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Quotes and my insights from a book
‘The Autobiography of a Yogi’ by Paramhansa Yogananda.

Thanks for suggesting @raunak_lohiya and @BeerBicepsGuy.

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“Why be elated by material profit. The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss.”

We thrive so hard for things we will eventually leave behind rather try to differentiate between temporary happiness and permanent well being.

“God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.”

It takes a wise man to realise that it’s actually simple to make things complex but it’s complex to make things simple.

Simplicity is underrated. Complicity is overrated.

“Man can understand no eternal verity until he has freed himself from pretensions.”

One should be really careful what he pretends to be.

Pretending what you’re not is revealing what you’re.

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“Struggles of the battlefields pale into insignificance, when man first contends with inward enemies.”

Try to win within and then only you will endeavour accordingly.

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Train your mind well it can make or mar your inner self.

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“It is often forgotten that he who surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.”

Not questioning is directly proportional to being ignorant.

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“Look fear in the face & it’ll cease to trouble you.”

I don’t think being fearless is being brave, one can be fearful but still face it. He who does this will eventually come out wiser and stronger than ever and this is what really is being brave.

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“To a man who has realized himself as a soul, not the body or the ego, rest of humanity assumes a striking similarity of aspect.”

Extravaganza brings discomfort.

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“Keen intelligence is two-edged. It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one’s self.”

Conserve your powers. Be like the capacious ocean, absorbing within all the tributary rivers of the sense.

“Don’t confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary.”

Incorporating large words into your vocabulary to confuse simpletons won’t help you and others; instead if you can explain it in layman terms that means you’ve mastered it.

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“I don’t expect anything from others, so their actions can’t be in opposition to wishes of mine.”

Avoid expecting anything from others instead have expectations from your inner self.

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“A truth can not be created, but only perceived.”

Truth has the supreme power that it can never contradict anything except for a lie.

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Sri Yukteshwar Giri (Paramhansa Yoganand’s Guru) on astrology -

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“Where there is duality by virtue of ignorance, one sees all things as distinct from the self. When everything is seen as the self, then there is not even an atom other than the self’

And they say ‘एकम सत’ — Only one exists.

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“One’s values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture, and that not in it, but beyond it, lies his own reality.”

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“Truth is for earnest seekers, not for those of idle curiosity. It’s easy to believe when one sees, there is nothing then to deny. Supersensual truth is deserved and discovered by those who overcome their natural materialistic skepticism.”

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“He only is wise who devotes himself to realising, not reading only.”

Read - React - Realise

@visualizevalue

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“For the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand and sand. Be like the wise ant which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand untouched.”

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“Trees bend low with the burden of ripening fruits, it is the barren tree that lifts its head high in an empty boast.”

Bend don’t break, lean don’t fall. (Unknown)

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Which is stronger, life or death ?
Life, because it bears so many evils.

“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of man’s slavery.”

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“Do not do what you want, and then you may do what you like.”

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“A beggar cannot renounce wealth. If a man laments: ‘My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all my wealth and enter a monastery,’ to what worldly sacrifice is he referring ? He didn’t renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!”

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‘If we’re to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history.”

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