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Paramhansa Yogananda www.ParamhansaYogananda.com ~ Author of spiritual classic: Autobiography of a Yogi. He was the first yoga master to live in the West for most of his life.

This page is created by members of Ananda Church of Self-Realization, founded by a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, Swami Kriyananda - sharing Yogananda's teachings since 1969. You can find out more at www.ananda.org

Meditation is the greatest way of resurrecting your soul from the bo***ge of the body and from all your trials. Meditate...
10/16/2026

Meditation is the greatest way of resurrecting your soul from the bo***ge of the body and from all your trials. Meditate at the feet of the Infinite. Learn to saturate yourself with Him. Your trials may be heavy, may be great, but the greatest enemy of yourself is yourself. You are immortal; your trials are mortal; they are changeable; you are unchangeable; you can unleash the eternal powers and shatter your finite trails. Resurrect yourself from weakness, ignorance, consciousness of disease, and above all, from the clutches of undesirable habits that beset your life.

—Paramhansa Yogananda, "How To Face Life’s Changes", p130

Meditation is the greatest way of resurrecting your soul from the bo***ge of the body and from all your trials. Meditate at the feet of the Infinite. Learn to saturate yourself with Him. Your trials may be heavy, may be great, but the greatest enemy of yourself is yourself. You are immortal; your trials are mortal; they are changeable; you are unchangeable; you can unleash the eternal powers and shatter your finite trails. Resurrect yourself from weakness, ignorance, consciousness of disease, and above all, from the clutches of undesirable habits that beset your life.
Paramhansa Yogananda, How To Face Life’s Changes, p130

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! Forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! Control the present! L...
10/15/2026

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! Forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! Control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.
—Paramhansa Yogananda

The Master was, at various times, either lenient or severe in his training. Since the goal of the spiritual life is the ...
10/14/2026

The Master was, at various times, either lenient or severe in his training. Since the goal of the spiritual life is the perfection of bliss in God, he didn’t want us to develop a grim attitude. “Always remain in the Self,” he counseled me one day. “Come down, as necessary, to eat or talk a little bit; then withdraw into the Self again.”
At the same time, I recall asking him, when I was new on the path, to bless me that I overcome my liking for good food. With an indulgent smile he replied, “There is so little outwardly that you, as a yogi, can legitimately enjoy that you might as well enjoy what you eat!
“When ecstasy comes,” he added, “everything goes.”
What he counseled us to do was ever-increasingly to develop inner non-attachment. “Be even-minded and cheerful,” he would say to us, adding, “What comes of itself, let it come.” That advice embraced both the happy and the sorrowful experiences of life. “Refer every joy and even pleasure back to the joy of the inner Self,” he said, “and let every sorrow remind you that your home is not here, in the world of sensory experiences, but in the eternal joy of the soul.”
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—From the book “Conversations with Yogananda” by Swami Kriyananda

The Master was, at various times, either lenient or severe in his training. Since the goal of the spiritual life is the perfection of bliss in God, he didn’t want us to develop a grim attitude. “Always remain in the Self,” he counseled me one day. “Come down, as necessary, to eat or talk a little bit; then withdraw into the Self again.”

At the same time, I recall asking him, when I was new on the path, to bless me that I overcome my liking for good food. With an indulgent smile he replied, “There is so little outwardly that you, as a yogi, can legitimately enjoy that you might as well enjoy what you eat!

“When ecstasy comes,” he added, “everything goes.”

What he counseled us to do was ever-increasingly to develop inner non-attachment. “Be even-minded and cheerful,” he would say to us, adding, “What comes of itself, let it come.” That advice embraced both the happy and the sorrowful experiences of life. “Refer every joy and even pleasure back to the joy of the inner Self,” he said, “and let every sorrow remind you that your home is not here, in the world of sensory experiences, but in the eternal joy of the soul.”
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From the book “Conversations with Yogananda” by Swami Kriyananda

10/10/2026

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