Friday, May 21, 2010

Wisdom


He is wisest who seeks God. He is the most succesful who has found God. - Paramahansa Yogananda, "The Law of Success"

It is not a pumping-in from outside that gives wisdom. It is the power and extend of you inner receptivity that determines how much you can attain of true knowledge, and how rapidly. - Paramahansa Yogananda, in a "Para-gram"
It is not necessary to go through every kind of human experience in order to attain ultimate wisdom. You should be able to learn by studying the lives of others. Why become helplessly involved in an endless panorama of events in order to discover that nothing in this world can ever make you happy? - Paramahansa Yogananda, "Man's Eternal Quest"

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Discrimination

Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows. - Swami Sri Yukteswar, in "Autobiography of a Yogi"

Saintliness is not dumbness! Divine percepions are not incapacitating. The active expression of virtue gives rise to the keenest intelligence. - Swami Sri Yukteswar, in "Autobiography of a Yogi"

Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. Swami Sri Yukteswar, in "Autobiography of a Yogi"

To those ever attached to Me, worshiping Me with love, I impart that discriminative wisdom (Buddhi Yoga) by which they attain Me . - Bhagavan Krishna, in the "Bhagavad-Gita"

Monday, May 10, 2010

Sri Yukteswar Birthday

Today is the birthday of the great Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Guru of Paramahansa Yogananda and paramguru of all SRF devotees. He is a great incarnation of pure wisdom and we bow to this enlightened soul and pray that even a little of His wisdom may come to open our minds and hearts. This is a great day to start with new resolution our most admirable desires.

"To keep company with the Guru is not only to be in His physical presence (as this is sometimes impossible), but mainly means to keep Him in our hearts and to be one with Him in principle and to attune ourselves with Him" - Swami Sri Yukteswar, "The Holy Science"

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Loyalty


True devotees may be called fanatical in their devotion to Him. The only right kind of fanaticism is loyalty to God - night and day, night and day, thinking of Him. Without this kind of loyalty it is impossible to find God. Those who never miss Kriya, and who sit long in meditation and pray intensely to God, will discover the longed-for Treasure. - Paramahansa Yogananda, "Man's Eternal Quest"

God is ever
calling you through the flute of my heart. Follow the truth that God has sent through Self-Realization Fellowship and you shall be forever blessed. Falter no more, you who have heard these words. I urge upon you - forget Him not. Our bodies may perish, but let our souls forever blaze as eternal stars in the heart of God. Paramahansa Yogananda, "Self-Realization Magazine"

You will find that everything will betray you if you betray your loyalty to God. So let not one drop of oil fall from the lamp of your attention in the sanctuary of silence as you meditate each day; yet carefully perform your duties in the world. Paramahansa Yogananda, "Self-Realization Magazine"

God is equally present in all, but He is most definitely expressed in the heart of the spiritually minded, loyal person who thinks only of Him. Through your loyalty to God you can establish your Oneness with Him. Loyalty attracts the Divine Attention. Thus when the storms of life gather, and the waves of trials buffet you, you can guide the boat of your life safely to the divine shores by realizing His omnipresence. Paramahansa Yogananda, in a "Para-gram"

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

PRAYER



Though God hears all our prayers He does not always respond. Our situation is like that of a child who calls for his mother, but the mother does not think it necessary to come. She sends him a plaything to keep him quit. But when the child refuses to be comforted by anything except the mother's presence, she comes.
If you want to know God, you must be like the naughty baby who cries till the mother comes. - Paramahansa Yogananda, "How You Can Talk With God"
You can't just sit there and wait for succes to fall into your lap; once your course is set and your will is firm, you have to make a practical effort. Then you will see thet whatever you require for success starts coming to you. Everything will push you in the right direction. In your divinely surcharged will power is the answer to prayer. When you use that will, you open the way through which your prayers can be answered. - Paramahansa Yogananda, "Man's Eternal Quest"

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Sight is energy leaving the person

CAP. 4
PROBING THE NEW REALITY
From THE COSMIC PULSE OF LIFE
The author: Trevor James Constable
web site: http://trevorjamesconstable.com/

Sight is energy leaving the person - Leonardo Da Vinci

The Chapter 4 of the beautiful book "The Cosmic Pulse of Life" I'am reading is dealing with the concept of the "visual ray", following the most salient parts of this chapter.


…"In Rudolf Steiner’s writings, the role of the ether body in all the processes of perception is described. The rays that you have seen escaping from your own fingertips, if you have followed the experiments outlined earlier, actually escape similarly from all body orifices and pointed areas. Departure of a ray energy from the human eye is an integral part of the process of vision.
In Man or Matter, Dr. Ernst Lehrs call this eye beam the "visual ray". This term is appropriate because the visual ray acts similarly to a radar beam, going out into space from the human beings and extending consciousness out into space. Each eye emits energy, but one eye is the "master eye" and controls and dominates the whole process. Through the visual ray, the living energy in you makes contact with external objects, reaching out and grasping those objects, as it were.
The visual ray is of the same quality as the rays leaving your fingertips, but is much more sensitive and more functional because of its direct connection to consciousness.
"Seeing for the living human is a function of this etheric forces. The mechanical conception of sight is not sufficient, now that we know about this radiation. We are forced, by what we have observed and experienced of this energy surrounding and leaving the person, to entertain the conception of the visual ray. We do this now in highly practical fashion.
Lie quietly in a darkened room, and allow yourself to be come accustomed to the environment. Shut off all radio, TV and distracting sounds from any source. Remember that you are trying to bring into function and into your own awareness, faculties and endowments of your organism taht have been beaten down by the daily assault of civilized living. You have also been brainwashed by mechanistic thought that such things do not exist. Give the grander realities a chance to live in you and to show you their wonders.
Hold your hands up in front of you in the dark, palms facing you. Remember that the visual ray is a subtle beam of energy that leaves your eyes like a radar beam – the same quality of subtlety as the rays you have seen and felt from your fingertips. Attempt now to feel your own visual ray.
Swing your eyes back and forth across the spot in the dark where your hands are. Do it slowly, carefully, persistently. Extend your touch out through the visual ray. Unless you are an especially insensitive individual, or one determined not to succeed, you will, after a time, feel the gentle passage of the visual ray across your hands. You will find it gossamer subtlety a new experience in feeling.
Persist and your sensitivity will improve. Focus all your faculties of touch into the visual ray and send it out into the darkened room to feel all kind of protuberances. If there is a venetian shade in the room, run the visual ray up and down over the slats. Once you have developed a little sensitivity, the effect is akin to running the teeth of a comb over your fingertips, but immeasurably more subtle.
Paper forms that are directly responsive to the visual ray, complete with cutouts for immediate assembly, are contained in John P. Boyle's The Psionic Generator Pattern Book, Published by Prentice-Hall of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, U.S.A., this document will significantly assist private researchers in this field.
You may demonstrate the presence and the power of your visual ray to yourself in the meteorological realm. This direct proving is overwhelming.
Once again, you do your proving by participating. You may dissipate clouds with your visual ray by following a simple procedure. Do not attempt short cuts, variants or modifications until you have performed exactly in accordance with these requirements:
1. Choose a day when you have numbers of small, discrete clouds that are approximately the same size.
2. Select one cloud to be dissipated. Have a friend take a Polaroid photograph of the scene, and mark your selected cloud before you beginning to dissipating it.
3. Resolve inwardly that you are going to dissipate that cloud, drawing the energy down your visual ray into yourself.
4. Concentrate on the cloud and slice your visual ray back and forth across it. Then bore into it. Then slice back and forth. Then bore some more.
5. Within five minutes the cloud will have begun to disperse after clearly having lost cohesion. Surrounding clouds of comparable size to the selected cloud remain essentially unchanged. A friend with a Polaroid will objectify it all for you.
6. Conentration upon fragmentating portions of the cloud will secure their final dispersal.
Arguments and intellectualizing about this procedure are not substitures for participation. Go out and do it, and leave the mechanistic skeptics to verbalize themselves to death. The proof and the changed cognition that comes with it will belong to you thereafter, and no one can ever take these things from you.
The most important thing to bear in mind when attempting this for the first time is that there is always a delay between the application of the bioenergetic stimulus of the visual ray and the manifestation of gross physical efforts, i.e., the visible dissolution of the cloud. Allow for this inherent bioenergetic delay. You are not longer dealing with mechanical things in a mechanical fashion. You are entering the realm of the living.
You will find that your whole ocular apparatus becomes strongly stimulated by visual ray cloudbusting. This stimulation is due to the orgonic energy that binds the moisture in the cloud being drawn down your visual ray into your organism in accordance with the Law of Orgonotic Potential. This law will be elaborated fully later as we deal with the discovery of the orgone energy. Suffice it to say for now that orgone energy is negatively entropic and sweeps away the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a universal law. All you need to know right now is that if you are aware of your visual ray and use it as described, you can produce tremendous physical effects at a distance.
Whit the unaided human organism, one may not bust clouds indefinitely. Once the organism is charged bioenergetically to capacity, it cannot absorb more orgone energy from the clouds without discharge of that energy, either into water or through the sex organs. Cloudbusting is repeatable within these limits, with the visual ray.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Humility

Pride is blinding, banishing the vision of vastness possessed by greater souls. Humbleness is the open gate through which the divine flood of Mercy and Power loves to flow into receptive souls. - Paramahansa Yogananda, SRF Lessons

Humility comes from realizing that Gog is the Doer, not you. When you see that, how can you be proud of any accomplishment? Think constantly that whatever work you are performing is being done by the Lord through you. - Paramahansa Yogananda, "Self-Realization Magazine"

The greatest man is he who considers himself to be the least, as Jesus taught. A real leader is one who first learned obedience to others, who never puts himself on a pedestal. Those who want flattery don't deserve our admiration, but he who serves us has a right to our love. Isn't God the servant of His children, and does He ask for praise? No, He is too great to be moved by it. - Paramahansa Yogananda, " Saying of Paramahansa Yogananda"

If your work in life is humble, do not apologize for it. Be proud because you are fulfilling the duty given you by the Father. He needs you in your particular place; all people cannot play the same role. So long as you work to please God all cosmic force will harmoniously assist you. - Paramahansa Yogananda "The Law of Success"

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, for the devotee may feel vain and self-satisfied, ceasing to seek the profundities of the Divine. Only he who is free from the sense of self-importance becomes more and more spiritual until he is one with God. A humble devotee is lacking in venity and pettiness. - Paramahansa Yogananda, "Self-Realization Magazine"

Humbleness is the manifestation of an understanding heart, and set an example of greatness for others to follow. - Paramahansa Yogananda, SRF Lessons

The rains of God's mercy cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness. - Paramahansa Yogananda, " Saying of Paramahansa Yogananda"