Yogananda Sermons
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"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." - Bertrand Russell, in Science and Religion.There is barely praise of robust humour either.
Sample Sermons
Most of the Yogananda citations below are verbatim, but in some cases we use 'God' where his editors have used 'the Lord'. See if you can make use of them. And you can use the given references at bottom to check the quotations.All-God is termed Brahman too. - Tormod Kinnes.
Mend your fortune by
swimming a little at leisure or at ease
God chooses those "cakes" who choose - This world is just God's [cake]
zoo [cf. Say 21, 24].An ancient comparison, better than the Old Testament's pottery comparison, at any rate.In me you possess a friend who will help you in every way. [cf. Say 9].
[The] fully liberated . . . understand everything [cf. Say 23].
I tell people how to mend their fortunes [cf. Say 29] (2)
Think in grand terms [cf. Say 26].
Aum [will be] the Holy Ghost [cf. Say 22, 17].
It is at times necessary to induce people to help themselves instead of being made fools of and suffer from it
YOU CAN use ads to induce people to chew good ideas. [Say 30]
It is at times necessary to scold [cf. Say 12, 3].
At great peace each soul (Atman) is a Brahman is the handed-over teaching
Be at great peace with Brahman [cf. Say 22, 13, 5].Each soul is . . . imperishable [cf. Say 23] (6)
The gospel teaches opposite to that [Matthew 10:28, also Luke 12:4-6; Matthew 5:29].
In der Kürze liegt die Würze (German)
A fully liberated guy should never forsake his various strengths, to
be on the safe side.
Twisted Helpfulness
Young Love
AT THE AGE of ninety-one, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) resigned from the
Supreme Court and spent the next summer at his country house. Old friends from Boston came
to see him, bringing their grandchildren. Holmes greatly enjoyed their company. Sitting on
the porch with Betsy Warder, aged sixteen, and discussing life with her, he said,"I will not refrain from talking about anything because you are too young, if you will not because I am too old."
Twisted Helpfulness
Yogananda sermonised and lectured on the spot, without preparations, and disciples took down notes and published from them as they saw fit. Little of what Yogananda teaches is genuinely helpful, just a little fraction of it seems to hold water along general lines. That is my opinion.
Was hilft laufen, wenn man nicht auf dem richten Weg ist? (Speed gets you nowhere
if you're headed in the wrong direction) [Gp 66] Lately, some thirty percent of the monastics that served Yogananda's organisation,
SRF, quitted, and most of them in one year (2002). The disillusioned guys found they were victims of Yogananda thought and his fellowship - how it had become - twisted and so on.
Limey strong?
IN BELFAST they still could tell you about the football game that took place between
the 100 percent Catholics and 100 percent Protestants. A British sailor (Limey) attended
that game, and when the Catholics made a skilful play he applauded and when the Protestants
in their turn scored he again joined in the shouting. At this point an Irishman jabbed the
Limey in the back and said:"Man, haven't you got any religion at all?"
Literature
Gp: Mertvago, Peter, ed. Dictionary of 1000 German Proverbs. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997
Say: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Sayings of Yogananda. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958.
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