The Self-Realization Fellowship is a religious organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920. The group carries on Yogananda's teachings, including Kriya Yoga, a form of yoga the group claims originated millennia ago in India. To this end, it conducts correspondence courses in this discipline. It also publishes Yogananda's writings, lectures, and recorded talks; oversees temples, retreats, meditation centers, and monastic communities bearing the name Self-Realization Order; and coordinates the Worldwide Prayer Circle, which it describes as a network of groups and individuals who pray for those in need of physical, mental, or spiritual aid, and who also pray for world peace and harmony. The organization has headquarters in Los Angeles, maintains several temples in other California cites and in Phoenix, Arizona, and maintains other facilities throughout the United States and internationally.
The group states its mission as fostering a spirit of greater understanding and goodwill among the diverse people and nations of the global family and helping those of all cultures and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit, which mission it intends to fulfill through worldwide service.
SRF lost the appeal on books and some of the photos, but won the right to a jury trial on the writings in 50-year-old magazines and sound recordings.
SRF has said that its goal in proceeding to trial was to win a ruling that it owned the copyrights at issue, not the 6 million in damages the jury refused to award.
After the jury rendered its verdict on October 28, 2002, SRF and Ananda agreed to settle the rest of the case.
CULT 008 SELFREALIZATIONFELLOWSHIPSelfRealizationFellowship was founded by Swami Paramahansa Yogananda and was brought to America in l920.
The basic tenets of SRF are summarized as follows: l) They hold pantheism, (the belief that ultimately, God is the only reality: everything is a part of God, and all things find their true identity in God) as a primary supposition in their view of things.
Selfrealization then is realizing one's own dignified identity as a being created in God's own image, and going on from there by faith in Christ to become a child of God (Jn.
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