

Series: Collected Talks and Essays (Book 2)
Paperback: 507 pages
Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship; New edition edition (November 1, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0876122411
ISBN-13: 978-0876122419
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
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If it contained only his opening essay from 1943, "How to Cultivate Divine Love", this volume would more than warrant the cover price: it is persuasive, revelatory, show-stopping. Everyone talks about love. Everyone is moved by an unconscious yearning for this intangible indispensible. After lifetimes of pursuing and then achieving the Source of Love, in this seventeen-page essay Yogananda offers a timeless explanation of this elusive be-all and end-all of our existence. For those that confuse Love with sex or who cannot imagine that any love can surpass their feelings for their child or their beloved, these words are probably wasted. But for those who have been graced by even a whiff of the Creator's love or have intuitively felt that behind the temporary world of human ecstasies must lie a Divine Source and Experience, these words will ring as truth: this author has tasted The Whole Loaf, not just enjoyed wafting aromas. No matter how often it is distorted and dimmed in its human expressions, the irresistable pull of Divine Love keep working on us, because, as Yogananda explains..."If you could feel even a particle of divine love, so great would be your joy -- so overpowering -- you could not contain it." It is from connection with that Divine that the faces of long-silent, meditating yogis of India beam with unrepentant Joy, that the whirling Sufi dervish tirelessly dances without apparent partner. With unblinking insight and full compassion, Yogananda reflects on the varied places and degrees of human success in finding lasting love, because "...by investigating human love, we can learn something of divine love, for in human love we have glimpses of that love of God's."As devotional as he is, Yogananda goes far beyond gushing.
Paramahansa Yogananda's recorded talks in "THE DIVINE ROMANCE", presented to me the most comprehensive, balanced and inspirational view of spirituality and love I have seen in a long time. He must have been a great Bakti Yogi to have such deep vibrations of Divine Love pouring out of every page!Yogananda's awareness of such a wide range of wisdom in these important life areas of MEDITATION-PSYCHOLOGY-LOVE-PEOPLE-GOD-etc, and the balanced approach to the spiritual life shows an outstanding teaching ability as well. This is wonderful to see in writings on such subtle and profound matters. He takes the "mystery" out of the mystical. In this book one finds complete and sensible answers to sastisfy the mind and heart. It makes one greatful that such great souls still come to help us through our lives of difficult learning and growing. This book was difficult to put down, but I found that reading it slowly and encouraged me to seek and feel the presence of God more and more deeply. Try it and you will know. As wonderful as reading can be, it took my consciousness to finer realms... Also Recommended: Man's Eternal Quest...Journey to Self-Realization and Autobiography of a Yogi.CONTENTS:How To Culitvate Divine LoveA Newlook at the origin and nature of Cosmic CreationPracticing Religion Scientifically.Finding the Joy in Life.The End of the World.The Why and How of Religion.The Spectrum of Spiritual Consciousness.The Mind:Repository of Infinite Power.Why Evil is Part of Gods Creation.The Mysery okf Mahatma Gandhi.The Unknown Potential of Memory.How to Work Without Fatigue.
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