Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda Seven Stages of Self-Realization Volume III Stage Six

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. We want to see You as You are.
2. The Law of Incarnation
The soul is immortal
Tree of Life
Avoid Forced Reincarnation
Who is the one who reincarnates?
The difference between the physical senses and the subtle senses
spiritual body
Various degrees of incarnation
Memory is not a test of previous existence
3. Control your thoughts
4. Disembodied souls
Part I
Metaphysical explanation
Who determines the relationship of people
Human love needs to be expanded to divine love
Human love can find a divine answer in pure friendship
Seek until your human love finds Divine love
Part II
A Metaphysical Technique for Getting in Touch with Our Dear Ones
Free your soul from the service of death
You can get in touch with progressing souls through love.
Instruction for the lesson. How to overcome sadness
5. Law of Karma
The law of action is based on the laws of cause and effect
Reasons why everyone should know the laws of karma
The emergence of activity
List of influences that affect human actions
Karma is not fatalism
You reap what you sow
The relationship of karma with health and wealth
Type classifications and explanations
Propensities for failure and ill health are eliminated through willpower.
6. Sources of rejuvenation
Part I
Life force is a manifestation of some greater force
The spirit is unchanged
Youth can be made permanent
Source of limitless energy
Mind as a source of energy
Cop and saint
Part II
Energy from food
Energy from exercise
Renewal through meditation
7. How to create what you need at will
What is "welfare"?
Is money wealth?
How to choose an activity
You must be guided from the Source - God
8. Brief epilogue. Winning by Following the Right Method
9. Divine love keep you
10. Conflict between the eternal and the temporal
We have free choice
What you sow is what you reap
Evil is not created by God
Law of Cause and Effect
The value of a good society
eleven. Instruction. The world is the breath of eternity
12. How to develop your voice
Breathing exercise
How to strengthen the lungs
How to strengthen the chest
Throat care and exercise
The best exercise
Healing fear of performing on stage
Nerve Strengthening Exercises
calming the nerves
Perfect technique must be accompanied by spiritual inspiration
13. Quick Tips
"Sissy" and a robber
Pious Waiter
14. Sources of vital energy
15. How to develop a good memory
Special exercises
Memory mimics
Sometimes you have to learn to forget
God is the essence of all good things
Memory develops through meditation
Statement
16. What India Can Teach Us
Part I
Pantheistic concept of God
The true meaning of the symbols
Various philosophies
How teachers are chosen in India
The truth must be kept
Part II
Nothing exists but God
Matter is a reflection of God
The greatest of all works is the knowledge of God
17. Call on the Holy Lord AUM
18. How one saint satisfied the thirst of one sovereign for miracles
19. God is power over all things
20. Progressive spiritual teachings
The powers of reflection given to us by our God
Set yourself a goal in life
Imitate the life of yogis
Awakening Intuition Through Meditation
Piety and Labor
21. The Joy of Meditation
22. Gradual Yoga Methods
Part I
Classification of yoga methods
Hatha yoga
raja yoga
Karma yoga
Mantra yoga
jnani yoga
First stage
Second step
Third step
Fourth step
Fifth step
Fourth step - продолжение
Sleep or unconscious pranayama
Part II
kriya yoga
The Seven True Stages of Self-Realization Through Which One Can Ascend to the Kingdom of God - the State of Samadhi
Sixth step
seventh step
Final Implementation
Revisiting the second part
23. Kriya - the highest teaching (super technique)
Part I
Historical foundation
Kriya is an introduction to Cosmic Consciousness
Conscious life
Prana means life energy
Repetition of the first part
Part II
Spiritual Benefits of Practicing Kriya
The Scientific Basis of the Kriya Technique
Accelerating the development of the soul
Kriya Accelerates Development
What is Cosmic Consciousness?
Repetition of the second part
Part III
The function of respiration is to burn carbon
Gradually, the Kriya technique burns all the carbon in the blood
Drawing the Life Force from the Five Sense Phones Enhances Scientific Concentration
Sleep and Conscious Techniques for Switching Nerve Currents
Rest of the heart lengthens life
Conclusion
The brain of an individual can become perfect in a million years
Most people live only 60 years
How to use 30 years to manifest Cosmic Consciousness
Discovery of the Saints of India
How to speed up brain development
Is it possible to know the Truth in a short time?
Pranayama or life force control
Repetition of the third part
Part IV
preparatory exercises
Exercise A
Exercise B
Exercise B
Prayer Before Practicing Kriya
Special Preparation for Kriya
Introductory exercises
Kriya technique is divided into 3 important parts
Repetition of the fourth part
Part V
Appropriate Kriya Technique
The spine is an imaginary tube
Inhale, up "Oh"!
Exhale, down "and"
Proper practice of kriya
When and how to practice Kriya
magnetization process
Rest After Practicing Kriya
Repetition of the fifth part

Part VI
Cosmic Energy Control
From matter to spirit
Exercise duration
Spine as an altar
The overall result of the application of Kriya
Follow Divine Laws
Repetition of the sixth part
24. A man who used miracles unworthily
25. Difference between soul and spirit
26. Dance to the harp of bliss
27. Note on the sixth step

1. WE WANT TO SEE YOU AS YOU ARE
Father, open the doors of the stars, open the windows of the blue sky, open the windows of beautiful landscapes, open the windows of hearts and minds, open the windows of our souls and reveal to us Your Face that is hidden behind the windows of nature and human minds.
How long will you hide yourself, only partially revealing yourself in the shining stars, in the wind and in the mighty radiance of the sun and in our minds. Divine Father, we can no longer be content with Your whispers alone. We want to see You as You really are.
Open our souls, remove the veils from heaven and from our minds. All the reverence of our being, all the obedience of our souls, we lay down at Your feet. We pray to You in the temple of the morning sunrise, the noonday sun, at its setting, and in the sanctuary of the night.
Father, when we sit still, we close our sense doors, one by one, so that neither the smell of the rose nor the song of the nightingale will divert our attention from You. Come to our temple and fulfill all our hopes. You are the cure for our faltering hopes. Heal our frailty. O eternal Healer of our souls, heal us from all our suffering. Make us healthy in You.
Accept the humility of our hearts. We bow before You with all the reverence of our hearts. Father, bless us through Christ and through all the great saints. Fill us with Your Presence, burn our ignorance with Your Divine fire.

2. LAW OF INCARNATION
The meaning of incarnation lies in the fact that the immortal soul, as a true image of the spirit, surpassing the perishable physical body, survives it and passes into another body to achieve its goal, and to extinguish the consequences and influences of previous deeds that remain in the subtle bodies that accompany the soul in its wandering from one body to another.
Reincarnation is a scientific doctrine and a Christian doctrine: in both the Indian and Christian bibles we find the same perception of reincarnation - the same laws of seeking God. Incarnation is one of the greatest doctrines because without it we cannot understand the judgment of God. The 200 million inhabitants of India, Buddhists, followers of the Persian religion, Jewish and Christian - all of them together make up more than half of the inhabitants of the entire globe, they all believe in this doctrine.
The soul is immortal
The accumulation of energy occurs both in the physical and in the subtle, mental world. The soul is immortal, поэтому душа, заключенная в смертное тело, существовала до этого тела и будет существовать во все будущие времена. Reincarnation cannot be understood intellectually; for this, one must consciously experience the state of death and sleep through self-realization - through the highest technique of concentration and meditation.
One life is not enough to gain contact with the spirit and be cleansed. We need time to cast out our imperfections. To achieve immortality, it takes time to turn your steps back to God. We have left God and we need to return to Him. We cannot return to the immortal state until we have reached perfection, and in order to become perfect, we need several lifetimes to overcome our desires and head back to Godhead.
Being immortal, the soul survives the body, and, being immortal and full of imperfections, it cannot return to the spirit until it has eliminated all these shortcomings, and if the soul is not able to eradicate these shortcomings in one earthly life, then it must incarnate, to eliminate them. However, if the soul through death could return to God with all its shortcomings, then what is the point of it being good? Why, then, is it impossible to do all sorts of evil deeds, how will anyone like it, if by the end of one's life one can get to God anyway?
Immortal souls are sent to earth to play the drama of life, but in this school they are limited to mortal desires. Why shouldn't you have mortal desires? - Because they are in conflict with your immortal nature. However, this does not mean that all of you need to live like hermit monks. In the Bible we find the following good news:
He who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will no longer go out, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God.
(Rev. 3:12)
The one who overcomes bodily desires will be a soul marked by God, will be (a pillar) in the temple of God, and such a soul will no longer have to incarnate on earth and continue to live for the fulfillment of its worldly desires.
Tree of Life
To the overcomer I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
(Rev. 2:7)
Whoever conquers bodily desires will no longer return to earth to taste the bittersweet fruits of earthly life, but he will already be