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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.

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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.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

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I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.

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I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light. In helping others to succeed I shall find my own prosperity. In the welfare of others I shall find my own well-being. I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am tireless; I am beyond body thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.

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A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

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In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency. The organs of the body are essentially sustained by the energy of God, and the person who employs various methods to increase this energy will have at his command a greater power for healing than is afforded by any medicine or diet.

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Loyalty is the first law of God.

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The best methods are those which help the life energy to resume its inner work of healing.

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Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

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The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.

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Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment...

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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

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He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

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When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

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The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.

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Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

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Do not take life's experiences too seriously...

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The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny.

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As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.

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

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

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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.

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Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

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Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

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