The Second Coming of Christ Quotes

“It is not necessary to let anyone know about one’s private faults or past failings, except if someone is qualified to give help in cases where outside intervention is needed.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“Cleanliness is next to Godliness,” but baptism of the body, unless followed by baptism of the mind, becomes practically meaningless. If we bathe and thus purify our bodies, we will find that our mind will temporarily become purified, but unless we change our soul’s wickedness by calmness, and meditation, and constant spiritual vigilance, we will remain the same old devils with bad habits in spite of the temporary purifying effect of the water on
our bodies.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You (Self-Realization Fellowship) 2 Volume Set

“The complete revival and restoration of Christ-ianity can be effected only by less emphasis on theoretical sermons with their oft-repeated platitudes, and on external emotion-rousing, psycho-physical ceremonies, and by substituting instead quiet meditation and real inner communion. Rather than being passive members of a church, satisfied merely with listening to sermons, worshipers should engage more in the effort to cultivate perfect stillness in both body and mind. The peace of absolute physical and mental stillness is the real temple wherein God most often visits His devotees. “Be still, and know that I am God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“During meditative concentration at the point between the eyebrows, the spiritual eye can be seen: a brilliant white star in the center, encased within a sphere of sapphire-blue light, encircled by a radiant golden aura. The golden light is the epitome of the vibratory sphere of the Holy Ghost; the blue light is the omnipresent Intelligence of the Christ Consciousness; the star is the mystic door into the Cosmic Consciousness of God the Father.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“Most energy moves through space in a spiral form—a ubiquitous motif in the macrocosmic and microscopic architecture of the universe. Beginning with galactic nebulae—the cosmic birth-cradle of all matter—energy flows in coiled or circular or vortex-like patterns.

The theme is repeated in the orbital dance of electrons around their atomic nucleus, and (as cited in Hindu scriptures of ancient origin) of planets and suns and stellar systems spinning through space around a grand center of the universe. Many galaxies are spiral-shaped; and countless other phenomena in nature—plants, animals, the winds and storms—similarly evidence the invisible whorls of energy underlying their shape and structure.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You (Self-Realization Fellowship) 2 Volume Set

“The aura often depicted around saints is not imaginative, but the inner divine light suffusing the whole being.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“Rather than being passive members of a church, satisfied merely with listening to sermons, worshipers should engage more in the effort to cultivate perfect stillness in both body and mind. The peace of absolute physical and mental stillness is the real temple wherein God most often visits His devotees. “Be still, and know that I am God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“As one switch throws light into the two headlights of an automobile, so the astral center of superconsciousness in the medulla throws its current into the two physical eyes that behold the world of duality. But by deep concentration on the point between the two eyes, the light of the medulla flowing into the two eyes can be made to converge into the one single spiritual eye in the forehead. Jesus said: “If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“The community religious services of the West are marvelous if they turn the mind to God and truth, but they are not enough if they lack meditation and knowledge of the methods of actual communion with God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“To be a son of God is not something one has to acquire: rather, one has only to receive His light and realize God has already conferred on him, at his very inception, that blessed status.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“Just behind the darkness of closed eyes in meditation shines that radiance of God. Man is blinded by the relativities of life. Without the aid of physical light he sees darkness. But beyond that darkness is another light that pervades the world. Hidden behind the ether of space is the tremendous light of the astral world, providing the life and energy that sustains the whole universe.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“This universe is a vibratory dream motion picture of God’s thoughts on the screen of time and space and human consciousness.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly and temporarily diversified by Spirit’s creative vibratory activity.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“Most Christian churches today have wandered away from the path of self-realization and are satisfied with sermons, ceremonies, organizations, and festivities.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Yogananda's "The Second Coming of Christ" Gospel Commentary: As Published by the Amrita Foundation, Inc.

“Worldly minds are morbid; they thrive on sensationalism and often distort the facts or exaggerate the words of others, or repeat them out of context with no charitable consideration of pertinent circumstances.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“One who occupies his mind with an unholy interest in the moral weaknesses of others actually rouses and stimulates his own sleeping prenatal baser instincts.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“Just as lighted candles are not meant to be covered by bushel baskets but put on candlesticks to shed their light, so also, souls are lighted with the inherent presence of God, not to be enshrouded by ignorance, uselessness, materiality, and death, but that they may, with the illumination of wisdom and goodness, enlighten spiritually darkened lives.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“The honey of God, though sealed in mystery, is what the soul truly craves. Those who meditate with undaunted patience and persistence break the mystery seal, and uninhibitedly imbibe the heavenly nectar of immortality.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“Before one can reach God, there has to be the “repentance” that turns the consciousness from delusive matter to the kingdom of God within. This withdrawal retires the life force and mind inward to rise through the spiritualizing centers of the spine to the supreme states of divine realization.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“How easy it is for the majority of people to be tempted materially, to languish spiritually and do the very things that will hurt themselves.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“As Cosmic Vibration, all things are one; but when Cosmic Vibration becomes frozen into matter, it becomes many--including man's body, which is a part of this variously divided matter.* (*footnote: Recent advances in what theoretical physicists call 'superstring theory' are leading science toward an understanding of the vibratory nature of creation. Brian Greene, Ph.D., professor of physics at Cornell and Columbia Universities, writes in The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (New York: Vintage Books, 2000): 'During the last thirty years of his life, Albert Einstein sought relentlessly for a so-called unified field theory--a theory capable of describing nature's forces within a single, all-encompassing, coherent framework...Now, at the dawn of the new millennium, proponents of string theory claim that the threads of this elusive unified tapestry finally have been revealed...' 'The theory suggests that the microscopic landscape is suffused with tiny strings whose vibrational patterns orchestrate the evolution of the universe,' Professor Greene writes, and tells us that 'the length of a typical string loop is...about a hundred billion billion (1020) times smaller than an atomic nucleus.')”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You (Self-Realization Fellowship) 2 Volume Set