Welcome to the September 2014 edition of the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India eNewsletter. This month, we share inspiring thoughts from Paramahansa Yogananda on "The Purpose of Life."

Paramahansa Yogananda on "The Purpose of Life"

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Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that "something else" he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending. For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else.

Many people may doubt that finding God is the purpose of life; but everyone can accept the idea that the purpose of life is to find happiness. I say that God is Happiness. He is Bliss. He is Love. He is Joy that will never go away from your soul. So why shouldn't you try to acquire that Happiness? No one else can give it to you. You must continuously cultivate it yourself.
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Gurudeva Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda wrote to Rajarsi Janakananda from Calcutta during his visit to India in 1935–36, “You would be pleased to know that I have been working incessantly for creating a permanent centre in Calcutta, the crown city of Bengal, and I think I am almost successful.” Even amidst his tour through the length and breadth of the country during that period, Gurudeva made time to personally visit a number of properties in and around Calcutta in search of a suitable site.
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