The Wisdom of Yogananda
by The Wisdom of Yogananda
Explore the timeless teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and reclaim your oneness with God — ever new joy, love, and peace. Turn your day-to-day life into a journey of Self-realization. We invite you to journey with us on a life-transforming discovery of the peace, joy, and wisdom of the soul through the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda.On this podcast, you will find beautifully crafted narrations of Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings, accompanied by moving audio effects that will help you fully immerse yourself in the experience.
Episodes
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21# - Paramahansa Yogananda - Oh what Joy
At the conclusion of the 1934 Christmas gathering, Paramahansaji poured out his heart to God in prayer. Sri Daya Mata, who recorded his words stenographically, noted on the transcription: “A very soul-stirring, devotional prayer that brought tears of intense longing for God to all present....
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20# - Paramahansa Yogananda: Where Is Jesus Now, and What Is He Doing?
After death, Jesus resurrected his body and allowed hundreds of people to see him. To the doubting Thomas he said, “It is I; touch me.” Why did he materialize his body? That others might behold him after resurrection and know that all who are in tune can behold him and know that he is. St.…
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19# - Paramahansa Yogananda: Remolding Your Life
When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward. This is the truth Jesus referred to when he...
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18# - Paramahansa Yogananda - Visions of India: Evolving the Higher Self
In ages past, the rishis and masters of India, secluded in their hermitages, unraveled the mysteries that hide the Omnipresent Spirit. Their research has given us the valuable techniques and methods that tune the body and mind to the Illimitable Source of life and intelligence residing in every...
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17# - Paramahansa Yogananda: Reflections on love
The love of God, the love of the Spirit, is an all-consuming love. Once you have experienced it, it shall lead you on and on in the eternal realms. That love will never be taken away from your heart. It shall burn there, and in its fire you shall find the great magnetism of Spirit that draws…
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#16 - Paramahansa Yogananda: Magnetism - The inherent power of the soul
Cultivate within yourself that spiritual magnetism which is in Christ and Krishna and the masters. In order to do this, you have to become unselfish; you must express selfless love for all. Try always to be helpful. Develop your usefulness to your family, to your community, to your friends. Be...
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#15 - Paramahansa Yogananda: The 5 forms of intuition
The cultivation of intuitive calmness requires unfoldment of the inner life. When developed sufficiently, intuition brings immediate comprehension of truth. You can have this marvelous realization. Meditation is the way. Paramahansa Yogananda • Paramahansa Yogananda: The 5 forms of... 📚 BOOKS by...
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#14 - Paramahansa Yogananda: The Beatitudes (Sermon on the Mount)
The lyric verses of Jesus that begin “Blessed are...” have become known as The Beatitudes. To beatify is to make supremely happy; beatitude signifies the blessedness, the bliss, of heaven. Jesus here sets forth with power and simplicity a doctrine of moral and spiritual principles that has echoed...
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#13 - Paramahansa Yogananda: The aurora of bliss
When you are struggling in the water, you are not so much conscious of the water as you are of your struggle. But when you let go and relax, you float; then you feel the whole lake lapping soothingly around your body. That is the way God is. When you are calm, you feel the whole universe of...
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#12 - Paramahansa Yogananda: Did we meet before?
It is a most wonderful experience to meet and recognize someone you knew before—someone with whom you have traveled the same pathway of life in former incarnations. All those in my family I knew from past lives. And every now and then I meet others who were known to me in previous incarnations,...
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#11 - Paramahansa Yogananda: Seek God First
How easy it is to pack the day with foolishness, how difficult to fill it with worthwhile activities and thoughts! Yet God is not so much interested in what we are doing as in where the mind is. Everyone has a different difficulty, but God doesn’t listen to any excuses. He wants the devotee’s…
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#10 - Paramahansa Yogananda: Raise the level of consciousness
Sri Krishna’s message in the Bhagavad Gita is the perfect answer for the modern age, and any age: Yoga of dutiful action, of nonattachment, and of meditation for God-realization. To work without the inner peace of God is Hades; and to work with His joy ever bubbling through the soul is to carry a...
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#09 - Paramahansa Yogananda: God as Light and Joy
Don’t yearn for human love; it will vanish. Behind human love is the spiritual love of God. Seek that. Don’t pray for home or for money or for love or for friendship. Don’t pray for anything of this world. Enjoy only what the Lord gives to you. All else leads to delusion. Man has come on earth...
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#08 - Paramahansa Yogananda: The Yoga Art of Overcoming Mortal Consciousness and Death
If you tune in with the thought of God and hit the nail of delusion with the hammer of right thoughts of Truth, you can overcome delusion.“Destroy all mortal thoughts by substituting a thought of immortality. When you go beyond the consciousness of this world, knowing that you are not the body or...
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#07 - Paramahansa Yogananda: What is fate?
Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your...
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#06 - Paramahansa Yogananda: Realizing God in daily life
Meditation utilizes concentration in its highest form. Concentration consists in freeing the attention from distractions and in focusing it on any thought in which one may be interested. Meditation is that special form of concentration in which the attention has been liberated from restlessness…
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#05 - Paramahansa Yogananda: How to remove sadness and suffering
Many people come to me to talk about their worries. I urge them to sit quietly, meditate, and pray; and after feeling calmness within, to think of the alternate ways by which the problem can be solved or eliminated. When the mind is calm in God, when the faith is strong in God, they find a…
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#04 Paramahansa Yogananda - On the Dream-Nature of the World
Throughout the day, you are constantly working through the body, and so you become identified with it. But every night God removes from you that imprisoning delusion. Last night, in deep dreamless sleep, were you a woman or a man or an American or Hindu or rich or poor? No. You were pure...
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#03 Paramahansa Yogananda - The physical and spiritual rewards of fasting
No food gives strength, no change of air invigorates, nothing can restore energy to the body when its life force begins to diminish. Fasting gives rest to the overworked organs, the bodily engines; and also to the life force itself, relieving it of extra work. When you cease to make the life…
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#02 Paramahansa Yogananda - Three Paths to Cosmic Consciousness
Samadhi is a joyous experience, a splendid light in which you behold the countless worlds floating in a vast bed of joy and bliss. Banish the spiritual ignorance that makes you think this mortal life is real. Have these beautiful experiences for yourself in eternal samadhi, in God. Auroras of...
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#01 Paramahansa Yogananda - How to use mind power to ease pain
The best anesthesia against pain is your mental power. If your mind refuses to accept it, pain will be greatly lessened. I have seen, at times when this body got hurt and felt severe pain, that if I put my mind at the Christ center—that is, if I identify myself more with God and less with the...
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Explore the timeless teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and reclaim your oneness with God — ever new joy, love, and peace. Turn your day-to-day life into a journey of Self-realization. We invite you to journey with us on a life-transforming discovery of the peace, joy, and wisdom of the soul through the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda.On this podcast, you will find beautifully crafted narrations of Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings, accompanied by moving audio effects that will help you fully immerse yourself in the experience.
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