Yogananda: God is not mute and unfeeling
God is not a mute unfeeling Being. He is love itself. If you know how to meditate to make contact with Him, He will respond to your loving demands. You do not have to...
Category: Mystic Trail
Yogananda: Finding the joy in Life
Material objects which give joy remain outside of the mind; they only gain entry into the mind through imagination. Joy, from its very nature, is something born of the mind and lives closest in...
Gita: One who returns love for hate
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mine, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, of...
Yogananda: Afterlife blissy
If you succeed in finding happiness in your soul, then even though you die tomorrow and join the long procession of departed souls that slowly moves down pillared corridors of centuries, you will always...
Yogananda: Past life versus present
Outward environment and the company you keep is of paramount importance. The specific outer environment of early life is specially important in stimulating or stifling inner instinctive environment of a child. A child is...
Raman Maharishi: To Be
Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’ sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words ‘Be still’. What does...
Ramakrishna: God is in all men, but….
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer. – Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Yogananda: Never be a slave to your senses
If you are a slave to your senses, you cannot be happy. If you are a master of your desires and appetites, you can be a really happy person. If you overeat against you...
Yogananda: He is moving my hands
Develop the love of God so that I see in your eyes that you are drunk with God and not asking, “When will I have God?” When you ask that, you are not a...