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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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