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SRF Lake Shrine Update — July 2025

July 21, 2025

 

We want to share with you a brief status update about the reopening plans for our beloved SRF Lake Shrine, which has been closed to the public following the wildfire that affected so many in Pacific Palisades earlier this year. 

Many of you have been keeping the SRF Lake Shrine in your thoughts and prayers, and we thank you for your understanding, patience, and support as we navigate the many complex remediation steps for reopening.

Much work remains to be done before we can safely welcome visitors back to this sacred pilgrimage site. While we are not yet ready to share reopening dates, we wanted to let you know that we are making steady progress behind the scenes, and we look forward to sharing details of our reopening plans with you in the next few weeks.

Please stay tuned for another update soon. Once again, we are grateful for your good wishes, prayers, and support as we work diligently to reopen our beloved SRF Lake Shrine grounds to visitors.

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James Johnson

Jai Guru
I would like to be able to come to the Lake Shrine again.

Vishal

Thank You for the update, i would like to visit again to this divine place.

Jai Guru!

Lesley Bursten

Thank you so much for this update
We know you were doing your very best to restore Lake Shrine and its beautiful surroundings
Jai Guru

Sil

Thank you so much for keeping us informed.
God and Gurus will soon make it possible for us to visit our beautiful Lake.
Jai Guru, Jai Ma
Om Babaji

Kevin Brodie

Jai Guriji,
Thank you for the kind update, my family can’t wait to begin our weekly services and meditations at the magnificent Lake Shrine we have enjoyed and donated to help build with others so many years ago - God and Guru blessed it and all of us as the flames licked and danced around its perimeter, what a miracle to watch and pray as it was sparred unlike so many homes around it!

Bill Edwards

Thank you everyone for this update. Just reading this has pulled me closer to our Guru Paramahansa Yogananda. I am deeply grateful and send prayers and blessings to all.

Biswanath Malakar

Thank you for the latest update!
We look forward to visit the shrine sooner when it opens
Jai Gurudev

Thiroomanee Auroomoogaputten

Thank you for keeping us updated.
Lake shrine is a master piece of Guruji's thumpprint in America. It emcompass nature; peace and divine love

Teresa

Thank you so much for the update. Please include info about the reopening of the beautiful retreat in the next post if possible. Sending love and healing to everyone there! Jai Guru! Jai Ma!

Sue

Our dear Lake Shrine is always a reminder to be grateful always to Divine Mother for all her blessings, great and small. Jai Guru

Marie

Thank you for let us posted Many prayers to you all, hoping to be able to help more.
With all my love and gratitude

Carol Canzonieri

We are so very grateful for your prayers and tireless work getting Lake Shrine ready for all to visit and commue with God and Guruji!

Janice Keough

Thank you for sharing this update. I was just wondering how the restoration was going and, then, you kindly responded to my prayers. Blessings.

Joseph

Thank you for the update. Blessed Guruji is always helping and guiding us. Om guru!

Elena Michaels

Please let me know when the lake shrine reopens. Many blessings to you.

Cynthia

I really appreciate the updates as you move forward with all the work that needs to be done at our blessed beloved lake shrine. Thank you so much to all those blessed ones doing the needed work there. Sending unceasing love, gratitude and prayers, Jai Guru!

Martin Madsen

Thank you so much for this update and for all the work you are doing to once again be able to open Lake Shrine to visitors. Jai Guru!

Deborah Brown

Thank you so much for this information & we are all looking forward to the reopening of the beautiful sacred Lake Shrine location when the time is right.

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