Yukteswar Teachings 10
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A Yogi-Christ's Tenets
Setting the Scene
In this series Yukteswar (1855-1936) is presented as a disciple of Shyama Charan Sharman Lahiri (Lahiri Baba), the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), and an author of severeal books. Yukteswar's slim book The Holy Science is best known. Interestingly, many Americans praise it while they say they do not understand it [see Amazon.com comments on it]. Such praise is a double-edged sword. A tip is: Avoid praising or criticising what you do not understand. Accepting that standard works better on your behalf.
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[a] Paramahansa Yogananda. "Yogavatar Shyama Lahiri Mahasaya's Ladder of Self-Realization, for Salvation for All". Inner Culture, March 1937. Jesus forewarned against false teachers and false Christs. The New Testament tells that all Christs but himself are false Christs [Cf. Matthew 28:18-20].SRF publishes Yogananda books and Yukteswar's The Holy Science. SRF also ritually worships Yukteswar as a guru and Jnanavatar in front of six altar pictures of the gurus of SRF. Jesus and Krishna are there, and four more. The face photo of Yukteswar there has been tampered with modestly through retouching work: it is mirrored, hair has been added and removed here and there to "improve" his looks, and "how-he-looks-autenticity" has suffered in the process. [Pa 499-501]
As you may gather, lots of Yukteswar prestige has been built up, and devotees of Yogananda further it. However, undeserved praise - also overdoing the "sale" - is not becoming. In an SRF-published book, Sayings of Yogananda [Say], the SRF guru considers that some sayings of his Yukteswar - presented in the book - are the most inspiring ones in Yogananda's Autobiography. They are found below along with some added ones, and with our comments.
Tenets and Comments
"Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you." [Yukteswar]‹› This is alarming counsel. You should not overestimate your powers or prowess. If fear appears, there could be a good reason for it. Fear is at times rooted in subconscious calculations of a sort, of hunches or feelings - coupled to outer circumstances as well. Do not ignore taking care of the reasons for fearing, and hope your fears are sane and becoming instead of those fears that stem from obsolete nervousness and neuroses, and need expert care.
Don't be ridiculous and over-bold and over-brash, and thus save yourself from embarrassments; there are better things to do that that. Find your own comfortable enacting level, for example.
"Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames." [Yukteswar]
‹› That counsel sucks. One should derive benefit from the significant lessons of the past. The past that led up the our present conditions, is what we stand on and rest in. Vigilance is surely appropriate.
Besides, to the degree that fit shame and remorse work for good in somebody, one should perhaps neither lessen nor deny them their good work either.
"Disbelieve in the reality of sickness . . . an unrecognized visitor will flee." [Yukteswar]
‹› Question this piece of advice and do not drop regular medical check-ups. They have saved the lives of many and helped better living too. So watch out and ignore the far-out counsel for the sake of good coping before it is too late and you get breathing problems. You will not recognise the illness, will not have any medical doctor look into the problems, but keep them to yourself as you affirm in step with the "illusionist" Yukteswar, "My breathing problems are not real. They will flee if I don't recognise them." What will happen next? You could die from unnecessarily added burdens and complications if you are unlucky. And the quality of your life could suffer unduly and for too long for you to be happy.
Yogananda got medical treatments, also as prescribed by Yukteswar. You find stories about it in the Autobiography.
Yukteswar's piece of advice is not fit. It should not be followed. To get sound counsel, try to recognise what is the matter with you. A good diagnosis can help your cure and stop what is set adrift. Also, find proper steps out of your plight as soon as can be. All this is quite good counsel, and not guru drivel that supports denial of hard facts.
"Attachment is binding. It lends an imaginary halo to the object of desire." [Yukteswar]
‹› Don't get emotionally attached to the gurus of SRF and the SRF way of life, then. In a person's way on and up through a core family or otherwise, id naturally sees to attachments between parents and children and between siblings. Group cohesion is secured by it, and the attitude "It is we and them: We here, them there". And 'we' and 'them' tend not to be mixed.
Further, some children get suffused with love and overbearing care, others not. In any case the natural drift of group emotions is that possessive feelings cool off as we mature, and jealousy is a form of self-love. The "If you love somebody, set them free" may serve to indicate that proper parental love sees to it that the young ones get proplerly instructed or educated, are not tamed and suppressed and scared overly, and gain enough security to date and marry too, as they mature and are handy enough for it.
Thus, some grow out of their infant attachments and form other ones, be it to the neighbour's wife and a car. See what a man spends the most quality time on or in. Is it the car or his wife? Be warned according to your findings. Stages of id-linked development are here: [LINK]
"Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows." [Yukteswar]
‹› Do not think that Yuktewar did not suffer after he had found cosmic consciousness. Both he and Yogananda suffered afterwards. Note the witnessing of gurus that fall ill, grieve, and adjust accordingly. That higher states induce and introduce happiness, though, is not drivel.
"Ordinary love is selfish, but divine love is without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love." [Yuktewar]
'Flux' is a central word here. It means among other things 'flow, moving on, change, and fluctuation'. We will stick to these meanings; they seem essential. 'Transfixed' should mean 'held motionless by or as if by piercing'.
After Yogananda had become a disciple of Yukteswar, who also told Yogananda that he loved him, Yogananda once ran away from Yukteswar, hoping to gain enlightenment in the Himalayas. He was far from motionless -
Does the map (saying) fit the terrain (what happened between, say, Yukteswar and Yogananda? We do not think so, for it is well implied in Yogananda's Autobiography that Yukteswar really had transfixed him at their first meeting, and told of his love for him.
Buddha on the other hand is credited with saying, "As a Tathagata [Awakened One] speaks, so he acts; as he acts, so he speaks. [Buddha (Catukka Nipata Pali 23)]"
Or maybe Yukteswar was meaning something else than the assumed divine love between himself and his disciple Yogananda. Maybe he meant that his own heart felt divine love and hence could not adjust to the sins of pets, because he was steady? Or that the heart of the runaway Yogananda would change if he experienced divine love? A chapter in Yogananda''s Autobiography hints at how Yukteswar did it: He knocked him on the chest so that all air left Yogananda's lungs, and he could not breathe . . .
"Roam the world as a lion of self-control; don't let the frogs of weakness kick you around." [Yukteswar]
‹› "It takes all sorts of folks to make up the world [American proverb]." Accept what you are and make the best out of it. That often suffices. A lion is a killer by instincts. It ambushes and slays innocent animals, operating in flocks. That is parts of its so-called self-control. But Yukteswar encourages vegetarianism, so we should not overstretch his use of the lion as a symbol here. The reasonable stand is that he uses it as a token of strength and dominance and applies it to human self-control. Frankly, the self-control of instinct-driven lions must be a myth.
Human self-control is at times quite opposed to acting naturally. Human self-control very often depends on smartness and a certain amount of independence; not on being instinct-ridden. Human self-control is not refraining from doing what you should, but have to be seen as one of the means of gains as well, gains that will help you to get victorious enough to relax too. At least winning a better hand in your circumstances.
And weakness is not in the capacity to weep and sigh. We may remember a few incidents where Yukteswar appeared to be too emotional to handle things. First, he could not compose himself when a friend of his died. And when a pet disciple had given in to bad habits, Yukteswar asked Yogananda to get rid of him; getting rid of a former favourite disciple was much too hard for Yukteswar himself. His autobiography reveals this: Kumar was a remarkably intelligent young villager from east Bengal, and he was accepted by Yukteswar for hermitage training. Yukteswar was very lenient to the youth, with an attitude of unwonted indulgence. The new boy was obviously Sri Yukteswar's favourite, but after a year or so Kumar set out for a visit to his village, and when he came back for there in a few months, "Gone was the stately Kumar . . . Only an undistinguished peasant . . . who had lately acquired a number of evil habits" stood there," tells Yogananda.
Master summoned me and brokenheartedly discussed the fact that the boy was now unsuited to the monastic hermitage life.Note by contrast, "As the Tathagatha (Buddha) speaks, so he acts." We should not be taken in by swelling citations.
"Mukunda, I'll leave it to you to instruct Kumar to leave the ashram tomorrow; I cannot do it!" Tears stood in Sri Yukteswar's eyes. [MORE]
Some sound balance between assertiveness and feelings is the aim of many. Stunting one's emotions and other facets of one's higher life is a grave danger to some. Not asserting oneself enough where it counts, is a danger to most people who are in subordinate positions in the West. They are the majority. Few are independent enough to be on their own, see for themselves and as themselves, and act on their own authority without added glamour, prestige, status, friends, and so on.
Human assertiveness should be a good thing in a life and work well. It needs to be coupled to what does not encourage degeneration. Further, "Not too little, not too much": a neat balance should be had. Some need to get encouraged to assert themselves better, and others need to tone it down a bit. In part it is individual. Due consideration where consideration is due, helps in the first place, as Buddha has said.
There are self-help books with tips and tricks on to assert oneself in a culture dominated by big firms and their assertive bosses, as long as they last. It could be you feel for understanding and mastering some delicate techniques to assert yourself properly, that is, without manipulation too. Management culture is rife with books that give ample manipulative tips. They swarm with such counsel, including on how to deal with psychopaths on the job, how to win discussions, how to get the best of meetings, how to solve conflicts, and so on and on.
There is some good in such management culture books, and it is a huge market. But see where the money go before you acquire lots of books that are adapted to that. A further reason is that what you adapt to, regulates your outlooks by inner censureships and other controls. They are of many kinds, and it may help to know about them. It may also help to understand that the lot of someone who asserts himself as he is told (dictated) in assertiveness recipes, is yet an underling in asserting himself or herself, which is pretty much from inside and out, although the guy might make notable progress too. Proper assertiveness training is fit. Conform assertiveness training looks suspect. Artistic flamboyance could be a good aim, then, but it also helps to be careful.
Actually, the American culture has tended little to bulwarking and self-protection for decades, and this hovering attitude or neglect has marked much of its thinking and friendly attitudes too, even toward strangers. Hence, self-actualization books may ignore the need of protection; you should not, and can you avoid the pronounced, deep-seated insecurity in American students too, it should be good for you [LINK]. Bearing this in mind, there are books that go for teaching you "to ask for what you want in life and get it with Assertiveness Training". [Cf Edo]
Yukteswar's disciple Yogananda refused to marry. he went against the wishes and arrangement attempts of his own christlike [!] father in so doing. "Christlike" is Yogananda's estimate of his father. Maybe Yogananda saw inside that "In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person [Stephen Jay Gould]", or that marriage was not a good thing for him altogether. Now if two persons are not compatible in the first place, striving only for an amount of self-assertiveness is not so smart.
Proper assertiveness is an art, an art within the life-long art of living through such as altering stages and circumstances. Some lower facets of the assertiveness art may be trained, but not by taming, and higher facets of fit assertiveness may not be directed from those outside and bystanders. Heuristically tinged monitoring of oneself could bring many advantages. Some are found in Choosing Success, a book with a good and benevolent outlook. [Suc]
Don't discard or dismiss yourself and your own brains for your conform education and training. Find the conditions for getting into higher activitives of learning; that could help a fare too, according to Benjamin Bloom and others [LINK]. Bravery enough helps too, as we tend to justify our self-conceptions and much else to what we have the guts to realise. Being told things we cannot do anything about, seldom helps.
"Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now." [Yukteswar]
‹› He who decreed it, had longed for a son to train in yoga. But even after great successes in yoga, Yukteswar still did not have any son. It was different with old Abraham and Kadabrah -
About Yogi-Christ Lahiri (so called by Yogananda): "His stalwart body developed a small boil on the back." Then it was time to go. He did his kriya, but all the same not everything in his body improved. He died. Yogananda more than implies that time was up, and yet it was to improve the lot of many disciples too.
Brother Anandamoy, a direct disciple of Yogananda in SRF, once told at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles during the SRF convocation in 1971 that Yogananda suffered too as he was nearing death, and said it was for the sake of disciples. "And then he looked at me!" said Anandamoy.
In Yogananda's Man's Eternal Quest too we can read that Yogananda suffered. for example when a wishing well of cast concrete "accidentally slipped and fell with all its terrific weight on my foot". The pain was terrible, he says, and his foot seemed completely mashed. he was carried to my room where "Day by day the pain in my leg became almost unbearable." [Ak 377-78]
"Everything will improve because it won't" - wasn't that the teaching? And guess what could happen by random mutations (parts of Yukteswar's "everything") if they improve, but do not fit in perfectly anyhow. Actually,
You don't make new species by mutating the species . . . A mutation is not the cause of evolutionary change. Something else . . . brings about species at new levels, trends and direction." - Baltasar Gracian.Every kind of murder, rape and perfidity should not be given means to improve. Will everything bad in future will improve its badness if you are making a spiritual effort now? Hopefully not. Here are further examples:
- The cloak you lost twenty years ago? Will that loss or cloak or all three (and your reckoning capacity) improve?
- Will new teeth come up if you are nearly eighty? Why should they?
- And what about your supper - and the bad soup you got two years ago? Is it so sure that it will improve?
- If you are hanging around in a dire pucker, isolated and with next to nothing to help you to live on, will much gasping and panting (kriya) help? Many people who gasped and panted greatly, would say no if they could.
Frankly, people put trust or faith in it on the authority of Yogananda, the guru, or due to massed faith. "Don't believe everything you hear" is a sensible piece of advice in folklore. It is a proverb. However, it really is good to go for and to gain merits for this life and the future, but such fruits may not get ripe in this life, teaches Buddha. One should do good and cherish one's own life, but not succumb to exaggerated and unrealistic notions of profits either [LINK].
We note in passing that Yukteswar is in tune with Buddha's tenor right here, and not with that karma yoga which teaches not to expect anything from one's activities. Shyama Lahiri teaches one should not expect anything from doing kriya either, and may we add: when performing it.
Divine Mother Could Not Stay - Being with Yogananda's Disciples Was too Hard
Have you ever considered that where people talk much of 'divine' and 'God ' - whatever is of highest renown - there could be a dire need for it lurking in the background somewhere? That need could even be complementary, according to the Indian saying that we find somewhere in another version in a book Yogananda is credited with, The Science of Religion [Scp?]. "We pray to the Divine when we are in a pucker." To the degree that outlook is true - granting there are many other outlooks that are valid for investigations too - monasteries are full of secretly materialistic persons.At other times the hidden need could be that of justifying oneself by being allied with God, the Supreme Guru, and so on. "First behave vilely, next drag God into it as your partner, boss, and so on." Some who do this, go on behaving terribly. They give hails with their lips, while their hearts are not into it as should be. That psychoanalytic understanding gives a lot of reasonable suspicion that where many hail God and other bosses and terrorise others, they are sharing something to their loss, and to the loss of others. The teaching that "The boss is to your loss," is an ancient teaching from 1 Samuel 8 and further.
Here is what Yogananda said during his all-day Christmas meditation at the SRF Headquarters, surrounded by his close, monastic disciples, " The Divine Mother appeared to him and the awed disciples heard him speaking to her. Many times he exclaimed, "Oh, You are so beautiful!" But suddenly he cried: "Don't go! You say the subconscious material desires of these people are driving You away? Oh, come back! Come back!" [Say 74]
The Divine Mother could be driven away; his close disciples were materialists in hiding. Secret materialists may bring about their desires for wealth, publicity, and other facets and assets of materialistic living as time goes by.
In nature, animals, birds and fishes hardly trust one another and human strangers unless getting well acquainted. Many try to keep alive by being on their guard always and doing what they can, including withdrawing.
There is much to be on guard against in the reciprocal web of interconnections that are set up - Be careful with who you trust. wary before you commit yourself to an unwelcome and inferior part of idolising others. MInd that OK forewarnings in unknown terrains are favours.
Opposite to that, to the degree that verbal baits resound deep inside you, you could be in for fumbling a lot. Look to the fish. Their bait is in essence a part of a plot. Jesus told his chosen disciples to fish men. And the shepherd makes a living of shearing and slaughtering his following sheep at the proper time.
If you want to be a fish and a sheep, what happen to ordinary fish and sheep that are taken care of by men, could matter more than you naively think at first.
Women heading throngs of gullible guys
Learn Zen for more artistry of outputs.Yogananda's church is presently dominated by nuns who point to woman's lib and not to their acting contrary to directions for Christians or the church from the apostle Paul. The Old Testament has: "While I was . . . not finding - I found . . . not one [upright] woman (among a thousand). [Ecclesiastes 7:28].
The guru of Yukteswar is quoted in this way: "Woman is the destroyer of man. Do not look at her" (etc) [Saying no. 77 in an Internet series]. A womaniser talks differently, and often exploits insincerity and insecurity. Marketing experts of much unneeded cosmetics gain billions yearly from talking to the deep insecurity around. Global figures are astounding - thousands of millions are spent on cosmetics yearly.
However, if you link up somewhat to "don't look at a woman, at any cost", spendthrift idiocy might begin to wane, unless black shawls around woman heads become extremely costly. That could easily happen. Yogananda informs that some gurus fall, and in so doing some drag followers with them. If so, "Why call someone "lord, lord," and never do the things he dictates?" (Paraphrase of Luke 6:46]
More is called for than hails for show and activities contrary to it
A good outlook helps us to maintain balance. Game theory can help us, and so can "Emulate the bigwigs a little better, to preserve autonomy yourself".Yoga Christs are among what Jesus Christ warns against, yet in SRF they hail a bunch of Christs. Yogananda was over-eager to call many of his Indian acquaintances Christs. It seems halfway romantic.
To counteract "giant statements" you have to be tough.
More Life Lessons
Learn to Consider Well
The only critic is time. [Willa Cather (1873-1947) - American novelist]Yogananda and two more gurus of SRF say "The Lord is the sole doer". The only critic to them is God himself or herself. They find it fit to make use of both sexes.
Be that as it may. Here are no cheap words that followers ignore: If you believe solely good things may improve through the guru's phrase that everything will improve, and his word is "obliging the cosmos" according to his follower Yogananda - look at what really takes place and hope a little in so doing, but avoid undue interferences from hoping and wishing and desiring certain things. Does his saying improve in the future unaided by commentaries and proficient reservations? We hardly think so. You can hardly cover all aspects of what is to be by a single sentence (period). But try if you wish. Many important aspects may be covered, after all, it seems fair to say. Often it matters. Look to proverbs for examples. Also, hope that things improve if you do what it takes and don't get counteracted - or the effects of your efforts. They can be opposed too.
Ask for evidence first so as to avoid succumbing to unfit, idealised teachings.
Do not Trust All You Hear and All You Come Across
Half of our lives may be intertwined with those of many others, with things and happenings and structures of the society we are in.Look at the bigwigs and note the difference between their cherished sayings and what they lived up to or act on - it can be so different. In fact, great-looking sayings may look shiny in many rainbow hues, and so do soap bubbles that are not substantial enough to be trusted in to last and really help yourself. But while you trust in inflated sayings, maybe you serve some bigwig(s) over and above yourself. That goes against Buddha's endearing,
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person will not be found: You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. [Buddha]May we add "you yourself deserve a good share of the fruits of your good efforts" to that. Then, if or when you get a firm basis for widening your life, do not exclude the family and friends you got, or former, successful teachers either, as you go on. By improving your "corner of the world", you help the world. Improving yourself is the thing to add.
We had better not trust everything we are told, without sound and due reservations on our parts. Quite often a secretive influence is underneath the words and tales you hear: "Build your life as I say and serve me well." See where the money or funds or other resources go to get an idea of who are served. Where you live is right where sound moderation and meticulous work should function all right.
We have got to grips with that Yukteswar's encouraging words about 'everything' hardly means anything . . . or not enough to serve as intended.
Harvested Terse Statements
THERE may be many sides to an issue, and all is not covered by a short aphorism (gnomic statement). It often makes sense not to go wholeheartedly for a generalised tenet through an enormously biased mentality. A general saying often needs to be interpreted and made to work. Find proper help against being taken in by great-looking or bombastic statements. Compare: [LINK]Be bold to go for fairness enough to improve your standard outlooks, and things might change for the better or worse - worse if you depend on cults. Getting out of them is tough to many. Mind that making good, sensible lesson(s) work in your own life, tends to require deals. They depend on others and your family, if you have any. Implementing good things may not be easy; just be aware of that and avoid doing anything rash and insensible.
Take heart from Buddha's very old statements on not automatically believing in traditions and authority figures. You find his ground-breaking Kalama Sutta on-site. [LINK].
In addition:
- If the statement appears to be always sensible or right, one should find a way to live up to it without undue hesitation. Maybe some grand laws of mathematics and norms of social climbing are fit for that.
- If that statement works for good most nearly always, acting sensibly on it could be fit in the long run. In these cases one may encounter losses - even though the odds seem very good. Beware of that and act accordingly. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" may (or may not) be linked to such circumstances.
- Then, if the grand-looking statement works half of the time, theoretically, you might as well flip a coin. This means: Seek something better (far more valid and reliable) to act on.
Verifications can be had at different levels of significance. Statistics serve to give alternatives to "maybe" and "hopefully". "Most likely" is better than "likely" and "very probably" is better than "probably".
Principle to deal with some amount of insecurity without being "immobilised": Get more and more guarded the less certainty there is. If we know how to use odds to our favour, maybe we may add to our winning in the long run, despite temporary set-backs - a certain methodology (statitistical thinking) is implied here. Its basics are simple and can be made use of by "anyone".
Learning lessons
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Within and outside cults the average member has to balance neatly and hope for the good one. One is to stick to carefully faceted and smart thinking and note that much that is conform through law can be at variance with religious instructions. Some fruits of carnal love can be excellent. What about yourself?
A man who believes in great promises with next to nothing substantial in and behind them, could need to reflect better and get rid of stupid attachments.
"Some men live well by deceiving innocent ones by godly words or taking them in somehow by other measures. Get out the verbiage that serves others, think better yourself and go all the way. Much bad may be harvested by blunt ridicule of common sense."
A person's life space - his subjective evaluation of goals and the environment - at least co-determines his behaviour [cf Sop 10]. In other words, how sect followers subjectively interpret reality - having many parts told to them - determines their beliefs and behavours. Through proper understanding you could solve problems. And vice versa, you could lose straight, common sense, reciprocal deals, and much else valuable by degrees if you dispense with realism and calculating. Theory is a help to master handling a fare, as Kurt Lewin has it: "There is nothing so practical as a good theory [Sop 11]."
Handling fares matters. Play on belief is often through fancying. Much unsubstantial belief appears to be like thin air - but see where the money goes, and the power and the influence. That is good standard counsel. Also, keep enough money and firmer assets to yourself and benefit family and kin first - Charity starts at home. If you do that, you may find many opportunities to regret. If you don't do that, those opportunities may multiply and your goodness may be spat in the face.
Don't get naive. Avatar Hinduism that grow rich by freaking "get true, original Christianity here" is not the only fraud that is successful where there are millions of gullible or inexperienced ones..
What to do?
- If you find yourself deep in a sect, be guarded and seek to get out of there if you can.
- Get mentally over the bluff helper and counsel that is good for nothing. You may get impregnated -
- If your membership is lenient, build good assets as fast as you can to get out of there, do good for yourself and your family members, maybe under cover for a while, then perhaps you can work your way up.
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Kriya Yoga and Sri Yukteswar Literature
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Aso: Asimov, Isaak: Om tall. Dreyer. Oslo, 1980.
Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006.
Edo: Fensterheim, Herbert, and Jean Baer. Don't Say "Yes" When You Want To Say "No". London: Futura, 1976.
Ha: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 12th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). Los Angeles, 1981.
Hom: Berne, Eric: What Do You Say After You Say Hello? The Psychology of Human Destiny. Bantam. New York, 1973.
Hos: Yukteswar, sw: The Holy Science. 7th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), Los Angeles, 1972.
Mas: SRF: Self-Realization Fellowship: Golden Anniversary. SRF. Los Angeles, 1970.
Maso: Mayo, Jeff: Astrology. Rev ed. Hodder and Stoughton. Sevenoaks, 1979.
Mux: Bühler, G. tr: The Laws of Manu. Banarsidass (Reprint from Oxford University's 1886-edition). Delhi, 1984.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). Los Angeles, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1958.
Scf: Yogananda, Pa.: Scientific Healing Affirmations. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1958.
Scp: Yogananda, Pa.: The Science of Religion. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1953.
Sob: Self-Realization Fellowship: Paramahansa Yogananda in Memoriam. SRF. Los Angeles, 1958.
Sop: Smith, Eliot R., and Diane M. Mackie. Social Psychology. 2nd ed. Hove: Psychology Press, 2000.
Suc: Jongeward, Dorothy, and Philip Seyer. Choosing Success: Transactional Analysis on the Job. New York: Wiley, 1978.
Viom: Jolly, Julius tr: The Institutes of Vishnu. Banarsidass. Delhi, 1965.
Whip: Yogananda, Pa.: How You Can Talk with God. SRF. Los Angeles, 1969.
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