Quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda

Master, you are wonderful!" A student, taking his leave, gazed ardently at the patriarchal sage. "You have renounced riches and comforts to seek God and teach us wisdom!" It was well-known that Bhaduri Mahasaya had forsaken great family wealth

Hay personas que tratan de ser altas cortando la cabeza a los demás».

Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and temporary, separation from body and breath. His superconscious state is a freedom from the delusion that "existence" depends on body and breath.16 God lives without breath; the soul made in His image becomes conscious of itself, for the first time, only during the breathless state.

The restless monkey breathes at the rate of 32 times a minute, in contrast to man's average of 18 times. The elephant, tortoise, snake, and other creatures noted for their longevity have a respiratory rate that is less than man's. The giant tortoise, for instance, which may attain the age of three hundred years, breathes only 4 times a minute.

Yukteswar significa «unido a Ishwara» (un nombre de Dios). Giri es la denominación de una de las diez antiguas ramas de la Orden de los Swamis. Sri significa santo; no es nombre, sino título de respeto.

I will tell you a few—each one with a moral!" Sri Yukteswar's eyes twinkled with his warning. "My mother once tried to frighten me with an appalling story of a ghost in a dark chamber. I went there immediately, and expressed my disappointment at having missed the ghost. Mother never told me another horror-tale. Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.

soñadores de este mundo, locos de dolor y temerosos de la muerte.

During meditative concentration at the point between the eyebrows, the spiritual eye can be seen: a brilliant white star in the center, encased within a sphere of sapphire-blue light, encircled by a radiant golden aura. The golden light is the epitome of the vibratory sphere of the Holy Ghost; the blue light is the omnipresent Intelligence of the Christ Consciousness; the star is the mystic door into the Cosmic Consciousness of God the Father.

Basking day by day in the sunshine of my guru's love, unspoken but keenly felt, I banished from my conscious mind the various hints he had given of his approaching passing.

One who occupies his mind with an unholy interest in the moral weaknesses of others actually rouses and stimulates his own sleeping prenatal baser instincts.

Faith in God can produce any miracle except one—passing an examination without study.

Woman,' he said, 'seek divine wealth, not the paltry tinsel of earth.

Worldly minds are morbid; they thrive on sensationalism and often distort the facts or exaggerate the words of others, or repeat them out of context with no charitable consideration of pertinent circumstances.

Realized knowledge alone destroys ignorance. . . . Knowledge cannot spring up by any other means than inquiry.

To develop will by yourself is extremely difficult. You require an example before you. If you would be an artist, surround yourself with good paintings and artists. If you would be a divine man, surround yourself with spiritual company.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.

Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?