Welcome to the March edition of the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India eNewsletter. This month we celebrate the release of the new and expanded edition of the YSS Lessons, a home-study course that presents Paramahansa Yogananda’s Kriya Yoga teachings. Following are excerpts from the Introductory Lesson on using the scientific methods of yoga to overcome all forms of sorrow and gain complete satisfaction in the bliss of God.
Paramahansa Yogananda on Life’s Highest Achievements
From the introduction to the Yogoda Satsanga Lessons entitled
“Highest Achievements Through Self-realization”
For life’s highest achievements, it is necessary to apply the untapped potentials of the human body and mind — powers that flow from the innermost essence of your being: your true Self or soul, made “in the image of God.”
The sages of India anciently developed the techniques and methods of yoga, the science of the soul. Its practice not only enables you to rise above the threefold sorrows [physical, mental, and spiritual], but to gain the positive state of ever new bliss through inner communion with God.
The ever-increasing joy felt in practising the various techniques of meditation given in the Lessons is the most satisfying proof of the existence of God. Yogoda Satsanga techniques — if conscientiously applied — will bestow this proof beyond doubt, and help you to erase forever all uncertainty about the existence, nature, and power of God.
Your soul, an individualized part of God’s consciousness, must realize its oneness with the Whole in order to be complete. Your longing for satisfaction can find perfect satisfaction only in God. Your desire for knowledge can quench its thirst only by drinking of His wisdom. Your peace can be fulfilling only in union with His peace. Your existence can be immortal only when merged with Him who is ever-existing. Your consciousness can be unceasing and omnipresent only when it is united with His cosmic consciousness. Your joy can be unending, ever-entertaining, only when it has become one with His ever new bliss.
To read the complete text of “Highest Achievements Through Self-Realization,” you can request it as part of a free YSS Lessons information packet.
Request YSS Lessons information packet
You can also learn more about the new and enhanced edition of the YSS Lessons, and watch a short video of YSS/SRF President Swami Chidanandaji inaugurating the Lessons at the SRF International Headquarters, on our website.
