Change your life by changing your thoughts. Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes From Paramahansa Yogananda Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun. Paramahansa Yogananda thoughts nature light men When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul. Paramahansa Yogananda thoughts feeling soul power The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda body soul spirit self Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated. Paramahansa Yogananda then through body energy Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations. Paramahansa Yogananda cause careless meditation negative Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems. Paramahansa Yogananda man ego personality god Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation. Paramahansa Yogananda first everything creation special When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul. Paramahansa Yogananda you body soul mind
