Seeking union with God by wisdom alone, by devotion alone, or through action alone is one-sided. The far superior way is to take your mind and vital forces and all your desires, and your devotion and wisdom and service, and dissolve them all in God. When you can withdraw your life energy and consciousness from the five sense telephones, when you can withdraw your vitality from your body and mind and throw the searchlight of your attention on God, that is the highest way to God. You can shut off the senses at will and take your mind and life and vitality and sensibility and plunge into the Infinite. The person within whom the aurora borealis of Spirit is dancing – whether materially he possesses much or no outward glamour at all – he is the real soul. Work for God, love God alone, and be wise with God. Use your reason, not to become an overstuffed intellect, but to find God – gravitating toward intuitive wisdom gained in meditation and avoiding theoretical knowledge and materialistic rationalizing. Use your devotion not for worldly attachment to things or people, but for finding God – absorbing yourself in devotion and ecstasy with God. And work not for yourself under any circumstances, but for God and to help others. The culmination of these lies in following the direct highway to God – listening to the cosmic sound of God’s voice, quieting the heart and breath which draw you toward body consciousness, and seeing His great light of omnipresence. ~Paramhansa Yogananda
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:06:54 +0000
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