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Paramahansa Yogananda On Love I wanted to share some quotes by Paramahanda Yogananda on Love. These comes from "Where There is Light" and I thought these would be a good reminder. These are in the chapter entitled "Unconditional Love: Perfecting Human Relationships". With everything going on with the election (which seems to be bringing out the worst in people), I felt these would act as a good reminder.
The world as a whole has forgotten the real meaning of the word love. Love has been so abused and crucified by man that very few people know what true love is. Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. But to define love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully describe the flavor or an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know its flavor. So with love.
In the universal sense, love is the divine power of attraction in creation that harmonizes, unites, binds together...Those who live in tuen with the attractive force of love achieve harmony with nature and their fellow beings, and are attracted to blissful reunion with God.
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions," (Sre Yukteswar said). "Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.
Many human beings say "I love you" one day and reject you the next. That is not love. One whose heart is filled with the love of God cannot willfully hurt anyone. When you love God without reservation, He fills your heart with His unconditional love for all. That love no human tongue can describe...The ordinary man is incapable of loving others in this way. Self-centered in the consciousness of "I, me" and mine," he has not yet discovered the omnipresent God who resides in him and in all other beings. To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflections of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings. Then you will be able to love others as your own Self.
In the consciousness of one who is immersed in the divine love of God, there is no deception, no narrowness of caste or creed, no boundaries of any kind. When you experience that divine love, you will see no difference between flower and beast, between one human being and another. You will commune with all of nature, and you will love equally all mankind.
Compassion toward all beings is necessary for divine realization, for God Himself is overflowing with this quality. Those with a tender heart can put themselves in the place of others, feel their suffering, and try to alleviate it. www.samadhilounge.com The Samadhi Lounge is BACK!!! 9:00 pm ET 6PM PT Thursday nights: Ancient Wisdom meets New Power Soul on Emancipation Radio www.emancipationradio.com ; must see documentaries http://www.samadhilounge.com/pub/ | |
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Balancing Feminine and Masculine Qualities
It seems there has always been a rivalry between man and woman. But they are equals; neither one is superior. Be proud of what you are in this life.
"In sleep, you do not know whether you are a man or a woman," (Sri Yukteswar said). "Just as a man, impersonating a woman, does not become one, so the soul, impersonating both man and woman, remains changeless. The soul is the immutable, unquanlified image of God."
Do not even allow yourself to be limited to the consciousness that you are a man or woman: You are a soul made in God's image....The wisest course is to remember always, "I am neither man nor woman; I am Spirit." Then you will rid yourself of the limiting consciousness of both tendencies; you will realize your highest divine potential, whether you are incarnate as a man or a woman.
God is both infinite wisdom and infinite feeling. When He manifested Himself in creaqtion, God gave His wisdom a form in the father; and He gave His feeling a form in the mother....Every father and every mother is potentially endowed with both the fatherly wisdom and the motherly tenderness of God. They have to perfect these endowments....The divine man develops both the fatherly and motherly qualities in himself.
Man argues that woman is emotional and cannot reason; and woman complains that man cannot feel. Both are incorrect. Woman can reason, but feeling is uppermost in her nature; and man can feel, but in him reason is predominant.
God created these physiological and mental differences in order to make some distinction between man and woman. The idea spiritual union between them was meant to bring out the hidden feeling in man and to develop the hidden reason in woman. They were meant to aid each other in developing the pure divine qualities of perfect reason and feeling.
Each sex should strive toward a blanace of learning from one another through friendship and understanding.
Unless man and woman understand each other's nature, they ignorantly torture one another...Each should strive for an inner balance of both reason and feeling, and so become a "whole" personality, a perfected human being.
By God-communion you bring about the harmony or balance of these two qualities within yourself.
In the great saints we see combined the ideal masculine and feminine qualities. Jesus was like that; so were all the masters. When you have attained that perfect reason-feeling equilibrium, you will have learned one of the major lessons for which you were sent here.
Mankind must realize that the basic nature of the soul is spiritual. For man and woman to look upon each other only as a means to satisfy lust is to court the destruction of happiness. Slowly, bit by bit, peace of mind will go.
Man should strive to see the God in woman, and to help her realize her spiritual nature. He should make her feel that she is with him not merely to satisfy his sensual appetite, but as a companion whom he respects and regards as an expression of the Divine. And woman should look upon man in the same way.
When man and woman genuinely and purely love another, ther eis complete harmony between them in body, mind, and soul. When their love is expressed in its highest form, it results in perfect unity. www.samadhilounge.com The Samadhi Lounge is BACK!!! 9:00 pm ET 6PM PT Thursday nights: Ancient Wisdom meets New Power Soul on Emancipation Radio www.emancipationradio.com ; must see documentaries http://www.samadhilounge.com/pub/ | |
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Marriage
Two persons who unite their lives to help each other toward divine realization are founding their marriage on the right basis: unconditional friendship.
To develop pure and unconditional love between husband and wife, parent and child, friend and friend, self and all, is the lesson we have come on earth to learn.
True marriage is a laboratory in which poisons of selfshness, bad temper, and bad behavior may be poured into the test tube of patience and neutralized and changed by the catalytic power of love and constant effort to behave nobly.
If there is a habit or quality in your mate that rouses unlovely traits in your disposition, you should realize the purpose of this circumstance: to bring to the surface those poisons hidden within you so that you may eliminate them and thus purify your nature.
The greatest thing a husband or wife can wish for the spouse is spirituality; for soul unfoldment brings out the divien qualities of understanding, patience, thoughtfulness, love. But each should remember that the desire for spiritual growth cannot be forced on the other. Live love yourself, and your goodness will inspire all your loved ones.
Unless married couples keep in mind the true high purpose of marriage, they may never enjoy a really happy life together. Oversexuality, too much familiarity, lack of courtesy, suspiciousness, insulting speech and acts, arguing before children or guests, crankiness, and unloading of troubles or anger on one's mate should be disallowed if marriage is to be ideal.
The first and most essential requirement for a happy marriage is soul unity -- similarity of spiritual ideas and goals, implemented by a practical willingness to attain those goals by study, effort, and self-discipline. Couples who possess soul unity will be able to make a success of marriage even if no other desirable basis is present.
The second requirement for a happy marriage is similarity of interest--intellectual, social, environmental, and so on. The third and last in importance (though usually given first place by unenlightened people), is physical attraction. That bond soon loses its attractive power if the first requirement, or the first and second requirements, are not also present. People who want to marry should first have to learn to control their emotions. Two people placed together in the arena of marriage without this training battle worse than opponents in a World War! Wars, at least, come to an end after a time; but some marital partners engatge in combat throughout life. You would think that in a civilized society people should know how to get along, but few have learned this art. A marriage should be nurtured on high ideals and the wine of God's inspiration; then it will be happy and beneficial union.
If husbands and wives who are accustomed to using each other for target practice, using bullets of wrathful language and sicourtesies, would try to instead entertain each other with the soul-solacing charm of kind words, they would then create a new happiness in family life.
Sex has its place in the marital relationship between man and woman. But if it becomes the supreme factor in that relationship, love flies out the door and disappears completely; in its place come possessiveness, over-familiarity, and the abuse and loss of friendship and understanding. Though sexual attraction is one of the conditions under which love is born, sex in itself is not love. Sex and love are as far apart as the moon and the sun. It is only when the transmuting quality of true love is uppermost in the relationship that sex becomes a means of expressing love. Those who live too much on the sex plane lose their way and fail to find a satisfying marital relationship. It is by self-control, in which sex is not the ruling emotion, but only incidnental to love, that husband and wife can know what real love is. In this modern world, unfortunately, love is too often destroyed by overemphasis on sex experience.
When two people feel an unconditional attraction for each other, and are ready to sacrifice for one another, they are truly in love.
To wish for perfection for the loved one, and to feel pure joy in thinking of that soul, is divine love; and that is the love of true friendship. www.samadhilounge.com The Samadhi Lounge is BACK!!! 9:00 pm ET 6PM PT Thursday nights: Ancient Wisdom meets New Power Soul on Emancipation Radio www.emancipationradio.com ; must see documentaries http://www.samadhilounge.com/pub/ | |
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Friendship
Friendship is God's trumpet call, bidding the soul destroy the partitions of ego-consciousness that separate it from all other souls and from Him.
Friendship is the purest form of God's love because it is born of the heart's free choice and is not imposed upon us by familia instinct. Ideal friends never part; nothing can sever their fraternal relationship.
The tresure of friendship is your richest possession, because it goes with you beyond this life. All true friends you have made you will meet again in the home of the Father, for real love is never lost.
When perfect friendship exists either between two hearts or within a group of hearts in a spiritual relationship, such friendship perfects each individual.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. Very few persons are free from self-centeredness. Yet one can develop the quality of unselfishness very easily if he practices thinking of others first.
You cannot attract true friends without removing from your own character the stains of selfishness and other unlovely qualities. The greatest art of making friends is to behave divinely yourself--to be spiritual, to be pure, to be unselfish....The more your human shortcomings drop away and divine qualities come into your life, the more friends you will have.
True friendship consists in being mutually useful in offering one's friend good cheer in distress, sympathy in sorrow, advice in trouble, and material help in times of real need...One who has given his friendship to another gladly foregoes selfish pleasures or self-interest for the sake of his friend's happiness, without consciousness of loss or sacrifice, and without counting the cost.
No matter what difference of opinion there is betwen you and such friends, there is always understanding and communication. In that relationship, regardless of differing views, you have mutual respect and cherish your friendship above everything else. True friendship established in God is the only relationship that is lasting.
If you proffer friendship, you must mean it. You must not show kindness or cooperation outside, and inside feel the opposite. Spiritual law is very powerful. Don't go against spiritual principles. Never deceive or be treacherous. As a friend, know when to mind your own business; understand your place, know when you should have the willingness to cooperate, and when you should have the will to non-cooperate.
It is wrong to speak the truth when, by doing so, one betrays another person unnecessarily and to no good purpose. Suppose a man drinks, but tries to hide it from the rest of the world. You know about his weakness, and so in the name of truthfulness you announce to your friends, "You know that so and so drinks, don't you?" Such a remark is uncalled for; one should not be busy about other people's business. Be protective about others' personal faults, so long as they harm no one else. Speak privately to an offender about his failings, if you have an opportunity or responsibility to help him; but never, under pretext of helping someone, speak deliberately to hurt him. You will only "help" him to become your enemy. You may also extinguish any desire that he might have had to become better.
Help your friend by being a mental, aesthetic, and spiritual inspiration to him. Never be sarcastic to a friend. Do not flatter him unless it is to encourage him. Do not agree with him when he is wrong.
Be true, be sincere, and friendship will steadily grow. I remember a discussion with Sri Yukteswar about sincerity. I had said, "Sincerity is everything."
"No," he responded, "sincerity plus thoughtfulness is everything." He went on: "Suppose you are sitting in the parlor in your home, and there is a beautiful new carpet on the floor. It is raining outside. A friend you haven't seen in many years flings opent he door and rushes into the room to greet you." "That is alright," I said. But my Guru had yet to make his point. "You were sincerely happy to see each other," he said, "but wouldn't you have liked it better if he had been thoughtful enough to take off his muddy boots before he came in and ruined the carpet?" I had to agree he was right. No matter how well you thin of someone, or how close you are to that person, it is important to sweeten that relationship with good manners and thoughtfulness. Then friendship becomes truly wonderful and enduring. Familiarity that leads you to be inconsiderate is very harmful to friendship. Just as dew helps the flower to grow, so inner and outer sweetness fosters the growth of friendship.
Friendship is noble, fruitful, holy--
When two separate souls march in difference Yet in harmony; agreeing and disagreeing, Glowingly improving diversely... Ah, friendship--flowering, heaven-born plant! Nurtured art thou in the soil of measureless love, In the seeking of soul progress together By two who would smooth the way, each for the other." To be a true, unconditional friend, your love must be anchored in God's love. Your life with God is the inspiration behind true friendship with all.
Try to perfect your friendship with a few souls. When you can truly give unconditional friendship to them, then your heart will be ready to give perfect friendship to all. And when you can do that, you become divine--like God and the great ones, who give friendship to every being, irrespective of personality. Friendship that remains centered on only one or two souls. to the exclusion of others, is like a river that loses itself in the sands, never reaching the ocean. The river of divine friendship broadens as it flows onward, powerful and truthful, eventually merging in the oceanic presence of God. www.samadhilounge.com The Samadhi Lounge is BACK!!! 9:00 pm ET 6PM PT Thursday nights: Ancient Wisdom meets New Power Soul on Emancipation Radio www.emancipationradio.com ; must see documentaries http://www.samadhilounge.com/pub/ | |
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Sex has its place in the marital relationship between man and woman. But if it becomes the supreme factor in that relationship, love flies out the door and disappears completely; in its place come possessiveness, over-familiarity, and the abuse and loss of friendship and understanding. Though sexual attraction is one of the conditions under which love is born, sex in itself is not love. Sex and love are as far apart as the moon and the sun. It is only when the transmuting quality of true love is uppermost in the relationship that sex becomes a means of expressing love. Those who live too much on the sex plane lose their way and fail to find a satisfying marital relationship. It is by self-control, in which sex is not the ruling emotion, but only incidnental to love, that husband and wife can know what real love is. In this modern world, unfortunately, love is too often destroyed by overemphasis on sex experience.
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"In this world Mother no one can love me. In this world they do not know how to Love me. In this world Mother no one can Love me. In this world they do not know how to Love me. Where is there pure loving Love. Where is there truly Loving me? There my soul longs to be. There my soul longs to be."
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Many human beings say "I love you" one day and reject you the next. That is not love. One whose heart is filled with the love of God cannot willfully hurt anyone. When you love God without reservation, He fills your heart with His unconditional love for all. That love no human tongue can describe...
The ordinary man is incapable of loving others in this way. Self-centered in the consciousness of "I, me" and mine," he has not yet discovered the omnipresent God who resides in him and in all other beings. mm | |
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raddahone said: "In this world Mother no one can love me. In this world they do not know how to Love me. In this world Mother no one can Love me. In this world they do not know how to Love me. Where is there pure loving Love. Where is there truly Loving me? There my soul longs to be. There my soul longs to be."
This is one of my favs of Yoganandaji's. I love that one too. My favorite is Hymm To Brahma... Full of bliss, giving joy, transcendent Of higher knowledge, the abode Dual no more, clear as heaven Known to all as thou art that He is pure, permanent, unmoving The everlasting seer of all Far, far beyond qualities and thought Guru Lord, I bow to thee Great thread Obama...Hail To The Chief! | |
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babynoz said: raddahone said: "In this world Mother no one can love me. In this world they do not know how to Love me. In this world Mother no one can Love me. In this world they do not know how to Love me. Where is there pure loving Love. Where is there truly Loving me? There my soul longs to be. There my soul longs to be."
This is one of my favs of Yoganandaji's. I love that one too. My favorite is Hymm To Brahma... Full of bliss, giving joy, transcendent Of higher knowledge, the abode Dual no more, clear as heaven Known to all as thou art that He is pure, permanent, unmoving The everlasting seer of all Far, far beyond qualities and thought Guru Lord, I bow to thee Great thread "door of my heart, open wide i keep for Thee. door of my heart, open wide, i keep for Thee. wilt Thou come, wilt Thou come, just for once come to me. wilt Thou come, wilt Thou come, just for once, come to me. will my days fly away without seeing Thee my Lord? will my days fly away without seeing Thee my Lord? night and day, night and day, i look for Thee night and day." thanks, Benni, thanks Babynoz. Pleasure! it's fun to change the beat and key and dance with these! ~dueno de nada~ | |
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Thanks matthew, Raddah, union, and babynoz. Paramahansa Yogananda just really resonates with the Divine, and it has always come shining through so brightly in his words. I'm glad that his words have resonated with each of you. www.samadhilounge.com The Samadhi Lounge is BACK!!! 9:00 pm ET 6PM PT Thursday nights: Ancient Wisdom meets New Power Soul on Emancipation Radio www.emancipationradio.com ; must see documentaries http://www.samadhilounge.com/pub/ | |
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raddahone said: babynoz said: I love that one too. My favorite is Hymm To Brahma... Full of bliss, giving joy, transcendent Of higher knowledge, the abode Dual no more, clear as heaven Known to all as thou art that He is pure, permanent, unmoving The everlasting seer of all Far, far beyond qualities and thought Guru Lord, I bow to thee Great thread "door of my heart, open wide i keep for Thee. door of my heart, open wide, i keep for Thee. wilt Thou come, wilt Thou come, just for once come to me. wilt Thou come, wilt Thou come, just for once, come to me. will my days fly away without seeing Thee my Lord? will my days fly away without seeing Thee my Lord? night and day, night and day, i look for Thee night and day." thanks, Benni, thanks Babynoz. Pleasure! it's fun to change the beat and key and dance with these! I looove playing percussion on that one at kirtan! So uplifting!Obama...Hail To The Chief! | |
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benni said: Thanks matthew, Raddah, union, and babynoz. Paramahansa Yogananda just really resonates with the Divine, and it has always come shining through so brightly in his words. I'm glad that his words have resonated with each of you.
 Guruji's loving wisdom has blessed me in many ways over the years.  Obama...Hail To The Chief! | |
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babynoz said: benni said: Thanks matthew, Raddah, union, and babynoz. Paramahansa Yogananda just really resonates with the Divine, and it has always come shining through so brightly in his words. I'm glad that his words have resonated with each of you.
Guruji's loving wisdom has blessed me in many ways over the years. That is so wonderful to hear! www.samadhilounge.com The Samadhi Lounge is BACK!!! 9:00 pm ET 6PM PT Thursday nights: Ancient Wisdom meets New Power Soul on Emancipation Radio www.emancipationradio.com ; must see documentaries http://www.samadhilounge.com/pub/ | |
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benni said: Thanks matthew, Raddah, union, and babynoz. Paramahansa Yogananda just really resonates with the Divine, and it has always come shining through so brightly in his words. I'm glad that his words have resonated with each of you.
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