Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship observes the spiritual celebration of Christmas each year with an all-day meditation service held at YSS/SRF temples, centres, and meditation groups worldwide. This tradition was begun by Paramahansaji in 1931. He once said:

"To enjoy a real Christmas you should celebrate the birth of Christ Consciousness (Kutastha Chaitanya) in the spiritual centres of divine perception in the brain and spine. In deep meditation you behold all the astral lights of the spinal centres, and there is an exchange of the Christ Consciousness and your consciousness. That is the real Christmas festivity.

When the Christ Consciousness comes to you, you find within you the whole cosmos, with whirling worlds and universes hanging like ornaments around the Christmas tree of the spine. That is how Jesus celebrated "Christmas," the birth of Christ Consciousness within him."

— Paramahansa Yogananda, in The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

The spiritual programme on Christmas at Yogoda Satsanga Dhyana Kendra, Hyderabad is given below: