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Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship)
“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady,” he remarked on suitable occasion. “Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon’s knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”
from Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship) by Paramahansa Yogananda
Philip Powis added 1mo ago
As entries in a scenic beauty contest, I offer for first prize either the gorgeous view of Xochimilco in Mexico, where skies, mountains, and poplars are reflected, amid playful fish, in myriad lanes of water; or the lakes of Kashmir, guarded like beautiful maidens by the stern surveillance of the Himalayas. These two places stand out in my memory a
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Philip Powis added 1mo ago
The Hindu scriptures teach that an imperative duty of man is to keep his body in good condition; otherwise his mind is unable to remain fixed in devotional concentration.
from Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship) by Paramahansa Yogananda
Philip Powis added 1mo ago
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevents all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Like the healing light of the sun, yoga is beneficial equally to men of the East and to men of the West. The thoughts of most persons are restless and capricious; a manifest nee
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Philip Powis added 1mo ago
I had not spent years in America without learning some of its practical wisdom, its undaunted spirit before obstacles.
from Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship) by Paramahansa Yogananda
Philip Powis added 1mo ago
“What has life or death to do with light? In the image of My light I have made you. The relativities of life and death belong to the cosmic dream. Behold your dreamless being! Awake, My child, awake!”
from Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship) by Paramahansa Yogananda
Rubin Sfadj added 6mo ago
Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusive seeming.
from Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship) by Paramahansa Yogananda
Rubin Sfadj added 6mo ago
“In this passage Jesus calls himself the Son of God. Though he was truly united with God, his reference here has a deep impersonal significance,” my guru explained. “The Son of God is the Christ or Divine Consciousness in man. No mortal can glorify God. The only honor that man can pay his Creator is to seek Him; man cannot glorify an Abstraction th
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Rubin Sfadj added 6mo ago
“Look intently!” A gentle Voice spoke to my inner consciousness. “You will see that these scenes now being enacted in France are nothing but a play of chiaroscuro. They are the cosmic motion picture, as real and as unreal as the theater newsreel you have just seen — a play within a play.”
from Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship) by Paramahansa Yogananda
Rubin Sfadj added 6mo ago