Category: Mystic Trail

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Yogananda:  How to weaken a bad habit

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate...

Yogananda / Ramana Maharishi / 2

The Guru When one has found his guru there should be unconditional devotion to him, because he is the vehicle of God. The guru’s sole purpose is to bring the disciple to Self-realization; the...

Adi Shankaracharya / Yogananda / 3

Patience Do not look for a spiritual flower every day. Sow the seed, water it with prayer and right endeavor. When it sprouts, take care of the plant, pulling out the weeds of doubt,...

Isha Upanishad / Yogananda / 4

When tilling the ground for the cultivation of crops, one needs patience to destroy all useless weeds and to wait, even though the ground then appears barren, until the hidden good seeds sprout into...

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need Nisargidatt Maharaj   Coax Christ today with your songs and the devotion of your heart, and then coax...

There is a vast difference between imagination and Self-realization. Through your imagination you may have subconscious dreams and visions of Christ every day. But such experiences do not mean that you are truly in...

“Come, come, whoever you are, Wanderer, idolater, worshiper of fire, Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, …Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair”. ~Rumi...

Dukh Mein Simran Sab Kare, Sukh Mein Kare Na Koye Jo Sukh Mein Simran Kare, Tau Dukh Kahe Ko Hoye [In anguish everyone prays to Him, in Comfort  none do To one who to ...