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Paramahansa Yogananda quotes
10 quotes from 1 of Paramahansa Yogananda’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
Autobiography of a Yogi
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.