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Paramahansa Yogananda
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„Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation.’A beggar cannot renounce wealth,’ Master would say. ‘If a man laments: ‘My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,’ to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!’Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.“
„The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:Under the vast vault of blueLives the divinity clothed in hide.One turns aside to hide a smile on hearing the pedestrian interpretation given to Ravidas’ poem by a Western writer:”He afterwards built a hut, set up in it an idol which he made from a hide, and applied himself to its worship.”“
„Away, the partial loveThat ‘boldens Nature to sit aboveHer Maker!“
„Not an unconscious stateOr mental chloroform without wilful return,Samadhi but extends my realm of consciousnessBeyond the limits of my mortal frameTo the boundaries of eternity,Where I, the Cosmic Sea,Watch the little ego floating in Me.“
„Many sects, many denominations, many beliefs, many persecutions, many conflicts and upheavals have been created by misinterpretations. Now, Christ reveals the consummate message in the simple words he spoke to an ancient people in a less-advanced age of civilization. Read, understand, and feel Christ speaking to you through this “Second Coming” bible, urging you to be redeemed by realization of the true “Second Coming,” the resurrection within you of the Infinite Christ Consciousness.“
„Christ has been much misinterpreted by the world. Even the most elementary principles of his teachings have been desecrated, and their esoteric depths have been forgotten. They have been crucified at the hands of dogma, prejudice, and cramped understanding. Genocidal wars have been fought, people have been burned as witches and heretics, on the presumed authority of man-made doctrines of Christianity. How to salvage the immortal teachings from the hands of ignorance? We must know Jesus as an Oriental Christ, a supreme yogi who manifested full mastery of the universal science of God-union, and thus could speak and act as a savior with the voice and authority of God.“
„There is a distinguishing difference of meaning between Jesus and Christ. His given name was Jesus; his honorific title was “Christ.” In his little human body called Jesus was born the vast Christ Consciousness, the omniscient Intelligence of God omnipresent in every part and particle of creation. This Consciousness is the “only begotten Son of God,” so designated because it is the sole perfect reflection in creation of the Transcendental Absolute, Spirit or God the Father.It was of that Infinite Consciousness, replete with the love and bliss of God, that Saint John spoke when he said: “As many as received him [the Christ Consciousness], to them gave he power to become the sons of God.” Thus according to Jesus’ own teaching as recorded by his most highly advanced apostle, John, all souls who become united with Christ Consciousness by intuitive Self-realization are rightly called sons of God….“
„The heart of the great dispensation of Jesus has survived not necessarily in any temporal power of an outer institution, but in those great devotees and saints whose protracted devotions and meditations established within them temples of Christ Consciousness and God-communion…It is such saints and masters who have actually communed with God — those known to history as well as countless anonymous true souls devoted to Christ, hidden in monasteries and convents in wholehearted consecration — who have verily been the “rock” on which Jesus’ inner church of Christ communion has endured these two thousand years.“
„I, the ocean of mind, drink all creation’s waves.The four veils of solid, liquid, vapor, light,Lift aright.Myself, in everything,Enters the Great Myself.Gone forever,The fitful, flickering shadows of a mortal memory.Spotless is my mental sky,Below, ahead, and high above.Eternity and I, one united ray.I, a tiny bubble of laughter,Have become the Sea of Mirth Itself.“
„To gaze with looks of wonderment,And to serve all that lives, still or moving.This is to know what love is.He knows who lives it.“
„Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.“
„In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping,Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving,My soul constantly hums, unheard by any;God, God, God!“
„It is an erroneous assumption of limited minds that great ones such as Jesus, Krishna, and other divine incarnations are gone from the earth when they are no longer visible to human sight. This is not so… Jesus Christ is very much alive and active today. In Spirit and occasionally taking on a flesh-and-blood form, he is working unseen by the masses for the regeneration of the world. With his all-embracing love, Jesus is not content merely to enjoy his blissful consciousness in Heaven. He is deeply concerned for mankind and wishes to give his followers the means to attain the divine freedom of entry into God’s Infinite Kingdom….“
„I exist without the cosmic shadow,But it could not live bereft of me;As the sea exists without the waves,But they breathe not without the sea.Dreams, wakings, states of deep turiya sleep,Present, past, future, no more for me,But the ever-present, all-flowing, I, I everywhere.Consciously enjoyable,Beyond the imagination of all expectancy,Is this, my samadhi state.“
„Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.“
„If by this superhuman concentration one succeeded in converting or resolving the two cosmoses with all their complexities into sheer ideas, he would then reach the causal world and stand on the borderline of fusion between mind and matter. There one perceives all created things — solids, liquids, gases, electricity, energy, all beings, gods, men, animals, plants, bacteria — as forms of consciousness, just as a man can close his eyes and realize that he exists, even though his body is invisible to his physical eyes and is present only as an idea.“
„The Body melts into the universeThe universe melts into the soundless voiceThe sound melts into the all-shining lightAnd the light enters the bosom of infinite joy.p36, Metaphysical Meditations“
„Nor doomsday’s thunderous roar,Dismantling earth and stars —The cosmic beauties all to mar —Not Nature’s murderous mutiny,Nor man’s exploding destinyCan touch me here.“
„How do the receptive perceive truth, whereas the unreceptive “seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand”? The ultimate truths of heaven and the kingdom of God, the reality that lies behind sensory perception and beyond the cogitations of the rationalizing mind, can only be grasped by intuition — awakening the intuitive knowing, the pure comprehension, of the soul.“
„It is the call of the beauty — robed onesTo worship the great Beauty.It is the call of GodThrough silent intelligencesAnd starburst of feelings.“
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