Living Fearlessly: Bringing Out Your Inner Soul Strength (How-to-Live Series) [Paperback]

Paramahansa Yogananda (Author)

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Publication Date: August 1, 2003 | Series: How-To-Live

In this powerful book, Paramahansa Yogananda - renowned author of the spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi - provides positive affirmations for achieving success, outlines definite methods of creating lasting happiness, and tells us how to overcome negativity and inertia by harnessing the dynamic power of our own will.

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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.

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• Paperback: 86 pages
• Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship; 1st edition (August 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876124694
• ISBN-13: 978-0876124697
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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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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79 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Completely Eliminating Fear to Fulfill Your Life, February 28, 2004

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The Divine words of Paramahansa Yogananda delivers the one message that will set you free from fear and its debilitating effects in your life. That message is to recognize and connect fully to your divine source, to God, and how this omniscient presence is within you, at all times. It is within your heart and soul.
By focusing on how Divine Source is with you, in you, and as you at all times, you will come to discover that you are never alone.

A wonderful message is that fear is humankind's greatest enemy. By renewing your MIND, and focusing on your Divine heritage, you will come to trust that God is on your side. You will learn through this book that your circumstances are to draw you closer to your connection to Divine Source, so that you can follow your inner guidance, take proactive action in your life, and cast out fear completely.
In this way you will come to know the immense Divine creative power you do have, and how circumstances are merely passing occurrences. You, however, are eternal. Your creative capacity comes from your Divine connection to the greatest power in this Universe, and that is Love.

HIGHLY recommended if fear has been in your life, preventing you from claiming every Divine gift and experience you deserve. This book will help you cast out fear forever.

From my Heart, Barbara Rose, author of: `If God Was Like Man' and `Individual Power'. Borntoinspire.com

56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds"..., November 19, 2003

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The editors at Self-Realization Fellowship have again produced a beautifully inspiring and motivating volume, drawing on some of the great yoga master's inimitable expressions of eternal truth. Drawing partly from talks published elsewhere (e.g., Man's Eternal Quest and The Divine Romance), this volume also includes life-empowering quotes that would otherwise have to be culled from the years of Yogananda's Self-Realization Lessons - plus a couple of other essays not elsewhere in print. In the latter category is a brilliant piece on faith, fearlessness, and the uprooting of unconscious fears.
In times of tremendous uncertainty and world-upheaval the reassurance offered by such pieces as "Ridding the Consciousness of Worry" and "Removing the Static of Fear" are real treasures. It is exquisitely comforting to read how Yogananda himself handled threats of economic disaster in "Finding Inner Assurance that God Is With You" - one more demonstration that he does not speak from abstract theory but from principles that he has tested and proven in his own life. He never tells you that it will be easy - only that the power of attunement with your soul will lead you to VICTORY over the most difficult challenges. His life and those of his advanced students are testimony to that truth.
Seldom has a tiny volume combined so effectively the most advanced concepts of psychology with the most divine insights into the power of faith. This is destined to become another classic of PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY - perhaps rivaled only by his AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI (ISBN 0876120834 ) and THE LAW OF SUCCESS (ISBN 0876121504 )

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5.0 out of 5 stars Being Fearless, February 27, 2011

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The first time I read this book, I didn't think much about it. But, I found myself going back to it. Master Yogananda assures us that, although this world can be a scary place, there is comfort in knowing that God is watching out for us and we have nothing to fear. He also gives affirmations for protecting oneself against germs and diseases. Nice book for bringing more comfort into your life.