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Quotes from Autobiography of a Yogi — Yukteswar Giri

1855–1936 India

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Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

A man who accepts a job under anyone is a slave.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Wisdom is not assimilated with the eyes, but with the atoms. When your conviction of a truth is not merely in your brain but in your being, you may diffidently vouch for its meaning.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

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

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Do not allow yourself to be thrashed by the provoking whip of a beautiful face. How can sense slaves enjoy the world? Its subtle flavours escape them while they grovel in primal mud. All nice discriminations are lost to the man of elemental lusts.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yukteswar Giri (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.