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« on: Aug 14, 2020 06:11 am »

Sri Yukteswar Giri Quotes | 16 Quotes of Swami Yukteswar Giri


swami sri yukteswar giri quotes:

everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

forget the past. the vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. human conduct is ever unreliable until anchored in the divine. everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.

what a person imagines he hears, and what the speaker has really implied, may be poles apart.

remember that finding god will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

a beggar cannot renounce wealth. if a man laments: ‘my business has failed; my wife has left me; i will renounce all and enter a monastery,’ to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? he did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!”

ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. the flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.

the lord responds to all and works for all. just as he sent rain at my plea, so he fulfills any sincere desire of the devotee.

seldom do men realize how often god heeds their prayers. he is not partial to a few, but listens to everyone who approaches him trustingly. his children should ever have implicit faith in the loving-kindness of their omnipresent father.

saintliness is not dumbness! divine perceptions are not incapacitating! the active expression of virtue gives rise to the keenest intelligence.

a man of realization does not perform any miracle until he receives an inward sanction. god does not wish the secrets of his creation revealed promiscuously. also, every individual in the world has inalienable right to his free will. a saint will not encroach upon that independence.

so long as you breathe the free air of earth, you are under obligation to render grateful service. he alone who has fully mastered the breathless state is freed from cosmic imperatives.

forget you were born a hindu, and don’t be an american. take the best of them both. be your true self, a child of god. seek and incorporate into your being the best qualities of all your brothers, scattered over the earth in various races.

if man’s sleep be deep and dreamless, for several hours he is able to transfer his consciousness, or sense of i-ness, to the causal body; such sleep is revivifying.

all dream-bubbles must eventually burst at a final wakeful touch. differentiate, my son yogananda, between dreams and reality!

forget the outward symbols of renunciation, which may injure you by inducing a false pride.

there is a deeper astrology, not dependent on the testimony of calendars and clocks. each man is a part of the creator, or cosmic man; he has a heavenly body as well as one of earth.

the human eye sees the physical form, but the inward eye penetrates more profoundly, even to the universal pattern of which each man is an integral and individual part.

nothing matters except your steady, daily spiritual advancement; for that, use kriya yoga.


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In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda recalls when, as a teenager, he followed his own whim instead of the wisdom of his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar. An excerpt:

“Please permit me to go to the Himalayas. I hope in unbroken solitude to achieve continuous divine communion.”

I actually once addressed these ungrateful words to my Master. Seized by one of the unpredictable delusions which occasionally assail the devotee, I felt a growing impatience with hermitage duties and college studies. A feebly extenuating circumstance is that my proposal was made when I had been only six months with Sri Yukteswar. Not yet had I fully surveyed his towering stature.

“Many hillmen live in the Himalayas, yet possess no God-perception.” My guru’s answer came slowly and simply. “Wisdom is better sought from a man of realization than from an inert mountain.”

Ignoring Master’s plain hint that he, and not a hill, was my teacher, I repeated my plea. Sri Yukteswar vouchsafed no reply. I took his silence for consent, a precarious interpretation readily accepted at one’s convenience.



In the next chapter, Yogananda wrote about his guru’s reaction to his return from the Himalayas. An excerpt:

“I am here, Guruji.” My shamefacedness spoke more eloquently for me.

“Let us go to the kitchen and find something to eat.” Sri Yukteswar’s manner was as natural as if hours and not days had separated us.

“Master, I must have disappointed you by my abrupt departure from my duties here; I thought you might be angry with me.”

“No, of course not! Wrath springs only from thwarted desires. I do not expect anything from others, so their actions cannot be in opposition to wishes of mine. I would not use you for my own ends; I am happy only in your own true happiness.
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