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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
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Paramahamsa Yogananda
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The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth all else is avidya, relative knowledge.
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If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.
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Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being you are spirit.
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Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease they cannot go beyond the portals of death.
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