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paramahamsa yogananda came to the USA
almost hundred years ago
how did Western world change as a result
of that action do you think master Yan
Zi had a plan in 1920 right at the start
or that he took it one day at a time
once he got here how can we repay him
for what he did here
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the world has undergone a big change
I'll tell first with coming up Swami
Vivekananda
he planted this seed and the Masters
after Swami Vivekananda who ever came
like Paramahansa Yogananda they watered
and make this plant grow big Paramahansa
Yogananda was the first Indian yogi who
came and accepted West as his home and
started living here not just coming and
teaching something and going back no it
was not his plan he came as you asked in
the question did help a plan when he
came
it was the Masters plan it was not his
plan you just think if you read the life
of masters of Kriya yoga
Srila hideous role it was planned
executed supervised by Baba ji it was
not his plan it was Baba's plan to get
this work done and he got it done
through lahiri mahasaya in the same way
if you think Shri RIPTA Sergey yoga
Nancy and so on it is not the plan of
that individual yogi or individual
master it is the master's plan working
through them just do you think if you
consider what yoga non-zeros in
autobiography of a yogi is a very humble
expression of cats before coming to West
he had all these vision what is going to
happen it was not his plan having the
vision of Mount Washington you know the
headquarter it was revealed to him
Masters revealed many things to him this
is going to happen that is to happen
so it was the Masters plan in which he
became an instrument to fulfill it if it
would have been his plan to do something
for example he could and with his strong
willpower you know Yogananda had very
strong will power from its childhood if
you wanted to get something done used to
get it done you have read that he wanted
to have boil and he had this boil in the
body next day so if he would have to
really used his willpower to escape and
be a monk in the Himalayas he could have
become known could have stopped but it
was not the plan of the Masters the plan
of the Masters was to make him or build
him up so that he should come to West
and do this work what did he do my
question is what he has not done we
sitting here is his plan you tell is it
so that's not out when he came
he brought a complete spiritual
transformation in the traditional
Orthodox mind of people and he threw his
name of him people came to it when he
came to know about its name people came
to know about yoga and he's the one who
exhibited the beauty of yoga I'm not
telling you God's yogic exercises body
gymnastic he sort through his practical
living yoga as a means of spirituality
human transformation is Babas he told
Egypt the surgery write a book
holy science he wrote a book but through
yoga Nanji the Masters created a master
to bring east to west and make a
beautiful union union of east and west
he came here he lived here there is a
book it was published in 1930 the title
of the book is little funny
Hinduism inverts America in 1930 this
author is writing one chapter on yoga
non G complete one chapter in ten years
of his stay how much he impacted in the
life of American people during those
states can anybody imagine when he was
traveling cross-country and delivering
thoughts and
taking classes sometimes people in
thousands 5,000 people in program during
dog States and words it was he so yoga
mangy brought its really good sense and
not only good since you see the
difference between if you compare
Vivekananda came and just open the door
what do you think of India is not that
India India is something unique and
special and he just in one line he
brought this sense when he was
addressing the Parliament of world's
religion he she was not an invited
delegate to deliver a talk and purse
while addressing just he told my
brothers and sisters of America this
much my brothers and sisters while
others are talking of ladies and
gentlemen ladies and gentlemen has a
distance when I came to West twenty-five
years ago and I landed in Vienna where
English is not a language people of the
very usually spoke and in German they
have different forms of you as we do in
India in India we have three forms of
you you in three forms with respect or
with equality to youngers three forms of
you three ways to use it when you speak
with respect there is a distance however
vivekananda opened the door and
Yogananda came with this understanding
he said the beauty of Vedic thought in
India and you see pills when yoga monza
came with the message of the Masters and
especially Kriya yoga it has nothing to
do with any religion it is the essence
of all it is not just in talk but in
practice also Yogananda's demonstrated
his teachings its writings how can we
repay him for what he has done for us it
is up to you the Masters do not expect
anything from us except our real change
in our attitude in our behavior in our
lifestyle in our words in every way
are we really changing the way the
Masters want that's all
they don't want you do this build a big
memorial booth nothing they want to
sense our own selves to be really better
person at all
if you are a disciple you'll know who is
my guru or not if you're a disciple
instead of searching for masters qualify
yourself to be a disciple
taking initiation doesn't mean that you
have become a disciple or the Masters
have accepted you as the disciple yes
you are initiated initiate sample it
just entrance if you study again life of
yoga Nancy
he loved the meditation technique little
from his father he learned from sastra
mas I am so Swami Cable Ananda and it
took years to find this replacer G open
what happens we think I will find master
and how to find master I will tell the
same example from Yogananda's life
Dickenson its name it's Dickenson whom
Vivekananda told that your guru is
coming and he will be yogi and so on if
you have read autobiographic oke you
might have read it he was a teenager boy
young man he came to your Anansi she was
practicing Kriya yoga but he didn't
accept him as guru the day he gave him
that silver cup the thing is be humble
practice yourself you will feel his
student has to recognize the guru and it
takes time for the student if you find
some has something good practice it
practice with love
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