Paramhansa Yogananda

Excerpted from: Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda The science of Kriya Yoga, mentioned so often in these pages, became widely known in modern India through the instrumentality of Lahiri Mahasaya, my guru’s guru. The Sanskrit root of Kriya is kri, to do, to act and react; the same root is found in the word karma, the natural principle of cause … Read More

Excerpted from: Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda The ancient Vedic scriptures declare that the physical world operates under one fundamental law of maya, the principle of relativity and duality. God, the Sole Life, is an Absolute Unity; He cannot appear as the separate and diverse manifestations of a creation except under a false or unreal veil. That cosmic illusion is … Read More

Excerpted from: God Is For Everyone, by Paramhansa Yogananda as taught to and understood by his disciple Swami Kriyananda The ego cannot easily conceptualize the vast consciousness that brought it into existence. Christian theologians describe God as “wholly other”: that is to say, completely different from His creation. Indeed, so He must be if one compares man’s littleness with God’s infinity; the theologians, … Read More

by Paramhansa Yogananda  (Excerpted from: Inner Culture Magazine, December 1939) Intuition is that directly perceiving faculty of the soul which at once knows the truth about anything. Unless you have the power of intuition, you cannot possibly know Truth. It is the knowing power of the soul without the help of the senses or the mind. Intuition can give you knowledge … Read More