Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes

Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda
Indian Leader
Born: Jan 5, 1893
Died: Mar 7, 1952
God Man Soul Will Yogi You
Related authors: Bodhidharma Dayananda Saraswati Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri Mahatma Gandhi Prem Rawat Ramakrishna Sai Baba
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. Paramahansa Yogananda
Sad Smile Soul Heart Eyes Rich Scatter My Soul Through Smiles Hearts May
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. Paramahansa Yogananda
Friendship You Heart Will First Live Thinking Others Magnet Unselfishness True Attract True Friends Learn Friends Your
Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems. Paramahansa Yogananda
God Man Ego Personality Problems Made Important Sense Constant Only He Importance His Source Affirmation Body Image
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. Paramahansa Yogananda
Success Time Best Failure Best Time Seeds Sowing Season
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. Paramahansa Yogananda
You Yourself Will Calm Out Easy Find Remain Along Always How Command Get Then Serene
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God. Paramahansa Yogananda
God Best Freedom You Wise Man Will Free Long Free Will Longing Understanding Own Air Must Find Only Never Clearest Sincere Drowning Longs Know Without Doing According Begins Just Ends Where Predestination Your Meanwhile Keep
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness Alone Soul Heart Try Own Others Must Cannot Include Satisfy Necessary
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will. Paramahansa Yogananda
Will Men Free Free Will Creation Every Seek Atom Only Could Mystery Through Had Taking Him His Motive Infinite Sensitive Pains Creator Shroud Presence Desire
When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul. Paramahansa Yogananda
You Soul Mind Spine Withdrawn Becomes Bliss Causal Centered Then Body Your Fully Level
This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.' Paramahansa Yogananda
Life Man Suffering Complicated Inevitable Own Drama Distorted Plot Cosmic Having Divine Emotionally He Involved Becomes Very Personally Show
All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth. Paramahansa Yogananda
Work Good Good Work Seeks Leading Most Self-Development Doer Makes Discover Provided Capable Inherent Lessons Growth Honest
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents. Paramahansa Yogananda
Life Silence Together Mind Back Way Introspection Constantly Divinity Attempting Toward Contemplative Force Return Tied Trying Sitting Currents Senses Apart Dragged
Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda
Class Sex Precepts Unity Brotherhood Spirit Follows Caste Absolute Color His Goal Human Race Prejudices Ignoring Creed
When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul. Paramahansa Yogananda
Thoughts Soul Power Feeling Controlling Starts Waves Possessions Must Restlessness Mental Through He Arises Leave Yogi Behind Sensory Techniques Application Meditate
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort. Paramahansa Yogananda
God You Try Will Long Down Never Fail Make Him Up Effort Get Often Again
Truth is exact correspondence with reality. Paramahansa Yogananda
Truth Truth Is Reality Correspondence Exact
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement. Paramahansa Yogananda
Nature Man Soul Ego Active Unity Physical Mired Remain Allow Self True True Nature Material Itself Uplift Senses Should Lowly Strata Consciousness
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
Freedom Man Angel Creation Higher Highest He Because Than Being Form Forms
Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome. Paramahansa Yogananda
Needs Me Heart Overcome Try Mirror Whatever Finds See He Thus Qualities Him Himself His Help Whoever
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun. Paramahansa Yogananda
Nature Thoughts Healing Natural Light Men Otherwise Sun East Spirit Restraining More Prevent True Know True Nature Does Equitable Method West Than Yoga Any Cannot Which Turbulence Lands Barrier
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light. Paramahansa Yogananda
Man World Light Energy Considers Cosmic Sees Various Vastly Material Material World Yogi Liquid Vibrations Different Ordinary Ordinary Man Them
The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion. Paramahansa Yogananda
God Man Light Made Men Types Dream Cosmic Shadows Perceived Delusion Looks Who Consciousness Images
A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity. Paramahansa Yogananda
Humanity World Water Remain He True Like Undisciplined Yogi May Milk Butter
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine. Paramahansa Yogananda
Love God Fire Past Monotheistic Indeed Unparalleled Divine Consumed True His Offers Yogi Human Which Fuel Ceremony Dedicated Present Desires Bonfire
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future. Paramahansa Yogananda
Life Future Me Memories Past Distant Find Some Features Previous Clear Glimpse Also Came Covering Link Yogi Afforded Incarnation Amidst Earliest Earliest Memories
Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations. Paramahansa Yogananda
Cause Negative Meditation Careless Restlessness Indifference Vibrations Bodily
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