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SRF celebrates X'mas in Chicago, strike spiritual chords
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010, 13:47 IST |
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Chicago: God has got no religion and spirituality has got no boundaries. Realization of oneness of self-consciousness with the universal consciousness is the spirituality. The Christmas celebrations by the Chicago Meditation Group of Self-Realization Fellowship of Paramahansa Yogananda conveyed this message, whose membership consists mostly of Americans, reports J.V. Lakshmana Rao of India Tribune.
The celebration was marked by a long session of meditation, prayers, reading from scriptures, sermons, chants and singing of hymns, an enjoyable cultural program and distribution of gifts followed by a tasty vegetarian potluck lunch - all that covered more than six hours at the chapel of the Chicago Meditation Group in Westchester, a Chicago suburb.
The group was founded on the basis of Paramahamsa Yogananda, an Indian monk, who visited the US in 1920s to share the Hindu spiritual philosophy with Americans. He tried to relate the essence of the Bible with Hindu spiritual scriptures to make people realize the oneness of humanity and oneness of one's consciousness.
Milton Waller, a devotee, was accompanied by a Sunday school student Karan Mahajan, who recited Paramahansa Yogananda's poem - God first. Joined by Michael Paprocki, Chetna Mahajan, Darick Zurawski, Karan Mahajan, and Daniel Paprocki, Milton Waller presented an interesting skit based on the poem 'The Hound of Heaven' by Sir Francis Thompson. While Michael Blanchard played Jingle Bells on the flute, the devotees danced around the beautifully decorated Christmas tree. All the devotees participated in the singing of Twelve Days of Christmas. The closing meditation and prayer were conducted by Milton Waller.