The Wisdom of Yogananda

The yogi, while meditating upon God, should not distract his attention by allowing himself to ruminate on material objects, mentally planning and replanning material activities for the fulfillment of desired ends. He should renounce without reserve all such desires born of egoistic mental plannings; and he should scoop out from within all desires that are already entrenched in the subconscious. His mind should be withdrawn from those material objects all around him that give rise to sensations of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, and their resultant multifarious thoughts and new longings.

Paramahansa Yogananda,
God Talks with Arjuna
https://youtu.be/CWUk2aPsx-8?si=8ruGq...

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The Wisdom of Yogananda

God created the various kinds of faculties and potentialities at work in man and in all creation, but man as an individualized part of God endowed with free will becomes engrossed in delusion by misuse of those faculties. In doing so, he himself creates the good or evil role he plays in the cosmic drama, and thereby influences the trend of good or evil events. When man ceases to identify himself with the body and matter, he realizes he is made in the image of God—not before. The enlightened man works with God for the strengthening of good in the world, and for the divine upliftment of others.

Paramahansa Yogananda,
Journey to Self-Realization
https://youtu.be/COGfxSQeHoU?si=hn_0W...

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The Wisdom of Yogananda

The devotee who would know God should learn to be more silent, and to listen to the voice of Love within. He should learn to live love in his life, to practice it first within his heart, and then express it outwardly. How many times in our lives we hurt people by our words and actions. This is what is called mental cruelty; it is worse in many ways than physical brutality. Never say anything under the emotion of meanness. Better to “zip the lip” if you cannot speak with a heart that is free from meanness. The desire to hurt someone —child, husband, parents—is brutal!

Sri Daya Mata,
Only Love
https://youtu.be/VJbWsBfsvv0?si=EuAOt...

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The Wisdom of Yogananda

Every thought we think sets up a particular subtle vibration….When you mentally utter the word God, and keep on repeating that thought within, it sets up a vibration that invokes the presence of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda,
Sanctuary of the Soul
https://youtu.be/EyL7upeLhC8?si=vr2N7...

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The Wisdom of Yogananda

Destroy evil in thought as well as in deed. Persons who do not harmonize their thoughts with their actions cannot trust themselves; their inner temptations daily become stronger by being fed with continuous supportive thoughts. These thoughts of temptation are the real cause of trouble. If the inner temptation increases to floodlike proportions, the little embankment of outward self-control is swept away. It is thus unsafe to forsake outwardly an evil action and inwardly to keep on nurturing it. When the evil thought becomes strong enough, it will destroy all the obstructions of outward self-control.

Paramahansa Yogananda,
God Talks with Arjuna
https://youtu.be/A3bHIla7lnA

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The Wisdom of Yogananda

When we look at the workings of a watch, we understand that it is man who has made the intricate parts and put them together. But when we look at the lawn, we must ask, “Who created the power in the seed that dressed the soil with verdant grass?” And who made us to behold the wondrous mysteries of creation? The Creator is hiding Himself, that perchance someday we may seek and find Him….

Paramahansa Yogananda,
Solving the Mystery of Life
https://youtu.be/A3bHIla7lnA

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The Wisdom of Yogananda

Even though almost completely buried during the Material Age, the science of yoga can never be annihilated, for it is linked to the Reality within man. Whenever he questions the phenomena of life and awakens spiritually, through God’ s grace he encounters a true guru who acquaints him with the art of divine union.

Paramahansa Yogananda,
God Talks with Arjuna
https://youtu.be/A3bHIla7lnA

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The Wisdom of Yogananda

When you have peace in every movement of your body, peace in your thinking and in your will power, peace in your love, and peace and God in your ambitions, remember, you have connected your life with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda,
Inner Peace
https://youtu.be/0E2fOR_9JfI?si=cMNS1...

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The Wisdom of Yogananda

Master Weaver of Dreams, teach me to loom a cushioning carpet of Self-realization on which all Thy lovers may tread as they travel to the shrine of eternal wakefulness. May I join the worshiping angels who offer at Thine altar the bouquets of their ever new perceptions and intuitions of Thee.

Paramahansa Yogananda,
Whispers of Eternity
https://youtu.be/56k24UC-6bA?si=pjkTA...

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The Wisdom of Yogananda

When my two eyes that behold both good and evil become single, and behold in everything only the divine goodness of God, I shall see that my body, mind and soul have become filled with His omnipresent light.

Paramahansa Yogananda,
Metaphysical Meditations
https://youtu.be/56k24UC-6bA?si=QiMf9...

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