Paramahansa Yogananda: Quotes about love

Paramahansa Yogananda was Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship. Explore interesting quotes on love.
Paramahansa Yogananda: 130 quotes53 likes

“Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

Source: In the Sanctuary of the Soul: A Guide to Effective Prayer

“There is a distinguishing difference of meaning between Jesus and Christ. His given name was Jesus; his honorific title was "Christ." In his little human body called Jesus was born the vast Christ Consciousness, the omniscient Intelligence of God omnipresent in every part and particle of creation. This Consciousness is the "only begotten Son of God," so designated because it is the sole perfect reflection in creation of the Transcendental Absolute, Spirit or God the Father.
It was of that Infinite Consciousness, replete with the love and bliss of God, that Saint John spoke when he said: "As many as received him [the Christ Consciousness], to them gave he power to become the sons of God." Thus according to Jesus' own teaching as recorded by his most highly advanced apostle, John, all souls who become united with Christ Consciousness by intuitive Self-realization are rightly called sons of God….”

Paramahansa Yogananda

The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You, (2004) by Yogananda

“Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "What is Love?"

“The lack of individual prayer and communion with God has divorced modern Christians and Christian sects from Jesus' teaching of the real perception of God, as is true also of all religious paths inaugurated by God-sent prophets whose followers drift into byways of dogma and ritual rather than actual God-communion. Those paths that have no esoteric soul-lifting training busy themselves with dogma and building walls to exclude people with different ideas. Divine persons who really perceive God include everybody within the path of their love, not in the concept of an eclectic congregation but in respectful divine friendship toward all true lovers of God and the saints of all religions.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You, (2004) by Yogananda

“To gaze with looks of wonderment,
And to serve all that lives, still or moving.
This is to know what love is.
He knows who lives it.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "What is Love?"

“Away, the partial love
That ‘boldens Nature to sit above
Her Maker!”

Paramahansa Yogananda

Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "Nature’s Nature"

“Love is the Heaven
Toward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms, creatures — you and I
Are rushing by the straight path of action right,
Or winding laboriously on error’s path,
All to reach haven there at last.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "What is Love?"

“It is an erroneous assumption of limited minds that great ones such as Jesus, Krishna, and other divine incarnations are gone from the earth when they are no longer visible to human sight. This is not so… Jesus Christ is very much alive and active today. In Spirit and occasionally taking on a flesh-and-blood form, he is working unseen by the masses for the regeneration of the world. With his all-embracing love, Jesus is not content merely to enjoy his blissful consciousness in Heaven. He is deeply concerned for mankind and wishes to give his followers the means to attain the divine freedom of entry into God's Infinite Kingdom….”

Paramahansa Yogananda

The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You, (2004) by Yogananda

“In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping,
Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving,
My soul constantly hums, unheard by any;
God, God, God!
”

Paramahansa Yogananda book Autobiography of a Yogi

From Yogananda's poem ""God, God, God!"", Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 37
Miscellaneous Quotes

“Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation.
'A beggar cannot renounce wealth,' Master would say. 'If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!'
Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.”

Paramahansa Yogananda book Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 44 - "With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha"