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It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of

It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Men, Practice, Self

Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Oil, Olives, Creation
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1974). “Self-realization”

Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Real, Imagination, Mind
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Success, Men, Words Of Wisdom

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Profound, Miracle, May

Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Two, Perfect, Intuition

Another qualification of success is that we not only bring harmonious and beneficial results to ourselves, but also share those benefits with others.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Benefits, Share, Results
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Energy, Events, Deeds
Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Meditation, His Love, Way
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1980). “Self-realization”

You are walking on the earth as in a dream. Our world is a dream within a dream; you must realize that to find God is the only goal, the only purpose, for which you are here. For Him alone you exist. Him you must find.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Dream, Our World, Goal

Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Wisdom, Compassion

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Struggle, Two, Conflict
Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

People are so skillful in their ignorance!

Paramahansa Yogananda
Ignorance, People, Skillful
J. Donald Walters, Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda (Paramahansa) (2004). “Conversations with Yogananda”, p.292, Crystal Clarity Publishers

Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Sleep, Thinking

To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of pitying yourself, you should be thinking, "O ye who are left on this desolate shore still to mourn and deplore, it is I who pity you." Death will not give you any trouble if you have a clear conscience; and if you go with this thought: "Lord, I am in Thy hands."

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Thinking, Hands

Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Beautiful, Death, Spiritual
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.473, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Acceptance, Mind, World
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Self, Law

It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Mistake, Ideas, Mind

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness, Success, Law

Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Healing, Men, Effort
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Color, Would Be, Subtle
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Soul, Paradise, Autobiography Of A Yogi

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Growth, Coercion, Evolution
Yogananda (Paramahansa), Swami Dhirananda (1925). “General Principles and Merits of Yogoda, Or, Tissue-will System of Body and Mind Perfection, and the Highest Technique of Concentration and Meditation”

An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to the consciousness of the mortal form again. By this process, he experiences the body as merely the material dwelling place of the soul. He can remain therein as long as he wants; and after that body has fulfilled its usefulness, he can quit it at will without suffering physical pain or mental pain due to attachment, and enter his omnipresent home in God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Pain, Yoga

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