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Enter the Quiet Heart: Creating a Loving Relationship With God

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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.

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 !

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 . . ."

ENTER THE QUIET HEART by Sri Daya Mata, speaks to the devotees heart with a clarity and inspiration that goes beyond the intelletual approach. Her divine light flows through Her words to give greater motivation towards your spiritual efforts. This is a beautiful gift edition.

She is a successful lifetime disciple of the illustrious Paramahansa Yogananda, the great world yoga Master who brought the Science of kriya yoga and meditation to the Western world. Bringing us all the message of unity and divine love.

also Recommended: Finding the Joy Within You ...........Only Love ..................Man's Eternal Quest.........Autobiography of a Yogi......................... A World In Transition...........Inner Peace Journal

After nearly fifty years as president of one of the world's most respected yoga institutions, Sri Daya Mata is the exemplar of taking meditative yoga to its pinnacle -- universal, unconditional love.

To someone like myself (raised in the sciences), the concept of "love" for a "personal God" was not a respectable thought until it was shown me (in Autobiography of a Yogi (by Daya Mata's teacher, Paramahansa Yogananda) ISBN 0876120834 ) how rationality and divine love were both mutually consistent and mutually supportive. Yogananda's expositions on Kriya Yoga (one expression of the meditative science of raja yoga) make it clear that systematic, scientific practice of proven techniques of clearing the mind and body are of utmost importance in helping one to open and expand the limited human heart.

Yogananda's classical spiritual instruction goes on to describe the importance of developing the ''right attitude'' in all activities and especially in the practice of one's yoga and meditation. Let this collection of wise and loving insights from Daya Mata serve as an inspiration for you to develop YOUR OWN personal relationship with the Creator. If at present you find the appeal limited (or the value unclear) of employing PERSONAL concepts for drawing closer to the Invisible Infinite, you might appreciate reading Yogananda's chapter, "Is God Personal or Impersonal?" in his volume "Man's Eternal Quest" (ISBN 0876122322 ).

I keep a copy of this book nearby for easy reading. Very sweet thoughts. Simple. One on each page. You can open it anywhere and feel the Presence of God. A Must-by. Universal for all Truth seekers. You'll love this little book!

Each page of this book is a declaration of a deep love for God by Sri Daya Mata and absolutely saturated with adulation. This alone would warrant 5 stars, however, if your relationship with God is more in the "getting to know you" stage this book might very well overwhelm you more than it will help you. I'm not quite sure what I was expecting (I was intrigued by the title), but I was almost turned off by its gushy sweetness. "Be drunk with Him who is Love," and the book leaves no doubt that Sri Daya Mata is "drunk" with God. Don't get me wrong, this is a deeply spiritual woman who is totally and intimately in touch and in love with God and I admire her for the loving being she is, but for those of us who are not so well-grounded yet her style can be pretty overpowering. What also bothered me a lot was her way of referring to God that left me with a mental picture of a person - mostly father-child (though she does refer to God also as "Mother"). This took me back to childhood church days where my personal search for God actually began, because a God who demands this and that of me before I am considered worthy, and who can be swayed by my behavior can not be "God." She says, "What is the easiest way to win anyone? Not through reason: through love. So the logical way to win the Divine Friend is to love Him." I don't think God can be influenced or won in any way nor do I believe that God can be pleased or displeased - God IS. C.G. Jung said, "Bidden or unbidden, God is present" - I believe that says it all. The only really valuable passage for me was when she wrote of telling Paramahansa Yogananda how she craved God's love and he answered: "Then I say this to you: Take that craving into meditation, meditate deeply, so deeply that your mind becomes filled with nothing but that desire for divine love, for God; and you will know Him who is Love." Now, THAT I can relate to. Had I been able to examine the book first, I would not have bought it; it is too sugary sweet and carries too much religious connotation for my taste. I do not want to discourage you from buying this booklet, it certainly is a great testimony of one woman's deep devotional love for God; but unless you are on the same wavelength with Sri Daya Mata and feel comfortable with the familiar father/mother-child cliche I would look for other books. Among the many excellent authors out there you might want to check out Lynn Robinson (Divine Intuition), Frederick & Mary Ann Brussat (Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life) -- you'll never part with this one!, Sam Keen (Hymns to an unknown God) and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (I am That).