Swami yogananda quotes on love
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Yogananda and Relationships
The following excerpts are from the book Spiritual Relationships by Paramhansa Yogananda (titled How to Love and Be Loved in India).
Deepening Friendships
To have friends, you must manifest friendliness. If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, a soul or souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you. You attract those who are like you. That is the law of vibration. The more friendly you become toward all, the greater will be the number of your real friends.
Respect and love grow among friends with time. The greater the mutual service, the deeper the friendship. True friendship consists in being mutually useful, in offering your friends good cheer in distress, sympathy in sorrow, advice in trouble, and material help in times of real need. Friendship consists in rejoicing in the good fortune of your friends, and sympathizing with them in adversity. Friendship gladly foregoes selfish pleasures or self-interest for the sake of a friend’s happiness, without consciousness of loss or sacrifice, and without counting the cost.
Spiritual Marriage
The greatest secret of preserving matrimonial life lies in the art of self-control. Learn to love your wife or husband more on the spiritual plane, and associate with her
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Inspiration from the March Newsletter
This month we present some of Paramahansa Yogananda’s words on the topic of divine love — a quality which he fully expressed in his life and the ideal he set for all seekers.
If you could feel even a particle of divine love, so great would be your joy — so overpowering — you could not contain it.
The greatest love you can experience is in communion with God in meditation. The love between the soul and Spirit is the perfect love, the love you are all seeking. When you meditate, love grows. Millions of thrills pass through your heart....If you meditate deeply, a love will come over you such as no human tongue can describe; you will know His divine love, and you will be able to give that pure love to others.
I remember when my Master [Swami Sri Yukteswar] asked me, ‘Do you love everybody equally?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ But he said, ‘Not yet, not yet.’ Then my youngest brother came to study in my school at Ranchi, and I had that consciousness that he was mine. I realized then why my Master had said, ‘Not yet.’ Gradually that consciousness wore off, and I realized that my brother was but a part of all humanity which I loved....One day, again, Master asked me, ‘Do you love the whole world?’ I just said, ‘I love.’ And he smiled and s
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Paramhansa Yogananda — The Overwhelm of Seraphic Love
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