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“How Meditation Can Transform Your Life”

Free talk and guided meditation presented by Self-Realization Fellowship


LOS ANGELES — August 11, 2025 — “How Meditation Can Transform Your Life” is the theme of a free, public talk on the yoga teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda — author of the bestselling spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi — to be held at the Austin Meditation Group of Self-Realization Fellowship in Austin, Texas on Friday, September 12, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m., followed by a reception.


Brother Keshavananda, a monk of Self-Realization Fellowship for more than 50 years, will discuss the science of Kriya Yoga and how meditation can bring greater peace, joy, and purpose.


We at Austin South Asian had the opportunity to talk to him to get a better understanding of meditation.


“One of the twentieth century’s most remarkable spiritual figures — Paramahansa Yogananda — offers us a vision of world unity through yoga because it gives us the experience of a love that is divine — a love that transcends the limitations of all man-made boundaries,” says Brother Keshavananda. “Meditation connects us with our own divinity so we can express that divinity through our humanity.”

“By using Yogananda’s teachings, each one of us has the potential to transcend both our self-limited thinking and these current times. We can all live a higher age life now.”


Hosted by the Santiago Center of Self-Realization Fellowship, the evening will include a guided meditation for attendees to experience the benefits of meditation for themselves.


“Quiet the outgoing mental restlessness and turn the mind within,” said Yogananda. “Harmonize your thoughts and desires with the all-fulfilling realities you already possess in your soul. Then you will see the underlying harmony in your life and in all nature. If you harmonize your hopes and expectations with this inherent harmony, you will float through life on buoyant wings of peace. The beauty and depth of yoga lies in its bestowal of this invariable tranquility.”


All are welcome — and no previous meditation experience is required. To learn more about the free public talk and guided meditation, the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, and his international organization, Self-Realization Fellowship, please visit: Yogananda.org/austintour.


About Brother Keshavananda.

Brother Keshavananda, whose name is derived from Keshava — a name of Lord Krishna, signifying destroyer of delusion — and ananda, meaning bliss, has been a monk of Self-Realization Fellowship for more than 50 years. He is a minister at the Self-Realization Fellowship Hollywood Temple in Los Angeles. He has given lectures on the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda in cities throughout North and South America, Europe, and New Zealand.

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Paramahansa Yogananda first arrived in America in 1920 from his native India, an invited delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals convening in Boston, where he delivered a speech on the science of religion, marking a pivotal point for yoga in the West. Yogananda founded the Self-Realization Fellowship that same year to disseminate his Kriya Yoga teachings have inspired many through the years to live with greater peace, joy, and purpose. Yogananda’s spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi continues to be recognized as one of the world’s most influential books.

Self-Realization Fellowship is the international nonprofit spiritual organization founded in 1920 by Paramahansa Yogananda to introduce to people of all races, cultures, and creeds the ancient science and philosophy of yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. Through its spiritual and humanitarian service, the society seeks to foster greater harmony and goodwill among the diverse peoples and nations of the world, and a deeper understanding of the underlying unity of all religions.

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