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Saturday, April 25, 2020
Friday, April 17, 2020
MAN IS KEPT HYPNOTIZED WITH DELUSION
Delusion is so strong that it is pretty hard to believe it is delusion when you have needs and no money to meet them. It is difficult to believe that this world is maya when you are sick and suffering. But when you constantly keep your mind in God, you will realize that this world is His dream.
This is why in India we don't pay as much attention to physical healing as to the healing of the soul's ignorance. To heal the soul of ignorance - that is, to remove the delusion that covers the soul - is the greatest of all healings, because that healing is lasting. And when you heal the soul, then you realize the body is nothing but a dream shell in which the soul resides.
~ SRI SRI PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA,
PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL METHODS OF HEALING,
THE DIVINE ROMANCE, Pg 169
How you can talk with God?
The demand for the Lord's reply should be strong; a half-believing prayer is not sufficient. If you make up your mind: "He is going to talk with me'; if you refuse to believe differently, regardless of how many years He has not answered you; if you go on trusting Him, one day He will respond.
—Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda,
"How You Can Talk With God"
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Quotes from YSS magazine - year 2005
When your mind is single-pointedly fixed on God, you reduce all of life's experiences to denominator. By constantly relating everything to Him,
you remove all of life's unnecessary complexities and are no longer troubled by the things that excite or upset others.
"He did this; she did that; I didn't get promoted; that person got recognition; I was ignored." So what? Has that
anything to do with your relationship with God? I know what that discipline is like; I have lived it. And I also know very well it's liberating effects.
-- YSS magazine, 2005
letter from Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda to this devotees
A copy of a letter that Paramhansa Yogananda wrote to a devotee in India in 1951. It is filled with timeless advice and blessings.
*Imagine that Guruji has written this to you:*
I have received your letter and thank you for writing to me about your difficulties. Do not be discouraged by them, but realize that for many lives you have been used to following habits or whims of the mind and now, when you are trying to bring the mind under your control, it naturally rebels against such discipline. Most devotees undergo this experience to a lesser or greater degree, so it is nothing to worry about. The important factor is to keep on trying to better yourself. No one can do this for you. You must whip the mind into submission through the constant application of will power.
Remember that you are a child of God, created in His divine image. These weaknesses which you have put on do not belong to you. You must be strong and conquer them, one by one, if you would know God. At the same time, be not discouraged when you fall, but lift yourself again and again out of your mental lethargy by longer and deeper periods of meditation.
If you apply the teachings every day, you will see yourself change. Do not expect to change all at once, but by continuous effort and faith in God the change will take place.
Above all, love the Father, in spite of your weaknesses. Love Him unconditionally, and mentally surrender yourself to Him. In Him will you find the fulfillment of all your longings.
Start right now doing little services for others, no matter how small they may be. Feel that you are serving the God in them. And should you fall in trying to lift yourself, get up and try, try again. Never allow yourself to feel discouraged.
God bless you and your family. My prayers will be with each of you.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
How to go deep in meditation?
To go deep in meditation requires focus; it requires concentration.
That's why the first technique Guruji gives us is the marvelous Hong-Sau technique of concentration.
In the beginning of our spiritual search, we're usually full of enthusiasm. We really make effort in our meditations, and often get very good results because of that.
But as the years go by, there is a tendency to slacken a little bit and just go through the motions.
You sit down to meditate and the mind says, "Oh, it's been a tough day!" And ten minutes later you're still thinking about what a tough day it's been; you haven't even started to meditate. In struggling against this myself, I've found that it can be overcome if I make an effort to get myself charged up for meditation, give myself a good pep talk:
"OK, mind, we're going to meditate. I don't want any backtalk from you.
Focus on the Hong-Sau technique, and don't even think about wandering off!" Summon up intensity; and you will find that the mind obeys, and you go deep quickly. Keep on keeping on. That's the whole secret of spiritual success: Never give up!
-- Brother Achalananda SRF Magazine 1996
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
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