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In Memoriam: Brother Bimalananda

We would like to inform you that our dear Brother Bimalananda, a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda for more than 60 years, passed away peacefully at the Self-Realization Fellowship Hidden Valley Ashram Center on Thursday, April 29, 2010. A longtime monk and minister of SRF, he was much beloved by the countless Self-Realization Fellowship members who were inspired by his joyous and pure-hearted dedication to God and Guru.

Our website, www.yogananda-srf.org, will give details of his memorial tribute, when the plans are finalized.

As we send our love and gratitude to Brother Bimalananda for the goodness and spirit of joyous service with which he inspired all, please join us now in prayers for this dear soul at his time of transition into the blessed realms of divine light and bliss.

In divine friendship,

Center Department

Convocation Recipients

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the Trustees of the Master Fund, we are very pleased to let you know that two people are able to be sent to Convocation this year. They are Tristan from Taupo/Rotorua and Erin from Auckland. Both will be attending Convocation for the first time. While it is not typical to send two devotees, we felt that they both deserve to go, and since we could not separate them, we are sending both.

We had many worthy applications this year and would have loved to send everyone, but unfortunately at the moment we do not have the finances to do this. Maybe one day! Master willing. Hopefully they can share some of their renewed energy and spirit with their groups when they return, and at the national retreat in October, if possible, they can let us all know the latest news from LA.

The fund provides airfares to Convocation. So if anyone is considering going in the future and needs a little encouragement, we will be calling for nominations/applications again in the new year.

In Master's Great Great Love

John Joyce
Chairman
Master Fund NZ Charitable Trust

New Website for Auckland

Dear Devotee,

Yes, you read the subject line correctly: our website is live! With information about Mother Centre and our own Auckland Group, an Events Calendar, sayings of Master, and even a link to order the lessons or other publications, our expanded site has it all!

We have been supremely blessed to receive the generous service of Junior (Oriovaldo Madureira) in setting the new site up for us. Working late into the night as he played Master’s chants, Junior toiled for months to create the basic design and format. He consulted with Managing Council members, and then suggested the layout, contributed graphics, and even added some of the information and Master’s sayings. Various group members contributed text and photographs, and Aloke has been instrumental in overseeing the whole process, with input from Erin and Brendan. The result is that now we have a site that we are quite happy to claim as ours.

You are invited to visit it at: www.aucklandsrf.org.nz We are keen to see our site become a chief means of disseminating information to the group, so we encourage you to check out what’s on it at regular intervals. Not only that, but also we invite you to contact us if you have news items or other content that you would like to put onto the site. It’s a site by us as much as for us.

The Managing Council extends our most heartfelt thanks to Junior for the creative and timely creation of our new cyber presence. As it has expanded, surely so too – with Guruji’s blessings – will our membership.

In Divine Friendship,

Meg Carbonatto Nancy Doherty Lindsey Shields Aloke Ray

Convocation 2010

Details for this years convocation to the US can be downloaded below.