Sri Krishna’s message in the Bhagavad Gita is the perfect answer for the modern age, and any age: Yoga of dutiful action, of nonattachment, and of meditation for God-realization.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
The sacred day of Janmashtami, the birth of Bhagavan Krishna, is celebrated with joy and devotion by devotees around the world. Though he is popularly revered as an incarnation of divine love, Sri Krishna holds a special place in the hearts of many devotees as Yogeshvara, meaning the “Lord of Yoga.”
Exhorting Arjuna to be the ideal yogi (practising scientific techniques of yoga-meditation), Sri Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita: “The yogi is greater than body-disciplining ascetics, greater even than the followers of the path of wisdom or of the path of action; be thou a yogi!”
Janmashtami offers us a beautiful opportunity to attune our minds and hearts with this great avatar. We commemorated this sacred day (that fell on September 7 this year), with a special online meditation led by a YSS sannyasi.
Janmashtami 2023 Message from the Ashrams of Paramahansa Yogananda
To read a message from the ashrams of Paramahansa Yogananda, on the occasion of Janmasthami, please visit this link:
In addition to this online programme, various in-person commemorative events were also conducted at our ashrams, kendras, and mandalis.
If you would like to make an offering on this occasion as a symbol of your devotion and gratitude towards Bhagavan Krishna for his immortal message in the Bhagavad Gita, please visit the link below.
