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| Inner Peace: How to Be Calmly Active and Actively Calm | 
 enlarge | Author: Paramahansa Yogananda
Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 189797
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 130
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0876120109
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.544
EAN: 9780876120101
ASIN: 0876120109
Publication Date: October 1, 1999
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 Simplified yoga teachings again November 6, 2008
The publishers, SRF, has made another selection of guru statements taken out of their original settings, and put them together under several headings. A basic yoga method for calming down is presented: "Sit . . . in a cross-legged position on a firm surface. Keep the spine straight and the chin parallel to the floor . . . to remain completely still, without moving a muscle."
One is to maintain this posture to get a deep meditative state. he tells. [p. 30]
What if you have double cheeks and cannot get any of them parallel to the floor? Yogananda does not seem to tell what to do in that case, which affects so many. But he also tells you can sit on a straight chair with your feet parallel on the floor and your eyelids half closed or completely closed - and that is where many teachers of his own kriya yoga tradition disagree with him. They tell he made many changes to kriya yoga to get a public, for example.
Be that as it may, when you meditate well, your mind gets focused on the area between the eyebrows, he intimates further. However, that focus depends on how you meditate. There are other body areas to focus on too. Yogananda dismissed many of them in order to simplify his teachings for a Western audience that was largely stiff, but not as obese as in our days.
He offers some helpful advice in addition to the simplified meditation guidelines, in the form of capsules - mishmash quotations, if you like. They can be OK.
 It helps December 9, 2007
There is no magic book or guru that is going to make you happy and end the suffering and trials of life. But this book gives you some peace while you read it. And you feel good about things for a few hours afterwards. I have some other booklets by the author and I always find some gem of thought that makes me feel better.
 Slim volume offers deep space for ongoing contemplation October 10, 2007
One of the finest qualities of this title is there is so much room for personal reflection, contemplation and application between the content. It isn't dense, yet it is best that you take time to slowly sip the words, to breathe them in and see what the text is saying explicitly and directly to you.
Author and spiritual leader Paramahansa Yoganada teaches "how to's" in pithy chunks and nuggets of inspiration. There is plenty of space to read, breathe, reflect, ponder and meditate - which Yoganada teaches his readers, is a science.
Further, the book teaches the reader how to be actively calm and calmly active so that the spiritual health may be at its optimum.
Favorite quotes from the book include:
"Seclusion is the price of greatness"
"Peace eminates from the soul and is the sacred environment in which true happiness unfolds."
Definitely worthy of a read.
Meditation Demystified October 19, 2004
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Yogananda was a master teacher. In this book he gives one of the simplest guides to meditation. Going inward allows you to taste the bliss of inner peace.
I recomend this book to anyone seeking to find their heart's desire. Inner Peace will give you the strenghth and stability to deal with the duality of the external world.
A magnificent printing of timeless inspiration November 10, 2002
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
This little gem of a book is an ideal gift of peace. Universal, soul-satisfying insights and comforts from the great yoga master who founded Self-Realization Fellowship. For the sincere spiritual seeker here are the fundamentals common to all true religions and spiritualities. For the average person in modern society, here is comfort and relief from the alienation and distress of our material cultures.As a retired psychologist and stress management trainer, I judge that the ultimate keys to handling stress in this crazy world are to be found in these few pages. They are filled with beautiful nuggets of reassurance and personal empowerment through attunement with universal spiritual principles. After you have sampled some of these possibilities from yoga's ancient and timeless spiritual strategies, hopefully you'll be inspired to explore some of the other titles the publisher lists herein.
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