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Inner Peace: How to Be Calmly Active and Actively Calm

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The world is full of such misery. Where can we turn? Which club? Which therapy? Which religion? It seems that we have to do so much, in order to alleviate ourselves from something so constant and simple. Namely, suffering. We need to join clubs. To join religions. To go through initiations. To afford a therapist. The author of this book is my Guru. I give no weight to any other material. I was initiated as his devotee 26 years ago. The president of the organization that he founded, Self-Realization Fellowship, was a direct disciple of his for 21 years while he was living in our prescence. I live near most of their churches. I have talked extensively with their ministers and monks. But Yogananda was and is a well that you can dip your cup freely from and drink as much as you will. One is not seperated from time and space. His family is the world. Credentials and titles do not matter. This book is an example of what he taught.

Simplicity and the simple fact that one can reach God on the opposite side of the planet from Self-Realization Fellowship Headquarters and be a garbage collector in an unknown part of the world, if one's love for God is intense enough. I am quite assured that if one read this little book 100 times and followed it's principles devotely, one would probably be a greater saint than anyone who lives near Self-Realization Fellowship headquarters, is a monk or nun of his organization, or those who knew him personally while he was living. He is all of ours. This book may be all you need! Others need more equipment and training, sorry to say. This book is very simplistic. Very simple. If I were stranded on a desert island, and I only had one book, I do believe it would be this one. I have all of Yogananda's lessons and service lectures bounded in my library. As well as all of his books, recordings, and the words of his devotees. And all of the yogic methods that he taught. But if one would take a tiny book such as this, and folow it with ferverous devotion, I have no doubt that eventually such a one would go as fast spititually as anyone anyplace and at anytime. Yes. I do like the book.

This little gem of a book is an ideal gift of peace. Universal, soul-satisfying insights and comforts from the great yoga master who founded Self-Realization Fellowship. For the sincere spiritual seeker here are the fundamentals common to all true religions and spiritualities. For the average person in modern society, here is comfort and relief from the alienation and distress of our material cultures.

As a retired psychologist and stress management trainer, I judge that the ultimate keys to handling stress in this crazy world are to be found in these few pages. They are filled with beautiful nuggets of reassurance and personal empowerment through attunement with universal spiritual principles.

After you have sampled some of these possibilities from yoga's ancient and timeless spiritual strategies, hopefully you'll be inspired to explore some of the other titles the publisher lists herein.

This little gem of a book is an ideal gift of peace. Universal, soul-satisfying insights and comforts from the great yoga master who founded Self-Realization Fellowship. For the sincere spiritual seeker here are the fundamentals common to all true religions and spiritualities. For the average person in modern society, here is comfort and relief from the alienation and distress of our material cultures.

As a retired psychologist and stress management trainer, I judge that the ultimate keys to handling stress in this crazy world are to be found in these few pages. They are filled with beautiful nuggets of reassurance and personal empowerment through attunement with universal spiritual principles.

After you have sampled some of these possibilities from yoga's ancient and timeless spiritual strategies, hopefully you'll be inspired to explore some of the other titles the publisher lists herein.

Yogananda was a master teacher. In this book he gives one of the simplest guides to meditation. Going inward allows you to taste the bliss of inner peace.
I recomend this book to anyone seeking to find their heart's desire. Inner Peace will give you the strenghth and stability to deal with the duality of the external world.

Millions have found new inspiration and spiritual direction from Paramahansa Yogananda's AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI. This newest compilation from the masters inspired works is an excellent aid for the modern spiritual seeker and devotee. Free your life from STRESS, and know that peace which comes to stay.

The author, Paramahansa Yogananda founded only one organization to dispense his teachings and his writings, the Self-Realization Fellowship.

One of the finest qualities of this title is there is so much room for personal reflection, contemplation and application between the content. It isn't dense, yet it is best that you take time to slowly sip the words, to breathe them in and see what the text is saying explicitly and directly to you.

Author and spiritual leader Paramahansa Yoganada teaches "how to's" in pithy chunks and nuggets of inspiration. There is plenty of space to read, breathe, reflect, ponder and meditate - which Yoganada teaches his readers, is a science.

Further, the book teaches the reader how to be actively calm and calmly active so that the spiritual health may be at its optimum.

Favorite quotes from the book include:

"Seclusion is the price of greatness"

"Peace eminates from the soul and is the sacred environment in which true happiness unfolds."

Definitely worthy of a read.

An Amazing dive into how to implement metaphysical principles into your everyday life. Yogananda does it again! The perfect book for Westerners who seek spirituality and tranquility but love to work and accomplish things in their physical life. Highly recommend

There is no magic book or guru that is going to make you happy and end the suffering and trials of life. But this book gives you some peace while you read it. And you feel good about things for a few hours afterwards. I have some other booklets by the author and I always find some gem of thought that makes me feel better.

This book is a must for those seeking inner peace despite their circumstances. If you like this book, I also recommend, Peace Be Still: Inner Healing for Racial Harmony.

I too must agree after reading many of his books,there is much repetition and this is a very simple book not for the experienced seeker, but really for a beginner. A great spiritual leader he was, but some of his writings I did not get much from as I already learned it or heard it in a previous publication. No disrespect to the Great Yogi