When you are moving blindly through the valley of life, stumbling in darkness, you need the help of someone who has eyes. You need a guru. In your heart cry constantly for God. When you have convinced the Lord of your desire for Him, He will send someone - your guru - to teach you how to know Him.
There may be many teachers in one's life, but there is only one guru. Guru is he whom God appoints to lead you out of darkness of ignorance into land of His eternal light. Guru is one who knows God, and who shows the way to Him. To follow a divine manifestation is the sure way to God-realization. One who knows God becomes the speaking voice of the silent God. Attunement with the wisdom-guided will of a true guru teaches one how to guide his will according to God's will.
Those who follow the voice of their own ego, ascribing to it a halo of divine guidance, find out too late that no amount of deluded rationalization will relieve one of the karmic responsibility of wrong actions. To be led by an ego-bound will is to stumble into painful delusive entanglements. Do not remain entangled! Be free! The will of God is to free every soul.
Man's part is to cooperate with that purpose by living in harmony with God's laws as defined by a God-realized guru. The entire knowledge of the cosmos is packed into the Gita. Supremely profound, yet couched in revelatory language of solacing beauty and simplicity, the Gita has been understood and applied on all levels of human endeavor and spiritual striving — sheltering a vast spectrum of human beings with their disparate natures and needs.
Wherever one is on the way back to God, the Gita will shed its light on that segment of the journey The Kriya Yoga technique, taught by Krishna to Arjuna and referred to in Gita chapters IV and V—28, is the supreme spiritual science of yoga meditation. There are no historical records relating to the birth and life of Mahavatar Babaji. Paramahansa Yogananda has written in Autobiography of a Yogi that the deathless avatar has resided for untold years in the remote Himalayan regions of India, revealing himself only rarely to a blessed few.
It is Mahavatar Babaji who revived in this age the lost scientific meditation technique of Kriya Yoga. John, St. Paul, and other disciples. Fear not; you shall be protected.
You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West. At the age of thirty-three, while walking one day in the Himalayan foothills near Ranikhet, he met his guru, Mahavatar Babaji. It was a divine reunion of two who had been together in many lives past; at an awakening touch of blessing, Lahiri Mahasaya became engulfed in a spiritual aura of divine realization that was never to leave him.
Mahavatar Babaji initiated him in the science of Kriya Yoga and instructed him to bestow the sacred technique on all sincere seekers. Lahiri Mahasaya returned to his home in Banaras to fulfill this mission. As the first to teach the lost ancient Kriya science in contemporary times, he is renowned as a seminal figure in the renaissance of yoga that began in modern India in the latter part of the nineteenth century and continues to this day.
Devotee-bees from every part of India began to seek the divine nectar of the liberated master The harmoniously balanced life of the great householder-guru became the inspiration of thousands of men and women.
As Lahiri Mahasaya exemplified the highest ideals of Yoga, union of the little self with God, he is reverenced as a Yogavatar, or incarnation of Yoga. The message of Yoga will encircle the globe. Lahiri Mahasaya entered mahasamadhi in Banaras, September 26, Sri Yukteswar was a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya and attained the spiritual stature of a Jnanavatar , or incarnation of wisdom.
Sri Yukteswar recognized that a synthesis of the spiritual heritage of the East with the science and technology of the West would do much to alleviate the material, psychological, and spiritual suffering of the modern world.
These ideas were crystallized by his remarkable encounter with Mahavatar Babaji, the guru of Lahiri Mahasaya, in Show by parallel references that the inspired sons of God have spoken the same truths. Quoting the words of the blessed Lord Jesus, I showed that his teachings are in essence one with the revelations of the Vedas.
Through the grace of my paramguru, my book, The Holy Science , was finished in a short time. Mukunda says he thinks he did, but the guru says no I don't think so and admonishes Mukunda that such laxity must be punished. As they start back to the ashram, the little group halts to observe a man walking in front of the ashram, flailing his arms like a madman.
Sri Yukteswar then remarks that this man would be the instrument of Mukunda's punishment. So the guru puts the thought into the crazed man's mind that a cauliflower is easily within his reach. As they watch, sure enough, the man enters the ashram by the backdoor, thus confirming that Mukunda had, indeed, forgotten to lock it. A moment later, the man emerges with one cauliflower. Mukunda is astonished and starts to run after the man to retrieve his vegetable, but Sri Yukteswar stops him saying, "The poor crazy man has been longing for a cauliflower.
I thought it would be a good idea if he got one of yours, so ill-guarded! The swami entered mahasamadhi the conscious exit of the soul from the body on March 9, Self-Realization Fellowship devotees celebrate the great Jnanavatar for his importance in training and sending to America the great premavatar Paramahansa Yogananda.
The following quotation offers profound comfort to all those individuals striving to improve behavior, thoughts, and tendencies, as they navigate the sometimes rough water of the spiritual pathway:. Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.
Those words of wisdom appear in Paramahansa Yogananda's classic work, Autobiography of a Yogi , which first introduced to the world, Swami Sri Yukteswar, guru of Paramahansa Yogananda. Marine Biology. Electrical Engineering. Computer Science. Medical Science. Writing Tutorials. Performing Arts. Visual Arts.
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