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Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda (Bengali: পরমহংস যোগানন্দ) (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952), born Mukunda Lal Ghosh (Bengali: মুকুন্দলাল ঘোষ), was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced millions of Indians and westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his organization Yogoda Satsanga Society of India and Self-Realization Fellowship. His book, Autobiography of a Yogi remains a spiritual masterpiece and was included in the 100 best spiritual books of the 21st century.

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A smooth life is not a victorious life.

Life, Life Is, Smooth, Victorious

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

Attitude, Examining, Excuse, People, Persons, Yoga

Change your life by changing your thoughts.

Time And Change, Changing Your Life, Change Of Heart, Changing, Change, Thoughts

We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty.

Bathe, Feelings, Spirit, Stirs, Way

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

Come, Consciousness, Found, Mankind, Security, Simple

What you are is much greater than anything or anyone else you have ever yearned for. God is manifest in you in a way that He is not manifest in any other human being. Your face is unlike anyone else's, your soul is unlike anyone else's, you are sufficient unto yourself; for within your soul lies the greatest treasure of all - God.

Greatest Treasure, Lying, Soul, Treasure, Unto

In the state of love, no matter what you do, it's going to be good.

Be Good, Good, Matter, State, States

Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.

Essence, God, Manifestation, Perception, Spirit

Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.

Change, Create, Faith, Set, Yoga

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 of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

Felt, Men, Practice, Self, Takes, Wisdom

The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.

Blessing, Flow, Pride, Rain, Valleys

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

Alone, Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Responsible, Thoughts

All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny.

Destiny, Make, Realization, Tunes

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

Kick, Roam, Self, Weakness, World

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

Fear, Man, Mean, Pain

Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.

Meditate, People, Self, Struggle, Uninterruptedly

Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.

Appreciation, Cultural, Human, Humorous, Sound, Wrestling

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

Good Life, Let, Life, Life Is, Rule, Simply

Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would not let it happen to us. It is really freedom, an entry into another, higher life. We must utilize this life in order to realize the life beyond this one. Beyond this earth garden is the infinite land wherein we meet those whom we have thought lost. Although we must not seek death, when it comes we should know that it is the final examination for a great reward.

Beautiful, Death, Garden, God, Let, Seek

When the #‎ mind is strong and the #‎ heart is pure, you are free

Free, Heart, Mind, Strong

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