Inner Peace: How to Be Calmly Active and Actively Calm

By Paramahansa Yogananda

“Peace emanates from the soul, and is the sacred inner environment in which true happiness unfolds….” — Paramahansa Yogananda

For all who feel that stress and nervousness are an unavoidable fact of modern life, Paramahansaji reminds us that within each of us is an inner core of peace that we can learn to access at will.

His sage and encouraging counsel shows us how to:

• Overcome fear, worry, anger, nervousness, moodiness

• Stay calmly present and actively focused, no matter what is going on around us

• Experience the expansive timelessness and beauty of each moment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship
• Release date: Nov 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9780876127599

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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About This Book

Inner Peace: How to Be Calmly Active and Actively Calm is a compilation of extracts from Paramahansa Yogananda’s writings, lectures, and informal talks. These selections 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, 2022.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-71255

ISBN: 978-0-87612-010-1 (paperback)

ISBN: 978-0-87612-758-2 (Kindle edition)

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Contents

Preface, by Sri Daya Mata

Chapter I

Where Can I Find Peace?

Chapter II

Meditation: The Science of Being Actively Calm

Chapter III

The Spiritual Art of Relaxation: Removing Stress From Body and Mind

Chapter IV

How to Be Calmly Active—Centered in Peace No Matter What You Are Doing

Chapter V

Peace in Your Daily Life: Essential Principles and Practices

Chapter VI

The Wisdom Perspective That Leads to Inner Peace

About the Author

Preface

By Sri Daya Mata

President and spiritual head (1955–2010) of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

Peace, serenity, inner balance are mere words until we actually see their expression in someone we meet—or feel their manifestation in ourselves. Throughout my twenty-some years with Paramahansa Yogananda, I was blessed to experience daily the indescribable aura of peace that emanated from him; it empowered him with a remarkable ability to put all who came to him in touch with the deep well-spring of peace in their own souls.

Our era’s advances in technology have been amazing, but oftentimes they seem to improve outer conditions only at the high cost of increased stress and complexity in our personal lives. As the quest for balance becomes more and more of a priority, people the world over are realizing that perhaps the most necessary new science is an ancient one: Yoga, whose timeless methods of harmonizing body, mind, and soul offer a truly effective system for attaining inner peace.¹

From the wisdom-trove of Paramahansa Yogananda, we are taught the most valuable of yoga postures: to stand unshaken, as he often put it, midst the crash of breaking worlds. To become unshakably anchored in inner security, in the peace which passeth all understanding—that is the promise genuine spirituality can fulfill, and that is the focus of this present volume.

Calm inner serenity, Paramahansa Yogananda taught, does not require a timid withdrawal from energetic active pursuits. Indeed, his own extraordinary outer accomplishments of successfully pioneering