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SRF Articles of Incorporation 1935 Page 3
- (d) To teach a religion or preech religion known as "Self-Realization Fellowship" (Yogoda Sat-Sanga), the practical aim of which is to make lasting youth and arrest old age by using the unlimited power of God and Cosmic Energy instead of trying to obtain health only from the use of the physical means of food and exercise.
- (e) To teach the following religious or spiritual philosophy in the State of California and the United States of America, to-wit:
- 1. Universal all-round education, and establishment of Self Realization Fellowship institutions for the development of man's physical, mental and spiritual natures.
- 2. Contacting Cosmic Consciousness - the ever-new, ever-existing, ever-conscious Bliss-God, through the scientific technique of concentration and meditation taught by the Masters of all ages.
- 3. Attaining bodily and spiritual health through the Self Realization Fellowship (Yogoda Sat-Sanga) technique of recharging the body battery from inner life energy, concentration and meditation respectively.
- 4. Intelligently maintaining the physical body on unadulterated foods, including a large percentage of raw fruits, vegetables and nuts.
- 5. Physical, mental and spiritual healing.
- 6. Establishing, by a scientific system of realization, the absolute basic harmony and oneness of Christianity, Hindu Yoga teachings, and all true religions.
- 7. Serving all mankind as one's Larger Self.
- 8. Demonstrating the superiority of mind over body, and of soul over mind.
- 9. Fighting the Satan of Ignorance—man's common enemy.
- 10. Establishing a spiritual unity among all nations.
- 11. Overcoming evil by good; overcoming sorrow by joy; overcoming cruelty by kindness.
- 12. Realization of the purpose of life as being the evolution from human consciousness into divine consciousness, through individual struggle.
- 13. Realization of the truth that human life is given to man to afford him opportunity to manifest his inner divine qualities, and not for physical pleasure nor selfish gratifications.
- 14. Furthering the cultural and spiritual understanding between East and West, and the constuctive exchange of the distinctive features of their civilizations.
- 15. United science and religion through study and practical realization of the unity of their underlying principles.
- 16. Finding the common scientific art of super-living underlying all religions.
