Autobiography of a Yogi

India's unwritten law for the truth seeker is patience.

Autobiography of a Yogi

"Man can understand no eternal verity until he has freed himself from pretensions. The human mind, bared to a centuried slime, is teeming with repulsive life of countless world-delusions. Struggles of the battlefields pale into insignificance here, when man first contends with inward enemies! No mortal foes these, to be overcome by harrowing array of might! Omnipresent, unresting, pursuing man even in sleep, subtly equipped with a miasmic weapon, these soldiers of ignorant lusts seek to slay us all. Thoughtless is the man who buries his ideals, surrendering to the common fate. Can he seem other than impotent, wooden, ignominious?"

Autobiography of a Yogi

"I have long exercised an honest introspection, the exquisitely painful approach to wisdom. Self-scrutiny, relentless observance of one's thoughts, is a stark and shattering experience. It pulverizes the stoutest ego. But true self-analysis mathematically operates to produce seers. The way of 'self-expression,' individual acknowledgments, results in egotists, sure of the right to their private interpretations of God and the universe."

Page 52, Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yoganand

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Binoy:"Gora, between your nature and mine there is a fundamental difference.Up to now that has been supressed- whenever it wanted to raise its head I used to repress it,because I knew that where you saw any difference you did not know how to make a truce with it, that you always came running to attack it sword in hand.Therefore, in order to oreserver my friendship with you I have all along being doing violence to my own nature.Now at last I have come to realise that no good has come of this and no good can come of it"

Gora, Page 448

Commerce of Truth

In the commerce of truth you cannot obtain the jewel and avoid the price.

Gora, Page 448

Individual Vs Society

When any conflict occurs between an individual and society, there are two things to be considered - first on whose side is the right, secondly which side is stronger.
There is not the least doubt that of the two society is the stronger, so that the rebel against it will have to suffer.

Gora, Page 443

Right Wrong

In this world the distinction between right and wrong is a necessary one, but if you want to determine the relative value of things by your own regard or lack of it, then do so by all means, but you must not expect everybody else to accept your verdict.

Gora , Page 419