Self-Realisation is the knowing in all parts of the body, mind and soul that you are now in possession of the Kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God's omnipresence is your omnipresence; and all that you need to do is improve your knowing.
Paramhansa Yogananda was one of the most significant spiritual teachers of the 20th Century. Great teachers work through their students and Yogananda was no exception. THE ESSENCE OF SELF-REALISATION, contains nearly 300 sayings rich with spiritual wisdom offering a complete explaination of life's true purpose and the way to achieve that purpose, as may be found anywhere.
The posts in this topic will be excerpts from this fabulous book.
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with intent,
much love, light and laughter,
Asavari.
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- A baby cries for the toy only till he gets it. Then he throws it away and cries for something else.
- The body is only a plate, given to you that you might eat from it the feast of the Spirit.
- Everything exists only in consciousness.
- From a rowboat, the waves appear endlessly varied. Some are large and threatening; others small and easy to row upon. From an airplane, however all that is seen is the ocean itself, not the waves on its surface.
- God is the electricity, and human beings are the light bulbs. The bulbs may be infinitely varied in shape, colour and brightness. The actual power with which they shine, however is the same for all.
- Self-realisation means realizing your true Self as the great ocean of Spirit, by breaking the delusion that you are this little ego, this little human body and personality.
- A donkey may carry a burden of Bibles and other holy writings on its back. Does it thereby become spiritual?
- Better a truth stated by one saint than a dogma avowed by millions.
- The numbers of a religion’s adherents don’t guarantee its validity.
- Sectarianism is anathema to religion. Only shallow people think, ‘Mine is the one, true way. All other ways are false.’
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2. The material scientist uses the forces of nature to make the environment of man better and more comfortable. The spiritual scientist uses mind-power to enlighten the soul. Mind power shows man the way to inner happiness, which gives him immunity to outer inconveniences.
3. Fools, imagining the play to be real and long-lasting, weep through the sad parts, grieve that the happy parts cannot endure, and sorrow that the play must, at last, come to an end. Suffering is their punishment for spiritual blindness.
4. Life, for those who don't know how to handle it, is a terrible machine. Sooner or later it cuts them to pieces.
5. 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! It is spiritual poverty not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
6. Behind every rosebush of pleasure there lies hidden a rattlesnake of suffering and pain.
... to be contd.