The Healthful Life

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The Healthful Life

The Healthful Life

There are some who look all right, but their cheer betrays them!

There are many sides to a rewarding, fulfilling life, and being healthy is not all there is to it - but it surely helps a lot. Yogananda tells you not judge a book by its cover, but search beneath common adaptations instead, to avoid getting tilled - Being sincere with yourself is good, and a prerequisite for genuine progress - which requires being genuine. Example: One of the SRF monks asked Paramahansa Yogananda a direct question: "Sir, are you an avatar?"

"The Master's answer was: "Yes. A teaching of this importance could not have been brought by a lesser one." [Self Realization Magazine, Spring 1985:24.]

An avatar is a divine descent.
These capsules are extracts rooted in the article "The Balanced Life" by Yogananda. It was first published in the first issue of his East West magazine, dated November-December, 1925.

Healthful Work

There are some who look normal so far as their outward physical form and appearance is concerned - They may be detected and brought into the distinct consciousness — If you were to see their mental bodies, what a surprise and heartache you would have as you observe them to be abnormal, diseased and deformed.
Instead, be occupied with constant healthful worth-while activity. Healthful work in a good environment might help so that you don't have to become too sick for recovery. (3)
Spiritual aspirants must guard themselves. (5)T+

Great Indigestion

Long-continued over-study of all sorts of philosophical principles and treatises . . . kills not only the real hunger for Truth but also destroys the power to discriminate between good and bad teachings. It is proper to assimilate the fair ones so as to test them out by own practical experience.

Spiritual Melancholy

Lead a purposeless life, whim-led, and you don't know when you are going to catch melancholy.

Chronic Worrier

Harbouring constant chronic worldly worries instead of being fought and routed. :)

Church-goer Fanaticism

This religious madness . . .

Proper Development

We hope to have a "How-To-Live-School" for all-round development.

Recharging Technique

Have your daily bath. Sunlight is good.
Stay free from the greedy plans that [some sorts of] cheerfulness [glee may] cover.
Carry out plans that are not to your loss.
You can learn during sleep.

Methods of fostering social service

What counts for very many is sincerity in seeking personal happiness.

Relation of man to God

Be happy and go for wealth and the right sorts of happiness. Wealth and fair happiness go along with a free conscience and blessings.

Summary

Eat good food [tackle that] and don't shut out the ultraviolet rays [don't overtan either. Find a balance].
Don't be a prince who forsook his palace and lived so long in a slum that he forgot his original state. [Easy to say -]
Soul is individualized Spirit. Many methods of meditation exist. Among them TM (Transcendental Meditation) has been much researched, and can help a lot.

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