Where There Is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges [Paperback]

Paramahansa Yogananda (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1989

A unique handbook of insight and inspiration for daily life, Where There Is Light, offers spiritual insights drawn from the writings and lectures of renowned mystic Paramahansa Yogananda author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi. A world teacher who brought the ancient science of yoga meditation to the West in 1920, he dedicated his life to uniting East and West in the lasting ties of spiritual understanding, and to helping others towards realization of the infinite sources of peace, love, and joy that exist within every human being. This warmly engaging anthology contains but a small sample of his teachings. The diverse flavor of its contents reflects the wide spectrum of sources from which they are drawn: Some passages are taken from public lectures or classes; others come from informal talks to small groups of disciples and friends; additional selections are from his writings. Topics include:
* Finding wisdom and strength to make life s decisions
* The antidote for stress, worry, and fear
* transforming our failures into successes
* Security in an uncertain world
* Perfecting human relationships
* The power of affirmation and prayer
* Understanding death
* Developing a personal relationship with God.

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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, Sri 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship (January 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876122764
• ISBN-13: 978-0876122761
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Divine Truth and Light, February 9, 2004

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Teresa Cacioppo (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Where There is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges (Hardcover)

Where There is Light will help you find the Light within to rise above any circumstance in your life where you might feel helpless or alone. A wonderful contribution to humanity that will bring you peace, and a way to find that peace within no matter where you are on your path.

44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You must read it every day!, November 1, 2001

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This is one of the most enlighten books I've ever read. I used to read it every day, a small paragraph each day. It was like small drops of wisdom ! You must have it!

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect antidote for stress and our modern material overload, November 8, 2002

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richardpinneau.com (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where There Is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges (Paperback)

As one of Yogananda's advanced students once said, ''I don't know how anyone can keep his sanity amidst the pressures of this modern world without the help of a true spiritual guru.'' This collection of Yogananda's inspired insights into our divine nature - and the challenges posed by our oppressive materialistic environments - is a powerful way to keep a true spiritual master's guidance at one's side.

In a moment of distress or spiritual need, just open to any page and you will feel this master's wisdom lifting burdens off your shoulders.

Highly recommended... for both the newcomer to spiritual awakening and the veteran devotee. EXCELLENT GIFT for friends or family who may be new to Yogananda's brilliance or to Eastern spirituality as a whole.