Top 350 Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “When He withdraws His will, all earth atoms will be transformed into energy. Atomic energy will return to its source: consciousness. The earth idea will disappear from objectivity.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

302. “A beggar cannot renounce wealth,” Master would say. “If a man laments: ‘My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,’ to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

303. “God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

304. “Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

305. “Wrath springs only from thwarted desires. I do not expect anything from others, so their actions cannot be in opposition to wishes of mine. I would not use you for my own ends; I am happy only in your own true happiness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

306. “Christ is God’s Infinite Intelligence that is present in all creation. The Infinite Christ is the “only begotten son” of God the Father, the only pure Reflection of Spirit in the created realm. That Universal Intelligence, the Kutastha Chaitanya or Krishna Consciousness of the Hindu scriptures, was fully manifested in the incarnation of Jesus, Krishna, and other divine ones; and it can be manifested also in your consciousness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

307. “Hatred travels through the ether. If someone is broadcasting hatred, and you are tuned to that hatred, you will get it; but if you are tuned to love, no matter how many hateful vibrations are sent, you will not get them. You must cultivate love in your heart, for love is the magnet that draws souls to you and it is the dagger that destroys hatred.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

308. “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 use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

309. “Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

310. “The beguiling scope of an infant’s mind! adultly considered to be limited to toys and toes. Psychological.”

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311. “The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

312. “You naturally love those who are dear to you, and you must learn to give that kind of love to the whole world.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

313. “The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

314. “Television has a satanic influence.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

315. “Why the ancient rishis selected the cow for apotheosis is obvious to me. The cow in India was the best comparison; she was the giver of plenty. Not only did she give milk, but she also made agriculture possible. The cow is a poem of pity; one reads pity in the gentle animal. She is the second mother to millions of mankind. Protection of the cow means protection of the whole dumb creation of God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

316. “How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

317. “My mother once tried to frighten me with an appalling story of a ghost in a dark chamber. I went there immediately, and expressed my disappointment at having missed the ghost. Mother never told me another horror tale. Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you. “Another.”

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318. “Another early memory is my wish for an ugly dog belonging to a neighbour. I kept my household in turmoil for weeks to get that dog. My ears were deaf to offers of pets with more prepossessing appearance. Moral: Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. “A.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

319. “The weakling who has refused the conflict, acquiring nothing, has had nothing to renounce. He alone who has striven and won can enrich the world by bestowing the fruits of his victorious experience.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

320. “Even when you do not know where the next dollar is coming from, you should refuse to be apprehensive. When you do your part and rely on God to do His, you will find that mysterious forces come to your aid and that your constructive wishes soon materialize. This confidence and consciousness of abundance are attained through meditation.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

321. “Just as a wet match, when struck, does not produce fire, so a mind saturated with restlessness cannot produce the fire of concentration even when one makes great efforts to strike the cosmic spark.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

322. “Nothing may truly be said to be a “miracle” except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle. That each of us is encased in an intricately organized body, and is set upon an earth whirling through space among the stars – is anything more commonplace? or more miraculous? Great.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

323. “In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

324. “Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

325. “He laughed. “I mean a pension of fathomless peace – a reward for many years of deep meditation. I never crave money now. My few material needs are amply provided for.”

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326. “It is blessedness for yourself and others if you are happy.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

327. “The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man; wisdom too is a native hunger.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

328. “I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living. We must return to nature and nature’s God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

329. “The Lord wants us to escape this delusive world. He cries for us, for He knows how hard it is for us to gain His deliverance. But you have only to remember that you are His child. Don’t pity yourself. You are loved just as much by God as are Krishna and Jesus. You must seek His love, for it encompasses eternal freedom, endless joy, and immortality.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

330. “At night human beings have a glimpse of their real Self, the soul; each morning upon awakening the majority again take up their mistaken identity as a mortal man or woman.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

331. “Protection of the cow means protection of the whole dumb creation of God. The appeal of the lower order of creation is all the more forceful because it is speechless.” 6.”

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332. “The life and teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda are described in his Autobiography of a Yogi. An award-winning documentary film about his life and work, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, was released in October 2014.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

333. “He who concentrates on one isolated wave of life will suffer, because that wave is unstable and will not last.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

334. “Master stressed on other occasions the futility of mere book learning. “Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary,” he remarked. “Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

335. “If devotees do not progress, it is because they discard their weapons of self-control;.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

336. “Remember, people suffer only because they think things ought to be different from what they are. A.”

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337. “The adage: “He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom,” could never be applied to my profound and quiet master. Though.”

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338. “Anyone who practices a scientific technique for divine realization is a yogi. He may be either married or unmarried, either a man of worldly responsibilities or one of formal religious ties.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

339. “Any apparent insurrection in the human body or mind against Emperor Soul, manifesting as disease or irrationality, is due to no disloyalty among the humble subjects, but stems from past or present misuse by man of his individuality or free will – given to him simultaneously with a soul, and revocable never. Identifying.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

340. “It is not easy to criticize others accurately and kindly until you know that you can first criticize yourself perfectly. When you can clearly picture the faults of others and look at those faults with a sympathetic attitude, as if they were your own, then you are correct in your criticism.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

341. “Truth is for earnest seekers, not for those of idle curiosity. It is easy to believe when one sees; there is nothing then to deny. Supersensual truth is deserved and discovered by those who overcome their natural materialistic skepticism.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

342. “Woman,’ he said, ’seek divine wealth, not the paltry tinsel of earth. After acquiring inward treasure, you will find that outward supply is always forthcoming.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

343. “When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

344. “Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

345. “It is never a question of belief; the only scientific attitude one can take on any subject is whether it is true. The law of gravitation worked as efficiently before Newton as after him. The cosmos would be fairly chaotic if its laws could not operate without the sanction of human belief.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

346. “Outward ritual cannot destroy ignorance, because they are not mutually contradictory,” wrote Shankara in his famous Century of Verses. “Realized knowledge alone destroys ignorance... Knowledge cannot spring up by any other means than enquiry. ‘Who am I? How was this universe born? Who is its maker? What is its material cause?’ This is the kind of enquiry referred to.” The intellect has no answer for these questions; hence the rishis evolved yoga as the technique of spiritual enquiry. The.”

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347. “There are disciples who seek a guru made in their own image.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

348. “God is beyond all forms, and is supremely impersonal. At the same time, God has also taken on every form in the universe.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

349. “If the master allows himself to be commanded by a servant, the latter becomes autocratic; the mind is similarly enslaved by submitting to bodily dictation.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

350. “If one busies himself with an outer display of scriptural wealth, what time is left for silent inward diving after the priceless pearls?” Sri.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda