Why you should read 'The Autobiography of a Yogi'?
The Autobiography of a Yogi is the life journey of the yogi named Paramhansa Yogananda, former name Mukunda Lal Ghosh. The Yogi talks about various mystical events since his childhood and shares his path and the reason behind his path and decisions and how he became a yogi.
The book is a source of spiritual guidance and knowledge. The book is in the recommendation list of successful individuals like Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, Virat Kohli and many others.The book is said to have made a huge difference in these individuals's lives. Steve Jobs has read the book more than once.
Honestly, at first I found it difficult to read it believing everything but then I reminded myself that to receive the most from the book, I need to read it with faith and see how it turns out. I advise you read with faith when you do.
Few teachings from the book that will urge you to read it:
"Mind is the wielder of muscles. The force of a hammer blow depends on the energy applied; the power expressed by a man's bodily instrument depends on his aggressive will and courage. The body is literally manufactured and sustained by mind. Through pressure of instincts from past lives, strengths or weaknesses percolate gradually into human consciousness. They express as habits which in turn ossify into a desirable or an undesirable body. The habit-bound body thwarts the mind. If the master allows himself to be commanded by a servant, the latter becomes autocratic; the mind is similarly enslaved by submitting to bodily dictation."
"Why be elated by material profit? The one who pursues a goal of even-mindedness is neither jubiliantwith gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee."
"The explosive vibratory power in speech could be wisely directed to free one's life from difficulties."
"In deep meditation, the first experience of Spirit is on the altar of the spine, and then in the brain."
Krishna's words,"Even he with the worst of Karma who ceaselessly meditates on Me quickly loses the effect of his past bad actions. Becoming a high-souled being, he soon attains perennial peace.Arjuna, know this for certain: the devotee who puts his trust in Me never perishes."
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."
"Good and evil is the challenging riddle which life places sphinxlike before every intelligence."
"Self-scrutiny, relentless observance of one's thoughts, is a stark and shattering experience. It pulverizes the stoutest ego. But true self-analysis mathematically operates to produce seers.
Truth humbly retires, no doubt, before such arrogant originality.
Man can understand no eternal verity until he has freed himself from pretensions."
"Thoughtless is the man who buries his ideals, surrendering to the common fate."
"Inner research soon exposes a unity in all human minds-the stalwart kinship of selfish motive.In one sense, the brotherhood of man stands revealed.It ripens into compassion for one's fellows, blind to the healing potencies of the soul awaiting exploration. Only the shallow man loses responsivesness to the woes of others' lives, as he sinks into narrow suffering of his own."
"The different sensory stimuli to which man reacts- tactual, visual, gustatory, auditory, and olfactory- are produced by vibratory variations in electrons and protons. The vibrations in turn are regulated by lifetrons, subtle life forces or finer than atomic energies intelligently charged with the five sensory idea-substances.
Gandha baba tuning himself with the cosmic force by certain yogic practices, was able to guide the lifetrons to rearrange their vibratory structure and objectivize the desired result."
"Do not mistake the technique for the goal."
"The divine order arranges our future wisely than any insurance company.The world is full of uneasy believers in an outward security. Their bitter thoughts are like scars on their foreheads. The One who gave us air and milk from our first breath knows how to provide day by day for His Devotees."
"The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature."
"No man lives who has not seen certain of his prayers granted."
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