Posts tagged Bhagavad Gita

Kriya Yoga is the real “fire rite” oft extolled in the Gita. The yogi casts his human longings into a monotheistic bonfire consecrated to the unparalleled God…. All past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine. The Ultimate Flame receives the sacrifice of all human madness, and man is pure of dross. His metaphorical bones stripped of all desirous flesh, his karmic skeleton bleached by antiseptic suns of wisdom, inoffensive before man and Maker, he is clean at last.

- Sri Sri Parama­hansa Yogananda “Autobiography of a Yogi”

Sri Sri Mahavatar Babaji Smriti Divas Mahavatar Babaji has promised to guard and guide all sincere Kriya Yogis in their path toward the Goal…. “Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji,” Lahiri Mahasaya said, “that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.”

- Sri Sri Parama­hansa Yogananda “Autobiography of a Yogi”

To be able to do whatever one pleases is not the real meaning of freedom of action. You should understand to what degree you are free, and how much you are influenced by bad habits. To be good just because it has become a habit to be good is not freedom, either. To be tempted is not sinfulness, but to be able to resist and overcome temptation is greatness; this is freedom, for you are acting by free will and free choice only. -

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda Yogoda Satsanga Lessons

The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles, and ­worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart, and you will be free.

- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoga­nanda “Man’s Eternal Quest”

You don’t know how fortunate you are to have been born as a human being. In that you are blessed more than any other creature. The animal is not able to meditate and have God-communion. You have your freedom to seek Him and you don’t use it. -

Sri Sri Parama­hansa Yogananda “Man’s Eternal Quest”

The Infinite Source is an infinite dynamo, continually pouring strength, ­happiness, and power into the soul. That is why it is so important to rely as much as you can upon the Infinite Source. -

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda Yogoda Satsanga Lessons

We must meditate to attain deep faith. After we have received the first contact of God, we should then seek to develop the contact into a greater and greater ­consciousness. That is what Jesus asked everyone to do. He wanted them to receive his omnipresent consciousness. And that is what Paramahansaji teaches. He brings us God and all he asks is that we receive.

- Sri Sri Rajarsi Janakananda

“Rajarsi Janakananda: A Great Western Yogi”

The only way to attain salvation is to have complete loyalty to God. This dream of life will be taken away from you one day; the only thing that is real is the love of God. Nothing else; all are false dreams. Get away from them. Every minute I see how necessary that is. He has tied me to the YSS/SRF work, and so I tell Him: “I shall work for You alone.” Then I feel within His supreme joy.

- Sri Sri Parama­hansa Yogananda “The Divine Romance”

The fault or deficiency in the medicine, and its inability to cure, are illogically transferred to the disease. The medicine is uncurative–so doctors call the disease incurable! But the power of the Infinite is unlimited and can heal all disease. -

Paramahansa Yogananda

No disease is incurable. Some diseases are beyond the reach of medicines, which are by their nature limited. When a disease is persistent and long-continued, and medical aid and other ordinary methods fail to cure it, it is then called chronic or incurable.

- Paramahansa Yogananda