Where There is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges
Language: English
Pages: 0
ISBN: B01JNV7WUC
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This wisdom-filled volume of selections from the writings and lectures of Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, provides a wealth of practical guidance and inspiration for all who are seeking greater spiritual harmony and balance. With even more encouraging and powerful insights than before, this expanded edition of Where There is Light brings the illumination of spiritual understanding to bear on the many challenges of everyday living – awakening a renewed awareness of the infinite potential hidden within each one of us.
A Secret of Progress thing to do and your it is of your more firmly One is inertia, or lack of undivided effort and attention. Sometimes there are habits that need to be den Take stock and find out what habits, standing in your way. Often definite, introspect. is to life, weeded out so that true happiness of the gar- may become rooted. secret of progress is self-analysis. Introspec- mirror in which to see recesses of your mind that otherwise would remain hidden from
God-communion you bring about the harmony or balance of these two qualities within yourself. we combined the ideal masculine and feminine qualities. Jesus was like that; so were all the masters. When you have attained that perfect reason-feeling equilibrium, you will have learned one of the major lessons for which you were In the great saints see sent here. Mankind must realize that the basic nature of the soul is spiritual. For man and woman to look upon each other only as a means to
the astral world: "In my in some region Father's of life house are many mansions, "t •:• have never been able to believe in heaven/' a student remarked. "Is there truly such a place?" "I new * "No weapon can pierce the soul; no can burn fire it; no water can .The soul is immutable, nor can any wind wither it moisten eternally the same. The all-permeating, ever calm, and immovable and unchangeable. unmanifested, imponderable, said to be soul is not lament" (Bhashouldst thou such,
the astral world: "In my in some region Father's of life house are many mansions, "t •:• have never been able to believe in heaven/' a student remarked. "Is there truly such a place?" "I new * "No weapon can pierce the soul; no can burn fire it; no water can .The soul is immutable, nor can any wind wither it moisten eternally the same. The all-permeating, ever calm, and immovable and unchangeable. unmanifested, imponderable, said to be soul is not lament" (Bhashouldst thou such,
nonattachment, morality, and transcendent spiritual consciousness. For example, a stomachache tells us not to eat too much and to watch what we eat. The pain from loss of possessions or loved ones reminds us of the temporal nature of all things in this world of delusion. The conse- quences of wrong actions impel us to exercise discrimination. Why not learn through wisdom? Then you won't subject yourself to unnecessary painful discipline from the hard taskmaster of suffering. God has given us