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Autobiography of a Yogi quotes
16 quotes from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #7452 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery.
Is the whole world going to change for you? Change yourself: be rid of the mosquito consciousness.
One-half minute of revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of man effects subtle progress in his evolution; that half-minute of KRIYA equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment.
In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping, Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving, My soul constantly hums, unheard by any: God! God! God!
The mere presence of a body signifies that its existence is made possible by unfulfilled desires.
“God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.”
The body is literally manufactured and sustained by mind.
The fleshly body is made of the fixed, objectified dreams of the Creator.
“Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the divine fires of wisdom.”
Causal beings realize that the physical cosmos is not primarily constructed of electrons, nor is the astral cosmos basically composed of lifetrons-both in reality are created from the minutest particles of God-thought, chopped and divided by MAYA, the law of relativity which intervenes to apparently separate the Noumenon from His phenomena.
“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 affected by the phenomenal flux.”
‘If you don’t invite God to be your summer Guest, He won’t come in the winter of your life.’
Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.
When man’s desire to live is severely shaken by disease or other causes, death arrives; the heavy overcoat of the flesh is temporarily shed.
Moral: Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change.