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1 " O MAN! Offer Thy labyrinthine longings into a monotheistic bonfire consecrated to the unparalleled God.Burn desire for human affection in the fire of aspiration for GOD alone, a love solitary because omnipresent!Throw faggot of ignorance to incandesce the blaze of insight! Devour all sorrows in the sorrow for God's absence. Consume all regrets in meditative bliss! "
― Paramahansa Yogananda , The Bhagavad Gita: Royal Science of God-Realization
2 " If devotees do not progress, it is because they discard their weapons of self-control; "
3 " within the soul is a source of infinite "
4 " proper breathing exercises of pranayama, the venous blood is purified and man’s body is directly supplied with cosmic energy. Decay in the body is arrested, and the heart receives a welcome rest from the usually unceasing task of oxygenating and nourishing the body through blood circulation, and of directing the life force to the "
5 " When life force is shut off from the sensory organs, material sensations cannot reach the brain to snatch away the meditator’s attention from God. "
6 " Krishna reminded Arjuna that the cosmic consciousness of all-pervading Spirit should be retained within himself under all circumstances, whether during a physical or an inner battle or any other experience...For example, if a person is greedy and eats too much, he may suffer from indigestion; if by self-control he abstains from overeating, he is initially only suppressing greed. But if he transmutes his greed for physical food into greed for continuous communion with God, he does not destroy his excessive appetite but changes it from an evil agent into a medium for good. "
7 " Yoga meditation is the process of cultivating and stabilizing the awareness of one’s real nature, through definite spiritual and psychophysical methods and laws by which the narrow ego, the flawed hereditary human consciousness, is displaced by the consciousness of the soul. "
8 " The devotee who realizes the personal God in a form will eventually realize Him also as the Omnipresent Formless Infinite. Arjuna, with the frontal vision of his two physical eyes, saw his divine guru Krishna standing before him on the field of Kurukshetra. Sri Krishna then opened the all-seeing spiritual eye of Arjuna. Being at one with the cosmic consciousness of Spirit, Krishna transferred his omnipresent vision to Arjuna, whose spiritual advancement had now prepared him to receive the awakening touch of the Guru’s bestowal of God-realization. It was then that Arjuna beheld the very form of Krishna metamorphose into an omnipotent image of the oneness of Krishna’s consciousness with the Infinite. "
9 " Peace (shanti) is a divine quality. A true yogi, one united to "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, is like a lovely rose, spreading around him the fragrance of tranquility and harmony. "
