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    Songs of the Soul
    Songs of the Soul
    Songs of the Soul
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    Songs of the Soul

    By Paramahansa Yogananda

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    Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952), author of the modern spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi and widely regarded as the father of Yoga in the West, contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East. Arriving in America from his native India in 1920, he established Self-Realization Fellowship that same year, and devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the beauty, nobility and divinity of the human spirit.

                Recognized from the beginning as a landmark work in its field, Autobiography of a Yogi has been in continuous print since its initial publication more than 75 years ago, and remains one of the most important, and most readable, works on Yoga and Eastern spiritual thought. Among Sri Yogananda’s other publications are acclaimed interpretations of the four Gospels, (The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You), the Bhagavad Gita (God Talks With Arjuna), and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wine of the Mystic: A Spiritual Interpretation); a three-volume anthology series (Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life); two collections of poetry and prayer; and numerous volumes of spiritual counsel.

    An award-winning documentary film about his life and teachings, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, was released in 2014.

            Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Brother Chidananda, president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.

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    PublisherSelf-Realization Fellowship
    Release dateDec 1, 2022
    ISBN9780876129265
    Songs of the Soul
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    Paramahansa Yogananda

    Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) es mundialmente reconocido como una de las personalidades espirituales más ilustres de nuestro tiempo. Nació en el norte de la India, y en 1920 se radicó en Estados Unidos, donde enseñó, durante más de treinta años, la antigua filosofía y la ciencia de la meditación yoga, originarias de la India, así como el arte de vivir en forma equilibrada la vida espiritual. Fue el primer gran maestro del Yoga que vivió y enseñó durante un prolongado periodo en Occidente. Él viajó extensamente impartiendo conferencias en Estados Unidos y en el extranjero, disertando en auditorios de las más importantes ciudades, que registraban siempre un lleno total, y en los cuales revelaba la unidad fundamental que existe entre las grandes religiones del mundo. A través de la célebre historia de su vida, Autobiografía de un yogui, y de sus originales comentarios sobre las escrituras de Oriente y Occidente, así como por medio del resto de sus numerosos libros, él ha inspirado a millones de lectores. Self-Realization Fellowship —la organización internacional que Paramahansa Yogananda fundó en 1920 con el fin de diseminar sus enseñanzas en todo el mundo— continúa llevando a cabo su obra espiritual y humanitaria.

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      Songs of the Soul - Paramahansa Yogananda

      SOS_Hc_DJ_E_1651_J6855_eBook2.jpgParamahansa Yogananda (January 5, 1893 - March 7, 1952)

      Copyright © 1983 Self-Realization Fellowship

      All rights in this digital edition of Songs of the Soul

      are reserved by Self-Realization Fellowship.

      Note to the Reader

      Subject only to any conditions established by the distributor from which you obtained this book, Self-Realization Fellowship welcomes you to download this edition onto any number of your own devices for your individual, non-commercial use; and to print excerpts for your own reference.

      Kindly note, however, that upon acquiring this edition the reader agrees to abide by applicable national and international copyright laws; and to abstain from distributing, reproducing, or transmitting the contents to other individuals or entities, by any means (electronic, mechanical, or otherwise) without the publisher’s prior written consent. We appreciate your cooperation in respecting the author’s work and in helping to preserve its integrity by upholding these principles.

      Thank you for supporting our non-profit publishing endeavors in connection with the legacy of Paramahansa Yogananda.

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      SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP

      3880 San Rafael Avenue • Los Angeles, CA 90065-3219

      The Self-Realization Fellowship name and emblem (shown above) appear on all SRF books, recordings, and other publications, assuring the reader that a work originates with the society established by Paramahansa Yogananda and faithfully conveys his teachings.

      Ebook edition, 2021

      ISBN: 978-0-87612-251-8 (Hardcover)

      ISBN: 978-0-87612-926-5 (Epub edition)

      ISBN: 978-0-87612-925-8 (Kindle edition)

      Dedicated

      to my earthly father,

      who has helped me in all my spiritual

      work in India and America

      Contents

      Publisher’s Note

      Preface

      Paramahansa Yogananda: A Yogi in Life and Death

      Aims and Ideals of Self-Realization Fellowship

      Alphabetical List of Poems by Title

      After This

      At Sul Monte

      At the Fountain of Song

      At the Roots of Eternity

      Blood of the Rose

      Breathe in Me

      City Drum

      Consecration

      Cup of Eternity, The

      Divine Love’s Sorrow

      Dying Youth’s Divine Reply, The

      Eternity

      Evasion

      Ever New, The

      Flight!

      Flower Offering

      For Thee and Thine

      Fountain of Smiles

      Freedom

      Friendship

      Garden of the New Year, The

      God! God! God!

      God’s Boatman

      Grand Canyon of the Colorado, The

      Great Lightland, The

      Hart of Heaven, The

      Harvest, The

      Human Mind, The

      I Am He

      I Am Here

      I Am Lonely No More

      In Me

      In Stillness Dark

      In the Land of Dreams

      Invisible Mother

      I Was Made for Thee

      Leave Thy Vow of Silence

      Life’s Dream

      Listen to My Soul Song

      Little Eternity, The

      Luther Burbank

      Make Us Thyself

      Methought I Heard a Voice

      Milk-White Sail, A

      Mirror New, A

      Mohawk Trail

      My Cosmic Mother’s Face

      My India

      My Kinsmen

      My Mother’s Eyes

      My Native Land

      My Prisoner

      My Soul Is Marching On

      Mystery

      Nature’s Nature

      Noble New, The

      Oceanic Presence

      Om

      On Coming to the New-Old Land — America

      One Friend

      One That’s Everywhere

      Paupack’s Peak

      Pikes Peak

      Protecting Thorns

      Royal Way, The

      Samadhi

      Scenes Within

      Screen of Life, The

      Shadows

      Silence

      Some Treasure of My Own

      Spell, The

      Splinters of Thy Love, The

      Tattered Dress, The

      Tattered Garment

      They Are Thine

      Thou and I Are One

      Thou In Me

      Thy Call

      Thy Cruel Silence

      Thy Divine Gypsy

      Thy Homecoming

      Thy Secret Throne

      ’Tis All Unknown

      Toiler’s Lay, The

      Too Near

      To the Aurora Borealis

      Two Black Eyes

      Undying Beauty

      Vanishing Bubbles

      Variety

      Wake, Wake, My Sleeping Hunger, Wake!

      What Is Love?

      What Use?

      When I Am Only a Dream

      When I Cast All Dreams Away

      When I Take the Vow of Silence

      When Will He Come

      Where I Am

      Whispers

      Yogoda Dream Hermitage — A Dream Dropped

      From Heaven

      Photographs Associated With the Life of Paramahansa Yogananda

      Paramahansa Yogananda, 1923

      Paramahansa Yogananda, New York, 1926

      Self-Realization Fellowship Hermitage,

      Encinitas, California

      Paramahansa Yogananda with Luther Burbank,

      Santa Rosa, California, 1924

      Gyana Prabha Ghosh, Paramahansa Yogananda’s mother

      Paramahansa Yogananda with Amelita Galli-Curci and Homer Samuels, at Sul Monte, New York, 1926

      International headquarters of SRF/YSS, atop Mount Washington, Los Angeles

      Paramahansa Yogananda, Lake Chapala, Mexico, 1929

      The Last Smile: Paramahansa Yogananda, an hour before he consciously left his body, March 7, 1952, Los Angeles

      The Spiritual Legacy of Paramahansa Yogananda

      Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) is widely recognized as one of the preeminent spiritual figures of our time, and the influence of his life and work continues to grow. Many of the religious and philosophical concepts and methods he introduced decades ago are now finding expression in education, psychology, business, medicine, and other spheres of endeavor — contributing in far-reaching ways to a more integrated, humane, and spiritual vision of human life.

      The fact that Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings are being interpreted and creatively applied in many different fields, as well as by exponents of diverse philosophical and metaphysical movements, points not only to the great practical utility of what he taught. It also makes clear the need for some means of ensuring that the spiritual legacy he left not be diluted, fragmented, or distorted with the passing of time.

      Paramahansa Yogananda personally chose and trained those close disciples who formed the Self-Realization Fellowship Publications Council, giving them specific guidelines for the preparation and publishing of his teachings. The members of the SRF Publications Council (monks and nuns who have taken lifelong vows of renunciation and selfless service) honor 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 Self-Realization Fellowship name and the SRF emblem (shown above) were originated by Sri Yogananda to identify the organization he founded to carry on his worldwide spiritual and humanitarian work. These appear on all Self-Realization Fellowship books, audio and video recordings, films, and other publications, assuring the reader that a work originates with the organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda and faithfully conveys his teachings as he himself intended they be given.

      Self-Realization Fellowship

      Publisher

      ’

      s Note

      It is with deep satisfaction that we offer this treasury of poems by Paramahansa Yogananda. The present volume fulfills a long-standing desire to restore to print those poems of his that were published in earlier years under the title Songs of the Soul, and to bring together under that title many of Paramahansaji’s other poems from various Self-Realization publications, past and present.

      Considerable thought and research have gone into the preparation of this edition. Original writings and transcripts were compared with variant renderings introduced by early editors, and by Paramahansaji himself; for he would sometimes pen corrections and creative variations that came to him when rereading a poem, or interpolate a fresh inspiration while reciting a passage in the course of a lecture or devotional service. The number of such variations in a poem is generally proportionate to the frequency of its use. In many cases they are slight — a more precise word, a different turn of phrase, occasionally a deletion (or addition) of a thought, or of certain lines, to fit a particular context. The present endeavor has been to adhere to Paramahansaji’s original handwritten or spoken version; and from the modifications he introduced, to retain those that substantially clarify his thought or otherwise add to the beautiful imagery of his inspiration.

      We were happy to find and restore not only illustrative words and phrases, but also entire lines or stanzas that had been omitted from these poems when they were originally published. The following are a few examples:

      In the selection, Flower Offerings, some of the phrases omitted or changed in

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