Frasi di Paramahansa Yogananda

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“Siate certi dei vostri sentimenti quando dite a qualcuno: "Ti amo". Se date il vostro amore, deve essere per sempre, non perché desiderate rimanere accanto a quella persona, ma perché volete la perfezione per la sua anima.”

“Se vuoi essere triste nessuno al mondo può renderti felice. Ma se decidi di essere felice nessuno e niente può toglierti la felicità!”

“L'amore divino, l'amore della vera amicizia consiste nel desiderare la perfezione per la persona che amate, e nel provare un sentimento di pura gioia quando pensate alla sua anima.”

“Nell'amicizia non esiste l'attrazione sessuale. Se l'essere umano desidera conoscere l'amore divino attraverso l'amicizia, deve instaurare un rapporto casto e dimenticare completamente il sesso; allora l'amicizia alimenta l'amore divino.”

“Nella vita le occasioni si creano, non arrivano per caso… Voi potete guidare la forza inesauribile della mente verso la realizzazione dei vostri desideri…”

“L'amore è la carta vetrata che spiana le asperità dell'intelligenza e addolcisce la razionalità dell'intelletto.”

“Ciascuno di noi sceglie liberamente di amare i propri amici senza essere condizionato dall'istinto. L'amore che si manifesta nell'amicizia può esistere fra uomo e donna, fra donna e donna, fra uomo e uomo.”

“Il più grande amore umano è quello che gli amici provano l'uno per l'altro, perché il loro affetto è libero e puro.”

“Se conoscerete almeno una volta l'amore divino non vorrete perderlo mai più, perché nell'universo intero non esiste niente di simile.”

“Dovreste pianificare la vostra vita. Dio creò la routine. Il sole splende fino al crepuscolo, e le stelle fino all'alba.”

“Ricordate che la chiesa è l'arnia, ma il Signore è il miele. Non accontentatevi di parlare alla gente delle verità spirituali; mostrate loro come essi stessi possono raggiungere la coscienza di Dio.”

“La vera gioia elude l'uomo che abbandona Dio perché Egli è la Gioia stessa.”

“I due concetti, realizzazione del Sé e conoscenza di Dio, sono sinonimi.”

“Quando avete imparato ad essere felici nel presente, avete trovato la giusta via che conduce a Dio.”

“Spesso noi continuiamo a soffrire senza fare uno sforzo per cambiare; ecco perché non troviamo pace durevole e appagamento. Se noi perseverassimo, saremmo certamente capaci di superare tutte le difficoltà. Dobbiamo fare lo sforzo, perché possiamo passare dalla miseria alla felicità, dallo sconforto al coraggio.”

“Impara ad essere calmo e sarai sempre felice.”

“La libertà dell'uomo è definitiva ed immediata se così egli vuole; essa non dipende da vittorie esterne ma interne.”

“Io vedo quelli che sono sul sentiero spirituale come in una gara. Alcuni scattano; altri avanzano piano. Un certo numero di essi cammina persino all'indietro.”

“Constatare che il mondo è un sogno senza cercare di raggiungere nella meditazione la realizzazione effettiva di questa verità, può condurre al fanatismo.”

“La sorte che tocca al corpo non ha alcuna importanza per un uomo dalla divina realizzazione.”

“La forma fisica è come un piatto che il devoto usa, mentre consuma il cibo di saggezza della vita.”

“La stagione del fallimento è il momento migliore per piantare i semi del successo.”

“La vita è una battaglia. Gli uomini combattono i loro nemici interiori: l'avidità e l'ignoranza. Molti vengono feriti dai proiettili dei desideri.”

“Quando la Divina Madre ti colpisce più duramente, questo è il momento di aggrapparti più fortemente alle Sue sottane.”

“Centrare ogni godimento nel cuore: sentire che la causa di quel godimento si trova lì, nelle proprie reazioni, e poi innalzare consapevolmente quell’energia lungo la spina dorsale, dal cuore al cervello.”

“L'amicizia mi è molto cara. Nella vera amicizia si coglie un barlume dell'Amico Supremo.”

“Distingui fra le tue necessità e i tuoi desideri. Le necessità sono poche, mentre i desideri possono essere illimitati. Per trovare libertà e serenità, segui solo le tue necessità. Smetti di creare desideri illimitati inseguendo i capricci della falsa felicità. Più dipendi da condizioni esterne per la tua felicità, meno felice sarai.”

“L'eseguire con animo allegro i doveri terreni, insieme alla quotidiana meditazione, questa è la via migliore.”

“L'uomo saggio comprende che, anche se la vita mortale è un sogno, essa contiene dolori di sogno. Egli adotta allora dei metodi scientifici per risvegliarsi dal sogno.”

“Compiendo delle azioni nel giusto spirito, noi giungiamo a comprendere che il Signore è l'unico Fattore; cioè, ogni forza o potere è divino e proviene dall'Unico Essere, Dio.”

“Una buona condotta non durerà mai a lungo se non si adottano i mezzi opportuni per purificare la mente.”

“La maggior parte degli uomini non capisce che il più grande di tutti i miracoli sarebbe la trasformazione della loro vita mediante l'umile obbedienza al Suo volere.”

“Il cuore purificato dall'amicizia spalanca la porta alla perfetta armonia.”

“Le virtù elevanti sono poche, poiché conducono nel centro del nostro essere e sono già vicine a esso.”

“Ciò che accade in ogni lotta tra le nostre aspirazioni superiori e le nostre tendenze mondane è che l’abitudine si schiera dalla parte di quest’ultime. È quindi necessario sostituire le nostre cattive abitudini con abitudini buone.”

“Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.”

“The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.”

“The body is literally manufactured and sustained by mind.”

“There is a distinguishing difference of meaning between Jesus and Christ. His given name was Jesus; his honorific title was "Christ." In his little human body called Jesus was born the vast Christ Consciousness, the omniscient Intelligence of God omnipresent in every part and particle of creation. This Consciousness is the "only begotten Son of God," so designated because it is the sole perfect reflection in creation of the Transcendental Absolute, Spirit or God the Father.
It was of that Infinite Consciousness, replete with the love and bliss of God, that Saint John spoke when he said: "As many as received him [the Christ Consciousness], to them gave he power to become the sons of God." Thus according to Jesus' own teaching as recorded by his most highly advanced apostle, John, all souls who become united with Christ Consciousness by intuitive Self-realization are rightly called sons of God….”

“These teachings have been sent to explain the truth as Jesus intended it to be known in the world — not to give a new Christianity, but to give the real Christ-teaching: how to become like Christ, how to resurrect the Eternal Christ within one's Self…”

“Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.”

“The lack of individual prayer and communion with God has divorced modern Christians and Christian sects from Jesus' teaching of the real perception of God, as is true also of all religious paths inaugurated by God-sent prophets whose followers drift into byways of dogma and ritual rather than actual God-communion. Those paths that have no esoteric soul-lifting training busy themselves with dogma and building walls to exclude people with different ideas. Divine persons who really perceive God include everybody within the path of their love, not in the concept of an eclectic congregation but in respectful divine friendship toward all true lovers of God and the saints of all religions.”

“If by this superhuman concentration one succeeded in converting or resolving the two cosmoses with all their complexities into sheer ideas, he would then reach the causal world and stand on the borderline of fusion between mind and matter. There one perceives all created things — solids, liquids, gases, electricity, energy, all beings, gods, men, animals, plants, bacteria — as forms of consciousness, just as a man can close his eyes and realize that he exists, even though his body is invisible to his physical eyes and is present only as an idea.”

“To gaze with looks of wonderment,
And to serve all that lives, still or moving.
This is to know what love is.
He knows who lives it.”

“Christ has been much misinterpreted by the world. Even the most elementary principles of his teachings have been desecrated, and their esoteric depths have been forgotten. They have been crucified at the hands of dogma, prejudice, and cramped understanding. Genocidal wars have been fought, people have been burned as witches and heretics, on the presumed authority of man-made doctrines of Christianity. How to salvage the immortal teachings from the hands of ignorance? We must know Jesus as an Oriental Christ, a supreme yogi who manifested full mastery of the universal science of God-union, and thus could speak and act as a savior with the voice and authority of God.”

“In titling this work The Second Coming of Christ, I am not referring to a literal return of Jesus to earth. He came two thousand years ago and, after imparting a universal path to God's kingdom, was crucified and resurrected; his reappearance to the masses now is not necessary for the fulfillment of his teachings. What is necessary is for the cosmic wisdom and divine perception of Jesus to speak again through each one's own experience and understanding of the infinite Christ Consciousness that was incarnate in Jesus. That will be his true Second Coming.”

“Many sects, many denominations, many beliefs, many persecutions, many conflicts and upheavals have been created by misinterpretations. Now, Christ reveals the consummate message in the simple words he spoke to an ancient people in a less-advanced age of civilization. Read, understand, and feel Christ speaking to you through this "Second Coming" bible, urging you to be redeemed by realization of the true "Second Coming," the resurrection within you of the Infinite Christ Consciousness.”

“Nor doomsday’s thunderous roar,
Dismantling earth and stars —
The cosmic beauties all to mar —
Not Nature’s murderous mutiny,
Nor man’s exploding destiny
Can touch me here.”

“How do the receptive perceive truth, whereas the unreceptive "seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand"? The ultimate truths of heaven and the kingdom of God, the reality that lies behind sensory perception and beyond the cogitations of the rationalizing mind, can only be grasped by intuition — awakening the intuitive knowing, the pure comprehension, of the soul.”

“Not an unconscious state
Or mental chloroform without wilful return,
Samadhi but extends my realm of consciousness
Beyond the limits of my mortal frame
To the boundaries of eternity,
Where I, the Cosmic Sea,
Watch the little ego floating in Me.”

“Away, the partial love
That ‘boldens Nature to sit above
Her Maker!”

“It is the call of the beauty — robed ones
To worship the great Beauty.
It is the call of God
Through silent intelligences
And starburst of feelings.”

“The saviors of the world do not come to foster inimical doctrinal divisions; their teachings should not be used toward that end. It is something of a misnomer even to refer to the New Testament as the "Christian" Bible, for it does not belong exclusively to any one sect. Truth is meant for the blessing and upliftment of the entire human race. As the Christ Consciousness is universal, so does Jesus Christ belong to all….”

“Love is the Heaven
Toward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms, creatures — you and I
Are rushing by the straight path of action right,
Or winding laboriously on error’s path,
All to reach haven there at last.”

“I exist without the cosmic shadow,
But it could not live bereft of me;
As the sea exists without the waves,
But they breathe not without the sea.
Dreams, wakings, states of deep turiya sleep,
Present, past, future, no more for me,
But the ever-present, all-flowing, I, I everywhere.
Consciously enjoyable,
Beyond the imagination of all expectancy,
Is this, my samadhi state.”

“It is an erroneous assumption of limited minds that great ones such as Jesus, Krishna, and other divine incarnations are gone from the earth when they are no longer visible to human sight. This is not so… Jesus Christ is very much alive and active today. In Spirit and occasionally taking on a flesh-and-blood form, he is working unseen by the masses for the regeneration of the world. With his all-embracing love, Jesus is not content merely to enjoy his blissful consciousness in Heaven. He is deeply concerned for mankind and wishes to give his followers the means to attain the divine freedom of entry into God's Infinite Kingdom….”

“In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping,
Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving,
My soul constantly hums, unheard by any;
God, God, God!
”

“Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.”

“Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation.
'A beggar cannot renounce wealth,' Master would say. '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!'
Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.”

“His interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita and other scriptures testify to the depth of Sri Yukteswarji's command of the philosophy, both Eastern and Western, and remain as an eye-opener for the unity between Orient and Occident. As he believed in the unity of all religious faiths, Sri Yukteswar Maharaj established Sadhu Sabha (Society of Saints) with the cooperation of leaders of various sects and faiths, for the inculcation of a scientific spirit in religion.”

“'World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen," I continued "A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.”

“Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!”

“I, the ocean of mind, drink all creation’s waves.
The four veils of solid, liquid, vapor, light,
Lift aright.
Myself, in everything,
Enters the Great Myself.
Gone forever,
The fitful, flickering shadows of a mortal memory.
Spotless is my mental sky,
Below, ahead, and high above.
Eternity and I, one united ray.
I, a tiny bubble of laughter,
Have become the Sea of Mirth Itself.”

“The heart of the great dispensation of Jesus has survived not necessarily in any temporal power of an outer institution, but in those great devotees and saints whose protracted devotions and meditations established within them temples of Christ Consciousness and God-communion…
It is such saints and masters who have actually communed with God — those known to history as well as countless anonymous true souls devoted to Christ, hidden in monasteries and convents in wholehearted consecration — who have verily been the "rock" on which Jesus' inner church of Christ communion has endured these two thousand years.”