Sri Yukteswar Quotes

Sri Yukteswar quotes reflect the perfect spiritual wisdom. He was called the incarnation of wisdom. Sri Yukteswar wrote 'The Holy Science' on the advice of Babaji, in order to establish oneness in all religions. In this page you can read some spiritual wisdom quotes from Sri Yukteswar.

About Sri Yukteswar

Sri Yukteswar was the Guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, the author of famous ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ and who spread the teachings of Kriya Yoga in the modern age. Sri yukteswar was well known for his wisdom and he wrote the book ‘The Holy Science’ in order to demonstrate the oneness among all the religions. Read below Sri Yukteswar Quotes, words of highest spiritual wisdom.

Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.

Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.

Is the whole world going to change for you? Change yourself

Medicines have limitations; the divine creative life force has none. Believe that; you shall be well and strong.

Saintliness is not dumbness! Divine perceptions are not incapacitating! The active expression of virtue gives rise to the keenest intelligence.

God does not wish the secrets of His creation revealed promiscuously. Also, every individual in the world has an inalienable right to his free will. A saint will not encroach on that independence.

Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at the same time to remove yourself beyond their power.

Spiritual advancement is not to be measured by one’s displays of outward powers, but solely by the depth of his bliss in meditation.

Human life is beset with sorrow until we know how to tune in with the Divine Will.

God alone gives unerring counsel; who but Him bears the burden of cosmos?

Each of the five sensory nerves has its characteristic and unique function to pereform. The optic nerve carries light and does not perform the functions of the auditory and other nerves; …Thus it is clear that there are five sorts of electricities, corresponding to the five
properties of cosmic electricity.

Penance is patience or even-mindedness in all conditions (equanimity amidst the essential dualities of Maya; cold and heat, pain and pleasure etc.).

All creation is governed by law. The principles that operate in the outer universe, discoverable by scientists, are called natural laws. But there are subtler laws that rule the hidden spiritual planes and the inner realm of consciousness; these principles are knowable through the science of Yoga.