The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)
extent we transcend bodily sensations. But this is always temporary.
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)
Then the purpose for which we apparently started a business becomes secondary to the creation or increase of conditions or means.
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)
worship, such as prayer
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)
intuition, which we shall later explain, is the direct grasp of truth.
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)
Mind not only furnishes the connections to the stimuli received through the different senses, but stores their influences in the form of impressions.
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)
A novice in spiritual practices who tries to prejudge the experience of experts (the masters and prophets of all ages) is like a child that attempts to imagine what postgraduate courses would be like.
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)
Desire for the fulfillment of these tendencies creates want, and want produces pain. Now these
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)
The word “religion” is derived from the Latin religare, to bind.
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)
What we conceive of God should be of daily, nay hourly, guidance to us. The very conception of God should stir us to seek Him in the midst of our daily lives. This is what we mean by a pragmatic and compelling conception of God. We should take religion and God out of the sphere of belief into that of daily life.