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The Law of Success was first published as a booklet in 1944 by Self-Realization Fellowship, and has been continuously in print since then. It has been translated into multiple languages.
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The Spiritual Legacy of
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
His Complete Writings, Lectures, and Informal Talks
Paramahansa Yogananda founded Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS) in 1917 and Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) in 1920 to disseminate his teachings worldwide and to preserve their purity and integrity for generations to come. A prolific writer and lecturer from his earliest years in America, he created a renowned and voluminous body of works on the yoga science of meditation, the art of balanced living, and the underlying unity of all great religions. Today this unique and far-reaching spiritual legacy lives on, inspiring millions of truth seekers all over the world.
In accord with the express wishes of the great Guru, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship has continued the ongoing task of publishing and keeping permanently in print The Complete Works of Paramahansa Yogananda. These include not only the final editions of all the books he published during his lifetime, but also many new titlesworks that had remained unpublished at the time of his passing in 1952, or which had been serialized over the years in incomplete form in Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowships magazine, as well as hundreds of profoundly inspiring lectures and informal talks recorded but not printed before his passing.
Paramahansa Yogananda personally chose and trained those close disciples who have headed the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship Publications Council since his passing, and gave them specific guidelines for the preparation and publishing of his teachings. The members of the YSS/SRF Publications Council (monks and nuns who have taken lifelong vows of renunciation and selfless service) honour these guidelines as a sacred trust, in order that the universal message of this beloved world teacher will live on in its original power and authenticity.
The Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship emblem (shown above) was designated by Paramahansa Yogananda to identify the nonprofit society he founded as the authorized source of his teachings. The YSS/SRF name and emblem appear on all YSS/SRF publications and recordings, assuring the reader that a work originates with the organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda and conveys his teachings as he himself intended they be given.
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He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the
most successful who has found God.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
The Noble New
Sing songs that none have sung,
Think thoughts that neer in brain have rung,
Walk in paths that none have trod,
Weep tears as none have shed for God,
Give peace to all to whom none other gave,
Claim him your own whos everywhere disclaimed.
Love all with love that none have felt, and brave
The battle of life with strength unchained.
My Divine Birthright
The Lord created me in His image. I will seek Him first, and make sure of my actual contact with Him; then, if it be His will, may all things wisdom, abundance, health be added as part of my divine birthright.
I want success without measure, not from earthly sources but from Gods all-possessing, all-powerful, all-bountiful hands.
The Law of Success
Is there a power that can reveal hidden veins of riches and uncover treasures of which we never dreamed? Is there a force that we can call upon to give health, happiness, and spiritual enlightenment? The saints and sages of India teach that there is such a power. They have demonstrated the efficacy of truth principles that will work for you, too, if you give them a fair trial.
Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you. Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage.
If you use all available outward means, as well as your natural abilities, to overcome every obstacle in your path, you will thus develop the powers that God gave you unlimited powers that flow from the innermost forces of your being. You possess the power of thought and the power of will. Utilize to the uttermost these divine gifts!
The Power of Thought
You demonstrate success or failure according to your habitual trend of thought. In you which is the stronger success thoughts or failure thoughts? If your mind is ordinarily in a negative state, an occasional positive thought is not sufficient to attract success. But if you think rightly, you will find your goal even though you seem to be enveloped in darkness.
You alone are responsible for yourself. No one else may answer for your deeds when the final reckoning comes. Your work in the world in the sphere where your karma, your own past activity, has placed you can be performed only by one person yourself. And your work can be called a success only when in some way it serves your fellowman.