Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda Seven Stages of Self-Realization Volume I Stage Three

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Why people do not find God, but you can probably find Him
Part I
Everyone is a child of God
Test yourself
Part II
Live with the power of God
Pray to God unceasingly until God answers you
Start Your Meditation Today
Part III
The correct method of meditation
Meditation should become deeper and deeper
Practicing Total Silence
An answer to your prayers
Proof of the Existence of God
Weekly approval
2. How to develop your mental radio
Part I
Consciousness is in every thing
The brain is the repository of the Life Force
Learn to transmit thoughts at will
Keep Your Mind Radio Ready
Sense Limitations
Revisiting the first part
Part II
How to free the mind from the poisons of worries
Start a "fast from worries"
Hope and joy cure worries
How to provide yourself with the presence of God and receive from Him an answer to your requests
Final Analysis
Revisiting the second part
3. Where I found Him and heard His voice (Experience narrated by Swami Yogananda)
Part I
Part II
4. The evolution of healing methods
Part I
Dependence of the human body on cosmic forces Matter is filled with life through conscious cosmic rays
Revisiting the first part
Part II
mental healing
Healing Through Spiritual Affirmations
Claims for Special Healings
Revisiting the second part
Part III
Subconscious healing method
Conscious healing method
Superconscious healing method
Healing Through Healing
Healer and patient must be in perfect harmony
What is the power of healing
Weekly inspiration. You are the life force in the flesh
Revisiting the third part
Part IV
Willpower as the life force in healing
Subtle spiritual perception
Linking food to health
Food of the future
Revisiting Part Four
5. Physical and mental method of rejuvenation (healing)

First of all, you should free yourself and be satisfied
Relaxation Techniques
Release of body parts
The best way to quickly release the whole body
Other Methods relaxation
Unconscious release of muscles
Conscious or motor release of muscles
Passive sensory release or sleep
Absolute rest method
Energy Awakening
Re-review
6. Transformation of creative (sexual) energy into spiritual energy
Sex impulse control
How to transform the sexual impulse
7. Analysis of the mind
Part I
Avoid spiritual and physical laziness
How can you withdraw all the energy and consciousness from the body
Learn to release the muscles
Special exercises
Revisiting the first part
Part II
The life force is the source of all rays
Map
Clairvoyance
Our eyes are like x-rays
Revisiting the second part
Part III
sleep state
visions
Dreams aroused by the subconscious
Consciously awakened subconscious dreams
Important mental states
Part IV
intuition and soul
Making up dreams
The difference between visions and dreams
The difference between hypnosis and sleepwalking
Revisiting Part Four
8. Signs of Christ Consciousness
9. Prayer
10. How to choose your employees

Read the character in the eyes. path of intuition
spiritual path
magnetic path
11. Death and sleep
12. How to develop creative intuition
semi-intuition
To be successful, you need to develop the power of the five senses.
Exercise your intuition by solving your problems
The ability of all-seeing intuition will give you success in all your affairs.
Classification of intuition
Re-review
13. Miscellaneous instructions
God is Absolute, man is relative
Weekly approval
1. WHY PEOPLE DON'T FIND GOD BUT YOU CAN PROBABLY FIND HIM
Part I
Don't you wonder why you often fail to make progress in every endeavor? This is because you are already a victim of your formed habits and circumstances, in a helpless position, that you do not even try to be different, and also because you are not familiar with the technique of psychological victory and because you do not use continuous effort.needed to achieve full success. Do you ask yourself at the end of each day how much more progress you have made today than yesterday? Tomorrow you must be more advanced than you were today.
The worst thing that harms the sprout your happiness is the lack of desire to progress, complacency and skepticism. Inertia, the absence of a constant definite desire to know the Truth is the greatest disease from which the germ of your happiness suffers.
Everyone is a child of God
God is equally present in every person, and those who have received His light through their self-created crystalline purity can definitely be children of God. The body is spoken of as a machine burdened with the six faults of delusion.
It exists, it is born, it grows, it changes, it fades and, finally, it is completely destroyed.
However, most people expect lasting happiness from this incomprehensible body. Pious people should remember that divine happiness is much higher and more attractive than material joys, but since the latter manifest themselves earlier, i.e. material joys are experienced earlier, the ego is unwilling and unable to imagine another, higher divine happiness.
Many people again and again delve into the Ocean of divine abundance in order to seek pearls of wealth, strength and wisdom. However, only a few find them. These few people glorified the miraculous riches of the divine sea because they dived well and found the place of hidden riches. Those who dived in the wrong places scolded the blue sea of ​​divine abundance as not containing the riches they longed for. Many people have died diving into the Sea of ​​Riches, they are swallowed up by the monsters of selfishness, passion, mistrust, doubt, laziness and skepticism.
For to everyone who has, it will be given and multiplied, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
(Matthew 25:29)
This illustrates the law of spiritual habit, and indeed the laws of all habits. The material interpretation of this Bible verse indicates that if a person, for example, develops the habit of making money, then his wealth will increase more and more, and a person who does not have such a habit will lose the habit of well-being that he has. there was.
Test yourself
Try to get in touch with people who laugh at you or begin to argue unfairly with you, or insult you. Find out if you can tolerate the annoying behavior of your husband or wife, or your children, without becoming internally agitated, or not speaking to them in a judgmental, stern voice. Every day, at any rate of life, you must first learn to master your outer behavior and then fill yourself with inner peace whenever you are the victim of defiant behavior from others.
It is right, of course, not to become a rug for others, so that other people trample it with their feet. It is good to be strong, to stand quietly against mistreatment, but you never dare to lose your calm forgiveness ability and your calm mentality, especially when you are the object of criticism.
Few people can dominate their outward behavior. There are even fewer people who can maintain their inner balance while others bombard them with unkindness. As students of self-realization, you need to master your outer and inner behavior. A storm of anger extinguishes the flames of the world, in which only you can see the Spirit.
Selfish anger is bad, but just indignation is considered good.
It is necessary to avoid overeating, improper eating, as well as the influence of the hypnosis of passions. Overeating destroys mental freedom and keeps the soul connected to the body consciousness during meditation. You should try to be wealthy, but not be greedy for money.
You should have complete dominion over your sex life so that your mind and your will govern this powerful instinct and it cannot enslave your mind and your wisdom.
Your body is like a stubborn dog. Bind the mind and body with will power and beat them so that they go in the direction you want. Don't let them get bogged down in a pit of grief, but hit them more. The more you beat them, the more obedient they will be. So, daily, when you know that you are progressing spiritually, mentally, physically, then you can be happy - but if you find that you are becoming sensual, arrogant and talkative every day, then know that you are regressing. The best test is to analyze yourself to find out if you are happier than you were yesterday. If you feel that you have become happier today than yesterday, then you are progressing, and this feeling of happiness should continue.

Part II
Live with the power of God
Why should God's children endure hunger? The soul is identified with the human body defiled by Satan, feels hungry and turns to earthly food for food, the soul remains tied to the earth. Thus, the Soul forgets that it can exist, like God, from the Divine Cosmic Energy.
Evil in the world is not created solely through wrong human actions, bad karma accumulated through many incarnations. Evil has existed since the time when the cosmic satanic force first misused Cosmic Energy to create imperfect things and beings. Even when Adam and Eve were created, Satan foresaw that if they remained perfect on earth and dematerialized and returned back to God, he would have no job and lose his power. Also in this early age, Satan had already turned against God with temptation to force Adam and Eve to transgress perfect laws and thus bind them to the earth by creating imperfect desires.
There is no evil in God. Satan created evil by misusing his free choice given to him by God and his power to create temporary things. God could have foreseen the beginning of evil in Satan through His Omniscience, but He orchestrated this Cosmic Game to play through His many Selves, and because He knew that, in the end, His mercy would turn everyone back to Him.
After God gave Satan, who was an archangel and could create perfect temporal things, independent powers, Satan misused his independence like a rebellious general turns against his king, and since that time, Satan has created a bad duplicate for every beautiful creature. God, in the human body, mind, soul and nature.
God created a beautiful body to fill it with Cosmic Energy so that it could live in a free unlimited divine state, but Satan created hunger and sensual temptations. Instead of mental strength, Satan attracted mental temptation; instead of spiritual wisdom,