AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI
Paramahansa Yogananda
This book has become a classic in its field, revealing the scientific foundation underlying the great religious paths of both East and West. It has been used as a text at over 100 colleges and universities.
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"God is Love; His plan for creation can be rooted only in love....Every saint who has penetrated to the core of Reality has testified that a divine universal plan exists and that it is beautiful and full of joy."
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"The time-tested scriptures of the world are one in essence."
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"The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light."
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"Only One exists."
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"All creative scientists know that the true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions they uncover the laws of truth." J. C. Bose, Indian physicist and botanist
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"Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change."
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"I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillments only love." Luther Burbank, American botanist
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"In the lesson of His own life, Jesus gave humanity the magnificent purpose and the single objective toward which we all ought to aspire. I believe that He belongs not solely to Christianity, but to the entire world, to all lands and races." Mahatma Gandhi
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"God created each man as a soul, dowered with individuality, hence essential to the universal structure….His freedom is final and immediate, if he so wills; it depends not on outer but inner victories."
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"God…is eternal, ever-new Joy!"
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"He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has implanted in us the desire to question and understand." J. C. Bose, Indian physicist and botanist
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"Vast worlds lie within the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the motes in a sunbeam." 'Yoga Vasishtha' (ancient Indian treatise)
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"If prophets down the millenniums spake with truth, man is essentially a soul, incorporeal and omnipresent."
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"I believe like every Hindu in God and His oneness." Mahatma Gandhi,
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"The human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of God." Sri Yukteswar, Paramahansa Yogananda's spiritual teacher
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"Religion is universal and it is one. We cannot possibly universalize particular customs and conventions; but the common element in religion can be universalized."
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"No effort is complete without prayer, without a definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it. Prayer is a call to humility. It is a call to self-purification, to inward search." Mahatma Gandhi
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"God, the Sole Life, is Absolute Unity."
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"Thou art I, I am Thou….Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!" Paramahansa Yogananda, 'Samadhi'
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"All parts of creation are linked together and interchange their influences. The balanced rhythm of the universe is rooted in reciprocity." Sri Yukteswar, Indian spiritual teacher
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"Every individual in the world has an inalienable right to his free will." Sri Yukteswar, Indian spiritual teacher
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"The broad sympathies and discerning insight needed for the healing of earthly woes cannot flow from a mere intellectual consideration of human diversities, but from knowledge of men's deepest unity – kinship with God."
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"To find the Divine One, the only indispensable is Love." Mirabai, medieval Rajputani princess
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"When everything is known as the Self, not even an atom is seen as other than the Self." Shankara
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"The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature." J. C. Bose, Indian physicist and botanist
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