Paramahansa Yogananda quotes Best Collection

• The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Man Light World Energy
• Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Negative Indifference Meditation
• A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: World Water Humanity True
• Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Energy Through Cosmic Which
• A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Path Soul Mind Follow
• The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Soul Body Self Spirit
• When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: You Soul Mind Body
• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: You Yourself Calm Always Will
• There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Always Us Two Within
• No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Ego Free Lust He
• Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Unity Sex Caste Spirit
• Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Words Poverty Ignore Others
• Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Reality Truth Is Exact Correspondence
• My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Love Me Father Boy
• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Smile Eyes Heart Soul
• All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Work Growth Good Work Most
• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Long You Effort Never
• I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Life Me Memories Past
• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Heart You Thinking Will
• The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Man Angel Creation Being
• It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Health You Always Will
• When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Thoughts Soul Feeling Waves
• The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Soul Blessed Ego Enemy
• The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Man Soul Unity Ego
• Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Light Thoughts Sun Men
• The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Free Will Mystery Creation
• The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Heart Youth Body Always
• Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: God Freedom Wise Long
• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Success Failure Time Seeds Best Time
• Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Topics: Beautiful Memories Music Great