Yoga Sagar

SR No.: 014011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 24 MB

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within the context of Roman Catholicism has produced many mystics of high caliber, for example, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. John of the Cross, St. Therese of Avila, and many such others. Amongst the saints of the Protestant religions who were also called heretics, there have been people like Emmanuel Swedenborg, Meister Eckhardt and so on. Anyone who lives a life of intense renunciation, intense aspiration to know the supreme reality, great devotion and dedication, intense prayer and inner contemplation, will attain the light. .
If any individual soul, jeevaatmaa, born into this trap of worldliness, by his efforts successfully establishes a link with the transcendental reality, para mantmaa, he shall be called a free man, a yogi. Anyone who thinks, sees, researches or analyzes a little on these visible, worldly illusions will realize the deception behind the mortal objective matter. If he realizes that this world is nothing but an illusion of name, form and object, that this is all vanity of vanities, that everything is a momentarily visible scene, which one day will all vanish, that everthing is perishable with a beginning and an end, that it is all false and incomplete, that none of it can help anyone in attaining realization of truth, then by feeling so, he shifts the focus of his efforts. to the search for truth.
Such people accept the life of renunciation. Throughout history they have started to search for the reality, the imperishable truth, the immortal element behind this illusive deception. In this search for anadi-anant, without any beginning or end, the continuum of consciousness, they strove tirelessly. By intense renunciation and austerity, they reached that state, and after attaining it they turned back to humanity and said, "Look, we have found such and such a state, and after attaining it we have aquired undisturbed tranquility. All the limitations and bonds have ceased to exist; our consciousness has become universal. What we have achieved you can also achieve, because this is the birthright of every human being."
The Bible says, "God created man in His own image." The Koran of the Muslims says, "Man is not God; man is different from God, but man is illuminated by the light of God." The light of Allah, the light of God, the light of the supreme being shines within this body temple. Within the heart shrine of this moving temple, there shines the light of God. As Swami Rasajananda from the Ramakrishna Mission has just quoted in
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