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Paramhansa Yogananda

Paramhansa Yogananda

"The characteristic features of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple-guru relationship.

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation.  Clear recollections came to me of a distant life in which I had been a yogi amid the Himalayan snows (...) My far-reaching memories are not unique.  Many yogis are known to have retained theii self-consciousness withhout interruption by the dramatic transition to and from "life" and "death."

If man be solely a body, its loss indeed ends his identity.  But if prophets down the millennimus spake with turth, man is essentially a soul, incorporeal and omnipresent."


Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi.

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In the Whirlwind of Life

Pradeep Hoogakker The Hague, Netherlands

The very first time I heard about my spiritual Master

Banshidhar Medeiros San Juan, Puerto Rico

Seeing the God inside my son

Utsahi St-Armand Ottawa, Canada

My 5 a.m. strategic meditations

Sanchita Fleming Ottawa, Canada

Meditation Nights at the Sri Chinmoy Centre

Preetidutta Thorpe Auckland, New Zealand

The spiritual life is normal to me

Shankara Smith London, United Kingdom

The day I made a useless and ridiculous weightlifting machine for Guru

Devashishu Torpy London, United Kingdom

Reflections on meditation

Janaka Spence Edinburgh, United Kingdom

'You two have been friends for many hundreds of years'

Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New Zealand

If I can smile like that, it's worth becoming a disciple

Mahatapa Palit New York, United States

Muhammad Ali: I was expecting a monster, but I found a lamb

Sevananda Padilla San Juan, Puerto Rico

My love of spiritual poetry

Manatita Hutchinson London, United Kingdom

The Ever-Transcending Goal

Preetidutta Thorpe Auckland, New Zealand

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