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“To love both the invisible God, Repository of All Virtues, and visible man, apparently possessed of none, is often baffling! But ingenuity is equal to the maze. Inner research soon exposes a unity in all human minds−the stalwart kinship of selfish motive. In one sense at least, the brotherhood of man stands revealed. An aghast humility follows this leveling discovery. It ripens into compassion for one's fellows, blind to the healing potencies of the soul awaiting exploration.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“India, materially poor for the last two centuries, yet has an inexhaustible fund of divine wealth; spiritual
“skyscrapers” may occasionally be encountered by the wayside, even by worldly men like this policeman.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“skyscrapers” may occasionally be encountered by the wayside, even by worldly men like this policeman.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“When Emerson's poem
BRAHMA appeared in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY in 1857, most the readers were bewildered. Emerson
chuckled. “Tell them,” he said, “to say 'Jehovah' instead of 'Brahma' and they will not feel any perplexity.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
BRAHMA appeared in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY in 1857, most the readers were bewildered. Emerson
chuckled. “Tell them,” he said, “to say 'Jehovah' instead of 'Brahma' and they will not feel any perplexity.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“Karma is not a doctrine. You do not get any brownie points for subscribing to it. You do not get any negative marks for disbelieving it. Karma is not a creed, a scripture, an ideology, a philosophy, or a theory. It is simply the way things are. It is an existential mechanism. Like the sun, it operates whether you acknowledge it or not, whether you pay obeisance to it or ignore it. It is not looking for a fan club.”
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“I have long exercised an honest introspection, the exquisitely painful approach to wisdom. Self−scrutiny,
relentless observance of one's thoughts, is a stark and shattering experience. It pulverizes the stoutest ego. But true self−analysis mathematically operates to produce seers. The way of 'self−expression,' individual
acknowledgements, results in egotists, sure of the right to their private interpretations of God and the universe. Truth humbly retires, no doubt, before such arrogant originality.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
relentless observance of one's thoughts, is a stark and shattering experience. It pulverizes the stoutest ego. But true self−analysis mathematically operates to produce seers. The way of 'self−expression,' individual
acknowledgements, results in egotists, sure of the right to their private interpretations of God and the universe. Truth humbly retires, no doubt, before such arrogant originality.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
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