Paramahansa Yogananda

Divine joy is in everyone. Sunlight shines equally on the charcoal and the diamond, but the diamond reflects the light. Such are the transparent minds that know and reflect Spirit.

Swami Rama

Knowledge received from sources other than the Self no doubt helps and inspires the sadhaka, but without direct knowledge and experiences of the Self, the thirst for knowledge and attainment remains unquenched.

AUROBINDO

 

In the deep there is a greater deep, in the heights a greater height. Sooner shall man arrive at the borders of infinity than at the fulness of his own being. For that being is infinity, is God — I aspire to infinite force, infinite knowledge, infinite bliss. Can I attain it? Yes, but the nature of infinity is that it has no end. Say not therefore that I attain it. I become it. Only so can man attain God by becoming God.

AUROBINDO

 

 The most difficult of all their knots is egoism, the delusion that we have an individual existence sufficient in itself, separate from the universal and only being, ekamevadwitiyam, who is one not only beyond Time, Space and Causality. Not only are we all Brahman in our nature and being, waves of one sea, but we are each of us Brahman in His entirety,

Anaïs Nin

 

“I have always endowed madness with a sacred, poetic value, a mystical value. It seemed to me to be a denial of ordinary life, an effort to transcend it, to expand, to go far beyond the limitations of the human condition.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

Man wrongly identifies himself with the physical body, calling it 'myself.' And when the physical body is in pain he says, 'I am ill,' because he identifies himself with something which belongs to him but which is not himself. The first thing to learn in the spiritual path is to recognize the physical body not as one's self, but as an instrument, a vehicle, through which to experience life.

Sri Swami Sivananda

The night that has passed away will not return back, just as the stream of the Ganga flowing towards ocean will not recede back. Death accompanies you in your walk, sits down when you sit, travels long distance with you and returns with you. You rejoice at the rise of the sun and feel delighted at the approach of night, but do you not understand that your life by this has been shortened ?

Eating, drinking, sleeping, little laughter and much weeping. Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up. Attain Immortal Bliss.

RELIGION VS SPIRITUALITY

 

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second coming of Christ.

    The promise of Jesus to send the Holy Ghost after he was gone few in the Christian world have understood. Holy Ghost is the sacred, invisible vibratory power of God that actively sustains the universe: the Word, or Aum, Cosmic Vibration, the Great Comforter, the Saviour from all sorrows. 

Within the Holy Ghost Cosmic Vibration is the all-pervading Christ, the Son or Consciousness of God immanent in creation. The method of contacting this Cosmic Vibration, the Holy Ghost, is for the first time being spread worldwide by means of definite meditation techniques of the Kriya Yoga science.

 Through the blessing of communion with the Holy Ghost, the cup of human consciousness is expanded to receive the ocean of Christ Consciousness. The adept in the practice of the science of Kriya Yoga who consciously experiences the presence of the Holy Ghost Comforter and merges in the Son, or immanent Christ Consciousness, attains thereby realization of God the Father and entry into the infinite kingdom of God.

Manly P. Hall The Secrets Behind All Religions:

"Truth is eternal. The so-called revelations of Truth that come in different religions are actually but a re-emphasis of an ever existing doctrine."

Thus Moses did not originate a new religion to Israel; he simply adapted the Mysteries of Egypt to the needs of Israel. The Ark triumphantly borne by the twelve tribes through the wilderness was copied after the Isaac ark which may still be traced in faint has-relief upon the ruins of the Temple of Philae.

 Even the two brooding cherubim over the mercy seat are visible in the Egyptian carving, furnishing Indubitable evidence that the secret doctrine of Egypt was the prototype of Israel's mystery religion.

 In his reformation of Indian philosophy, Buddha likewise did not reject the esotericism of the Brahmins, but rather adapted this esotericism to the needs of the masses of India.

The mystic secrets locked within the Holy Vedas were thus disclosed in order that all men, irrespective of castely distinction, might partake of wisdom and share in a common heritage of good."

Artist; Jaima James Buidiniek