95-100 SRF lessons

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Lesson # 97

Physical principles for acquiring magnetism

First it is necessary to keep your body free from poisons in order to have magnetism if your body is filled with poisons, you will find that all your energy is more or less bound within you. Try to clean out poisons is that accrue from faulty elimination and wrong habits of living. If you are clean within then all your energy can be displayed through your eyes and your face and your body. Every time you look, or listen, or lift your hands, you’re throwing out magnetic current. And when you send a thought, you send Energy with it.

Mental principles for acquiring magnetism

But if you were absent minded, you have much less magnetism. If you are thinking one thing while doing something else, your energy is divided. When you are fully attentive to what you are doing then you are developing magnetism.

 Spiritual principles for acquiring magnetism

Each human being is a medium through which God’s magnetism flows, but material desires, revenge, hatred and an inferiority complex hamper the floor of that magnetism. Do not obstruct that power. To be firm is to manifest magnetism to be just is to manifest magnetism to be kind is to manifest magnetism.

Meditation is the laboratory in which you can discover that God is with you and that his magnetism is with you. Wherever you go scatter kindness let your heart be charged with God, your eyes charged with God so that everyone you meet will be attracted to him. That is what Jesus meant when he said Be ye fishers of men.

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Thanks Steve! I am praying for our success in our continued efforts. =)

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Thanks Steve! I am praying for our success in our continued efforts. =)

I have found this to be helpful!!!

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#97

Some people feel that they are too busy to contact God. But suppose God said that He was too busy for you. What then. You would not be here. To perform your duties without the consciousness of God is to forget God, but to perform duties with the consciousness of God is the highest and happiest way to live. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

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Destroy all darkness by light, evil thoughts by good thoughts, and temptation by meditation. Anytime you feel that something is overpowering you, meditate. That is the best cure. If you are always kind, darkness will fly. If you have made up your mind to be good, then you are no longer a sinner. Even though you fail occasionally. You are simply sleeping in ignorance, and you are imagining that you are suffering from poverty, illness, and so on. PY

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There a many opposite types of people in the world - - good and evil, restless and meditative, ingnorant and wise, happy and sad. Tell the evil person to be good and the restless person to be meditative and they will make you feel that they do not like to follow your instructions or that they cannot do so. This is due to previous habits and not to the desires of the heart. Hence, never put aside good habits; cultivate them, and develop a taste for their superior, lasting happiness. You love the outward pleasures of the senses because you happen to be held up by them at first, and then you remained their prisoner. Even as a person gets used to jail, so we mortals like our pleasures, shutting off the joys from within.

To evolve to a saintly state while clinging  to evil companions would be most difficult. It is most important to know that sinners or saints are largely made through the company they keep. If a sinner is willing to mend his ways and lives in the company of Saints, he is bound to change, while the careless spiritual man will deteriorate in the company of wicked people.

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I remember reading Yogananda's words on habit forming. He said something like, you can't kill habits but you can replace them. I notice I have the strongest Mondays because through a disciplined routine Monday is my day to conquer my self and my greater desires which includes a meditation practice. Some mondays I wonder where all this good energy comes from, then I remember it was the cultivation of a good habit as described by Yogananda.

There are also bad habits that lead to aversion. And there are things that we could all use a detox from. Social media, cell phones, news... To name a few. Our food, even our social circles. The things we watch. Read.

I think we've been all these things in one life. Good, evil, restless, meditative, ignorant, wise, happy- sad.

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#100 Meditation Exercises; one example;

Concentrate at the point between the eyebrows. Expel breath through mouth; inhale slowly through nostrils, hold it, counting 1 to 12, and feel all energy centering at the point between the eyebrows. Exhale slowly through the mouth, then inhale slowly through the nostrils; hold it, counting 1 to 25. Exhale slowly through the mouth; then without drawing another breath exhale again quickly. Inhale slowly through the nostrils, hold it counting 1 to 40, feeling all energy at the point between the eyebrows. Exhale slowly, through the mouth, then again throw breath out. Forget it and concentrate at the point between the eyebrows.

~Paramahansa Yogananda

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This last lesson about breathing particularly interests me since; Yogananda stated that oxygen and lite will be the food of the future. If done correctly we can draw cosmic energy from air and sun lite and end our dependence on food!

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I realize day by day just how much breath plays a part in my spiritual evolution. The respiration becomes exaggerated as we exercise, practice yoga or energize before meditation. However this brings more awareness to the breath which is the keystone to meditation practice. Sometimes it is more difficult to focus on short breaths, which are hardly noticeable, but it is much easier to watch the breath as it calms down after an exercise routine of some sort.