Celebrations

Master about New Year

The New Year has come to greet you with new hopes, new determination, new will-to-achieve, new activities. In the Temple of the New Year renew your reverence for the unlimited hidden power of God within you. The trails of trials and the yawning chasms of woe have been left behind in the dark night of the past: now you are … Read More

Christmas, Paramhansa Yogananda

How to Prepare for Christmas Spiritually?

Christ is only suggested in social Christmas festivities, but He is seen and felt as an everlasting, ever-joyous Fact in the cradle of Divine Ecstasy. Prepare yourself to celebrate Christmas in the real way, as humbly suggested in the following: l. Prepare your heart so that you may say to those who crucify you daily with unkind actions and words … Read More

Music & Art

Whisper and Art:
I Will Wait for Thee

I Will Wait for Thee In the corner of my heart I have a mystic throne for Thee. The candles of my joys are dimly lighted in the hope of Thy coming. They will burn brighter when Thou appearest. Whether Thou comest or not, I will wait for Thee until my tears melt away all material grossness. To please Thee … Read More

Music & Art

Whisper and Art:
I Want to Build a Rainbow-Bridge of Self-Realization

𝐈 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐰-𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 The gulf of ages lay between Thee and me, widening as the waters of my oblivion of Thee grew through centuries. I stand on this rocky shore of matter, gazing out over the gulf, hoping to see, beyond, Thy smooth shores of peace. My inner thought‐architects will build for me a bridge … Read More

Energization Exercises

Vitalize the Body With Life-Force

DRAW ON LIMITLESS COSMIC ENERGY Right beneath the flesh is a tremendous current. By the pickaxes of Self-realization, I have found that Life Force again. I and my Father are One. I am not the flesh. I am a bundle of electricity behind this body. Cosmic Energy is within and around you, recharging the body at all times with vitality. … Read More

Emotions, Health and Healing, Peace

Developing Calmness

Nervousness the Opposite of Calmness Calmness is the ideal medium through which we should receive everything. Nervousness is the opposite of calmness. Today nervousness seems to be the world’s disease. He is your best friend who humbly suggests to you how you may be benefited. Many people think that by forgetting disease you get rid of disease. You may forget … Read More

Music & Art

Whisper + Art: Demand to Set Fire to the Forest of Darkness

I built a fire of devotion in the dark forest of delusion. Alas! the fire only smoldered. Then Thou didst come and set fire to a few of my frailties. That fire quickly spread on, consuming the bushes of my prickly desires, my tall, towering vanities, and the thick underbrush of my arrogance. The whole forest of my darkness is … Read More

Spiritual Growth

“Have I Found God?”

This is a message of my heart to you. Read, mark, inwardly digest, and put my thoughts into practice. Ask yourself: “I have been following a religion, or have been changing one for another, but have I found God?” If you find your answer unsatisfactory to yourself, try to sincerely get busy with meditation as taught by the Masters of Self–Realization. India’s … Read More

Realization vs. Book Learning

Western philosophers have always assumed that Truth can be known by dialectics and reason. Immanuel Kant was the first one to question if man had the faculties required to know Truth adequately. The great Sage Patanjali, who lived long before Kant, gave conclusive proof that settled the dispute about the nature of the instruments of man’s faculties required in knowing … Read More

Spiritual Growth, Yoga Philosophy

Lessons in Spirituality

I have not come to you to give you intellectual sermons. I do not like to blindly give you the thoughts of others. You can read books for yourself. When I speak to you, I shall tell you what I feel of God. I shall tell you what I hear from God. It is my privilege to bring to you … Read More