The Yoga of Jesus Quotes

“The truths taught by Jesus went far beyond blind belief, which waxes and wanes under the influence of the paradoxical pronouncements of priest and cynic. Belief is an initial stage of spiritual progress necessary to receive the concept of God. But that concept has to be transposed into conviction, into experience. Belief is the precursor of conviction; one has to believe a thing in order to investigate equitably about it. But if one is satisfied only with belief, it becomes dogma—narrow-mindedness, a preclusion of truth and spiritual progress. What is necessary is to grow, in the soil of belief, the harvest of direct experience and contact of God. That indisputable realization, not mere belief, is what saves people.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“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, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“We are all made in the image of God, beings of immortal consciousness cloaked in diaphanous heavenly light—a heritage buried beneath the cloddish flesh. That heritage we can only acknowledge by meditation. There is no other way—not by reading books, not by philosophical study, but by devotion and continuous prayer and scientific meditation that uplifts the consciousness to God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“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, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“He who concentrates on one isolated wave of life will suffer, because that wave is unstable and will not last.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“The spiritual man is trying to free himself from the materiality that is the cause of his prodigal wandering in the maze of incarnations, but the ordinary man does not want more than a betterment of his earthly existence.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“To receive Christ is not accomplished through church membership, nor by outer ritual of acknowledging Jesus as one’s savior but never knowing him in reality by contacting him in meditation. To know Christ signifies to close the eyes, expand the consciousness and so deepen the concentration that through the inner light of soul intuition one partakes of the same consciousness that Jesus had.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“What could be more miraculous than the evident presence in every speck of creation of a Divine Intelligence? How the mighty tree emerges from a tiny seed. How countless worlds roll in infinite space, held in a purposeful cosmic dance by the precise adjustment of universal forces. How the marvelously complex human body is created from a single microscopic cell, is endowed with self-conscious intelligence, and is sustained, healed, and enlivened by invisible power. In every atom of this astounding universe, God is ceaselessly working miracles; yet obtuse man takes them for granted.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly and temporarily diversified by Spirit’s creative vibratory activity”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“With repeated acts of will power to meditate regularly and deeply, one attains the supremely satisfying Bliss-contact of God and can recall that joy to his consciousness anytime, anywhere.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“Those who meditate devoutly will receive Christ on the altar of calmness in their own consciousness.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“It is by freeing oneself from earthly desires that one gains entry into the kingdom of God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“When one can perceive that he is not the mortal body but a spark of the Infinite Spirit cloaked in a concentration of life energy, then he will be able to see the kingdom of God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“by self-mastery in meditation, the attention is focused steadily on the center of divine perception at the point between the eyebrows, the searchlights of life force and consciousness are reversed. Withdrawing from the senses, they reveal the light of the spiritual eye….Through this eye of omnipresence the devotee enters into the realms of divine consciousness.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“Man’s body, unique among all creatures, possesses spiritual cerebrospinal centers of divine consciousness in which the descended Spirit is templed. These are known to the yogis, and to Saint John—who described them in Revelation as the seven seals, and as seven stars and seven churches, with their seven angels and seven golden candlesticks.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“The Creative Vibration vitalizes the individual life force in the body, which conduces to health and well-being, and can be consciously directed as healing power to those in need of divine aid.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“Essential sons of God, clear reflections of the Father untarnished by delusion, have become sons of man by identification with the flesh and forgetfulness of their origin in Spirit. Deluded man is just a beggar on the street of time. But as Jesus received and reflected through his purified consciousness the divine sonship of Christ Consciousness, so also every man, by yoga meditation, can clarify his mind and become a diamondlike mentality who will receive and reflect the light of God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“God can live without man’s love; but as the wave cannot live without the ocean, so it is not possible for man to exist without the love of God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

“A dreaming person does not know that a nightmare is unreal until he wakes up.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels