Enlightening Vision of Paramahansa Yogananda

AGRITA CHHIBBER

Paramhansa Yogananda: Who Is He?

The first Indian yoga guru to establish a permanent home in the West was Paramhansa Yogananda, also known as Swami Yogananda and occasionally as Swami Paramhansa Yogananda.

Yogananda, who was actually named Mukunda Lal Ghosh and was born in Gorakhpur, India, in January 1883, had a deep longing for God since he was very young. He spent a significant portion of his youth seeking out a variety of saints, as he describes in Autobiography of a Yogi.

About 1912, he first encountered Swami Sri Yukteswar in Varanasi. He later visited Yukteswar’s ashram in Serampore, Bengal, while pursuing an A.B. at Calcutta University.

The following are statements from the book that I thought to be particularly insightful and useful for concentrating the force of my focus in order to succeed.

Share your Success

Success is a result of activities based on the values of truth, and it includes the happiness and well-being of others as part of one’s own fulfilment. Success has a relation to the contentment of the soul in the context of the environment in which one lives. You will discover that this law provides a complete, all-encompassing definition of success when you apply it to your material, mental, moral, and spiritual lives.

We cannot let our prosperity harm others. Another indicator of success is when we not only produce harmonious and advantageous outcomes for ourselves but also spread those advantages to others.

Similarly, achieving material success means that we have a moral obligation to assist others in improving their quality of life in addition to our private right to do so. Everyone with intelligence may succeed financially.

Yet, if he is filled with love, he will never be able to utilise that money for his own gain; instead, he will always be willing to share. The miserly turn money into a curse, but the hearty see it as a blessing.

Even the most heroic saints are not totally redeemed until they have shared their triumph, their pinnacle experiences of realising God, by assisting others in the divine. Because of this, individuals who have attained that level of achievement are committed to educating the uneducated.

Removing Mental Constraints With Meditation

Reading important books is much preferable to wasting time on dumb things. Yet meditation is superior to reading a book. Pay attention within. In body, mind, and soul, you will experience new levels of strength, power, and calm. You have a problem with meditation since you don’t practise it for long enough to see improvements.

Because of this, you are never aware of the strength of concentration.

Mud will settle to the bottom of muddy water if you let it stand still for a long time, and the water will then clear up. Through meditation, the power of God starts to reflect in the clean waters of your consciousness as the dirt of your racing thoughts starts to settle.

Do you know why certain people, despite their seeming efforts, are never able to achieve wealth or good health? First of all, most people only give their efforts a partial effort. They only devote approximately a tenth of their attention on them. They lack the ability to succeed as a result. Also, it’s possible that their persistent failure is a result of their karma, or the results of their previous bad deeds.

Never consent to karmic restrictions. Don’t think you’re powerless to accomplish anything. When you can’t succeed at anything, it’s frequently because you’ve already decided you can’t. But, you can accomplish anything if you give your mind the belief that it has this ability.

Love is the greatest Blessing

“He who watcheth Me always, him do I watch; he never loses sight of Me, nor do I lose sight of him.” My Sweetheart and I play hide-and-seek in every corner of the natural world, among the flowers, and in the moon’s shining windows. He never stops seeing me behind the delusion-inducing curtain of nature.

Never forget the Lover who is behind every lover. Let the pleasure of heavenly love fill your heart instead of the feelings of the world. That love is beyond compare.

Your entire body goes into perfect stillness the minute the divine loses control of your heart: “When the Master of the Universe entered into my bodily temple, my heart forgot to beat, the cells of my body forgot their functions.

The voice of Life Eternal, the Lover of all life and the Life of all lives, had them enthralled.

Pay Attention to Self

Watch the clock. Avoid wasting it. You decide to make a brief journey into town to get what you need, but it’s amazing how fast distractions may come up. Before you know it, hours have passed since you left. At the end of the day, you can see where your focus was diverted. It lost all of its ability to accomplish. Like to a bag of wheat seed, the mind is.

It is challenging to pick up those seeds once you have dropped them on the ground. Your focus must act as a hoover, gathering those dispersed seed-thoughts once again.

At the end of the day, when your tasks are complete, sit quietly by yourself. Get a decent book, and give it a careful read. Then spend a lot of time in meditation. Compared to restless pursuits when your mind wanders aimlessly, this will bring you a lot more peace and enjoyment.

You are deluding yourself if you think you are meditating but your thoughts are racing the entire time.

Nevertheless, once you learn to focus on God, nothing compares to that. Take a test. Go on a picnic, explore the city, and interact with friends, but you’ll still feel anxious and restless at the end of the day.

But if you cultivate the habit of spending time alone at home in meditation, a great power and peace will come over you. And it will remain with you in your activities as well as in meditation. Seclusion is the price of greatness. Stay in your Power. Keep Meditating!

[Agrita Chhibber is from Jammu]

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