Shagun Tripathi

“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.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit of their owners, to be worked as long as the owners desired, who had no rights over their bodies or loved ones, who could be mortgaged, bred, won in a bet, given as wedding presents, bequeathed to heirs, sold away from spouses or children to cover an owner’s debt or to spite a rival or to settle an estate. They were regularly whipped, raped, and branded, subjected to any whim or distemper of the people who owned them. Some were castrated or endured other tortures too grisly for these pages, tortures that the Geneva Conventions would have banned as war crimes had the conventions applied to people of African descent on this soil. Before there was a United States of America, there was enslavement. Theirs was a living death passed down for twelve generations.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“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.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, 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.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi