Even when you do not know where the next dollar is coming from, you should refuse to be apprehensive. When you do your part and rely on God to do His, you will find that mysterious forces come to your aid and that your constructive wishes soon materialize. This confidence and consciousness of abundance are attained through meditation.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes

Seldom do men realize how often God heeds their prayers. He is not partial to a few, but listens to everyone who approaches Him trustingly. His children should ever have implicit faith in the loving-kindness of their Omnipresent Father.” Sri.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

If the master allows himself to be commanded by a servant, the latter becomes autocratic; the mind is similarly enslaved by submitting to bodily dictation.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

It is often forgotten that He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The adage: “He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom,” could never be applied to my profound and quiet master. Though.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world-so make the acquaintanceship of God.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Illusion works impenetrable, Weaving webs innumerable; Her gay pictures never fail, Crowd each other, veil on veil; Charmer who will be believed By man who thirsts to be deceived.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

When you say to me that you can’t do this or that, I don’t believe it. Whatever you make up your mind to do, you can do. God is the sum total of everything, and His image is within you. He can do anything, and so can you, if you learn to identify yourself with His inexhaustible nature.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Who can stop you from thinking you are a god? No one. You are your only obstruction.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called “society” may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

He who concentrates on one isolated wave of life will suffer, because that wave is unstable and will not last.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognised visitor will flee!

— Paramahansa Yogananda

God is beyond all forms, and is supremely impersonal. At the same time, God has also taken on every form in the universe.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Fear is born of the thought of failure when one is attached to success. Anger is born of frustrated desire.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly and temporarily diversified by Spirit’s creative vibratory activity.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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!

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Fulfilling one’s earthly responsibilities need not separate man from God, provided he maintains mental uninvolvement with egotistical desires and plays his part in life as a willing instrument of the Divine.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Kriya Yoga is more than a meditation technique; it is also a way of life, and requires acceptance by the initiate of certain spiritual disciplines and injunctions.

— Paramahansa Yogananda
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