Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S.

Yogananda's awareness of such a wide range of wisdom in these important life areas of MEDITATION-PSYCHOLOGY-LOVE-PEOPLE-GOD-etc, and the balanced approach to the spiritual life shows an outstanding teaching ability as well. This is wonderful to see in writings on such subtle and profound matters. He takes the "mystery" out of the mystical. In this book one finds complete and sensible answers to sastisfy the mind and heart. It makes one greatful that such great souls still come to help us through our lives of difficult learning and growing. This book was difficult to put down, but I found that reading it slowly and encouraged me to seek and feel the presence of God more and more deeply. Try it and you will know. As wonderful as reading can be, it took my consciousness to finer realms...

Also Recommended: Man's Eternal Quest...Journey to Self-Realization and Autobiography of a Yogi.

CONTENTS:
How To Culitvate Divine Love
A Newlook at the origin and nature of Cosmic Creation
Practicing Religion Scientifically.
Finding the Joy in Life.
The End of the World.
The Why and How of Religion.
The Spectrum of Spiritual Consciousness.
The Mind:Repository of Infinite Power.
Why Evil is Part of Gods Creation.
The Mysery okf Mahatma Gandhi.
The Unknown Potential of Memory.
How to Work Without Fatigue.
Ridding the Consciousness of Worry.
The Yoga Art of Overcoming Death an Mortal Consciousness.
How Feelings Mask the Soul.
Where is Jesus Now and What is He Doing?
Do Souls Reincarnate?
Where are Our Departed Loved Ones?
Reflections on LOVE.
The Known and the Unknown.
Controlling Your Destiny.
!How to Free Yourself from Bad Habits.
Oriental and Occidental Christianity.
A World Without Boundaries.
To Know God Is To Love All.
How You Can Approach God.
The Cosmic Lover.
Personal and Impersonal God.
Take God With you Through Life.
A Scripture of Love.
.........and others

These talks gave me understrandings that changed my outlook and my life. One can feel that His source of every word is truly from the Living experience of God's reality. And the energy of divine light and love shines through it.This book deepened my Quietest moments.

Among the many areas dealt with in this book, the author has some serious ideas about world peace and brotherhood,"We have everything necessary in the world today to bring about the millennium........A federation of all religions and all nations is necessary. But such a union will come only when every individual engages in that meditation which leads to direct contact with God". So Yogananda places great importance on the practice of MEDITATION in these talks, as well as how to live life more abundantly inevery way.

His knowledge stands out in practical matters as diet also- here talks in the 20's and 30's he gives us ahead of time the accurate knowledge of proper diet that science has only recently (in the 90's) been verifying from years of research. What was the source of his precise wisdom in all these matters??? Is this what comes from "contact with God"? The author proves the value of his own teaching in this and many other ways. I loved the originality and directness of the authors open and intelligent dealings in such a wide range of subjects...

CONTENTS:

How Seekers first found God....................... The Universality of Yoga...................... The Infinite Nature of God..................... Answered Prayers................................ Making Religion Scientific................... Understanding the Unreality of Matter............. Man's Greatest Adventure...................... Self-Analysis-Key to the Mastery of Life.......... Healing by ! God's Unlimited power.................. Nervousness-Cause and cure........................ The Spirital Rewards of Fasting................... Self-Realization-Criterion of Religion........... The Desire That Satisfies all Desires............. In God is All Happiness................... How to Be More Likeable.................. Developing Personality................. Reincarnation Can Be Scientifically Proven........ The Dream Nature of the World................. The Invisible Man.................. Christ and Krishna- Avatars of one Truth.......... Even Mindedness in a World of Change........... Increasing the Power of Initiative............ The Art of Developing memory................ The Missing Link Between Consciousness & Matter... Man's Eternal Quest................... The Art of Living.................... Who Made God?............... Have I Found God?............... Steps Toward the Universal Christ Consciousness... The purpose of life is to Find God.......... and More...........

Also Recomended:The Autobiography of a Yogi(SRF Publishers)........The Divine Romance............Wine of the Mystic (the Rubaiyat)..........Enter the Quiet Heart.......How You Can Talk With God..........Sanctuary of the Soul........(Search on "Yogananda" on Amazons home page for more great books by "Self-Realization Publishers").

It contains everything you need to begin life's most rewarding and harmonizing experience. That of MEDITATION...This book contains many gems which may be used to enhance your daily practice of affirmation, prayer and Meditation.Let it be your constant reminder to meditate often and deeply.

It was the author - PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA - who was one of the most influential teachers of Meditation and Raja Yoga to the Western world in the 20th century. The Self-Realization Fellowship, which he established to carry on His spiritual legacy, is the sole authorized publisher of His writings and teachings. Read this small book, and open up a new chapter in your life!

"Practice the feeing of unity in the vastness of your expanded consciousness of Meditation." ....Paramahansa Yogananda, from - Journey to Self Realization.

also read: Autobiography of a Yogi....from SRF publishers via Amazon Books.