Welcome to the July edition of the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India eNewsletter. This month we share uplifting thoughts from Paramahansa Yogananda on the expansion of consciousness made possible through yoga meditation.
Paramahansa Yogananda on Expansion of Consciousness
So long as we are immersed in body consciousness, we are like strangers in a foreign country. Our native land is omnipresence.
When you go beyond the consciousness of this world, knowing that you are not the body or the mind, and yet aware as never before that you exist — that divine consciousness is what you are. You are That in which is rooted everything in the universe.
Eternity yawns at me below, above, on the left and on the right, in front and behind, within and without.
With open eyes I behold myself as the little body. With closed eyes I perceive myself as the cosmic centre around which revolves the sphere of eternity, the sphere of bliss, the sphere of omniscient, living space.
I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am timeless; I am beyond body, thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.
Every minute is eternity because eternity can be experienced in that minute. Every day and minute and hour is a window through which you may see eternity. Life is brief, yet it is unending. The soul is everlasting, but out of the short season of this life you should reap the most you can of immortality.
Paramahansa Yogananda taught that meditation is the most powerful way to transcend our usual physical and mental limitations. We invite you to practise this art through a new guided meditation on the theme of “Expansion of Consciousness.”
