Living Fearlessly: Bringing Out Your Inner Soul Strength
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Filled with life-transforming counsel and proven yoga techniques for tuning out fear, this concise ebook features informal talks and personal anecdotes complemented by parable and prayer. Living Fearlessly is a testament to what we can become if we but have faith in the divinity of our true nature as the soul.
Wisdom Gems“You are a child of God. What have you to fear?”
“There is always a way out of your trouble; and if you take the time to think clearly, to think how to get rid of the cause of your anxiety instead of just worrying about it, you become a master.”“Do you ever think that you have been completely unsettled by circumstances — ruffled, shattered, whipped, lacking power? Banish such thoughts! You have power; you do not use it. You have all the power you need. There is nothing greater than the power of the mind.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) es mundialmente reconocido como una de las personalidades espirituales más ilustres de nuestro tiempo. Nació en el norte de la India, y en 1920 se radicó en Estados Unidos, donde enseñó, durante más de treinta años, la antigua filosofía y la ciencia de la meditación yoga, originarias de la India, así como el arte de vivir en forma equilibrada la vida espiritual. Fue el primer gran maestro del Yoga que vivió y enseñó durante un prolongado periodo en Occidente. Él viajó extensamente impartiendo conferencias en Estados Unidos y en el extranjero, disertando en auditorios de las más importantes ciudades, que registraban siempre un lleno total, y en los cuales revelaba la unidad fundamental que existe entre las grandes religiones del mundo. A través de la célebre historia de su vida, Autobiografía de un yogui, y de sus originales comentarios sobre las escrituras de Oriente y Occidente, así como por medio del resto de sus numerosos libros, él ha inspirado a millones de lectores. Self-Realization Fellowship —la organización internacional que Paramahansa Yogananda fundó en 1920 con el fin de diseminar sus enseñanzas en todo el mundo— continúa llevando a cabo su obra espiritual y humanitaria.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Timeless Wisdom :) Definitely worth reading a few times more
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nice encouragement. A lot of platitudes, but good ones. If you have fear issues, this might be a good place to start.
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Living Fearlessly - Paramahansa Yogananda
Frontispiece
Title Page
About This Book
Living Fearlessly: Bringing Out Your Inner Soul Strength is a compilation of selections from Paramahansa Yogananda’s writings, lectures, and informal talks. These originally appeared in his books, in articles in Self-Realization (the magazine he founded in 1925), in the three anthologies of his collected talks and essays, and in other Self-Realization Fellowship publications.
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Ebook edition, 2021.
ISBN: 978-0-87612-469-7 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-87612-760-5 (Kindle edition)
ISBN: 978-0-87612-761-2 (ePub edition)
In his Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda related the following conversation with his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar:
Guruji, I would like to hear some stories of your childhood.
I will tell you a few—each one with a moral!
Sri Yukteswar’s eyes twinkled with his warning.
"My mother once tried to frighten me with an appalling story of a ghost in a dark chamber. I went there immediately, and expressed my disappointment at having missed the ghost. Mother never told me another horror tale.
Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.
Contents
Preface
Make Your Life a Divine Adventure
Thoughts for the Fearless Soul
Practical Antidotes for Fear and Worry
Removing the Static of Fear From the Mind
The Fearless Mind and the Healthy Body
May I Overcome Fear
Ridding the Consciousness of Worry
The Lion Who Became a Sheep
Invincible Lion of the Self
The Way to Permanent Fearlessness: Experiencing Your Immortality Through Meditation
Finding Inner Assurance That God Is With You
Fearlessness Means Faith in God
Epilogue: Stand Unshaken Amidst the Crash of Breaking Worlds
About the Author
How-to-Live Series
Preface
Self-realization is the knowing—in body, mind, and soul—that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God’s omnipresence is our omnipresence; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. All we have to do is improve our knowing.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
In his how-to-live
teachings, Paramahansa Yogananda has given to people of all cultures, races, and creeds the means to free themselves from physical, mental, and spiritual inharmonies—to create for themselves a life of enduring happiness and all-round success.
The books in this series present Paramahansaji’s how-to-live wisdom on many subjects—in his own words and in those of his close disciples—providing readers with spiritual insight and practical keys for bringing into daily life the inner balance and harmony that is the essence of yoga. Through the practice of meditation and the universal principles of right action