How You Can Talk With God by Paramahansa Yogananda

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda [Yogananda, Paramahansa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mobilism
Publisher: Yogoda Satsanga Society of India
Published: 2017-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

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“The ideal of love for God and service to humanity found full expression in the life of Paramahansa Yogananda .... Though the major part of his life was spent outside India, still he takes his place among our great saints. His work continues to grow and shine ever more brightly, drawing people everywhere on the path of the pilgrimage of the Spirit.”

In these words, the Government of India paid tribute to the founder of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship, upon issuing a commemorative stamp in his honour on March 7, 1977, the seventeen anniversary of his passing.

A world teacher whose presence among us illumined the path for countless souls, Paramahansa Yogananda lived and taught the highest truths of life. Born in Gorakhpur, India, in 1893, Paramahansa Yogananda was sent by his guru to the United States in 1920 as India’s delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals. Subsequent lectures in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia were enthusiastically received, and in 1924 he embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour.

For the next decade Paramahansaji travelled extensively, giving lectures and classes in which he instructed thousands of men and women in the yoga science of meditation and balanced spiritual living.

Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Sri Sri Mrinalini Mata, one of his closest disciples and current president of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship. In addition to publishing Paramahansa Yogananda’s writings, lectures, and informal talks (including a comprehensive series of lessons for home study),1 his society oversees ashrams, kendras, and meditation centres around the world; monastic training programs; and the Worldwide Prayer Circle, which serves as a channel to help bring healing to those in need and greater peace and harmony among all nations. Seekers in India and surrounding territories are served by Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.

Quincy Howe, Jr., Ph. D., Professor of Ancient Languages, Scripps College, wrote: “Paramahansa Yogananda brought to the West not only India’s perennial promise of God-realization, but also a practical method by which spiritual aspirants from all walks of life may progress rapidly toward that goal. Originally appreciated in the West only on the most lofty and abstract level, the spiritual legacy of India is now accessible as practice and experience to all who aspire to know God, not in the beyond, but in the here and now .... Yogananda has placed within the reach of all the most exalted methods of contemplation.”

The life and teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda are described in his Autobiography of a Yogi, which has become a classic in its field since its publication in 1946 and is now used as a text and reference work in many colleges and universities throughout the world.

1 These lessons present the art of spiritual living and the yoga meditation techniques taught by Paramahansa Yogananda, including Kriya Yoga, an ancient spiritual science whose devoted practice leads to direct, personal experience of God. Information about the lessons is available from Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.

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