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    Metaphysical Meditations: Universal Prayers, Affirmations, and Visualizations
    Metaphysical Meditations: Universal Prayers, Affirmations, and Visualizations
    Metaphysical Meditations: Universal Prayers, Affirmations, and Visualizations
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    Metaphysical Meditations: Universal Prayers, Affirmations, and Visualizations

    By Paramahansa Yogananda

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    This little book offers definite metaphysical methods of meditation for the student who has struggled through the mobs of rowdy thoughts and is entering the portals of silence.

    The meditations are of three types: prayers or demands addressed to God, affirmations about God, and affirmations arousing the divinity inherent in individual consciousness.

    Beginners and experienced meditators alike can use these spiritualized thoughts to awaken the boundless joy, peace, and freedom of the soul.

    • Features more than 300 uplifting meditations, prayers, affirmations, and visualizations.

    • Offers introductory instructions on how to meditate.

    • Affirmations on devotion and worship

    • Affirmations on meditations on God

    • Affirmations on expansion of consciousness

    • Affirmations on material concerns

    • Affirmations on self-improvement

    • Christmas meditations

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSelf-Realization Fellowship
    Release dateJan 25, 2022
    ISBN9780876126530
    Metaphysical Meditations: Universal Prayers, Affirmations, and Visualizations
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    Paramahansa Yogananda

    Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) es mundialmente reconocido como una de las personalidades espirituales más ilustres de nuestro tiempo. Nació en el norte de la India, y en 1920 se radicó en Estados Unidos, donde enseñó, durante más de treinta años, la antigua filosofía y la ciencia de la meditación yoga, originarias de la India, así como el arte de vivir en forma equilibrada la vida espiritual. Fue el primer gran maestro del Yoga que vivió y enseñó durante un prolongado periodo en Occidente. Él viajó extensamente impartiendo conferencias en Estados Unidos y en el extranjero, disertando en auditorios de las más importantes ciudades, que registraban siempre un lleno total, y en los cuales revelaba la unidad fundamental que existe entre las grandes religiones del mundo. A través de la célebre historia de su vida, Autobiografía de un yogui, y de sus originales comentarios sobre las escrituras de Oriente y Occidente, así como por medio del resto de sus numerosos libros, él ha inspirado a millones de lectores. Self-Realization Fellowship —la organización internacional que Paramahansa Yogananda fundó en 1920 con el fin de diseminar sus enseñanzas en todo el mundo— continúa llevando a cabo su obra espiritual y humanitaria. 

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      Metaphysical Meditations - Paramahansa Yogananda

      Image: CoverImage: Paramahansa YoganandaImage: Title Page

      About This Book

      Throughout his early years in America, in the public lectures and classes he gave during extensive speaking tours — and in later years at the Self-Realization Fellowship temples he founded — Paramahansa Yogananda would often lead his audiences in an affirmation, visualization, or prayerful invocation. Reflecting the myriad ways in which the Infinite Spirit may be addressed and perceived, these metaphysical methods had a wide appeal. After 1925, when Sri Yogananda established in Los Angeles an international headquarters for his society and began publishing the magazine East-West (which he renamed Self-Realization in 1948), many such meditations were printed in the magazine; and in 1932 a collection of nearly 200 of them was published by Self-Realization Fellowship in Metaphysical Meditations. The book has been in continuous publication ever since, with expanded editions appearing in 1952 and 1964. Offering a wellspring of hope and inspiration, it has found a growing audience of appreciative readers among those of all faiths.

      Copyright © 1964 Self-Realization Fellowship

      All rights in this digital edition of Metaphysical Meditations are reserved by Self-Realization Fellowship.

      Note to the Reader

      Self-Realization Fellowship welcomes you to download this edition for your individual, non-commercial use, and to print for your own reference whichever excerpts may fulfill your personal needs.

      Kindly note, however, that upon acquiring this edition the reader agrees to abide by applicable national and international copyright laws and abstain from distributing, reproducing, or transmitting the contents to other individuals or entities, by any means (electronic, mechanical, or otherwise) without Self-Realization Fellowship’s prior written consent. We appreciate your thoughtfulness in helping to preserve the integrity of the author’s work by upholding these principles.

      Thank you for supporting our non-profit publishing endeavors in connection with the legacy of Paramahansa Yogananda.

      Authorized by the International Publications Council of

      SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP

      3880 San Rafael Avenue

      Los Angeles, California 90065-3219

      The Self-Realization Fellowship name and emblem (shown above) appear on all SRF books, recordings, and other publications, as an assurance that a work originates with the society established by Paramahansa Yogananda and faithfully conveys his teachings.

      Ebook edition, 2021.

      Library of Congress catalog card number: 40-16548

      ISBN: 978-0-87612-047-7 (hardcover)

      ISBN: 978-0-87612-041-5 (paperback)

      ISBN: 978-0-87612-652-3 (Kindle edition)

      ISBN: 978-0-87612-653-0 (ePub edition)

      Contents

      Prayer for a United World

      Foreword: Learn to Meditate

      If You Want His Answer (poem)

      Devotion and Worship

      Meditations on God

      Expansion of Consciousness

      On Finding God

      On Material Concerns

      On Self-Improvement

      Christmas Meditations

      About the Author

      Image: SRF logo

      The Spiritual Legacy of Paramahansa Yogananda

      His Complete Writings, Lectures, and Informal Talks

      Paramahansa Yogananda founded Self-Realization Fellowship in 1920 to disseminate his teachings worldwide and to preserve their purity and integrity for generations to come. A prolific writer and lecturer from his earliest years in America, he created a renowned and voluminous body of works on the yoga science of meditation, the art of balanced living, and the underlying unity of all great religions. Today this unique and far-reaching spiritual legacy lives on, inspiring millions of truth-seekers all over the world.

      In accord with the express wishes of the great master, Self-Realization Fellowship has continued the ongoing task of publishing and keeping permanently in print The Complete Works of Paramahansa Yogananda. These include not only the final editions of all the books he published during his lifetime, but also many new titles — works that had remained unpublished at the time of his passing in 1952, or which had been serialized over the years in incomplete form in Self-Realization Fellowship’s magazine, as well as hundreds of profoundly inspiring lectures and informal talks recorded but not printed before his passing.

      Paramahansa Yogananda personally chose and trained those close disciples who formed the Self-Realization Fellowship Publications Council, giving them specific guidelines for the preparation and publishing of his teachings. The members of the SRF Publications Council (monks and nuns who have taken lifelong vows of renunciation and selfless service) honor these guidelines as a sacred trust, in order that the universal message of this beloved world teacher will live on in its original power and authenticity.

      The Self-Realization Fellowship emblem (shown above) was designated by Paramahansa Yogananda to identify the nonprofit society he founded as the authorized source of his teachings. The SRF name and emblem appear on all Self-Realization Fellowship publications and recordings, assuring the reader that a work originates with the organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda and conveys his teachings as he himself intended they be given.

      —Self-Realization Fellowship

      Prayer for a United World

      By Paramahansa Yogananda

      May the heads of all countries and races be guided to understand that men of all nations are physically and spiritually one: physically one, because we are the descendants of common parents — the symbolic Adam and Eve; and spiritually one, because we are the immortal children of our Father, bound by eternal links of brotherhood.

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