Quotes About Spirituality

A divine decree, resting beyond the gaze of human beings, works mysteriously to bring all things into outer manifestation at the proper time.

The body of the average man is like a fifty-watt lamp, which cannot accommodate the billion watts of power roused by an excessive practice of Kriya. Through gradual and regular increase of the simple and foolproof methods of Kriya, man's body becomes astrally transformed day by day, and is finally fitted to express the infinite potentials of cosmic energy-the first materially active expression of Spirit.

I realised anew that God wants His children to love everything as a part of Him and not to feel delusively that death ends all. The ignorant man sees only the unsurmountable wall of death, hiding, seemingly forever, his cherished friends. But the man of unattachment, he who loves others as expressions of the Lord, understands that at death the dear ones have only returned for a breathing-space of joy in Him.

that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows." Among

The cosmos [is] a varied expression of one power - light, guided by divine intelligence.

The sleeping man becomes a yogi; each night he unconsciously performs the yogic rite of releasing himself from bodily identification, and of merging the life force with healing currents in the main brain region and the six sub-dynamos of his spinal centres. The sleeper thus dips unknowingly into the reservoir of cosmic energy which sustains all life.

The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the divine vision in the universe.

A saint that is sad is a sad saint!

Lahiri Mahasaya often said: 'If you don't invite God to be your summer Guest, He won't come in the winter of your life.

What one does not trouble to find within will not be discovered by transporting the body hither and yon.

He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife." 1 I had analysed the lives of many of my friends who, after undergoing certain spiritual discipline, had then married. Launched on the sea of worldly responsibilities, they had forgotten their resolutions to meditate deeply. To

But divine insight is painful to worldly ears;

The devotee's irrationality springs from a thousand inexplicable demonstrations of God's instancy in trouble. "Hello

Each man is a part of the Creator, or Cosmic Man; he has a heavenly body as well as one of earth.

Offering inhaling breath into the outgoing breath, and offering the outgoing breath into the inhaling breath, the yogi neutralizes both these breaths; he thus releases the life force from the heart and brings it under his control.

To seek the Lord, one need not disfigure his face," he would remark. "Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Sense yearnings sap your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that permit vital waters to be wasted in the desert soil of materialism.

God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature." These

Anyone who practices a scientific technique for divine realization is a yogi.

Lord Krishna pointed out the holy science by which the yogi may master his body and convert it, at will, into pure energy.

human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own. Man's

To seek the Lord, one need not disfigure his face," he would remark. "Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows." Among

The law of love is a far greater science than any modern science. Consulting