:30 pm Energization Exercises, meditation, satsanga, Kolkata 700 009, Phone Nos: 2350-5380 pushpanjali, and prasad 8:00 am – 9:00 am Prabhat Feri Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri Smriti Mandir 10:00 am – 12:00 noon Satsanga January 14, 2018 Bhandara 3A, Buro Bibi Lane, Serampore 712 201 (Sunday) 12:00 noon onwards Phone Nos: 2664-6615 4:00 pm – 7:30 pm Energization Exercises, meditation, and pushpanjali Yogoda Satsanga Math January 20, 2018 8:00 am onwards Medical Camp Dakshineswar (Saturday) January 19, 2018 8:00 am onwards Medical and Eye Camp (Friday) 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Energization Exercises review 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Hong-Sau and Aum Technique review January 20, 2018 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Energization Exercises and meditation (Saturday) Yogoda Satsanga Dhyana Kendra— 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm Children’s Competitions in songs, stories and Telary, At—Telary, P.O. Bahirkunja, poems of Gurudeva Dist.: Dakshin, 24 Parganas 743 318 7:00 am – 9:00 am Prabhat Feri Phone Nos: 9874799584 10:15 am – 11:30 am Satsanga, pushpanjali and prasad Bhandara January 21, 2018 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Bhajan/Kirtan (Sunday) 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Energization Exercises, meditation and 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm pushpanjali Cultural Programme 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Energization Exercises review January 27, 2018 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Hong-Sau and Aum Technique review (Saturday) 4:00 am – 5:30 pm Energization Exercises and meditation Paramahansa Yogananda Dhyana Mandir 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm Quiz Competition on Payradanga Autobiography of a P. O. Priti Nagar, Dist. Nadia 7:00 am – 9:00 am Prabhat Feri P. S. Ranaghat, West Bengal 10:15 am – 11:30 am Satsanga, pushpanjali and prasad Bhandara Phone Nos: January 28, 2018 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Bhajan/Kirtan 9433287032 (Sunday) 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Energization Exercises, meditation and 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm pushpanjali Cultural Programme SPECIAL DAYS OF COMMEMORATION The programme on these occasions will comprise of meditation, satsanga, pushpanjali, and prasad

Commemoration Date Time Place & Address of Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoganandaji’s Mahasamadhi March 7, 2018 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Divas (Wednesday) YOGODA SATSANGA MATH Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri’s March 9, 2018 Dakshineswar, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Mahasamadhi Divas (Friday) Kolkata 76 Phone: 2564-5931, 2564-6208 Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri’s May 10, 2018 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Avirbhava Divas (Sunday) Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri Smriti Mahasamadhi Divas of Gurudeva & Parama March 11, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 noon Mandir 3A, Buro Bibi Lane, Serampore 712 201 Gurudeva (Sunday) Phone No: 2662-6615 Please Note: Similar programmes will be conducted at the Garpar, Dihika, and Telary Kendras on these commemoration days too. Please contact Dakshineswar Ashram for details of programmes. WEEKEND SPIRITUAL RETREAT At Yogoda Satsanga Math, Dakshineswar “Every person needs a retreat, a dynamo of silence where he may go for the exclusive purpose of being recharged by the Infinite.” — Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.

Retreat at Day & Date Place & Address Yogoda Satsanga Dhyana Kendra— Friday to Sunday Telary, P.O. Bahirkunja, Telary December 8–10, 2017 (Bengali) Dist.: South 24 Parganas 743 318 Phone No: 9874799584 YOGODA SATSANGA MATH Friday to Sunday 21, U. N. Mukherjee Road, Dakshineswar February 16–18, 2018 (English) Dakshineswar, Kolkata 76 Phone Nos: 2564-5931, 2564-6208

These retreats include group meditations, satsanga, review of meditation techniques by YSS sannyasis. The participants are requested to maintain silence during the retreat to deepen their attunement with God and and to build their inner environment. If you are interested in participating in any of these retreat programmes, please register at least one week in advance at departure date and time. For the retreat at Telary participants have to reach directly at our Telary Ashram on the evening beforethe Ashram the starting Reception date. Office, giving your full name, address, Lesson Registration Number, age, phone no(s) and arrival and We would like to inform devotees that the retreat centres at Dihika, Telary, and Serampore are available round the year. As we know, Dihika is the site where Gurudeva sowed the seeds of his sacred worldwide mission.

LONG MEDITATION PROGRAMMES At Yogoda Satsanga Math, Dakshineswar

“Meditate intensely and long in order to become an adept. In intense and long meditation you will have many wonderful spiritual experiences. Don’t spill the of silence after gathering it in the pail of your concentration. You should remain calm and retain that silence within, ready to use it during trials and to convince God that you love Him as the only real joy.” — Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.

Note: The programmes will comprise of prayer, reading, chanting, and meditation. There will be a break of half-an-hour in between. Devotees with cough and cold are requested to please abstain from attending the long meditation. It is extremely important that during the entire session, each devotee makes an extra effort to sit completely still. In this group endeavour, restless movements and any sound could disturb the devotees present. If you are interested in participating in these programmes, you are requested to please register at least one week in

and specifying the date of your attendance. advance at the Ashram Reception Office, giving your full name, address, Lesson Registration Number, age, phone no(s), Date Duration Time

February 24, 2018 6 hours 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

March 31, 2018 6 hours 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

April 28, 2018 6 hours 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

May 26, 2018 6 hours 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

June 30, 2018 6 hours 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Please also note that, with a view to make Gurudeva’s life-transforming teachings available to the interested souls YSS will be participating, as in the years past, in the forthcoming Kolkata Book Fair to be held from January 30 to February 11, 2018. We wish you a joyous and a happy New Year.