Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh, was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced millions of westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth5 January 1893
CountryIndia
spirit altars stillness
Stillness is the altar of spirit.
spiritual lying lakes
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
life life-is smooth
A smooth life is not a victorious life.
rain pride blessing
The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.
beautiful ideas romance
The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun.
morning mind tasks
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
soul paradise autobiography-of-a-yogi
To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.
death grieving blessing
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?
truth-is not-afraid
Truth is not afraid of questions.
death dark destiny
At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is astral birth. Later, he passes from the consciousness of luminous astral birth to the consciousness of dark astral death and awakens in a new physical body. Thus astral death is physical birth. These recurrent cycles of physical and astral encasements are the ineluctable destiny of all unenlightened men.
healing heart love-is
Love is the heartbeat of all life.
ice water assuming
As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.
mirrors way sincerity
Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.
song singing
Sing songs that none have sung