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Dear Friend,
Paramahansa Yogananda declared: “Kriya Yoga plus devotion — it works like mathematics; it cannot fail.”
For anyone practicing yoga and its techniques of meditation, such as those taught on the Kriya Yoga path, Paramahansaji points out the necessity of cultivating a deep and enduring relationship with that aspect of the Divine most appealing to the heart.
After all, as Paramahansaji made clear: “There is a personal element in the search for God that is more important than mastery over the whole science of Yoga.” We can follow the yogic science to reach the door to the Infinite, but then our love, our personal longing, is needed for the Divine to take us through that door.
You may like to think of God as the Heavenly Father, or as the Divine Mother, or Friend, or Beloved. Some feel drawn to seeing God as manifest in a true guru or divine incarnation such as Christ or Krishna, or they may gravitate to a more formless aspect such as Infinite Love, Bliss, or Wisdom.
Regardless of what image of divinity most moves your heart, you can seek That wholeheartedly, with the awareness that in devotion to and eventual union with the Divine you will satisfy a longing that nothing else can fulfill.
“To produce true lovers of God, true knowers of God, is the purpose of India’s teaching; this is what her scriptures have proclaimed to mankind,” SRF’s third president Sri Daya Mata has said. “Long before the era of Christianity, Buddhism, or other religions, India showed the way. This is why I love her so much. And her teaching is what the world needs today.”
We hope you can use this newsletter to deepen your individual practice of devotion — so that more and more you experience the Divine in your heart as a permanent awareness.
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