An excerpt from the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda
Read, think and meditate on the following excerpt from the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda. Try to go beyond the words and realize what he means. The more you can calm down the flow of incessant thoughts in your mind, the more you will be able to realize what Paramahansa Yogananda means in these words.
“Your being has two sides — one visible, the other invisible. With open eyes you behold objective creation, and yourself in it. With closed eyes you see nothing, a dark void; yet your consciousness, even when dissociated from form, is still keenly aware and operative. If in deep meditation you penetrate the darkness behind closed eyes, you behold the Light from which all creation emerges. By deeper samadhi, your experience transcends even the manifested Light and enters the All-Blissful Consciousness — beyond all form, yet infinitely more real, tangible, and joyous than any sensory or supersensory perception.”
“Autobiography of a yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda is considered one of the golden jewels that he brought to the west. The excerpt above is not but a small tiny paragraph of shiny beautiful lightning paragraphs, where words can’t express more than what is expressed by paramahansa.
The Relative and Absolute are mainly the two sides chanted by yogis. It is said that no one can achieve true oneness without a full understanding of the relation between the Relative and Absolute. It is the eternal dance between the ever changing and the never changing aspects of “Being”. Thus, our experiences lie in between these two worlds of which Prana or Ki is thy hero that brings Life to exist from Being, the unmanifested eternal state.
I have read “Autobiography of a yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda years ago, several times, and highly recommends it to everyone treading the spiritual path.