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A wish is a desire without energy

A wish is a desire without energy

Paramahansa Yogananda
Achievement, Wish, Desire

The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am present in all bodies. I have no awareness of race or other distinctions at all. In my perceptions, just as I feel my own consciousness in every part of my physical form, I feel you all to be a part of me. Everything that is living I feel within this body. I know the sensations of all. It is not imagination; it is Self-realization. This consciousness is far beyond telepathy. It is awareness of the perceptions of every being. That is the meaning of Christ Consciousness.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Uplifting, Thinking, Christ Consciousness

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Pain, Heart, Compassion

Loyalty is the first law of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Loyalty, Law, Firsts
Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Uplifting, Spiritual, Vision
Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.1103, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Angel, Men, Shy

Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt)

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Dream, Ignorance

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Silence, Soul, Flow

When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others - think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Appreciation, Helping Others, Thinking

You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Fighting, Soul, Victory
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Children, Giving Up

The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Lying, Heart, Likes And Dislikes
Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.1070, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Yoga, Men, Mirrors
Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.211, Paramahansa Yogananda

By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Jesus, Meditation, India

We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed himself in a physical form to his disciples after his death. Lahiri Mahasaya returned in the flesh the next day after he had entered mahasamadhi. They proved that they were not destroyed.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Jesus, Pain

Realize the tremendous spiritual power and beauty of the life of Christ, and try to live as he lived. Christ had no nationality. He loved all races as the children of God. Try to feel that brotherhood with all nationalities. Real brotherhood can never come unless we feel it in our hearts. Such feeling can be attained only through the actual contact of God in our hearts.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Children, Real
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1988). “Self-realization”

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Self, Knowing, Soul

The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Independent, Men, Self

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Joy, Sacred
Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.150, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Soul, Quests, Individual
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1974). “Self-realization”

Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
God, Thinking, Cities

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Desire, Way, Action

The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Law, Understanding, Cosmos

Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Dream, Others Happiness, Years
Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.151, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Smile, Yoga, Honor

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