Autobiography of a Yogi: The Original 1946 Edition plus Bonus Material

by Paramahansa Yogananda

been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."

They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!"

Yukteswar's eyes twinkled with his warning. "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.

Moral: Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.

Moral: Good and positive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched."

I could show you that whatever your powerful mind believes very intensely would instantly come to pass.'

"The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more," he said. "Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!"

"Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable."

"What a person imagines he hears, and what the speaker has really implied, may be poles apart," he said. "Try to feel the thoughts behind the confusion of men's verbiage."

"Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows."

"Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake."