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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.

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

Paramahamsa Yogananda

When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

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.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being...

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

A wish is a desire without energy.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Do your best and then relax.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God...

Paramahamsa Yogananda

No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness...

Paramahamsa Yogananda

We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed himself in a physical form to his disciples after his death. Lahiri Mahasaya returned in the flesh the next day after he had entered mahasamadhi. They proved that they were not destroyed.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

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.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

When you came into this world you cried, whereas everyone else rejoiced. During your lifetime, work and serve in such a way that when it is time for you to leave this world, you will smile at parting while the world cries for you. Hold this thought and you will always remember to consider others above yourself.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

God is the life behind your life, the sight behind your eyes, the taste behind your tongue...

Paramahamsa Yogananda

When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.

Paramahamsa Yogananda