Message #19772

[mccoy]

I remembered Yogananda talked about true visions. That is, visions of saints or other spiritual figures which could be true or a figment of our imagination.

One powerful criterion he suggested: upliftment. A true vision of a saintly figure causes subsequent mental and spiritual upliftment.

It his harder to imagine upliftment since it's an objective state of mind.

If we are so powerful that we can create upliftment by merely imagining it, then it means we already possess a high degree of spiritual advancement.