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Talks and Writings
by Paramhansa Yogananda
To Meditate on Christmas Eve
Special Christmas Meditation from Metaphysical Meditations
Christmas Message from Yogananda, 1932
I shall behold the only begotten, only reflection, of transcendental God, the Father, born in the womb of all finite matter and vibration as the only Christ Intelligence, shepherding all Creation to an intelligent, Divine end.
Christmas Message from Yogananda, 1933
“A Christmas Letter to Students, All Individuals, and All Nations”
Realizing the Christ Consciousness within You
Inner Culture, 1936
That is the real reason why we celebrate His birthday – in order to remind ourselves of the divine qualities of Jesus and to awaken ourselves to a realization of the enlightening, loving Christ Presence in our own consciousness.
This Christmas Morning
Inner Culture, 1936
This Christmas morning we invoke the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of Christ to descend upon our consciousness and give us the realization of infinity.
In the Cradle of Christ Consciousness
Inner Culture, 1937
Jesus was born in the cradle of Christ Consciousness twenty centuries ago. His universal Christ Consciousness is reborn in every wise man. Are you ready in the coming Christmas to expand your soul to behold within yourself the birth of the Omnipresent Christ?
Christmas Message
During his visit to India, 1936
At this season my body is far away in India, so I shall celebrate Christmas with the Christ Joy, or Krishna Joy, ever omnipresent in your hearts.
Why Celebrate Christmas?
Inner Culture, 1934
Millions of people are expecting to celebrate the coming Christmas purely as a social event. Very few are looking forward to it as the time for spiritually remembering Christ and for exchanging the lasting gifts of soul and heart qualities.
The Cradle of Your Heart
Inner Culture, 1934
During this coming Christmas Season, open a new portal of sublime devotion so that the Christ Omnipresence will be able to come anew within your consciousness.
New Year’s Message
Inner Culture, January 1937
The New Year has come to greet you with new hopes, new determination, new will-to-achieve, new activities.
New Year Message
Inner Culture, January 1938
Our old tutor of last year has just passed away. Let us all remember the valuable lessons that he taught us and thus dedicate our future actions on the altar of the coming New Year.
Enter the Portals of the New Year
Inner Culture, January 1935
Behold, through the gates of the New Year, the distant gaudy decorations of future achievements glimmering at you and daringly luring you to give pursuit. Simply watching them with the hope of accomplishment will not count. You must start racing calmly at top speed, performing more miracles of greater speed on the way.
Attributes of Success
Excerpts from a booklet published in about 1926
Your success in life does not altogether depend upon natural ability; it also depends upon determination to grasp the opportunity that is presented to you. Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance.
Creating Happiness
East-West, 1933 and 1932
If you have made up your mind to find joy within yourself, sooner or later you will find it. Seek it now, daily, by steady, deep, and deeper meditation within, and you will surely find everlasting happiness.
The Law behind Answered Prayer
Inner Culture, 1941
To bring response to your prayers, you must pray intelligently with a bursting soul, seldom aloud, mostly mentally, without displaying to anyone what is happening within. You must pray with utmost devotion, feeling that God is listening to everything you are mentally affirming.
Why Is Life So Full of Tests?
Inner Culture, 1941
Through tests we learn life’s lessons. Tests are not meant to crush us: They are to develop our powers. They come through the natural law of progress and are necessary for us to advance from lower to higher steps. Mind is the source of all your troubles and all your happiness. You really are stronger than all your tests.
To the Nations of the World
Inner Culture, 1937
Why do worldly suffering and world-misery arise? When people all over the earth are happy and prosperous, they are in tune with God, and the entire vibrations of the earth in relation with the planets are harmonious. But as soon as one nation starts fighting with another, or the selfish industrial gourmands try to devour all prosperity for themselves, it brings about depression.
Let the Vibration of Peace Flow through You
Inner Culture, 1936
Soul vibration results when a person is always conscious of being with God, and when you are with such a person, you feel the presence of God. That is the vibration to carry with you wherever you go, so that whoever comes in contact with you may forget all but the power and love of God.
The Soul’s House of Bliss
Inner Culture, 1936
He who listens to the advice of Jesus Christ, and lives it, is settled in the home of lasting Bliss, founded on the rock of eternally intuitive wisdom. Such a wise man’s spiritual bliss is never destroyed by the rain of difficult spiritual trials, or by the advent of the flood of accumulated sorrowful events, or by the mighty wind of death.
The Difference between a Guru and a Teacher
Inner Culture, 1936
The relationship of guru and disciple depicts the only real way to retrace the truant soul’s footsteps back to God. In the beginning it is wise to compare many spiritual paths and teachers, but when the real guru and the real teaching are found, then the restless searching must cease. The thirsty one should not keep seeking wells, but should go to the best well and daily drink its nectar.
Invoke God’s Presence Throughout Each Day of Your Life
Yogoda Course, 1930
Invoke God as power in the temple of consciousness during the day. Let every action and every word that you utter be tinged and tipsy with God-love intoxication. Talk and act sensibly as a man who keeps his senses awake and in command. Be drunk with God and let every action of your daily life be a temple of God’s memory.
The Seven Astral Doors of Energy
Super Advanced Course, 1930
Just as electricity flows into the bulb through a wire passage, so the Cosmic Force flows through the medulla into the spine and its seven centers. The spinal cord may be likened to a wire. In it are located these seven centers of light which are the subcenters for the conduction and distribution of life current throughout the body.
Keep Centered in God – Not in Matter
Super Advanced Course, 1930
When you act in the world, forgetting God, you have changed your center from God to matter. And this grafted material nature will throw you into the whirlpool of change and will stifle you with worries and sorrows. Now revert to your own nature. Change your center from material desires to desire for God.
Be a Son of God
East West, 1929
All those who know the methods of enlarging the capacity of their consciousness by right meditation will be able to receive or comprehend the vast Spirit and, being identified with spirit, would become reflected spirits or Sons of God.
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