Top 350 Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Man should strive to see the God in woman, and to help her realize her spiritual nature. He should make her feel that she is with him not merely to satisfy his sensual appetites, but as a companion whom he respects and regards as an expression of the Divine. And woman should look upon man in the same way.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

202. “From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

203. “Devote your entire will power to mastering one thing at a time; do not scatter your energies, nor leave something half done to begin a new venture.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

204. “The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

205. “People are so skillful in their ignorance!”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

206. “The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

207. “Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

208. “When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

209. “Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

210. “Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

211. “So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

212. “A master bestows the divine experience of cosmic consciousness when his disciple, by meditation, has strengthened his mind to a degree where the vast vistas would not overwhelm him. Mere intellectual willingness or open-mindedness is not enough. Only adequate enlargement of consciousness by yoga practice and devotional bhakti can prepare one to absorb the liberating shock of omnipresence.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

213. “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.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

214. “No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

215. “A wish is a desire without energy.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

217. “There are always two forces warring against each other within us.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

218. “Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

219. “Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

220. “Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

221. “Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

222. “Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

223. “God made us angels of energy, encased in solids – currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

224. “All creative scientists know that the true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions they uncover the laws of truth.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

225. “All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly and temporarily diversified by Spirit’s creative vibratory activity.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

226. “Who can stop you from thinking you are a god? No one. You are your only obstruction.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

227. “Wise guidance never violates people’s Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

228. “Kriya Yoga is a simple, psychophysiological method by which human blood is decarbonated and recharged with oxygen. The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life current to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centres. By stopping the accumulation of venous blood, the yogi is able to lessen or prevent the decay of tissues. The.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

229. “You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

230. “As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

231. “Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries – all living sentient creatures.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

232. “He fitted the Vedic definition of a man of God: “Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

233. “The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

234. “As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

235. “If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

236. “Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

237. “We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

238. “You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

239. “Practice loving those who do not love you. Feel for those who do not feel for you. Be generous to those who are generous only to themselves. If you heap hatred on your enemy, neither he nor you are able to perceive the inherent beauty of your soul.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

240. “Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

241. “Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

242. “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 of mankind.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

243. “You must methodize your life. God created routine. The sun shines until dusk and the stars shine until dawn.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

244. “It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases, no matter how long you sit to meditate.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

245. “The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

246. “Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

247. “You possess the power of thought and the power of will. Utilize to the uttermost these divine gifts!”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

248. “Feel body as luxury – as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always – is health.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

249. “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.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

250. “To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!”

— Paramahansa Yogananda