Enter the Quiet Heart: Creating a Loving Relationship With God [Hardcover]

Sri Daya Mata (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1998

In this warm and compassionate book, a beloved spiritual teacher shows how each one of us can bring a rich new intimacy to our relationship with the Divine - by weaving awareness of God into the fabric of our daily lives. The author writes:

"During my travels all over the world, so many people have asked me, 'How can I find greater meaning in my life? Is there an answer to the emptiness, the unexpressed longing, I feel within my heart? Where is the love I am missing?'

"This, in essence, is what I tell them."

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About the Author

Sri Daya Mata, one of Paramahansa Yogananda's earliest and closest disciples, is the president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India. Born Faye Wright on January 31, 1914, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Daya Mata met Paramahansa Yogananda at the age of seventeen when she attended a lecture series he was giving in her hometown. Upon hearing him speak, she inwardly thought: "This man loves God as I have always longed to love Him. He knows God. Him I shall follow." Not long afterward, she entered his ashram in Los Angeles as a nun of the Self-Realization Order. During more than two decades of day-to-day association with Sri Yogananda, Daya Mata served as his confidential secretary; and over the years he entrusted her with increasing spiritual and administrative responsibilities. From the beginning he singled her out for a special role, and he encouraged other disciples to pattern their lives after her example. As Paramahansa Yogananda's spiritual successor, Sri Daya Mata has guided his society since 1955, faithfully carrying out his wishes and ideals for the dissemination of his teachings worldwide and for the establishment of Self-Realization Fellowship temples, centers, and retreats. She has made several global speaking tours, including extended visits to India. Under her leadership, the pioneering spiritual work of Paramahansa Yogananda has flourished, both in his native land and around the world. Two anthologies of her lectures and informal talks have been published, Only Love: Living the Spiritual Life in a Changing World, and Finding the Joy Within You: Personal Counsel for God-Centered Living. Many of her talks are also available on CD and DVD. A true mother of compassion as her name signifies, Sri Daya Mata has inspired truth-seekers of all faiths and from all walks of life.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 123 pages
• Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship (March 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087612175X
• ISBN-13: 978-0876121757
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #937,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Sri Daya Mata is the foremost living disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda. A true "Mother of Compassion," as her name signifies, she has inspired those of all faiths and from all walks of life with the wisdom and great love of God conveyed through her talks, writings, and recordings. Referring to her first volume of spiritual counsel, "Only Love," the former Ambassador of India to the United States, N. A. Palkhivala, wrote: "Sri Daya Mata personifies love and compassion and the other timeless values of Indian culture...Her speeches are not dry academic dissertations on abstract theological principles, but intensely personal hymns testifying to her ecastatic vision of the Creator."

Born Faye Wright on January 31, 1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Daya Mata met Paramahansa Yogananda at the age of seventeen when she attended a lecture series he was giving in her hometown. Upon hearing him speak, she inwardly thought: "This man loves God as I have always longed to love Him. He knows God. Him I shall follow." Not long afterward, she entered his ashram in Los Angeles as a nun of the Self-Realization Order. During more than two decades of day-to-day association with Yogananda, Daya Mata served as his confidential secretary; and over the years he entrusted her with increasing spiritual and administrative responsibilities. From the beginning it was evident that he had singled her out for a special role. He later told her that he had given to her the same intense spiritual discipline that his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, had given to him - a significant remark, since she was to inherit the spiritual and organizational mantle that Sri Yukteswar had bestowed on him.

As Paramahansa Yogananda's spiritual successor, Sri Daya Mata has guided his society for more than half a century, faithfully carrying out his wishes and ideals for the dissemination of his teachings worldwide and for the establishment of Self-Realzation Fellowship temples, centers, and retreats. In 1955, succeeding the late, saintly Rajarsi Janakananda, Sri Daya Mata became president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society - the first woman to head a worldwide spiritual organization. She has made several global speaking tours, including extended visits to India. Under her leadership, the pioneering spiritual work of Paramahansa Yogananda has flourished, both in his native land and around the world. Two other books by Daya Mata have been published: "Only Love: Living the Spiritual Life in a Changing World," and "Enter The Quiet Heart: Creating a Loving Relationship with God." Many of her talks are also available on audio CD, and DVD.

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Profoundly Simple; How to love the God within., February 8, 2001

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PYisLove "astral39" (A reader from Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enter the Quiet Heart: Creating a Loving Relationship With God (Hardcover)

Daya Mata, president of Self-Realization Fellowship, gives the reader the clearest and simplest guide to knowing divine love. Her own way is unique and encouraging to all who want to know the meaning and experience of true love. An exercise manual for the heart and soul!

She shares with us her own personal successful formula for knowing true love by learning to love God, the reality within us. Free from theology and dogma, free from the divisive confines of exclusivism, free from complexity.

This beautiful and valuable gift edition contains the cream of spiritual guidance for anyone who is serious about their inner personal growth and realization. It is the type of gift that one will never be tired of using, as a daily inspirational motivator and guide to a more complete and fulfilling life in the spirit.

In this most difficult of human quests, Daya Mata immediate takes the reader directly to the method of success.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BUY THIS GEM!, April 30, 2000

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Bill Butler "Bill Butler" (Tarzana, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enter the Quiet Heart: Creating a Loving Relationship With God (Hardcover)

I'm not going to quote from the book. This is a collection of diverse sayings from the President of Self-Realization Fellowship. It's incredible! The simplicity and diversity of what this saint covers in so few words. It will fill your heart with light. After I read it, I called Self-Realization Fellowship headquarters and asked a nun to please tell Daya Mata how deeply I was impressed with this book and loved it so dearly. She told me she would. One harsh point also needs to be made. My library has all the SRF material ever published. All this material is "safe" and won't push you off the path. As Brother Bhaktananda told me, going off the path can be "very subtle". But if you have had kriya iniation by SRF or even in the mail, Paramahansa Yogananda is your Guru. The Guru is the one you follow. Nobody else. Buy this beautiful book !

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For those who want to be in love forever, February 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Enter the Quiet Heart: Creating a Loving Relationship With God (Hardcover)

From the book: "As you persevere, resolving never to give up, you begin to see that there is a sweetness growing within you that surpasses everything you have ever dreamed of--a communion with the Divine that nothing can touch . . ."