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Men Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda
- The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to…
- At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is…
- Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without…
- Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self…
- The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The…
- Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be fit for Self-realization…
- Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.
- Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the…
- Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To…
- The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his…
- When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not…
- A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the…
- Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.
- Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his…
- The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is…
- Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer,…
- Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it…
- It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness…
- The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory…
- Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future…
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