Top 43 Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

About Paramahansa Yogananda

These are some quotes by Indian author Paramahansa Yogananda Leader, who lived between January 5, 1893 and March 7, 1952.

The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.

Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.

Paramahansa Yogananda

If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.

Paramahansa Yogananda

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

Paramahansa Yogananda

The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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