552 Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

Fulfilling one’s earthly responsibilities need not separate man from God, provided he maintains mental uninvolvement with egotistical desires and plays his part in life as a willing instrument of the Divine.

The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly.

Who can stop you from thinking you are a god? No one. You are your only obstruction.

I call myself a nationalist, but my nationalism is as broad as the universe. It includes in its sweep all the nations of the earth. 323 My nationalism includes the well-being of the whole world. I do not want my India to rise on the ashes of other nations. I do not want India to exploit a single human being. I want India to be strong in order that she can infect the other nations also with her strength.

Any apparent insurrection in the human body or mind against Emperor Soul, manifesting as disease or irrationality, is due to no disloyalty among the humble subjects, but stems from past or present misuse by man of his individuality or free will – given to him simultaneously with a soul, and revocable never. Identifying.

He who concentrates on one isolated wave of life will suffer, because that wave is unstable and will not last.

If the master allows himself to be commanded by a servant, the latter becomes autocratic; the mind is similarly enslaved by submitting to bodily dictation.

Another early memory is my wish for an ugly dog belonging to a neighbour. I kept my household in turmoil for weeks to get that dog. My ears were deaf to offers of pets with more prepossessing appearance. Moral: Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. “A.

All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly and temporarily diversified by Spirit’s creative vibratory activity.