The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness [Hardcover]

Paramahansa Yogananda (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1998

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About the Author

Born in India on January 5, 1893, Paramahansa Yogananda devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the true beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit. After graduating from Calcutta University in 1915, Yogananda took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami Order. Two years later, he began his life's work with the founding of a how-to-live school since grown to twenty-one educational institutions throughout India where traditional academic subjects were offered together with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals. In 1920, he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston. His address to the Congress and subsequent lectures on the East Coast were enthusiastically received, and in 1924 he embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Over the next three decades, Paramahansa Yogananda contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East. In Los Angeles, he established an international headquarters for Self-Realization Fellowship, the nonsectarian religious society he had founded in 1920. Through his writings, extensive lecture tours, and the creation of Self-Realization Fellowship temples and meditation centers, he introduced hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers to the ancient science and philosophy of Yoga and its universally applicable methods of meditation. Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Sri Daya Mata, one of his earliest and closest disciples and president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India since 1955. In addition to publishing his writings, lectures and informal talks (including a comprehensive series of Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons for home study), the society also oversees temples, retreats, and centers around the world. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers; 7th edition (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876121563
• ISBN-13: 978-0876121566
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,315,566 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Hailed as "the father of Yoga in the West," Paramahansa Yogananda - author of the bestselling classic "Autobiography of a Yogi" - is regarded as one of the great spiritual figures of our time. Born in northern India on January 5, 1893, he devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the true beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit. After graduating from Calcutta University in 1915, Yogananda took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami Order. Two years later, he began his life's work with the founding of a how-to-live school since grown to twenty-one educational institutions throughout India where traditional academic subjects were offered together with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals. In 1920, he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston. His address to the Congress and subsequent lectures on the East Coast were enthusiastically received, and in 1924 he embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Over the next three decades, Paramahansa Yogananda contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East. In Los Angeles, he established an international headquarters for Self-Realization Fellowship, the nonsectarian religious society he had founded in 1920. Through his writings, extensive lecture tours, and the creation of Self-Realization Fellowship temples and meditation centers, he introduced hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers to the ancient science and philosophy of Yoga and its universally applicable methods of meditation. Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Sri Daya Mata, one of his earliest and closest disciples and president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India since 1955. In addition to publishing his writings, lectures and informal talks (including a comprehensive series of Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons for home study), the society also oversees temples, retreats, and centers around the world.

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure of wisdom, September 24, 2001

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Gruffydd (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness (Hardcover)

I know this booklet for 25 years and it has guided me through most of my life. It is basically a compendium of the wisdom necessary to succeed in life. Yet it is not about the success based on careers and possessions, but in the ability to live in harmony with the laws of the universe, promulgated by a Superior Intelligence. Yogananda, a really enlightened spiritual mentor, kwnown even before that "self-help" was a commercial product, offers in twelve brilliant short essays all you need to know to attain happiness, prosperity and fulfillment in this generation, in these times. A real treasure, a formidable source of advise and comfort.

58 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, March 16, 2004

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Samit, (KC, MO, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness (Paperback)

If all the positive thinking self help books and books on success were to be condensed into one, it would probably be this one.

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Success through positive thinking and affirmation, March 29, 2000

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This review is from: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness (Hardcover)

I bought this book a year ago for myself and another copy for my loving mother. I have been using the affirmation and inspirational content ever since. Guruji's words are consice on the content of right thinking for creating our dreams come true. In this hardcover edition he talks to us in an inspiring manner about all that we may need to create success in our lives. However, this book is not only about success in the material world, but success in what every yogi holds as his mission and true calling, Self-Realization, a Reunion with God. Aum, Bless Thee