Quote

Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
Autobiographer
Guru
Philosopher
Writer
Yogi
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Never
Quality
Mental
Wrong
Yoga
Taints
Evil
Actions
Vibrations
Action
Negative
Reflected
Anything
Personality
Nurture
Whole
Thoughts
Engage
Mind
Cause
Qualities
Good
Causes
Appearance

More quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

Image
Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Spirit vibrated into matter hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
When you came into this world you cried, whereas everyone else rejoiced. During your lifetime, work and serve in such a way that when it is time for you to leave this world, you will smile at parting while the world cries for you. Hold this thought and you will always remember to consider others above yourself.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Image
Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.
Paramahansa Yogananda