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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.

Loyalty is the first law of God.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

In the state of love, no matter what you do, it's going to be good.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Always remember, nothing can touch you if you inwardly love God.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

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

Paramahamsa Yogananda

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

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

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

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

Paramahamsa Yogananda