Self- Realization Fellowship Lessons 51-55

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What i find interesting is that we have talked about the 'darkness' of this creation and being able to see thru the web of illusions that it presents in the ever-present condition of maya that surrounds our every day activity. Paramahansa Yogananda does not state that he is the only way to find salvation but he does state that it is 'only through the guru-disciple relationship may a truant human soul retrace its footsteps to God.' This quote can be found in lesson 51.

Jitendra

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The silence that you experience while practicing the Hong Sau and Om techniques taught by the Self-Realization Fellowship, should be complete silence. Keep at it, practice continually and there is no end to what you can do. You begin to feel peaceful as soon as you grow silent, and you are inclined to think that is all there is to it, but it is only the very beginning. Right at the start, some people see behind the darkness of closed eyes a light in the spiritual (third) eye. A few even hear the great cosmic sound of OM in the silence before they hear any other astral sound.

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God is infinite omnipresence. He is present in everything equally. His light shines not only in wisdom sparkling diamond souls but also in charcoal and mentalities dark with ignorance. Because God has given us independence to choose between error and truth we can keep our mind transparent with purity of knowledge and love or dark with dogma and inharmony. God has endowed us with his own power of liberty.

Thus man can shut God out by indifference or receive him through meditation, logic and right actions, in the struggle of life. That some people know less than others is not due to Gods limiting the flow of his power to certain men but to their not allowing God‘s light to pass through their consciousness. Such ignorance-stricken people may be healed of delusion’s diseases by contacting the Christ consciousness through meditation and faith.

~Paramahansa Yogananda

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

God is infinite omnipresence. He is present in everything equally. His light shines not only in wisdom sparkling diamond souls but also in charcoal and mentalities dark with ignorance. Because God has given us independence to choose between error and truth we can keep our mind transparent with purity of knowledge and love or dark with dogma and inharmony. God has endowed us with his own power of liberty.

Thus man can shut God out by indifference or receive him through meditation, logic and right actions, in the struggle of life. That some people know less than others is not due to Gods limiting the flow of his power to certain men but to their not allowing God‘s light to pass through their consciousness. Such ignorance-stricken people may be healed of delusion’s diseases by contacting the Christ consciousness through meditation and faith.

~Paramahansa Yogananda

All my experiences in life and watching others as well have left me with more of an understanding of how true this statement is and how we all have this freedom of choice but how few use it and recognize the seriousness of these words.