Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda Seven Stages of Self-Realization Volume II Stage Four

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Prayer
2. About the meaning of life
3. Laws of desire and will
The difference between desire and will
Why do people make mistakes in life
4. Different types of will
Re-review
5. Be the master of your feelings
6. Culture of desire and will
7. Perception of the light of God depends on us
8. The result of meditation is peace and joy
Use your efforts and energy to develop your talents
Feelings of worthlessness or superiority are both harmful
Effect of habit
Build the Temple of Life, Peace and Bliss
9. Mystery of Religion
Part I
How to Avoid Hypocrisy in Religion
Establishing the Church on Certain Grounds
Part II
Science and religion
Unscientific religion
10. How Indian Masters Study the Scriptures
11. Church of God
12. The story of my Master's telepathic message
13. Find God within you and you will find Him everywhere
14. To my Guru (Teacher) Swami Sri Yukteswar from Swami Yogananda
15. Prayer
16. Guru and disciples
Difference Between Guru and Teacher
Signs of a Guru
Definition (definition) of free will
17. How I found God through my teacher (Guru)
General result of Preceptum No. 86
Signs of a Guru
18. Accelerated Human Evolution
The development of precognition contributes to evolution
What you sow is what you reap
Accelerate your development through concentration
19. Super Concentration
Special exercises
20. Understanding, reasoning and logic
Realization and Truths of Scripture
21. Distorted and fuzzy semi-intuition
22. A valuable lesson on concentration
23. Yogis and Swami

24. Learn Yogi Methods

Re-review
25. Turning the spotlight of the senses
Part I
Stages of consciousness
Signs of different states of consciousness
Part II
Self-realization
Practical exercises
Re-review второй части
26. Swim to God
27. Approval
28. Seek first the Kingdom of God
29. Three states of consciousness
30. Does evil exist?

Repetition
31. Victory over death through willpower
32. Will power attracts life and consciousness to the body
Re-review
33. You are limitless
34. How to overcome temptations
Activity law
beware of evil
Acquisition of contact with the Divine Spirit
general review
35. Achieving success and well-being through divine power
Force of gravity
36. How to seek God and why we must seek Him
Part I
Part II
In meditation you drink the echo of the Divine whisper
Special exercises для медитации
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
37. Spiritual eye
38. An excellent method for achieving peace
5 phones of the human senses
Space Meditation
Restatement

1. PRAYER
I want to use my own will, but guide it, oh. Father, for the fulfillment of all desires in a golden paradise. For I want to be a child of immeasurable happiness and know that You have not imprisoned me in the prison of unfulfilled hopes and fruitless desires. I would like to break the shameful chains of lethargy and go forward to freedom, light my way through the forest of limitations and illusions.

2. ABOUT THE MEANING OF LIFE
Human life exists so that we can know what we really are. Where does the mind come from? We can ask what human life is, because we have intelligence. The difference between man and animal is that man is endowed with reason, so that we can inquire about our existence and the existence of all life. However, there are still people who sometimes act worse than animals, leaving life in the arms of death without seeking a solution to the issue of life and death. Where does intelligence come from? What is its source?

3. LAWS OF DESIRE AND WILL
The difference between desire and will
Life is like a big zoological garden in which there are various animals. Also in human life there are great animal desires, however, in order to fulfill a desire, first of all, you need to have the strength to fulfill it. Will means desire plus energy. After the appearance of desire, there is an effort, an effort to overcome or fulfill something. However, will means - "I will act until this desire is fulfilled." How few of you know how to really want! But you dare not use your willpower in a bad direction. Be guided by wisdom. I will give you detailed information about the evolution of willpower, and if you remember them, you will know how to develop this powerful force.
As mentioned above, wanting and wanting are two different things. In this life, many people follow different paths towards the same goal. Some want money, some want health, and some want fame. Various are the desires of people, but few people carry out what they desire. How do desires arise and disappear in your brain? Is it after the implementation of the previous ones? But now another desire has found a place in your heart, and your heart becomes a graveyard of many of your various desires. When desires torment your heart and you feel that you do not have the opportunity to fulfill them, then this is called "desire". Sometimes you hear people say, "I wish I were an Egyptian king," or something like that that's impossible. This is a desire that you know is not possible. What interests one, the other ignores.
Many people think they don't need to use their willpower, but do you know what happens if you don't use your willpower? You lie down and don't get up. And to move your hand, you need to use willpower. When willpower leaves a person, he dies. To eat, you use willpower; to move, you use it. It is only under the influence of chloroform that you do not and cannot use your willpower.
Why do people make mistakes in life
Do you know why people make mistakes? Because they give up. I often say that if I didn't succeed, I would shake the whole world, so that he would be glad to satisfy me. You need to exercise willpower. If you cheer up your mind and go forward like a flame, then every thing will ignite in your path. A person with Divine will, walking the path of self-realization, controls himself even where bullets whistle.
Raise your will power from the valley of ignorance. How can you develop it? Take on something you don't think you can do. Strive with all your strength to achieve this one goal. When you have reached it, then proceed to something more and exercise your willpower further. If your difficulties are great, then say:
Lord, give me the strength to overcome all my difficulties.
You need to use willpower, whoever you are. You need to replenish your mind. Use your will power both in business and in meditation.
Willpower is in you and if you use it, then nothing is impossible for you. Everything that is created, including your body, is created by willpower. Willpower guides you from one desire to another as you struggle to achieve success. But how few people develop their strength will!
To feed a thought through dynamic willpower means to think that thought until it leaves the brain and takes on the appropriate form. If willpower develops continuously in this direction, then you will be able to heal others through your willpower and control your destiny through willpower, and you will be able to say:
Mountain, rise and plunge into the sea
(Mark 11:23-24)
and the mountain will do it. Great things then you can do.
The human will, guided by error, is evil, but the will, consistent with wisdom, is guided by the Divine will. This is what Jesus meant when he said:
May Your will be done.
Lazy people think that God will listen to them directly through prayer power, but you need to exercise your willpower to tune it to God's will. When you continuously think of any particular thing, the will will become dynamic. It will be your will, like that of Jesus and all the great saints. Your will is dominated by God's will.
The following is an indication of how to develop your will. Before you do anything, consider what you need to do. Make sure you tune your willpower to a task that is good and beneficial to you. Don't be passive. Passive, turn themselves into stones. You have been given the will to use it and become a winner. Remember that your will is God's will.
Remember that in your heart you must love nothing more than God, who is a caring God. If you want to possess God, then you must have the will to eradicate everything from your heart except God, and if you strive for God, then nothing bad can happen to you. Remember that you are only aiming for one thing:
May Your love always shine, so that I may be able to awaken Your love in all hearts.
This is my only prayer. I pray not only in my family. I do not want to please God alone, but I want to strengthen the knowledge of God also in the hearts of other people. So remember, dear friend, that the greatest will is the desire only for God. Develop your willpower. Turn your will away from lusts and consider this life a dream.
If you use your will power to know God and you start looking for Him, then you will find Him. God won't answer you until you know the law. Again and again you need to send out your prayers and willpower bullets to break the ramparts of God's world. It has closed behind the ramparts of the world, but if we send bomb after bomb in meditation and concentration, then this rampart will collapse and the Divine radiance will appear.

4. DIFFERENT KINDS OF WILL
The will of a small child is called physiological. When a child cries, he needs something. He screams for physical reasons. And thus the first will is the physiological will. The will caused by any physiological state is called "physiological will". After the child grows up and obeys the will of his mother, then they say that he has a "mechanical will" or "will without thinking."
I will tell you about my childhood experience. I remember when I was in a state of mechanical will, I