Journey to Self Realization

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Journey to Self-Realization

~ Paramahansa Yogananda


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Shut yourself in seclusion andmeditate.At first your mind will rebel against your

will, but if you are in earnest,

you will eventually find thatnothing else

can satisfy you as meditation does.


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Your meditation should not

be an oblivion of

wandering thoughts,

butan attentive,

constantly increasingdevotion to God

- a deep joy arising from

contact with Spirit.

In the silence within,

implore His presence againand again,

with yearning you have felt

when you have wanted

something very badly.

With that mosturgent desire,

pray to Him andtell Him

thatyou want Him.


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Death and darkness

cannot cast fear

upon us,

forwe are thevery Consciousness

out of which this

universe has been

created by God.


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Though I live in this

world and behold it as

a moving picture show

that continuously

comes and goes,

still most of the time

this earthly movie is

away from my

consciousness.

I go within,

into the

Unchanging Reality.

That is the way

to seek God.Live in that eternal

consciousness.


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Personaldesires are

like an acid thatcorrodes thepeace of

our souls.


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The ability to accomplish is all in the mind.

Your body itselfis virtually sustained by thought.

Food is incidental; the main power sustaining you

is your mind,your consciousness.

It is thought thatbrings energy into the body.


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To live in harmony,

to live with strong will

powerto do the will of

Him who sent you,

is all you should be

interested in.

Never lose courage,

and always be smiling.

Have the smile of the

heartand the smile of

the face completelyin harmony.

If your body, mind, and

soulregister the smile

of the inner

consciousness of God,you canscatter smiles

about you wherever

you go.


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Set a programfor yourself,

carry it through, and you will

find how much happier you

will be. Failure to keep to

your schedule ofimprovement means you have

paralyzed your will. You

have no greater friend and

no greater enemy

than yourself.If you befriend yourself,

you will find

accomplishment.

There is no law of God

preventing youfrom beingwhat you want to be and

accomplishingwhat you

wantto accomplish.


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... there is no use spending your time detecting

your faults or the faults of others....

My faults may have been extreme, butmy love for God has drowned my faults.

I am completely free in my heart; not a desire stalks me there.

I love Him more than anything else.

And, if He so desires, I am ready to scrub floors to express my love for Him.


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Godis yourFather, God

is yourMother, GodisyourSupreme Love.

With God, parental and

other human relationships

are wonderful; but

without God, they areonly an interplay of the

laws of karma and nature

for this one lifetime.

Those relationships would

mean nothingifGod hadnot putHis thought and

love in our hearts.


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Disband attachment and

learn to give true, sincere

love to all.

True love

is impersonal andis not bound by anything.

Our eyes bubble

over with love,

and we feel

a wonderful togetherness;we feel we are one.

Once in a while that

is felt in ordinary life,

but then then it is so easily

mutilated by familiarityand

lack of respect.


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The power oflove is the greatest

of all powers.

No power of authority

is greater than that.

Love can conquer all.


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Prayer

O cosmic vibration, reverberate through me as the cosmic,

intelligent sound, and teach me to find inThee the presence of the reflected

Christ consciousness.

O Holy Vibration,

lead me to intuit the Christ consciousness in Thee.O omnipresent,

cosmic sound of Amen or Aum,

reverberate through me,

expanding my consciousness from the body to the universe,and teach me to feel in Thee the all-permeating,

perennial bliss.

- Whispers from Eternity

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