PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA QUOTES

·        Remember this always: Seclusion is the price of greatness! If you want to be more than just a mediocre devotee—one who TALKS ABOUT God but does not KNOW God—then continue with these popcorn fests. Years will go by and you’ll be the same as you are now. I don’t want to see that!

— ~Yoganandaji to a young Dayamata

·        Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

— Yogananda’s Guru, Sri Yukteswar, quoted in “Autobiography of a Yogi

·         know now that I am a lion of cosmic power. Bleating no more, I shake the error forest with reverberations of Thine almighty voice. In divine freedom I bound through the jungle of earthly delusions, devouring the little creatures of vexing worries and timidities, and the wild hyenas of disbelief. O Lion of Liberation, ever send through me Thy roar of all-conquering courage.
- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda “Whispers from Eternity”

·        Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary. Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Otherwise, continual intellectual study may result in vanity, false satisfaction, and undigested knowledge.
- Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri “Autobiography of a Yogi”

Kriya is an advanced Raja Yoga technique of pranayama (life-energy control). Kriya reinforces and revitalises subtle currents of life energy (prana) in the spine and brain. The ancient seers of India (rishis) perceived the brain and spine as the tree of life. Out of the subtle cerebrospinal centres of life and consciousness (chakras) flow the energies that enliven all the nerves and every organ and tissue of the body. The yogis discovered that by revolving the life current continuously up and down the spine by the special technique of Kriya Yoga, it is possible to greatly accelerate one’s spiritual evolution and awareness.

Correct practice of Kriya Yoga enables the normal activities of the heart and lungs and nervous system to slow down naturally, producing deep inner stillness of body and mind and freeing the attention from the usual turbulence of thoughts, emotions, and sensory perceptions. In the clarity of that inner stillness,

one comes to experience a deepening interior peace and attunement with one’s soul and with God.·        Remember this always: Seclusion is the price of greatness! If you want to be more than just a mediocre devotee—one who TALKS ABOUT God but does not KNOW God—then continue with these popcorn fests. Years will go by and you’ll be the same as you are now. I don’t want to see that!

— ~Yoganandaji to a young Dayamata

·        Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

— Yogananda’s Guru, Sri Yukteswar, quoted in “Autobiography of a Yogi

·         know now that I am a lion of cosmic power. Bleating no more, I shake the error forest with reverberations of Thine almighty voice. In divine freedom I bound through the jungle of earthly delusions, devouring the little creatures of vexing worries and timidities, and the wild hyenas of disbelief. O Lion of Liberation, ever send through me Thy roar of all-conquering courage.
- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda “Whispers from Eternity”

·        Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary. Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Otherwise, continual intellectual study may result in vanity, false satisfaction, and undigested knowledge.
- Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri “Autobiography of a Yogi”

Kriya is an advanced Raja Yoga technique of pranayama (life-energy control). Kriya reinforces and revitalises subtle currents of life energy (prana) in the spine and brain. The ancient seers of India (rishis) perceived the brain and spine as the tree of life. Out of the subtle cerebrospinal centres of life and consciousness (chakras) flow the energies that enliven all the nerves and every organ and tissue of the body. The yogis discovered that by revolving the life current continuously up and down the spine by the special technique of Kriya Yoga, it is possible to greatly accelerate one’s spiritual evolution and awareness.

Correct practice of Kriya Yoga enables the normal activities of the heart and lungs and nervous system to slow down naturally, producing deep inner stillness of body and mind and freeing the attention from the usual turbulence of thoughts, emotions, and sensory perceptions. In the clarity of that inner stillness,

one comes to experience a deepening interior peace and attunement with one’s soul and with God.

Every sincere effort is registered in the divine consciousness. Your duty as a devotee is to accept whatever He sends you – and, for that matter, whatever He doesn’t send. God alone knows what past karma keeps you from perceiving Him right now. He may want you to finish up your karma in this life, before He gives you eternal bliss in Him.

— Paramhansa Yogananda

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“Repeat to each of your disciples this majestic promise from the Bhagavad Gita: ‘Swalpamasya dharmasya, trayata mahato bhoyat’ - ‘Even a little bit of the practice of this religion will save you from dire fears and colossal sufferings’.

— Mahavatar Babaji about ‘Kriya Yoga’

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“Babaji’s spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar’s attainment. It is inconceivable.

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

Oh, I will come again and again!
Crossing a million crags of suffering,
With bleeding feet, I will come—-
If need be, a trillion times—-
So long as I know
One stray brother is left behind.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda,

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Every sincere effort is registered in the divine consciousness. Your duty as a devotee is to accept whatever He sends you – and, for that matter, whatever He doesn’t send. God alone knows what past karma keeps you from perceiving Him right now. He may want you to finish up your karma in this life, before He gives you eternal bliss in Him.

— Paramhansa Yogananda

OCT282011∞

“Repeat to each of your disciples this majestic promise from the Bhagavad Gita: ‘Swalpamasya dharmasya, trayata mahato bhoyat’ - ‘Even a little bit of the practice of this religion will save you from dire fears and colossal sufferings’.

— Mahavatar Babaji about ‘Kriya Yoga’

+∞

“Babaji’s spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar’s attainment. It is inconceivable.

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

Oh, I will come again and again!
Crossing a million crags of suffering,
With bleeding feet, I will come—-
If need be, a trillion times—-
So long as I know
One stray brother is left behind.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda,

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