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In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Water, Meditation, Consciousness

Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Doe, Desert, Mirages

The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Ocean, Soul, Littles
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1956). “Self-realization Magazine”

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Self, Discipline
Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.959, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Eye, Light, Shining
Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Reflection, Lakes, Perfect

Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Determination, Moving, Creative
Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.22, BookBaby

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Real, Lovers, Hinduism

Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Jesus, World, West
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Play, Roles

The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build the cosmos.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Different, Cosmos, Tissues

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Wind, Evil, Truth Is

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Inspirational, Memories, Sleep

If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Mean, Realization, World
Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “The Science of Religion”, p.4, Ravenio Books

God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Effort, Grace, Realization

Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Appreciation, Humorous, Wrestling
"Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 44 - With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha, 1946.

Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Wise, Respect, People
J. Donald Walters, Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda (Paramahansa) (2004). “Conversations with Yogananda”, p.70, Crystal Clarity Publishers

Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Reality, Giving, Meditation

The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Mistake, Men, Reflection
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.472, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Life, Religious, Hard Work

Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Love, Country, Glowing

Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Poison, Want, Harmony

Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Dream, Weakness, Wake Up

Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that the Heavenly Father is right here.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Father, Flower, Inspiration

As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Goodwill, God's Love
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1984). “Self-realization”

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