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Sri Yukteswar Giri is the monastic name of Priya Nath Karar , the guru of Satyananda Giri and Paramahansa Yogananda. Sri Yukteswar was a Kriya yogi, a Jyotisha , a scholar of the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads, an educator and an astronomer. He was a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya of Varanasi and a member of the Giri branch of the swami order. Yogananda considered Sri Yukteswar as Jnanavatar, or "Incarnation of Wisdom".

✵ 10. May 1855 – 9. March 1936
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The Holy Science
The Holy Science
Yukteswar Giri
The Holy Science
The Holy Science
Yukteswar Giri
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Famous Yukteswar Giri Quotes

“In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Those who remove our troubles, dispel our doubts, and bestow peace are true teachers. They perform a Godlike work. Their opposites (those who increase our doubts and difficulties) are harmful to us and should be avoided like poison.”

Yukteswar Giri book The Holy Science

The Holy Science

“Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Just as the purpose of eating is to satisfy hunger, not greed, so the sex instinct is designed for the propagation of the species according to natural law, never for the kindling of insatiable longings. Destroy wrong desires now; otherwise they will follow you after the astral body is torn from its physical casing. Even when the flesh is weak, the mind should be constantly resistant. If temptation assails you with cruel force, overcome it by impersonal analysis and indomitable will. Every natural passion can be mastered. Conserve your powers. Be like the capacious ocean, absorbing within all the tributary rivers of the senses. Small yearnings are openings in the reservoir of your inner peace, permitting healing waters to be wasted in the desert soil of materialism. The forceful activating impulse of wrong desire is the greatest enemy to the happiness of man. Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don't kick you around.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Yukteswar Giri Quotes

“[Swami Sri Yukteswar to Paramahansa Yogananda, before whom he appeared in the flesh on June 19, 1936, more than three months after his mahasamadhi (a great yogi’s final conscious exit from the body)] Grieve not for me…. You and I shall smile together, so long as our two forms appear different in the maya-dream of God. Finally we shall merge as one in the Cosmic Beloved; our smiles shall be His smile, our unified song of joy vibrating throughout eternity to be broadcast to God-tuned souls!”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“I heard my mother remark occasionally: 'A man who accepts a job under anyone is a slave.' That impression became so indelibly fixed that even after my marriage I refused all positions. I met expenses by investing my family endowment in land. Moral: Good and positive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Do not allow yourself to be thrashed by the provoking whip of a beautiful face. How can sense slaves enjoy the world? Its subtle flavours escape them while they grovel in primal mud. All nice discriminations are lost to the man of elemental lusts.”

Yukteswar Giri

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

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