journey to self realization
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Journey to Self-Realization
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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Shut yourself in seclusion andmeditate.At first your mind will rebel against your
will, but if you are in earnest,
you will eventually find thatnothing else
can satisfy you as meditation does.
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Your meditation should not
be an oblivion of
wandering thoughts,
butan attentive,
constantly increasingdevotion to God
- a deep joy arising from
contact with Spirit.
In the silence within,
implore His presence againand again,
with yearning you have felt
when you have wanted
something very badly.
With that mosturgent desire,
pray to Him andtell Him
thatyou want Him.
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Death and darkness
cannot cast fear
upon us,
forwe are thevery Consciousness
out of which this
universe has been
created by God.
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Though I live in this
world and behold it as
a moving picture show
that continuously
comes and goes,
still most of the time
this earthly movie is
away from my
consciousness.
I go within,
into the
Unchanging Reality.
That is the way
to seek God.Live in that eternal
consciousness.
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Personaldesires are
like an acid thatcorrodes thepeace of
our souls.
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The ability to accomplish is all in the mind.
Your body itselfis virtually sustained by thought.
Food is incidental; the main power sustaining you
is your mind,your consciousness.
It is thought thatbrings energy into the body.
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To live in harmony,
to live with strong will
powerto do the will of
Him who sent you,
is all you should be
interested in.
Never lose courage,
and always be smiling.
Have the smile of the
heartand the smile of
the face completelyin harmony.
If your body, mind, and
soulregister the smile
of the inner
consciousness of God,you canscatter smiles
about you wherever
you go.
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Set a programfor yourself,
carry it through, and you will
find how much happier you
will be. Failure to keep to
your schedule ofimprovement means you have
paralyzed your will. You
have no greater friend and
no greater enemy
than yourself.If you befriend yourself,
you will find
accomplishment.
There is no law of God
preventing youfrom beingwhat you want to be and
accomplishingwhat you
wantto accomplish.
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... there is no use spending your time detecting
your faults or the faults of others....
My faults may have been extreme, butmy love for God has drowned my faults.
I am completely free in my heart; not a desire stalks me there.
I love Him more than anything else.
And, if He so desires, I am ready to scrub floors to express my love for Him.
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Godis yourFather, God
is yourMother, GodisyourSupreme Love.
With God, parental and
other human relationships
are wonderful; but
without God, they areonly an interplay of the
laws of karma and nature
for this one lifetime.
Those relationships would
mean nothingifGod hadnot putHis thought and
love in our hearts.
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Disband attachment and
learn to give true, sincere
love to all.
True love
is impersonal andis not bound by anything.
Our eyes bubble
over with love,
and we feel
a wonderful togetherness;we feel we are one.
Once in a while that
is felt in ordinary life,
but then then it is so easily
mutilated by familiarityand
lack of respect.
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The power oflove is the greatest
of all powers.
No power of authority
is greater than that.
Love can conquer all.
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Prayer
O cosmic vibration, reverberate through me as the cosmic,
intelligent sound, and teach me to find inThee the presence of the reflected
Christ consciousness.
O Holy Vibration,
lead me to intuit the Christ consciousness in Thee.O omnipresent,
cosmic sound of Amen or Aum,
reverberate through me,
expanding my consciousness from the body to the universe,and teach me to feel in Thee the all-permeating,
perennial bliss.
- Whispers from Eternity
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