Sri Daya Mata was president and spiritual head of Paramahansa Yogananda’s worldwide society for more than fifty-five years until her passing in 2010. In this talk, given at the 1996 Self-Realization Fellowship Convocation in Los Angeles, she conveys a joyous and uplifting spirit of hope and encouragement. Now all can share what was felt by the thousands who attended from all over the world — the inner strength and compassion, and the tangible experience of divine love and God-realization that Sri Daya Mata was able to infuse in the hearts of everyone she met.

Topics include:

• How to be in the world but not of the world

• Why God-communion is the universal solution to all life’s needs

• Making time for spiritual practice and balance while fulfilling your material

responsibilities

• Ways to counteract the stresses, fears, and tensions of modern existence

• How to succeed in attaining Self-realization