Posts tagged Guru

Paramahansa Yogananda in a memorial tribute to Sister Gyanamata: “I had never seen, never heard Sister criticize anybody; never heard a cross word from her lips. All the disciples whose good fortune it was to know her felt a new inspiration, and they all said: ‘She is indeed a saint.’”

- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda “God Alone: The Life and Letters of a Saint”

Live only in the present, not in the future. Do your best today; don’t look for tomorrow. - Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoga­nanda “Yogoda Satsanga Magazine”

Resolve that you are not going to be affected by troubles; you are not going to be finicky; you are not going to be a victim of habits and moods; you are going to be free as a lark. -

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda “Yogoda Satsanga Magazine”

When by discrimination and right action man “roasts” all the seeds of evil tendencies stored in the mind, each microscopic brain cell becomes a throne for a brilliant king of wisdom, inspiration, and health, who sings and preaches the glory of God to the intelligent body cells. Men who have attained this state are really free. Such liberated beings are untouched by karma in future incarnations, and reincarnate only in order to wipe away the tears of the karma-bound. These liberated masters are haloed in invisible healing light. Wherever they go, they scatter the light of prosperity and health.

- 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”

You can’t just sit there and wait for success to fall into your lap; once your course is set and your will is firm, you have to make a practical effort. Then you will see that whatever you require for success starts coming to you. Everything will push you in the right direction. In your divinely surcharged will power is the answer to prayer. When you use that will, you open the way through which your prayers can be answered. -

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda “Man’s Eternal Quest”

When in doubt about actions, one can seek the aid of his guru, or of certain advanced disciples of the guru who are sanctioned to give such help. The technique of salvation given by the guru enables the disciple to attain divine attunement. By the disciple’s practice of deep, guru-given meditation, God and one’s guru — their power invisibly vibrating within the devotee — will guide him aright.” —

Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks With Arjuna, The Bhagavad Gita, IV:15