24 May 2020 archive

How to quiet the mind?

A very common problem. Universal. We can focus the mind with ease on tasks related to worldly activity. But tell the mind to stop thinking, start to see the divine, love God, etc and it a Herculean task Maha yoga vigyan and paramhansa Yogananda talk about it very clearly My blogs have said it clearly. …

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Chidananda Rupa Shivohum Shivohum

From ~~~ Day by Day with Bhagavan, 21-8-46. Q.; Shankara says we are all free, not bound, and that we shall all go back to God from whom we have come as sparks from fire. Then, why should we not commit all sorts of sins? Bhagavan: It is true we are not bound, i.e., the …

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Information versus experience

The reason that God remains unknown to millions who worship Him in temples and churches, and in holy cities and places of pilgrimage, is that the physical instruments of knowledge can apprehend only the products of the Creator; Divinity Itself is perceived by the supramental faculty of intuition, the soul’s God-given power of knowing truth. …

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Novel

This life is a master novel, written by God, and man would go crazy if he tried to understand it by reason alone. That is why I tell you to meditate more. Enlarge the magic cup of your intuition and then you will be able to hold the ocean of infinite wisdom. Paramahansa Yogananda—Sayings of …

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