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An influential spiritual teacher who introduced Kriya Yoga to the Western world. Known for his book, "Autobiography of a Yogi," he emphasized the unity of all religions and the potential for personal spiritual realization. His teachings blend Eastern philosophies with practical spiritual techniques aimed at achieving inner peace and self-realization. He founded the Self-Realization Fellowship to disseminate his teachings and promote a universal approach to spirituality. His legacy includes a significant impact on the Western understanding of meditation and spiritual practices.

Paramahamsa Yogananda Icon Image
Paramahamsa Yogananda
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An influential spiritual teacher who introduced Kriya Yoga to the Western world. Known for his book, "Autobiography of a Yogi," he emphasized the unity of all religions and the potential for personal spiritual realization. His teachings blend Eastern philosophies with practical spiritual techniques aimed at achieving inner peace and self-realization. He founded the Self-Realization Fellowship to disseminate his teachings and promote a universal approach to spirituality. His legacy includes a significant impact on the Western understanding of meditation and spiritual practices.

A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

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Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

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Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good.

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The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.

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When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul.

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Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

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Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit

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Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

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When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

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By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.

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The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.

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If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

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

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Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.

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The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

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Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.

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As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind.

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No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.

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When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.

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Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.

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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes...

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The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

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Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you...

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